Kane William Horneck

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Kane William Horneck (1726-1753[1]) was an officer in the Royal Engineers.[2]

Life[]

He was a son of William Horneck and a grandson of Anthony Horneck. He married Hannah Muggles (1727-1803) from Devon and they had issue:[3]

  • Catherine (1750-1799); married Henry William Bunbury
  • Mary (1753-1840); in 1770 traveled to France with Oliver Goldsmith and his family, to whom she was introduced by Joshua Reynolds;[4] married Colonel Francis Edward Gwyn in 1778[5]

He was close friends with Edmund Burke, who on Kane's death became his daughters' guardian.[6] Just before his death Horneck had inspected the defences of Antigua - after his death his friend and fellow engineer officer Leonard Smelt worked up Horneck's sketches and memoranda into a full report.[7] Hannah was also a friend of Samuel Johnson[8] and Joshua Reynolds, who painted Hannah and both her daughters.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ http://personalia.co.uk/HORNECK-William-1685-1746-military-engineer-ALS-to-the-Board-of-Ordnance-1733
  2. ^ "Hannah Horneck (Née Triggs) - National Portrait Gallery".
  3. ^ "Hannah Horneck (Née Triggs) - National Portrait Gallery".
  4. ^ Ralph Wardle, Oliver Goldsmith (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1957), pages 172-173
  5. ^ Norbert Schurer (editor), Charlotte Lennox: Correspondence and Miscellaneous Documents (Bucknell University Press, 2012), pages 386-387
  6. ^ Burke's Correspondence, VII. 64
  7. ^ "Smelt, Leonard".
  8. ^ The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume I: 1731-1772 (Princeton University Press, 2014), pages 339-340
  9. ^ "Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92) - MRS. Hannah Horneck".
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