Youngest son of Rev. Joseph Horner of Everton, Bedfordshire. He was educated at St. Bartholomew's Hospital and admitted MRCS in 1872. Prior to this he had acted as surgeon in the Franco-Prussian War. He was also a surgeon on the 'Pandora' during the Arctic voyage which that vessel made in 1875-76, and he published some notes on Arctic Natural History when he returned. Horner's main enthusiasm in entomology appears to have been for the Coleoptera and he published several notes on beetles in the district of Tonbride where he lived in EMM, (22, 1885, pp.88-89; 24, 1887,p.69) and in Trans.ESL at the same time. He appears to have been friendly with W.G.Blatch and a visit which they made to Sherwood Forest was written up in EMM, 28, 1892, pp.303-304. There is an obituary in ibid., 29, 1893, p.240 and another in Trans.ESL., (Proc.), 56, 1893. (MD 5/03)
Dates
d. 3 August 1893