Colin Firth played Paul Ashworth, the character based on Hornby, a teacher at a school in North London, and his burgeoning romance with Sarah Hughes ( Ruth Gemmell ), a new teacher who joins Ashworth's school.

* William Vestey of Blue Star Line, who also lived at Quarry Brook prior to the Hornby family.

The retreating Germans led the British to a larger force of lancers, who they promptly charged, and Captain Hornby became the first British soldier to kill an enemy in the Great War, fighting on horseback with sword against lance.

When his father died in 1899, his father's business was closed and Hornby became a bookkeeper for David Hugh Elliot who ran a meat importing business in Liverpool.

He was the sixth son of William Henry Hornby, a cotton mill proprietor and director of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway who was Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Blackburn from 1857 to 1865.

AN Hornby captained England in only one more Test ( his last ), standing in for Lord Harris ( who had stood out in protest ) in the first Test of 1884.

Hornby was apparently named by Frederick William Delamain, who came to Christchurch from England in 1852.

The second possible explanation of the name is that it refers to Geoffrey Hornby, who was the Admiral of the British flying squadron and who visited Christchurch in 1870.

Hornby, a keen amateur boxer who had been offered the English captaincy before stepping aside for Harris, grabbed his captain's assailant and " conveyed his prisoner to the pavilion in triumph "; it was later said that he had caught the wrong man.

An agreement was reached, and although Lord Harris was generous in agreeing to lead the side, three cricketers who played in the infamous Sydney game — Hornby, Emmett and Ulyett — refused to play.

In the book, Hornby describes the people who run The Believer as being " all dressed in white robes and smiling maniacally, sort of like a literary equivalent of the Polyphonic Spree.

In March 1880 Hornby was replaced as commander of the fleet by Admiral Sir Beauchamp Seymour who in the summer sent Monarch and Thunderer to attend the launching of the battleship Italia by the King of Italy at Naples.

Although almost his entire career was spent in peacetime, Hornby was regarded as not only an able administrator but also a brilliant handler of ships who did most to evolve new tactics as the navy finally abandoned sail for steam power, turret ships, and the threat of the torpedo.

James Riddell, James John Hornby, and Charles Savile Roundell, who became his lifelong friends.

Her mother, Elisaberta ( Bertha ) Cothals, was a Belgian refugee ; her father, Arthur Hornby, was a cellist from Manchester who spent much of his time playing on Atlantic cruise liners.

On one occasion he scored no runs in a partnership of 45 with AN Hornby, who was dismissed for 44.

Hornby, the first man to captain both the English national rugby and cricket sides, Dick Greenwood and his son Will Greenwood, later to play outside centre for Harlequins and England, second row star Steve Borthwick, captaining Bath and playing a key role in the England international side, Wade Dooley, who won 55 caps in the second row for England, and Paul Grayson, who went on to play a number of games at fly half for England.

In September 1907, Hornby registered the Meccano trade mark, and in May 1908, he formed Meccano Ltd. To keep pace with demand, a new Meccano factory was built in Binns Road, Liverpool in 1914, which became Meccano Ltd's headquarters for the next 60 years.

After leaving Japan in 1942, Hornby joined the British Council and later became the first editor of the journal English Language Teaching, launched in October 1946.

In 1102, along with the grant of the adjacent fee of Clitheroe and further holdings in Hornby and Amounderness, they came to form the basis of what became known as the Honor of Clitheroe.

In the 1980s Hornby Railways became independent.

However, clockwork remained the mainstay of the Hornby 0 gauge trains until 1937 and became the only power available in Liverpool-made 0 gauge trains from 1949.

In 1980 Hornby became Hornby Hobbies and in 1981 a management buyout saw the company back on a sound footing.

With this move, Elliot and Hornby became partners.

When, later that year, Hornby led the England cricket team out at the Oval to play the Australians he became the first man to captain his country in both sports and this in his 36th year.

Goodwin became Acting Chief Judge in 1876 after Edmund Hornby retired.

During the 1920s and 1930s it became the biggest toy manufacturer in Britain and produced three of the most popular lines of toys in the twentieth century: Meccano, Hornby Model Railways and Dinky Toys.

In 1901 Frank Hornby, a clerk from Liverpool, England, invented a new construction toy called " Mechanics Made Easy ", which soon became known as Meccano.

In July 1884, Grace's rival A. N. Hornby stopped play in a Lancashire v Gloucestershire match at Old Trafford so that E. M. and W. G.

In 1964, Lines Bros Ltd., the parent company of rival Tri-ang Railways, purchased Meccano Ltd., and merged Hornby and Tri-ang into Tri-ang Hornby.

On 30 June 1798 he married Charlotte Margaret Hornby, daughter of Reverend Geoffrey Hornby, with whom he fathered future Prime Minister Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby.

Landau's prophetic 1974 article in The Real Paper, wherein he famously claimed " I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen ", is credited by Nick Hornby and others with fostering Springsteen's popularity.

Runga grew up in Hornby, Christchurch surrounded by a musically-inclined family, and started recording songs with her sisters, Boh and Pearl, when she was only four years old.

In 1916, Hornby launched a monthly publication, Meccano Magazine, which remained in circulation for over sixty years, and in 1930 he formed the Meccano Guild, an amalgamation of Meccano clubs from all over the world.

The Tri-ang Railways name was dropped a few years after Lines Bros took over the Hornby name although the majority of the trains were still the original Tri-ang models.

Phipps Hornby was 42 years old, and a major commanding ' Q ' Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, British Army, during the Second Boer War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC:

Professional cyclist Tino Tabak lived in Hornby during his teenage years.

Nonetheless, Spike has managed to obtain interviews with a variety of big-name authors over the years, including J. G. Ballard, Will Self, Jeff Noon, Iain Banks, Hubert Selby Jr, Gitta Sereny, P. J. O ' Rourke, Quentin Crisp, Nick Hornby, and Julie Burchill.

The Pulteney Associates were British investors: nine-twelfths was owned by Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet ( 1729 – 1805 ), a Scottish lawyer ; two-twelfths by William Hornby, former Governor of Bombay ; and one-twelfth by Patrick Colquhoun, a Scottish merchant.

In 1893, for example, his subjects included the Bishop of Shrewsbury ( Sir Lovelace Stamer ); Sir John Lubbock FRS ; A N Hornby ( Captain of the Lancashire Eleven ); Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield ( Admiral and Arctic explorer ).

In 1933 Meccano Ltd issued a series of railway and trackside accessories to complement their O scale ( 1 / 45 ) Hornby Railways model train sets ( Force 1988, p. 6 ; Ramsay 1933, p. 88 ).

West Falkland is more hilly on the side closest to East Falkland ; the principal mountain range, the Hornby Hills, runs north and south parallel with Falkland Sound.

" He was interested in building things with model house kits, Meccano and cardboard ; an early gift of a Hornby train from his mother started him on his lifelong love of trains.

Judge Wisdom's former law clerks include U. S. Senator Lamar Alexander ; Judge William H. Pryor, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ; Judge Martin Leach-Cross Feldman of the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana ; Judge D. Brock Hornby of the United States District Court for the District of Maine ; U. S. Bankruptcy Judge Jerry Brown of the Eastern District of Louisiana ; U. S. Magistrate Judge Viktor V. Pohorelsky of the Eastern District of New York ; Justice Nora M. Manella of the California Court of Appeal ; Professor Philip Frickey of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law ; Professor Martha Field of Harvard Law School ; Ricki Tigert Helfer, former chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ; Jack Weiss, Chancellor of Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center ; Barry Sullivan, former dean of the Washington and Lee University School of Law ; and Gail B. Agrawal, dean of the University of Iowa College of Law.

Simon Kohler, marketing manager of Hornby model railways, said that the train which travels at just failed two miles short of Bideford station ; but he also told BBC news " Even though the last locomotive gave up the ghost at Instow, we did link the track – in fact I finished it at about 2230 – so we'll just need to wait and see what Guinness make of it.

He writes about romantic relationships of his contemporaries with humour, variously successful irony as well as attempts at deeper meaningfulness ; he is sometimes compared to Nick Hornby by his fans.

Events include the Classic & Vintage Ford Day ; Vintage Motor Scooter Day and the Meccano, Dinky & Hornby Exhibition Event.

In late 1971, Tri-ang Hornby introduced a 00 gauge Ready to Run model of this locomotive ; it continued to be produced after the rebranding as Hornby Railways.

Albert Sydney Hornby was a teacher of English studies at a small college in Japan ; he had gone there in 1923 to teach literature, but his experiences in the classroom drew his attention to the need for sound principles of language teaching.