Roy Horniman

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'''Roy Horniman''' (born '''Robert Horniman''', 31 July 1868–11 October 1930) was a prolific British playwright and novelist, most prominently active during the Edwardian era. He published many short stories and novels and wrote original plays, as well as dramatic adaptations of novels and plays by other authors. After World War I he extended his writing to film screenplays. Horniman was a vegetarian and a nature curist. He was devoted to the cause of animal welfare, in particular the protection and care of working horses, and was opposed to vivisection.

Horniman's 1907 novel, ''Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal'', was used as the basis of the screenplay of the highly-regarded 1949 black comedy ''Kind Hearts and Coronets'' and inspired the 2013 Broadway musical ''A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder''.

==Early life==

Robert Horniman was born on 31 July 1868 at Southsea, near Portsmouth in Hampshire, the eldest son of William Horniman and Sarah Esther (''née'' Foster).<ref name=ancestry>Family records, Ancestry.com.</ref><ref>Robert Horniman, July to September 1868, Civil Registration Birth Index, District of Portsea.</ref>{{Ref|NoteA|[A]}} His father was an English naval officer and paymaster-in-chief of the British Royal Navy. Robert was educated at Bruges in Belgium and at Southsea Grammar School.<ref name=WW1922>[https://archive.org/details/whos-who_1922/page/1334/mode/2up Horniman, Roy], ''Who's Who 1922'', London: A. & C. Black Ltd., page 1335.</ref><ref name=obit>'Mr. Roy Horniman' (obituary), ''The Times'' (London), 13 October 1930, page 14.</ref>

When he was aged thirteen, Horniman wrote a novel that was confiscated by his mother.<ref name=BNM>[https://archive.org/details/sim_book-news-monthly_1907-11_26_3/page/214/mode/2up The Many-sided Mr. Horniman], ''The Book News Monthly'', Vol. 26 Issue 3, November 1907, page 215.</ref>

==Career== ===Playwright and novelist===

After he left school, Horniman briefly worked in an office. In 1887 he embarked on an acting career calling himself 'Roy' Horniman, a name he retained throughout his life and professional career as an actor, writer and dramatist.<ref name=BNM/><ref name=obit/>

As an actor, Horniman played in a number of dramatic productions in various West End theatres.<ref name=BNM/><ref name=Londoners>'[https://archive.org/details/notablelondoners00lond/page/174/mode/1up Roy Horniman]', ''Notable Londoners, an Illustrated Who's Who of Professional and Business Men'' (1922), London: London Publishing Agency, page 174; accessed 22 November 2024.</ref> He was a cast member in the following stage productions: ''Echo'' at the Trafalgar Square Theatre (April 1893), ''The Super'' at the Criterion Theatre (May 1894), ''Romeo and Juliet'' at the Prince of Wales' Theatre (May 1896), ''Uncle Thatcher'' at the Court Theatre (June and July 1896), ''The Littlest Girl'' at the Court Theatre (July 1896) and ''Number One Round the Corner'' at the Court Theatre (October to December 1896).<ref name=JPW>J. P. Wearing (1976), ''The London Stage 1890-1899: A Calendar of Plays and Players'', Vol. I: 1890-1896, Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press Inc., pages 187, 302, 399, 565, 571, 589, 608.</ref> Horniman was also a cast member in Shakespeare's ''Hamlet'' at the Lyceum Theatre in late 1897 and late 1898 and the successful original London production of the musical comedy ''Florodora'' at the Lyric Theatre from late 1899 to March 1901.<ref>J. P. Wearing (1976), ''The London Stage 1890-1899: A Calendar of Plays and Players'', Vol. II: 1897-1899, Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press Inc., pages 687, 770, 838.</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/details/sim_green-book-magazine_1912-07_8_1/page/n103/mode/2up The Florodora Flurry], ''The Green Room Book'', July 1912, pages 102-110.</ref>

Horniman was described as "a wealthy bachelor and admirer of Oscar Wilde" and "a lesser follower of Wilde in his Dorian Gray mode". Wilde's ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' was published in 1891.<ref name=ME>[https://archive.org/details/BriLib/The%20Story%20of%20Classic%20Crime%20in%201%20-%20Martin%20Edwards/page/n19/mode/2up Israel Rank by Roy Horniman (1907)] (in) Martin Edwards (2017), ''The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books'', Scottsdale, Arizona: Poisoned Pen Press, pages 20-21.</ref><ref name=JRT>John Russell Taylor (1984), 'Introduction' (in) Robert Hamer (1949), ''Kind Hearts and Coronets'', Lorrimer Publishing Ltd., pages 5-6.</ref> Horniman was described by a contemporary as "a well-to-do bachelor who knew what did and what did not suit him, marriage being in the latter category, the social round in the former".<ref name=AHub/>

During the 1890s Horniman established himself as a writer, initially contributing short stories to literary magazines. By the end of the decade he had one of his plays produced in a West End theatre. Horniman's play, ''Judy'', was produced at the Prince of Wales' Theatre in May 1899.<ref name=obit/><ref name=WWT>John Parker (compiler & editor) (1925), [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.86580/page/n609/mode/2up Horniman, Roy], ''Who's Who in the Theatre: A Biographical Record of the Contemporary Stage'' (5th edition), Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, Inc., page 466.</ref>

Horniman's first novel ''The Sin of Atlantis'', published in 1900, had an occultist theme involving past lives and the submerged continent of Atlantis. A reviewer writing in ''The Athenæum'' described Horniman's English as "occasionally slipshod", adding: "but he has ingenuity and imagination, and from most unpromising material has produced a readable story".<ref>[https://archive.org/details/sim_athenaeum-uk_1900-08-18_3799/page/210/mode/2up The Sin of Atlantis], ''The Athenæum'', 18 August 1900, page 211.</ref>

left|upright=0.8|thumb|Photograph of Roy Horniman, from ''The Illustrated London News'', 8 August 1908.

In January 1903 a three-act play called ''John Lester, Parson'' was produced in matinee performances at the Lyric Theatre in London's West End. The play was written by 'Knight Rider' and 'Layton Foster', pseudonyms of Archibald Keen and Roy Horniman.<ref>Fred Kerr (1930), ''Recollections of a Defective Memory'', London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., pages 137-138.</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/details/sim_era-almanack-and-annual-the-dramatic-and-musical_1903/page/54/mode/2up Lyric], ''The Era Almanack and Annual 1903'', page 54.</ref> The production of ''Lady Flirt'', Horniman's adaptation of the French language ''Madame Flirt'' by Paul Gavault and Georges Berr, opened in May 1904 at the Haymarket Theatre in London.<ref>Cyril Maude (1927), ''[https://archive.org/details/behindsceneswith0000hims/page/158/mode/2up Behind the Scenes With Cyril Maude]'', London: John Murray, pages 141-142.</ref>

Two novels by Horniman were published by T. Fisher Unwin in 1903, ''The Living Buddha'' and ''That Fast Miss Blount''. His novel ''Bellamy the Magnificent'' was published in 1904 by Chatto & Windus, which a reviewer described as "extremely diverting, and an easy popularity may safely be predicted for it".<ref>[https://archive.org/details/sim_bookman_1905-07_28_166/page/136/mode/2up Bellamy the Magnificent], ''The Bookman'', July 1905, page 136.</ref>

Horniman was devoted to various causes, including anti-vivisection.<ref name=AHub>[https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/ee7200c5-df75-30bf-9dd6-d99986765340 Papers of Roy Horniman], ''Archives Hub'' website, [https://jisc.ac.uk/ Jisc]; accessed 22 November 2024.</ref> He was also a vegetarian and a crusader against censorship. He was closely associated with several charities, especially in the field of animal welfare.<ref name=ME/> Horniman served as chairman of Our Dumb Friends' League and the Committee for the Suppression of Cruelty to Performing Animals.<ref name=Londoners/> Our Dumb Friends League was founded in May 1897 to care for working horses on the streets of London.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bluecross.org.uk/1992/about-blue-cross.html |title=About Blue Cross|work=Blue Cross |access-date=2 February 2016}}</ref>

In 1907 Horniman was described as "a vegetarian, a nature curist, a Theosophist [''and''] a public singer". At about that stage he was also the joint-proprietor of ''The Ladies' Review''.<ref name=BNM/> Horniman was the founder and part-owner with Kate Emil Behnke of the 'Broadlands Nature Cure Sanatorium' at Medstead in Hampshire, the first 'nature-cure' establishment in England.<ref name=BNM/><ref>Kate Emil Behnke, '[https://archive.org/details/b28118893/page/164/mode/2up The Nature Cure]' (in) L. Lind-Af-Hageby (editor) (1909), ''The Animals' Cause'' (papers contributed to the International Anti-Vivisection and Animal Protection Congress 6-10 July 1909), pages 164-171.</ref><ref>'Broadlands Nature Cure', ''The Times'' (London), 3 September 1914, page 13.</ref>

[[File:Bear-Baiting Billy's Fortune Punch 22Jan1913.jpg|right|upright=0.8|thumb|'Bear-Baiting', a cartoon by William Haselden of a scene from Horniman's ''Billy's Fortune'', published in ''Punch'' (London), 22 January 1913.]]

In 1907 Horniman's novel ''Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal'' was published by Chatto & Windus. The plot of the novel, described as "self-consciously decadent", was summarised as "the despised offspring of an aristocratic lady who married beneath her, wreaking his revenge by murdering his way coldbloodedly through his entire family to fortune and a title". The novel's protagonist justifies his actions by taking on the role of "a Nietzschean superman above mere human morality".<ref name=JRT/> Two other of Horniman's novels were published in 1907: ''A Nonconformist Parson'' and ''Lord Cammarleigh's Secret: A Fairy Story of To-Day''.<ref name=sis>[https://archive.org/details/sim_athenaeum-uk_1907-05-04_4149/page/524/mode/2up Sisley's Half-Crown Novels], ''The Athenæum'', 4 May 1907, page 524.</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/details/sim_saturday-review-uk_the-saturday-review_1907-10-26_104_2713/page/518/mode/2up Novels], ''The Saturday Review'', 26 October 1907, page 519.</ref>

A four-act play written by Horniman, ''The Education of Elizabeth'', described as a "blend of domestic melodrama and comedy", was produced in October 1907 at the Apollo Theatre.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/theauthor18incouoft/page/42/mode/2up Literary, Dramatic, and Musical Notes], ''The Author'', 1 November 1907, page 42.</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/details/sim_illustrated-london-news_1907-10-26_131_3575/page/n31/mode/2up The Playhouses], ''The Illustrated London News'', 26 October 1907, page 616.</ref> ''The Walk'', a duologue by Horniman, was produced at the Apollo in January 1908, followed by ''Thumbs Down'', another of his plays.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/sim_era-almanack-and-annual-the-dramatic-and-musical_1909/page/98/mode/2up New Plays and Important Revivals], ''The Era Annual 1909'', page 99.</ref><ref name=MM>Mark Meredith (editor) (1921), [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.186371/page/n197/mode/2up Horniman, Roy], ''The Literary Year-Book for the Year 1921'', London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd., page 199.</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/details/theauthor18incouoft/page/70/mode/2up Literary, Dramatic, and Musical Notes], ''The Author'', 2 December 1907, pages 71-72.</ref> At the Garrick Theatre in September 1908 the melodramatic play ''Idols'' was produced, an adaptation by Horniman of W. J. Locke's novel of the same name.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/sim_illustrated-london-news_1908-09-12_133_3621/page/384/mode/2up The Playhouses], ''The Illustrated London News'', 12 September 1908, page 384.</ref><ref name=obit/> Horniman's ''Bellamy the Magnificent'', a five-act play described as a "social extravaganza" (and based on his 1904 novel of the same name), was produced by Sir Charles Wyndham at the New Theatre in October 1908.<ref>'[https://archive.org/details/sim_illustrated-london-news_1908-10-10_133_3625/page/n1/mode/2up The Playhouses]', ''The Illustrated London News'', 10 October 1908, page 490.</ref><ref name=WWT/> 1908 had been a successful year for Horniman, Two of his original plays and one adaptation were produced in London, prompting one writer for ''The Tatler'' to describe Horniman as a "talented dramatist" and compare "the prodigality of his talents" to those of Somerset Maugham.<ref>'[https://archive.org/details/the-tatler-1901-1929/1901-1909/1909/The%20Tatler%20%2523394v031%20(1909-01-13)%20(BNA)/page/46/mode/2up Gossip from the Green World]', ''The Tatler'', 13 January 1909, page 46.</ref>

Horniman rented and managed the Criterion Theatre in London's West End, possibly in the period 1913 and 1914 when two of his plays were produced at the theatre.<ref name=Londoners/> ''Billy's Fortune'', written by Horniman, opened in January 1913 at the Criterion.<ref>'[https://archive.org/details/sim_illustrated-london-news_1913-01-25_142_3849/page/n17/mode/2up The Playhouses]', ''The Illustrated London News'', 25 January 1913, page 110.</ref> One reviewer wrote: "While there is nothing startlingly original in the plot, it is cleverly treated, and the play forms a capital entertainment".<ref>[https://archive.org/details/playgoersocietyi07londuoft/page/174/mode/2up "Billy's Fortune"], ''The Playgoer and Society Illustrated'', Vol. VII No. 41, January 1913, pages 133-134.</ref> In June 1914 ''The Blue Mouse'', an adaptation by Horniman of a German play by Alex. Engel and Julian Horst, was produced at the Criterion Theatre.<ref>Alfred Barnard (editor), ''The Era Annual 1915 & 1916'', page 133.</ref>

===The war years===

During the first years of World War I Horniman was treasurer of the Blue Cross Fund.<ref>"Our Dumb Friends' League", ''The Times'' (London), 22 August 1914, page 1.</ref><ref>[https://www.bluecross.org.uk/warhorse Remembering the animals of the First World War], ''Blue Cross'' website; accessed 23 November 2024.</ref> In 1915 Horniman visited a Blue Cross hospital in France treating injured horses, reporting that the majority of cases were "deep and painful saddle cuts", with sabre and bullet wounds in the minority.<ref>'The Uncomplaining', ''Our Dumb Animals'' (Boston), July 1915, Vol. 48 No. 2, page 17.</ref> Horniman was chairman of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Tobacco Fund, a body that organised to send tobacco to British armed forces.<ref name=obit/><ref name=Londoners/>

In the early years of the war Horniman was "prompted by a distaste for profiteering" by private railway companies to write ''How to Make the Railways Pay for the War'', a book that ran to three editions.<ref name=ME/>

''The Mystery of John Wake'', a drama in three acts written by Horniman and Lechmere Worrall, was produced in April 1916 at the Gaiety Theatre in Hastings, on England's south coast.<ref>Lionel Carson (editor) (1917), ''[https://archive.org/details/stageyearbo1917londuoft/page/136/mode/2up "The Stage" Year Book]'', London: "The Stage" Offices, page 136.</ref> Horniman's play ''Three Weeks'' was an adaptation of Elinor Glyn's controversial novel of the same name. It opened at the Strand Theatre in July 1917.<ref name=WWT/>

===Stage and screen===

Horniman was an investor in the Gattie Transport Scheme and a director of the associated company, the New Transport Co. Ltd.<ref name=Londoners/> The scheme had been proposed in 1918 by the playwright, engineer and inventor Alfred Warwick Gattie, for "the more expeditious and economical handling of goods" by the railways and motor-lorries, based on a large clearing yard and special machinery to lift and sort the goods.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/sim_illustrated-london-news_1919-09-27_155_4197/page/466/mode/2up The London Traffic Problem], ''The Illustrated London News'', 27 September 1919, pages 468-469.</ref><ref>'Libel Action Against "The Times" Case Stopped by the Jury', ''The Times'' (London), 11 February 1921, page 5.</ref>{{Ref|NoteB|[B]}}

Horniman was a member of the British Committee of the Indian National Congress.<ref name=Londoners/> Horniman's younger brother, Benjamin Guy Horniman, had been working as a journalist in India and in 1913 became founding editor of ''The Bombay Chronicle''. Following the Jallianwala Bagh massacre at Amritsar in April 1919 he strongly condemned the actions of British officials and released photographs of the incident. In 1920 Benjamin Horniman was deported from India by George Lloyd, the Governor of Bombay, under the ''Defence of India Act''.<ref>'Obituary: Mr. B. G. Horniman', ''The Times'' (London), 18 October 1948, page 6.</ref>

In the post-war years Roy Horniman wrote and adapted for both the stage and screen. The film ''A Non-conformist Parson'' (also known as ''Heart and Soul''), based on Horniman's 1907 novel of the same name, was produced in March 1919 by the British Lion Film Corporation. The film starred George Keene, Constance Worth and Evan Thomas. It was directed by A. V. Bramble, with a screenplay written by Horniman and Eliot Stannard.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168097/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_cdt_t_8 A Non-conformist Parson], ''IMDb'' website; accessed 23 November 2024.</ref> In 1920 Horniman wrote the screenplay of ''Jennie'', a film directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Selznick Pictures.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0176865/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_cdt_t_7 Jennie], ''IMDb'' website; accessed 23 November 2024.</ref>

Horniman co-wrote the screenplay of ''The Education of Elizabeth'' with Elmer Harris, a film based on Horniman's 1907 play of the same name. The film starred Billie Burke and was directed by Edward Dillon; it was produced by the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation and released in the United States in January 1921.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0012132/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_cdt_t_6 The Education of Elizabeth], ''IMDb'' website; accessed 23 November 2024.</ref>

In August 1921 the play ''The Edge O'Beyond'', adapted by Horniman and Ruby Miller from a novel by Gertrude Page, opened at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End.<ref>'[https://archive.org/details/sim_illustrated-london-news_1921-08-20_159_4296/page/n27/mode/2up The Playhouses]', ''The Illustrated London News'', 20 August 1921, page 264.</ref>

Horniman's play ''Love in Pawn'' was produced in March 1923 at the Kingsway Theatre in London. The play was described as a "picture of life in a Jewish home".<ref>[https://archive.org/details/abolitionistbrit2326unse/page/n71/mode/2up Mr. Roy Horniman's Play], ''The Abolutionist'', 1 May 1923, page 74.</ref> In April 1923 it was reported that the producer of the play, Lewis Sloden, had returned to the United States, "disheartened at the apparent lack of public interest in the play". Sloden gave the use of the theatre to the players and management rent-free so the performances could continue on a co-operative basis.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/sim_jewish-chronicle_the-jewish-chronicle_1923-04-27_2821/page/n27/mode/2up Dramatic Notes and News], ''The Jewish Chronicle'', 27 April 1923, page 29.</ref> ''Love in Pawn'' was renamed ''The Money Lender'' for its production at the Ambassador Theatre in New York from August 1928.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/sim_billboard_1928-09-08_40_36/page/6/mode/2up Ambassador: The Money Lender], ''The Billboard'', 8 September 1928, page 6.</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/details/sim_jewish-chronicle_the-jewish-chronicle_1928-09-14_3101/page/32/mode/2up American Jews as "Gangsters"], ''The Jewish Chronicle'', 14 September 1928, page 33.</ref>

Horniman was credited as one of the writers of ''A Gentleman of Paris'', a Paramount Pictures film directed by Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast and released in October 1927. The film was loosely based on Horniman's novel ''Bellamy the Magificent''.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017926/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_cdt_t_5 A Gentleman of Paris], ''IMDb'' website; accessed 23 November 2024.</ref>

==Death==

Roy Horniman died on 11 October 1930 at his home at 17 Stanley Crescent in Notting Hill in west London, aged 62.<ref name=obit/>

==Legacy==

The director and screenwriter Robert Hamer discovered Horniman's ''Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal'', a novel written in 1907, and used it as the basis of the screenplay of the highly-regarded 1949 black comedy ''Kind Hearts and Coronets'', directed by Hamer and produced by Michael Balcon of Ealing Studios.<ref name=JA>Jack Adrian (editor) (1998), ''Twelve Mystery Stories'', Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, pages 116-141, 228-229.</ref><ref name=JRT/> The novel was also adapted as the 2026 film ''How to Make a Killing''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Grobar |first=Matt |date=2023-03-08 |title=‘Emily The Criminal’s John Patton Ford Prepping Comedic Thriller ‘Huntington’ |url=https://deadline.com/2023/03/john-patton-ford-huntington-studiocanal-next-feature-1235282656/ |access-date=2026-02-20 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}</ref>

Horniman's novel ''Israel Rank'' was also the inspiration for the 2013 Broadway musical ''A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Haun |first=Harry |title=Jefferson Mays Brings Multiple Personalities to Broadway in ''A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder'' |url=https://www.playbill.com/article/jefferson-mays-brings-multiple-personalities-to-broadway-in-a-gentlemans-guide-to-love-and-murder-com-211056 |website=Playbill |access-date=17 January 2022 |date=27 October 2013 |archive-date=17 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220117022941/https://www.playbill.com/article/jefferson-mays-brings-multiple-personalities-to-broadway-in-a-gentlemans-guide-to-love-and-murder-com-211056 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Publications==

* Roy Horniman & C. E. Morland (1894), 'A Fatal Affinity' (short story), published in ''The Ludgate Illustrated Magazine'', July 1894.<ref name=JA/> * Roy Horniman (1900), ''The Sin of Atlantis'', London: John Macqueen. * Roy Horniman (1903), ''The Living Buddha'', London: T. Fisher Unwin.<ref name=cat>Horniman, Roy, ''The National Union Catalog: Pre-1956 Imprints'' (1973), Vol. 255, London: Mansell Publishing Ltd., pages 198-199.</ref> * Roy Horniman (1903), ''That Fast Miss Blount: A Novel'', London: T. Fisher Unwin. * Roy Horniman (1904), ''Bellamy the Magnificent: An Extravaganza'', London: Chatto & Windus. * Roy Horniman (1906), 'No Ball: A Phantasy of the Future' (illustrated by Frank Hart), ''The Xmas Idler'', December 1908, pages 298-307; originally published in June 1906.<ref>'[https://archive.org/details/storiesfromtheludgatept.1189395_20191014/Stories%20from%20The%20Idler%20pt.%204%20(1906-09)/page/n13/mode/2up No Ball: A Phantasy of the Future]', ''The Xmas Idler'', December 1908, pages 298-307.</ref> * Roy Horniman (1907), ''A Nonconformist Parson'', London: Sisley's Ltd.<ref name=sis/> * Roy Horniman (1907), ''Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal'', London: Chatto & Windus. * Roy Horniman (1907), ''Lord Cammarleigh's Secret: A Fairy Story of To-Day'', London: Chatto & Windus. * Roy Horniman (1909), ''Nightshade'', London: Sisley's Ltd.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/sim_bookman_1909-04_36_211/page/40/mode/2up The four stories...], ''The Bookman'', April 1909, page 40.</ref> * Roy Horniman (1909), ''Romance of Beauty'', London: Eveleigh Nash. * Roy Horniman (1911), ''Captivity'', London: Methuen & Co. Ltd.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/sim_spectator-uk_1911-08-19_107_4338/page/n31/mode/2up Methuen & Co. Ltd.], ''The Spectator'', 19 August 1911, page 296.</ref> * Roy Horniman (1913), ''Jenny: A Novel'', London: Hurst & Blackett.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/sim_athenaeum-uk_1913-06-28_4470/page/698/mode/2up Some Forthcoming Books], ''The Athenæum'', 28 June 1913, page 699.</ref> * Roy Horniman (1914), ''Animal Defence Societies and Horses in Warfare''. * Roy Horniman (1916), ''How to Make the Railways Pay for the War: Or, The Transport Problem Solved'', London: George Routledge & Sons. * Roy Horniman (1928), ''The Viper'', London: S. Paul & Co. Ltd.<ref name=cat/> * Roy Horniman (1929), ''His Private Life, etc.'', London: Readers Library Publishing Co.

==Notes==

:A.{{Note|NoteA}}{{resize|Multiple references regarding Roy Horniman state that he was born in either 1872 or 1874.<ref name=DStP>For example: [https://www.deanstreetpress.co.uk/pages/author_page/70 Roy Horniman], ''Dean Street Press'' website; accessed 28 November 2024. This source states Horniman was born in 1872 and died in 1930 "at the age of 62" [''sic''].</ref> However, Horniman was actually born on 31 July 1868. Multiple sources confirm 1868 as his year of birth, including his obituary in ''The Times'' (13 October 1930) which states he was aged 62 when he died.<ref name=obit/> His birth was registered as Robert Horniman, recorded in the civil registrations in the district of Southsea, county Hampshire (indexed in the July to September 1868 quarter). Information regarding William and Sarah Horniman's family, living at Hastings in county Sussex, was collected for the 1881 Census of England and Wales (collected in April 1881). The household included Robert, recorded as a 12 year-old, along with his parents, maternal grandmother, and five siblings (aged from 18 to 6 years), plus a servant. At least one source describes Horniman's mother as "an aristocratic Greek mother" (unnamed).<ref name=AHub/><ref name=DStP/> Horniman's mother was Sarah Esther (''née'' Foster), born in about 1841 on the Greek island of Corfu in the Ionian Sea. She married the Royal Navy officer William Horniman in about 1859 at Pireaus in Greece.<ref name=ancestry/>}}

:B.{{Note|NoteB}}{{resize|Despite government interest and a commission of inquiry, Gattie's scheme for a more efficient goods-handling system was not adopted, which Gattie himself attributed to the vested interests of the existing transport structure. The failure of the Gattie Transport Scheme was the inspiration for George Bernard Shaw's fictional corporation 'Breakages, Limited' in his 1928 play ''The Apple Cart''.<ref>George Bernard Shaw (1930), ''The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza'', London: Constable and Company, pages xxv-xxix.</ref><ref>'Obituary: Mr. A. W. Gattie', ''The Times'' (London), 22 September 1925, page 16.</ref>}}

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