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Biography
William Hornby may refer to:
William Hornby (governor) (1723–1803), Governor of Bombay, 1771–1784
William Henry Hornby (1805–1884), British industrialist, Member of Parliament (MP) for Blackburn 1857–1869
Sir William Hornby, 1st Baronet (1841–1928), his son, British MP for Blackburn, 1886–1910
William Edmund George Hornby, British Member of Parliament for Warrington
William Hornby (priest), Archdeacon of Lancaster from 1870 to 1895