Annie Horniman - Later Life

Later Life

Annie moved to London where she kept a flat in Portman Square. In 1933 she was made a Companion of Honour. Horniman and Algernon Blackwood may have been the only past or present members of an occult society to receive a United Kingdom honour. She died in 1937 at her home in Shere, Surrey. Her estate amounted to a little over £50,000. The Annie Horniman Papers are held in the John Rylands Library at the University of Manchester.

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