His Family
Five of his children were Richard (born 1827), Louisa, James (born 1836), Helen Mary Anne and William (born 1838).
He died on January 6, 1864. His wife, Mary, died on October 15, 1866, aged 66. At the time of his death he had eight grand children. Two of his great-grand children would go to Eton. Although there is no monument to Richard Hornsby, one of his great-grandsons, Richard William Hornsby, is listed on the war memorial in Barrowby, after being killed in the First World War in Greece. His family were quite wealthy owning 421 acres (1.70 km2) of land, as the Hornsby company was a world leader in engine manufacture, until 1918.
His firm went on to invent the caterpillar track in 1905, which revolutionized land warfare, and built the first working (experimental) diesel engine in 1892.
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