of the Midland District, which comprised sixteen counties. In 1766, as his health was failing, he obtained the Thomas Talbot as his coadjutor, and consecrated him in 1767 (not in 1776 as has been erroneously asserted, in consequence of a misprint in Milner's "Memoir"). In 1768 he undertook the responsibility of carrying on Sedgley Park School, which had been founded, on the initiative of his intimate friend Bishop Challoner, six years previously, and thus preserved it for the Church. He lived just long enough to see the Papists Act 1778, died at Longbirch, Staffordshire, and was buried in Brewood churchyard, Staffordshire. There is an oil painting of the bishop at the family seat, Blackmore Park, Worcestershire. References Sources John Milner, Memoir of Bishop Hornyold in Laity's Directory (London, 1818), with portrait; Orthodox Journal (1834), III, with rough woodcut; Joseph Gillow, Bibl. Dict. Eng. Cath., s. v.; John Kirk, Biographies of English Catholics, s. v., contains reprint of Memoir by Milner (London, 1909); Edwin Burton, Life and Times of Bishop Challoner, with the Blackmore Park portrait (London, 1909). External links Catholic Encyclopedia article 1706 births 1778 deaths Apostolic vicars of England and Wales 18th-century Roman Catholic bishops in England