sleep on 17 November 1896 after a long mountain climb in Rapallo, Italy, at the age of 71. He was buried in Rapallo. Family Hornby married three times. His first wife was Emelia Macerone (sometimes spelt Maceroni), daughter of Count Maceroni, aide-de-camp of Joachim Murat, King of Naples. She died suddenly in Dieppe, France in 1866 when Hornby was in Shanghai. In 1868, he married Mary Hudson, the daughter of Mr Thomas Hudson of Hull. She died in Shanghai on 13 December 1873. In 1875, at the age of 50, he married the much younger Miss Emily Roberts, who at the time was 20, in Shanghai. She survived Hornby, dying in 1909. References Further reading Sir Edmund Hornby, An Autobiography , Vol. 1: ; Vol. 2: ; Vol. 3: 1825 births 1896 deaths British Supreme Court for China judges Lawyers from London Members of the Middle Temple Knights Bachelor Edmund 19th-century English lawyers