Lives in Cricket No 29 - AN Hornby

44 Chapter Five Married to Sport He hits at nearly every ball and is very quick on his legs. He takes guard or rather takes no guard, for his bat is fully four inches from his leg stump and thus the bowler has a full view of the wicket – Tom Horan on Hornby Family man They say ‘money goes to money’ and that is exactly what happened in 1876 when Hornby married 22-year-old Ada Sarah Ingram. She was the daughter of Herbert Ingram, the MP for Boston in Lincolnshire and founder and proprietor of The Illustrated London News , who had drowned in an accident on Lake Michigan sixteen years earlier. The business was later taken over by Ada’s brothers William (MP for Boston at the time of her marriage) and Charles. Illustrated London News for 18 October 1862, showing the unveiling of a memorial to its founder, Herbert Ingram, in his native Boston, Lincolnshire. Ingram was the father of Hornby’s wife, Ada Sarah.