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Edmund Grimani Hornby

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judicial powers in Turkey by consuls who had no legal training or background. Hornby recommended setting up a court with dedicated staff to handle judicial work. This was accepted and on 27 August 1857, at the age of 32, Hornby was appointed Judge of the British Supreme Consular Court at
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in 1848 and practiced briefly in London. In 1853, he was appointed a commissioner of Mixed British and American Commission settling outstanding individual claims between Britain and the USA. Following this, he was appointed as a commissioner of the Turkish Loan lent by Britain to
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was appointed Assistant Judge. The court had jurisdiction over British subjects in China and Japan. Hornby served as Chief Judge for 11 years before retiring, at the age of 51 in 1876. He was succeeded by Englishman
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Hornby was born in London on 29 May 1825, to Thomas and Francesca Hornby. His father was from Yorkshire and his mother was the daughter of William Grimani of the
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His elder daughter Constance Hornby married in March 1900 William Herbert Drummond, youngest son of W. V Drummond, a barrister at Shanghai.
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Hornby married three times. His first wife was Emelia Macerone (sometimes spelt Maceroni), daughter of
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of a school or faculty of international law to be kept up jointly by the Powers.
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Gunboat Justice: British and American Law Courts in China and Japan (1842-1943)
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Hornby died in his sleep on 17 November 1896 after a long mountain climb in
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Hornby, An Autobiography, Introduction by Constance Drummond (nee Hornby)
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Hornby, An Autobiography, Introduction by Constance Drummond (nee Hornby)
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In 1865, Hornby was appointed Chief Judge of the newly established
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Clark, Douglas, Gunboat Justice, Volume 1, Chapter 4, p59 et seq
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Chief Judge, Supreme British Consular Court, Constantinople
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British Supreme Court for China and Japan
George French
Rapallo
British
Antwerp
Chief Judge
Constantinople
British Supreme Court for China and Japan
Chinese Maritime Customs
Grimani
Venice
Middle Temple
Turkey
Crimean War
Russia

Kaohsiung
Turkey
assessor
consular courts
Foreign Office
extraterritorial
Constantinople
knighted
British Supreme Court for China and Japan
Shanghai
Charles Wycliffe Goodwin
George French
Chief Justice

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