Brigadier-General Montague Leyland Hornby (1870-1948) was born on 23 July 1870. He was educated in Shrewsbury and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, before entering the army in 1889. Hornby joined the Punjab Frontier Force, and served on the North West Frontier, India, 1897-1898. He joined the King's African Rifles in East Africa in 1898, and was based in the Somaliland Protectorate from 1902, where he was the local Lieutenant-Colonel, 1904-1907. During the First World War he was Brigade Major, 70th Brigade, 1914-1915, and commanded the 8th Battalion, Yorkshire and Lancashire Regiment, 1915-1916. He was Brigadier-Commander, 1916-1919, and was promoted to Colonel in 1920. He died on 21 November 1948.