Kane William Horneck (1726–1753) was an officer in the Royal Engineers.
Life He was a son of William Horneck and a grandson of Anthony Horneck. He married Hannah Muggles (1727–1803) from Devon and they had issue: Catherine (1750–1799); married satirist Henry William Bunbury Mary (1753–1840); in 1770 traveled to France with Oliver Goldsmith and his family, to whom she was introduced by Joshua Reynolds;Ralph Wardle, Oliver Goldsmith (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1957), pages 172-173 married Colonel Francis Edward Gwyn in 1778Norbert Schurer (editor), Charlotte Lennox: Correspondence and Miscellaneous Documents (Bucknell University Press, 2012), pages 386-387
He was close friends with Edmund Burke, who on Kane's death became his daughters' guardian.Burke's Correspondence, VII. 64 Just before his death Horneck had inspected the defences of Antigua - after his death his friend and fellow engineer officer Leonard Smelt worked up Horneck's sketches and memoranda into a full report. Hannah was also a friend of Samuel JohnsonThe Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume I: 1731-1772 (Princeton University Press, 2014), pages 339-340 and Joshua Reynolds, who painted Hannah and both her daughters.
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