Kenneth Horne

Kenneth Horne (27 February 1907, London – 14 February 1969) was an English comedian and businessman. He starred in the BBC radio programmes Much Binding in the Marsh, (with Richard Murdoch), Beyond Our Ken and Round the Horne - in the latter he was given a number of strange names. As well as being an excellent comedian he was also chairman of Triplex Glass (later merged into Pilkington) and Chad Valley Toys, until he gave up business due to a stroke and concentrated on his comedy. He was particularly close to Kenneth Williams, who looked on him as a substitute father. He also did some TV advertising and he was in the series Horne A'plenty. He hosted a game show called Treasure Hunt - not to be confused with the later Kenneth Kendall / Anneka Rice show of the same name - on Westward Television. Image File history File linksMetadata Kenneth_Horne. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Kenneth_Horne. ... February 27 is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... February 14 is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Stargate SG-1 episode, see 1969 (Stargate SG-1). ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the  United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Unified  -  by Athelstan 927 AD  Area  -  Total 130... Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh was the title of a comical BBC radio show broadcast from 1944 to 1954, starring Kenneth Horne and Richard Murdoch as senior staff in a fictional RAF station battling red tape and wartime inconvenience. ... Richard Stinker Murdoch (1907-1990) was a British comedian. ... Beyond Our Ken (1958-1963) was a radio programme, the predecessor to Round the Horne (1964-1969). ... Round the Horne was one of the most influential BBC Radio comedy programmes, comparable to The Goon Show in its influence on other comedy programmes. ... Pilkington plc is the largest glass manufacturer in the United Kingdom. ... Chad Valley is a long-established brand of toys in the United Kingdom. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Kenneth Kendall (born August 7, 1924) is a British broadcaster and journalist. ... Anneka Rice (born Anne Rice[1], 4 October 1958 in Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan) is a Welsh television presenter. ... Westward Television was the first ITV franchise holder for the South West of England from 29 April 1961 until 31 December 1981. ...

Born Charles Kenneth Horne^[1], he was the son of Silvester Horne (1865-1914), a Congregationalist minister, Liberal MP for Ipswich, and powerful orator who built the White House in Sandford Avenue, Church Stretton as the family home, and is commemorated by the 'Silvester Horne Institute' in Church Stretton, Shropshire. His maternal grandfather was Herbert Cozens-Hardy, the Liberal MP for North Norfolk who became both the Master of the Rolls and Baron Cozens-Hardy on 1 July 1914. Congregational churches are Protestant Christian churches practicing congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation indepedently and autonomously runs its own affairs. ... Look up liberal on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Liberal may refer to: Politics: Liberalism American liberalism, a political trend in the USA Political progressivism, a political ideology that is for change, often associated with liberal movements Liberty, the condition of being free from control or restrictions Liberal Party, members of... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... Timber framed buildings in St Nicholas Street The Ancient House is decorated with a particularly fine example of pargeting Ipswich (pronounced ) is the county town of Suffolk and a non-metropolitan district in East Anglia, England on the estuary of the River Orwell. ... Statistics Population: 4,186 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SO453937 Administration District: South Shropshire Shire county: Shropshire Region: West Midlands Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Shropshire Historic county: Shropshire Services Police force: West Mercia Fire and rescue: {{{Fire}}} Ambulance: West Midlands Post office and telephone... Shropshire (alternatively Salop or abbreviated Shrops) is a county in the West Midlands of England. ... Baron Cozens-Hardy was a title created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom on 1 July 1914 for the former MP for Norfolk North, former Lord Justice of Appeal and then Master of the Rolls, Herbert Cozens-Hardy. ... Look up liberal on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Liberal may refer to: Politics: Liberalism American liberalism, a political trend in the USA Political progressivism, a political ideology that is for change, often associated with liberal movements Liberty, the condition of being free from control or restrictions Liberal Party, members of... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... North Norfolk is a local government district in Norfolk, England. ... The Master of the Rolls is the third most senior judge of England, the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain traditionally being first and the Lord Chief Justice second. ... Baron Cozens-Hardy was a title created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom on 1 July 1914 for the former MP for Norfolk North, former Lord Justice of Appeal and then Master of the Rolls, Herbert Cozens-Hardy. ... is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

During World War II, Horne served in the RAF, reaching the rank of Wing Commander. As part of BBC radio's support of the war effort entertainment programmes were devised to target each wing of the armed forces, this led to Horne's involvement in Much-Binding-In-The-Marsh set at the titular fictitious air force base, a series which continued until 1954. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces. ... A Wing Commanders sleeve/shoulder insignia A Wing Commanders command flag Wing Commander is a commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many other Commonwealth countries. ...

He died from a stroke whilst standing up to make a speech, just after the fourth series of Round the Horne was completed. A fifth series had been commissioned, but it was decided that the show could not continue without its star.

Since December 2002, editions of Round the Horne may be heard at 19:00 UK time (= GMT during the winter months) each Wednesday on the digital service called BBC 7. BBC 7 is a digital radio station broadcasting comedy, drama, and childrens programming 24 hours a day. ...

In recent years a successful stage show called Round the Horne - Revisited using the original scripts, has toured Britain with actors vocally impersonating the cast, Kenneth Horne being played by Jonathan Rigby. Jonathan Rigby (born 23 February 1963 in Salford, Lancs) is an actor and film critic who has written a regular page, The Fright of Your Life, in Shivers magazine since 1999. ...

Radio

• Ack Ack, Beer Beer (1939-44)
• Much Binding in the Marsh (1947-53)
• Free and Easy (1953)
• Twenty Questions (as chairman)
• Beyond Our Ken (1958-64)
• Round The Horne (1965-9)

Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh was the title of a comical BBC radio show broadcast from 1944 to 1954, starring Kenneth Horne and Richard Murdoch as senior staff in a fictional RAF station battling red tape and wartime inconvenience. ... Beyond Our Ken (1958-1963) was a radio programme, the predecessor to Round the Horne (1964-1969). ... Round the Horne was one of the most influential BBC Radio comedy programmes, comparable to The Goon Show in its influence on other comedy programmes. ...

Television

• Horne A'Plenty (1968)

External links

• Short biography
• Kenneth Horne at the Internet Movie Database

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References

• Norman Hackforth, Solo for Horne. A biography of Kenneth Horne (Angus & Robertson hardback, ISBN 0-207-95650-2; Coronet Books paperback, ISBN 0-340-24274-4)
• Round Mr Horne: The Life of Kenneth Horne by Barry Johnston

1. ^ Barry Took, "Horne, (Charles) Kenneth (1907–1969)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 [1], accessed 17 April 2007