George Henry Horne and Marie Horne nee Raine. Also Henry Derrick Horne
Both
George Henry Horne and his wife Marie are commemorated on this grave, with their son Henry Derrick's ashes having been interred along with them.
George Henry was born on 24 April 1882 in Brierley, Yorkshire, to parents John and Mary. His father was a farmer. Although George's brother John followed in their father's footsteps in farming, George seems to have taken to teaching from an early age: in 1901 he was teaching at a school in Blackpool, his two younger brothers being pupils there; by 1911 he was an assistant master at Silcoates School near Wakefield.1912 he married
Marie Raine in Guisborough, Yorkshire, and they had two children, Kathleen M and Henry Derrick.
Both children were born in Coventry, because George had become a teacher of Modern Languages at Coventry Grammar School, later to be known as King Henry VIII. He was conscripted for war service in 1916, and the experience evidently had a profound impact, as he subsequently led "battlefield tours" for the schoolboys, to France and Flanders.
In the 1939 register George is recorded as being a schoolmaster living at 49,Cromwell Lane, Coventry. There he would hold French conversation lessons for his sixth formers, including perhaps his most famous student, the poet Philip Larkin.
Mary Annie (known as Marie) was born on 6 March 1889, to parents George and Mary; her father was a farmer, and by 1901 he was describing himself simply as "gentleman".By 1911 she was helping her mother and two sisters run a boarding house in Saltburn.
Mary Annie died on 28 November 1962. George died six years later, on 23 August 1968.
Their son
Henry Derrick, born on 27 July 1924, died on 17 February 2013 and was cremated at Oakley Wood on 25 February. He had married Josephine Moody in 1959 and they had three daughters.