Horniman Map of the World

The Horniman Circle Gardens is a large park in South Mumbai, India. Designed to be a large open space with grand buildings in the middle of the walled city, the area had been known as Bombay Green in the 18th century. Following India's independence in 1947, the area was renamed in honor of Benjamin Horniman, editor of the Bombay Chronicle newspaper, who supported Indian independence.

Frederick Horniman used a large part of his tea trade fortune to establish the Horniman Museum and Gardens, in Forest Hill.

An avid collector since childhood, he travelled extensively, and founded and built the museum to house his various collections, which he donated in 1907. Today the museum houses some 350,000 items, of which the core 10% are from Frederick's original donation.

A park in the Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, named after the London County Councillor Emslie John Horniman (son of Frederick Horniman) who created it, and opened in 1914. It is the traditional starting point for the Notting Hill Carnival.

Frederick Horniman's daughter, Annie, became an English theatre patron and manager. She bought a property and developed it into the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, which opened in December 1904.

Once the home of the Horniman tea brand warehouse, this building now houses a traditional freehouse.

The original tea trading and blending business 'Horniman's Tea Company' was founded in 1826 in Newport, Isle of Wight, by trader John Horniman (father of Frederick Horniman). In 1852 he moved the company to London to be closer to the bonded warehouses of London Docks, then the biggest tea trading port in the world.

Until 1826, only loose leaf tea had been sold, allowing traders to increase profits by adding other items such as hedge clippings or dust. Hormiman revolutionised the tea trade by using mechanical devices to speed the process of filling pre-sealed packages, thereby reducing his cost of production and hence the quality to the end customer. This caused some consternation amongst his competitors, but by 1891 Horniman's was the largest tea trading business in the world.

In the 1870s, the business was taken over by his son Frederick John Horniman (1835-1906), who subsequently invested much of his fortune for social purposes.

In 1908, Annie Horniman purchased and began to renovate the Gaiety Theatre in Manchester. The theatre had been open since 1884, having replaced a previous Comedy Theatre on the sit,e which had been destroyed by fire. It reopened in 1912 after Annie's renovations as the Gaiety Theatre, the first regional repertory theatre in Britain.

In 1920 the theatre was taken over by Samuel Fitton & Associates but closed in 1922. It was in use again between 1945 and 1947 but was demolished in 1959.

Frederick Horniman's son, Emslie John Horniman (1863 – 1932), was Liberal MP for Chelsea (1906–10). He continued to develop the museum, and was a noted art collector and patron in his own right. Emslie extensively restored his home at Burford Priory in the early 20th century.