A NOTED EXPLORER

Evening Star, Issue 18160, 28 December 1922, Page 6

A NOTED EXPLORER

DEATH RECORDED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, ADELAIDE, December 28. (Received December 28, at 10 a.m.) The death occurred in London, at the ago of eighty-two, of, Mr W. A, Horn, explorer, legislator, and mining magnate. fMr Horn was educated at Worcester College. Oxford. For fifty years he was engaged in the development of outlying portions of the British Empire in Australia, Ceylon, Malay States, India, and Papua. He had several minor exploring expeditions in Australia between 1868 and 1879; explored, scientifically, Central Australia in 1894. lie holds the Australian record for a long ride on horseback, 164 miles in twenty-two and a-half hours. He represented the district of Flinders in the South Australian Parliament, for which State.he had been a J.P. for fifty-two years. He was a governor of Middlesex Hospital; chairman of Knula Selangor Rubber Company, British New Guinea Development Company, Robinson River Rubber and Cocoa-nut Company, and Becin Rumanian Oilfields Company; director of Bank of Adelaide. London. His publications include : ‘ Results of the Horn Scientific Exploration,’ ‘Notes by a Nomad,’ and ‘Bush Echoes.’[