page_title: Harold Stephen Langhorne
section_title: Family, Marriage and Children
hierarchical_section_title: Harold Stephen Langhorne / Family, Marriage and Children
caption_attribution_description: English: Henrietta Langhorne nee Long originally of Harston Hall, Cambridge, England. Married John Langhorne, headmaster of Rochester School, England
context_page_description: Harold Stephen Langhorne CB CMG was a Brigadier-General in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps of the British army and served in India, Burma, Hong Kong, South Africa and France.
context_section_description: His brother John Langhorne became principal of John Watson's Institution, Edinburgh.  Two of his half-brothers also became senior army officers: Major-General Algernon Philip Yorke Langhorne and Brigadier James Archibald Dunboyne Langhorne.
  Harold Stephen Langhorne met his future wife after he fell from a horse during a polo match in India.  In order to recover from the fall he was seated beside her and her father Major General Frederick Edward Hadow, believed to have been commanding Officer of the Hyderabad Contingent Force.  He married Amy Helen Francis Hadow (born Toghoo, Bengal 21 December 1867 died Cheltenham, Gloucester, England 17 July 1953) at Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India on 28 December 1891.
  They had five children:
  Francis Harold Langhorne (born 1892 Aurangabad, Deccan, India), emigrated to Slocan junction, British Columbia and signed up with the Canadian Expeditionary Force at Valcartier on 18 September 1914. He was killed in action at Cambrai on 29 September 1918 whilst a Lieutenant with the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles (British Columbia Regiment))
  Ursula Margaret (Peggy) Langhorne (born Ticehurst, Kent in September 1894)
  Edward Walter Langhorne (born 1900 Hong Kong joined the Royal Artillery, served in Mesopotamia and India.  After leaving the army he worked in the 1930s in oil extraction in Trinidad and was present for the Butler riots.  He was present at Guayaguayare and Forest reserve. In the 1950s he worked again in oil extraction for the Ministry of Works Kaduna, Nigeria.  He later lived with his wife Rose at Whitchurch, Hampshire.
  Hilda Mary Langhorne (born Harbledon, Canterbury 15 April 1901 died 1999) lived with her parents in Egypt, joined the ARP in 1939 and worked as an ambulance driver in London during the blitz. She was based at the London Auxiliary Ambulance Station at 39A crawford Street, London.  For this she received the Defence Medal in 1946.  She later became a governess to Sir Sidney Woodwark, physician to Queen Elizabeth.  Late in her retirement she resided at Whaddon and then Brookethorpe, both near Gloucester.
  Elizabeth Langhorne (born 23 October 1911 at the Royal Army Clothing Depot, Pimlico, London died Gloucester 1999).  Elizabeth attended Cheltenham Ladies College from 1925–31, with a scholarship from 1927–30 and was a senior prefect from 1930-1931. In 1931 she won the Dorothea Beale exhibition in History to enter St Hilda's College, Oxford and in 1933 won the Mansfield essay prize(open to 1st and 2nd year students in all subjects; for an essay on "The study of Aristotle in the thirteenth century).  She won the University Gibbs Scholarship in history (awarded on the result of a competitive examination) and her College exhibition was raised to a scholarship. She was the first woman to win the Gibbs Scholarship. In 1934 she completed B.A. Final Honour School of modern history, class II.  Her special period was A.D. 919-1273 and special subject The Third Crusade.    In 1934-1935 she undertook the Gamble studentship for research (a college studentship). From 1935-1936 she was a junior lecture in history as Royal Holloway College In 1935 she undertook Post Graduate work under the direction of Professor Powicke.  Her research was on "The problem of the papacy in the twelfth century, with special reference to the preaching of apostolic poverty during the pontificate of Eugenius II".  She was a lecturer in modern history at St Hilda's from 1936-1938. From 1938-1939 she was a part-time teacher at Cheltenham Ladies college.  From 1941- 1942 she was  a National Service interviewer, Stockport.  In 1942 she was appointed part-time to the Staff of the Social Reconstruction Survey organised by Nuffield College, Oxford.  She married Francis Hugh Vowles in 1938, residing at 135 Finlay road, Gloucester.  She was chair of the Gloucestershire local history society.  They later lived at the Old Rectory, Whaddon, Gloucester before dividing this land and building "New Hasbrook" next door.
caption: Henrietta Langhorne, née Long (1836-1869) mother of HS Langhorne
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