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 husband, Frederick Morton, stage-manager of Charing Cross Theatre, on 4 Jan. 1870.

[Theatrical Times, 27 March 1847, pp. 89–90, with portrait of R. W. Honner, and 10 Oct. 1846, pp. 137–8, with portrait of Mrs. Honner; Era, 2 Jan. 1853, p. 15, and 9 Jan. 1870, p. 5; Baker's London Stage (1889), ii. 211, 252; Cumberland's Minor Theatre, xv. 3–4, with portrait of Mrs. Honner; Actors by Gaslight, 4 Aug. 1838, pp. 121–2, with portrait of Mrs. Honner; Actors by Daylight, 24 Nov. 1838, pp. 305–6, with portrait of Mrs. Honner.] 

HONORIUS, (d. 653), fifth archbishop of Canterbury, one of the disciples of Pope Gregory, and of the companions of St. Augustine in his mission to England, was, after the death of Archbishop Justus on 10 Nov. 627, consecrated to the see of Canterbury by Paulinus, archbishop of York, though not before 628. The ceremony took place in the stone church which the ealdorman Blæcca built at Lincoln. Probably about 630 Honorius ordained Felix [q. v.], and sent him to preach to the East Angles. In answer to Honorius's request that on a vacancy occurring either at Canterbury or York the surviving archbishop might appoint and ordain to the vacant see, Pope Honorius wrote to him in 634 acceding to his wish, and sent palls both to him and to Paulinus. The terms of the letter and the equal gifts are sufficient to discredit the letter preserved by William of Malmesbury, and purporting to have been written by the pope at the same date, which declares the superiority of Canterbury over York. After the church of York had been overthrown by the defeat and death of Edwin [q. v.] in 633, Honorius received Paulinus, and with the concurrence of Eadbald [q. v.], king of Kent, appointed him bishop of Rochester. By the accession of Earconberct in Kent in 640 Honorius gained a powerful and zealous helper, for the king compelled the destruction of all the idols in his kingdom and the observance of the Lenten fast. Honorius did not exercise jurisdiction except in Kent, where, without the assistance of other bishops, he ordained Ithamar as bishop of Rochester in 644, and in East Anglia, where he ordained two bishops in 647 and 652. He died on 30 Sept. 653, and was buried in the west porch of St. Peter's at Canterbury. The see of Canterbury remained vacant until the consecration of Deusdedit [q. v.] eighteen months later. 

 HONYMAN, GEORGE ESSEX (1819–1875), judge, was born at Strawberry Hill, Middlesex, 22 Jan. 1819. His father, Sir Ord Honyman, the third baronet, born 25 March 1794, became lieutenant-colonel commanding the Grenadier guards 27 Dec. 1850 (, Grenadier Guards, iii. 149, 150, 425, 506), and died at Nice 27 Jan. 1863, having married, 7 April 1818, Elizabeth Essex, youngest daughter of George Bowen of Coton Hall, Shropshire, an admiral of the red. She died at Boulogne 28 Oct. 1864. The eldest son, George Essex, was received in 1838 into the office of Martineau, Malton, & Trollope, solicitors, of Lincoln's Inn. In 1840 he became a pupil of Sir Fitzroy Kelly, and afterwards read with David Octavius Gibbons, the special pleader. In 1842 he commenced practice as a pleader. For seven years he had few clients, but studied hard, and mastered commercial law. On 8 June 1849 he was called to the bar at the Middle Temple, and went the home circuit, where he at once attracted the attention both of the leaders of the bar and of the bench. In 1853 he was the best commercial lawyer of the day. He was not a great orator, but he had a quick intellect, a tenacious memory, and was industrious and conscientiously thorough. He succeeded his father as fourth baronet in 1863. On 23 July 1866 he was appointed a queen's counsel, became a bencher of his inn in November 1866, and a serjeant-at-law 23 Jan. 1873. On the recommendation of Lord Selborne he became a judge of the court of common pleas, 23 Jan. 1873. He resigned in February 1875, and died at Tunbridge Wells 16 Sept. 1875. His brother, the Rev. Sir William Macdonald Honyman, succeeded as fifth baronet. He married, 26 Nov. 1860, Annie Johanna, daughter of Virtue Thirkettle of Kingston-on-Thames; she died 13 Jan. 1881.

[Law Mag. and Rev. November 1875, pp. 122–127; Law Times, 9 Oct. 1875, p. 383; Times, 20 Sept. 1875, p. 7; Morning Post, 20 Sept. 1875, p. 5; Illustr. London News, 25 Sept. 1875, p. 319, 2 Oct. p. 333, with portrait, 4 Dec. p. 566.]  HONYWOOD, MARY (1527–1620), daughter and coheiress of Robert Waters, esq., of Lenham, Kent, was born at that place in 1527. In 1543, being then in her sixteenth year, she married Robert Honywood, esq., of Charing, and afterwards of Marks Hall, Essex, by whom she had sixteen children. Mrs. Honywood was chiefly celebrated for her longevity, and for the unprecedentedly large number of lineal descendants whom she lived to see. By her sixteen children she had 114 grandchildren, 228 great-grandchildren, and nine great-great-grandchildren, 367 in