A shopkeeper and stalwart worker for the community for much of his life, Edwin Barnett Horn served on a variety of organisations as well as the local council.

He was born at Manthorpe, near Bourne, on 28th August 1914 and educated at Stamford, leaving to join the old-established family tailoring business in Bourne which he ran for 37 years, apart from a five year break during the Second World War of 1939-45 when he served as a fitter-armourer with the Royal Air Force. It was this wartime service that provided the motivation for one of his main activities in later years, the Royal British Legion, rarely missing a monthly meeting and holding many offices, including that of chairman and later president.

He was elected to the executive, social and service committees in 1947 and became poppy organiser in 1970, pushing up receipts from £450 in 1958 to £5,500 in 1992, while his popular personality was responsible for recruiting many new members.

Meanwhile, his work elsewhere in the town was prolific, becoming a member of Bourne Urban District Council and later the Town Council, serving as deputy mayor in 1975-76, a member of South Kesteven District Council for six years, a trustee of Bourne United Charities (chairman 1974-75), founder member and later chairman of Bourne Chamber of Trade (1937-70), founder member and later president of the town's Rotary Club, member of the local Post Office Advisory Committee, the Disabled Employment Advisory Committee (Stamford) and treasurer of the Bourne Plate Glass Insurance Company (1936-70) and in 1979, he became a foundation trustee of the Darby and Joan Hall. In his younger days,

Mr Horn, who was always known as Eddie, played tennis, badminton and cricket and also helped run the various clubs devoted to these sports. Although he sold the tailoring and outfitting business in North Street, Bourne, when he retired in 1973, he stayed on to advise, a period that lasted for a further six years.

He married twice, his second wife being Mrs Margaret Weyman, formerly clerk to Bourne Town Council, who he married in 1979 and survived him, and there was a son, David, and a daughter, Susan, from his first marriage to Mona Evans. Mr Horn, who lived in a flat at Bourne House in West Street, died on Friday 2nd September 2005 at the age of 91 and the funeral service was held at the Abbey Church.