HORNE, GEORGE: Bishop of Norwich; b. at Otham, near Maidstone (8 m. s.sE. of Rochester), Kent, Nov. 1, 1730; d. at Bath Jan. 17, 1792. He studied at University and Magdalen colleges, oxford (B.A., 1749; M.A., 1752), and passed the greater part of his life at Magdalen, having obtained a fellowship there in 1750. In 1768 he became president of Magdalen, and in 1776 vice-chancellor of the university. From 1771 to 1781 he was chaplainin-ordinary to the king. In the latter year he was made dean of Canterbury, and in 1790 he was elevated to the see of Norwich. He was a good Hebrew scholar, a genial writer, and one of the beat preachers of his time. He sympathized with the Methodists, and adopted and defended the views of John Hutchinson (q.v.), who had much in common with the Methodists. Horse published frequent sermons, a defense of Hutchinsonianism, numerous pamphlets against Newton, Hume, Adam Smith, William Law, and others, and also a criticism of Benjamin Kennicott's plan to collate the Hebrew text of the Bible as a basis for a new English translation. His chief work, however, is his Commentary on the Book of Psalms (2 vols., Oxford, 1776), which occupied him twenty years. This work, which has passed through many editions, is characterized by a combination of exegetical treatment with devotional suggestiveness. Horse's Works were edited by W. Jones (6 vols., London, 1795).

Bibliography: His Memoirs were prefixed by W. Jones to the Works, ut SUP. Consult: H. J. Todd, Some Account

of the Deans of Canterbury, Canterbury, 1793; J. H. covton and F. Relton, The English Church . . . 1714-1800, pp. 203-207, 351-352, et passim, 1906; DNB, zavi. 356-357.

HORNE, THOMAS HARTWELL: Biblical scholar and bibliographer; b. in London Oct. 20, 1780; d. there Jan. 27, 1862. He was educated at Christ's Hospital, London, where for two years he was a contemporary with S. T. Coleridge, from whom he received private instruction in the summer of 1790. In 1796 he became a barrister's clerk. To eke out

his meager salary he took up authorship and wrote, or edited, numerous works on such diverse subjects as theology, law, grazing, topography, and bibliography. In 1808 he undertook the compilation of the indexes to the three volumes of the Harleian manuscripts in the British Museum. After the completion of this work he remained in the employ of the Record Office. .He was sublibrarian of the Surrey Institution 1809-23. Admitted to holy orders, he was curate at Christ Church 1819-25 and assistant minister at Walbeck Chapel 1825-33. He took the degree of B.D. at Cambridge in 1829. In 1831 he received a prebend in St. Paul's, London, and in 1833 he became rector of the united parishes of St. Edmund the King and St. Nicholas Aeons, London. From 1824 to 1860 he was also senior assistant librarian in the department of printed books in the British Museum. His chief work is An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures (3 vols., London, 1818; 11th ed., 4 vols., 1860), which at once became one of the principal class-books for the study of the Scriptures in Protestant institutions in Great Britain and America. While this very comprehensive work has now been superseded, it remains monumental as the embodiment of the best scholarship of the time in the various departments of Biblical learning.

Bibliography: Reminiscences, Personal and Bibliographical, of T. H. Horne, with Notes by his Daughter, S. A. Cheyne, and a short Introduction by J. B. MaeCaul, London, 1862; J. B. MaeCaul, The Rev. T. H. Horne, a Sketch, ib. 1862; G. M. Turpin, Rev. T. Hartwell Horne, ib. 1862; DNB, gvii. 363-364.