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HORSLEY, SAMUEL (1733-1806)
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See also:HORSLEY, See also:SAMUEL (1733-1806) , See also:English divine, was See also:born in See also:London on the 15th of See also:September 1733. Entering Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, he became LL.B. in 1758 without graduating in arts, and in the following See also:year succeeded his See also:father in the living of Newington Butts in See also:Surrey. Horsley was elected a See also:Fellow of the Royal Society in 1767; and secretary in 1773, but, in consequence of a difference with the See also:president (See also:Sir See also:Joseph See also:Banks) he withdrew in 1784. In 1768 he attended the eldest son of the 4th See also:earl of See also:Aylesford to See also:Oxford as private See also:tutor; and, after receiving through the earl and See also:Bishop See also:Lowth various See also:minor preferments, which by dispensations he combined with his first living, he was installed in 1781 as See also:archdeacon of St Albans. Horsley now entered in See also:earnest upon his famous controversy with Joseph See also:Priestley, who denied that the See also:early Christians held the See also:doctrine of the Trinity. In this controversy, conducted on both sides in the fiercest polemical spirit, Horsley showed the See also:superior learning and ability. His aim was to lessen the See also:influence which the See also:prestige of Priestley's name gave to his views, by indicating inaccuracies in his scholarship and undue haste in his conclusions. For the See also:energy displayed in the contest Horsley was rewarded by See also:Lord See also:Chancellor See also:Thurlow with a prebendal See also:stall at See also:Gloucester; and in 1788 the same See also:patron procured his promotion to the see of St See also:David's. As a bishop, Horsley was energetic both in his See also:diocese, where he strove to better the position of his See also:clergy, and in See also:parliament. The efficient support which he afforded the See also:government was acknowledged by his successive See also:translations to See also:Rochester in 1793, and to St See also:Asaph in 18o2. With the bishopric of Rochester he held the deanery of See also:Westminster. He died at See also:Brighton on the 4th of See also:October 18o6. Besides the controversial Tracts, which appeared in 1783–1784–1786, and were republished in 1789 and 1812, Horsley's more important See also:works are:—Apollonii Pergaei inclinationum libri duo (177o) ; Remarks on the Observations ... for determining the See also:acceleration of the Pendulum in See also:Lat. 7o° 51' (1774); Isaaci Newtoni See also:Opera quae extant Omnia, with a commentary (5 vols. 4to, 1779–1785) ; On the Prosodies of tke See also:Greek and Latin See also:Languages 0796); Disquisitions on See also:Isaiah xviii. (1796); See also:Hosea, translated ... with Notes (1801); Elementary See also:Treatises on... See also:Mathematics (1801); Euclidis elernentorum libri priores XII. (1802); Euclidis datorum See also:liber (1803); See also:Virgil's Two Seasons of See also:Honey, &c. (1805); and papers in the Philosophical Transactions from 1767 to 1776. After his See also:death there appeared—Sermons (1810–1812); Speeches in Parliament (1813); See also:Book of See also:Psalms, translated with Notes (1815); Biblical See also:Criticism (1820) ; Collected Theological Works (6 vols. 8vo, 1845). Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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