Background
Horsley was born in c. 1685 in Inveresk, Scotland.
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A Letter to Samuel Horsley concerning Translation of a Passage in Ebn Younes; with some Remarks thereon. Read Feb.13, 1777. From The Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.
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Britannia Romana: or the Roman antiquities of Britain: in three books. ...
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John Horsley
John Horsley was a British antiquarian, known primarily for his book Britannia Romana or The Roman Antiquities of Britain which was published in 1732.
Education
Horsley was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle and at Edinburgh University, where he graduated MA on 29 April 1701.
Career
Horsley settled in Morpeth as a Presbyterian minister as early as 1709. He, however, thought that up to 1721, at which time he was residing at Widdrington, he had not received ordination, but preached as a licentiate. Horsley communicated to the Philosophical Transactions notes on the rainfall at Widdrington in the years 1722 and 1723. At Morpeth Horsley opened a private school, attracting pupils irrespective of religious connection, among them Newton Ogle, later dean of Westminster. He gave lectures on mechanics and hydrostatics in Morpeth, Alnwick and Newcastle. Horsley died of apoplexy on 12 January 1732, on the eve of the publication of the Britannia Romana. It is as an archaeologist and antiquarian that Horsley is now known. His major work, Britannia Romana, or The Roman Antiquities of Britain was published in 1732. One of Horsley's achievements in this book was to identify for the first time which legions of the Roman army were stationed in Britain. There was in the British Museum a copy of with notes by John Ward. He also published two sermons and a handbook to his lectures on mechanics, etc. , and projected a history of Northumberland and Durham, collections for which were found among his papers.
Achievements
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Horsley was a British antiquarian, known for his research, published in his Britannia Romana.
Works
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Britannia Romana: or the Roman antiquities of Britain: in three books. ...
(The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration a...)
- A Letter to Samuel Horsley concerning Translation of a Passage in Ebn Younes; with some Remarks thereon. Read Feb.13, 1777. From The Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.
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Britannia Romana: or the Roman antiquities of Britain: in three books. ...
Membership
Fellow of the Royal Society (1730)
Connections
- Father:
- Charles Horsley
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Religion
Presbyterian