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Samuel Horsley was boen on the 15th of September, 1733 in London, United Kingdom.
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Samuel Horsley was boen on the 15th of September, 1733 in London, United Kingdom.
Samuel Horsley attended the Trinity Hall.
Samuel Horsley was also well versed in physics and mathematics, on which he wrote a number of papers and thus was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1767. And secretary in 1773, but, in consequence of a difference with the president (Sir Joseph Banks) he withdrew in 1784. Entering Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1751, he became LL.B. in 1758 without graduating in arts.
In this fierce debate, Horsley's aim was to lessen the influence which Priestley's name gave to his views, by pointing to (what he claimed were) inaccuracies in his scholarship. Horsley was rewarded by Lord Chancellor Thurlow with a prebendal stall at Gloucester. And in 1788 Thurlow procured his promotion to the see of St David's.
As a bishop, Horsley was active both in his diocese, and in parliament. The effective support which he afforded the government was acknowledged by his successive translations to Rochester in 1793, and to St Asaph in 1802. With the see of Rochester he held the deanery of Westminster.
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