Background
The son of a clergyman, Horan was educated at Sherborne and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
The son of a clergyman, Horan was educated at Sherborne and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
Trinity Hall; Sherborne School.
After a short military career in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry he studied for ordination at Westcott House, Cambridge and from 1933 embarked on curacies in Newcastle upon Tyne before wartime service in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Livings in Shrewsbury and Huddersfield followed before his elevation to the suffragan bishopric of Tewkesbury in 1960. After 13 years he resigned to begin retirement in Cheltenham. He died on 11 May 1996.