GEORGE

See also:

• GEORGE HORNE (1730-1792)
• HORNE, RICHARD HENRY, or HENGIST (1803–1884)
• HORNE, THOMAS HARTWELL (178o-1862)

HORNE (1730-1792)  , English divine, was born on the 1st of November 1730, at Otham near Maidstone, and received his education at Maidstone school and University College, Oxford . In 1749 he became a fellow of Magdaren, of which college he was elected president in 1768 . As a preacher he early attained great popularity, and was, albeit unjustly, accused of Methodism . His reputation was helped by several clever if somewhat wrong-headed publications, including a satirical pamphlet entitled The Theology and Philosophy of Cicero's Somnium Scipionis (1751), a defence of the Hutchinsonians in A Fair, Candid and Impartial State of the Case between Sir Isaac Newton and Mr Hutchinson (1753), and critiques upon William Law (1758) and Benjamin Kennicott (1760) . In 1771 he published his well-known Commentary on the Psalms . a series of expositions based on the Messianic idea . In 1776 he was chosen vice-chancellor of his university; in 1781 he was made dean of Canterbury, and in 1790 was raised to the see of Norwich . He died.at Bath on the 17th of January 1792 . His collected Works were published with a Memoir by William Jones in 1799 .