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THOMAS HARTWELL HORNE (178o-1862)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 709 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS HARTWELL See also:HORNE (178o-1862)  , See also:English theologian and bibliographer, was See also:born in See also:London on the 20th of See also:October 1780, and was educated at See also:Christ's See also:Hospital, with S . T . See also:Coleridge as an See also:elder contemporary . On leaving school he became clerk to a See also:barrister, but showed a keen See also:taste for author-See also:ship . As See also:early as ,800 he published A Brief View of the See also:Necessity and Truth of the See also:Christian See also:Revelation, which was followed by several See also:minor See also:works on very varied subjects . In 1814, having been appointed librarian of the See also:Surrey Institution, he issued his Introduction to the Study of Bibliography . This was followed in 1818 by his See also:long matured See also:work, the Introduction to the See also:Critical Study of the See also:Holy Scriptures, which rapidly attained popularity, and secured for its author widespread fame and an honorary M.A. degree from See also:Aberdeen . In 1819 he received ordination from See also:William Howley, See also:bishop of London, and after holding two smaller livings was appointed See also:rector of the See also:united parishes of St See also:Edmund the See also:King and See also:Martyr, and St See also:Nicolas Aeons in London . On the breaking up of the Surrey Institution in 1823, he was appointed (1824) See also:senior assistant librarian in the See also:department of printed books in the See also:British Museum . After the project of making a classified See also:catalogue had been abandoned, he took See also:part in the preparation of the. alphabetical one, and his connexion with the museum continued until within a few months of his See also:death on the 27th of See also:January 1862 . See also:Horne's works exceed See also:forty in number . The Introduction, edited by See also:John Ayre and S .

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Tregelles, reached a 12th edition in 1869; but, owing to subsequent advances in biblical scholarship, it See also:fell into disuse .

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