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JOHN HORSLEY (c. 1685 – 1732)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 739 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:HORSLEY (c. 1685 – 1732)  , See also:British archaeologist . See also:John See also:Hodgson (1779–1845), the historian of See also:Northumberland, in a See also:short memoir published in 1831, held that he was See also:born in 1685, at Pinkie See also:House, in the See also:parish of Inveresk, Midlothian, and that his See also:father was a Northumberland See also:Nonconformist, who had migrated to See also:Scotland, but returned to See also:England soon after the Revolution of 1688 . J . H . Hinde, in the Archaeologia Aeliana (Feb . 1865), held that he was a native of See also:Newcastle-on-See also:Tyne, the son of See also:Charles See also:Horsley, a member of the Tailors' See also:Company of that See also:town . He was educated at Newcastle, and at See also:Edinburgh University, where he graduated M.A. on the 29th of See also:April 1701 . There is See also:evidence that he " was settled in See also:Morpeth as a Presbyterian See also:minister as See also:early as 1709." Hodgson, however, thought that up to 1721, at which See also:time he was residing at See also:Widdrington, " he had not received ordination, but preached as a licentiate." Even if he was ordained then, his stay at the latter See also:place was probably prolonged beyond that date; for he communicated to the Philosophical Transactions (xxxii . 328) notes on the rainfall there in the years 1722 and 1723 . Hinde shows that during these years " he certainly followed r. See also:secular employment as See also:agent to the See also:York Buildings Company, who had contracted to See also:purchase and were then in See also:possession of the Widdrington estates." At Morpeth Horsley opened a private school . Respect for his See also:character and abilities attracted pupils irrespective of religious connexion, among them See also:Newton Ogle, afterwards See also:dean of See also:Westminster . He gave lectures on See also:mechanics and See also:hydrostatics in Morpeth, See also:Alnwick and Newcastle, and was elected F.R.S. on the 23rd of April 1730 .

It is as an archaeologist that Horsley is now known . His See also:

great See also:work, Britannia See also:Romana, or the See also:Roman Antiquities of See also:Britain (See also:London, 1732), one of the scarcest and most valuable of its class, contains the result of patient labour . There is in the British Museum a copy with notes by John See also:Ward (c . 1679–1758), biographer of the See also:Gresham professors . Horsley died of See also:apoplexy on the 12th of See also:January 1732, on the See also:eve of the publication of the Britannia Romana . He also published two sermons and a handbook to his lectures on mechanics, &c., and projected a See also:history of Northumberland and See also:Durham, collections for which were found among his papers . J . P . See also:Wood (d . 1838) (Parish of Cramond, 1794, and Anecdotes of See also:Bowyer, 1782, p . 371) says that his wife was a daughter of See also:William See also:Hamilton, D.D., minister of Cramond, afterwards See also:professor of divinity in Edinburgh University, but probably the John Horsley in question was another, the father of See also:Samuel Horsley (q.v.) .

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