Samuel Horsley ✓

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British bishop (1733–1806)

About Samuel Horsley

Samuel Horsley was a British churchman, bishop of Rochester from 1793. He 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 he withdrew in 1784.

Notable works:

Tracts in controversy with Dr. Priestley upon the historical question of the belief of the first ages in our Lord's divinity

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