Horne, Thomas Hartwell (1819-1833)

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Adm. sizar at ST JOHN'S, May 11, 1819. A ‘Ten-year man.’ S. of William, barrister's clerk. [B. 1780. Schools, private and Christ's Hospital, where he was a contemporary of S. T. Coleridge, and received private coaching from him in 1790.] ' Matric. Michs. 1827; B.D. (Stat. Eliz.) 1829. Hon. M.A., King's College, Aberdeen, 1817. D.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1841. Barrister's clerk, 1796-1806. Joined the Wesleyan Methodists. Devoted himself to literature, editing and compiling works on a great diversity of subjects. Prepared the indexes to the Catalogue of the Harleian manuscripts in the British Museum, 1808. Clerk in the Record Office, 1817-19. Published his Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, 1818. Ord. deacon (London) June 6, 1819; priest, Dec. 19, 1819; C. of Christ Church, Newgate Street, 1819-25. Assistant Minister at Welbeck Chapel, 1825-33. R. of St Edmund-the-King and Martyr, with St Nicholas Acons, 1833-62. Prebendary of St Paul's, 1831-62. Sub-Librarian to the Surrey Institution, 1809-23. Senior Assistant Librarian in the Department of printed books in the British Museum, 1824-60. Engaged to compile the catalogue of the library of Queens' College, Cambridge, 1821. F.S.A., 1828. The tercentenary commemoration of the publication of the Protestant English Bible by Miles Coverdale was held in 1835 at his suggestion. Married, 1812, Sarah, dau. of John Millard, solicitor, and had issue. Author of an enormous quantity of work on religious, historical, topographical and other subjects. Died Jan. 27, 1862, in Bloomsbury Square, London. (Foster, Index Eccles.; Boase, I. 1539; D.N.B.; C. J. Fordyce.)

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