SAMUEL HORSLEY


Samuel Horsley
Samuel Horsley
  • Born: September 15, 1733
  • Died: October 4, 1806
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Alma Mater

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 (Sir Joseph Banks) he withdrew in 1784.