Anthony Horneck

Anthony Horneck (German: Anton Horneck; 1641 – 31 January, 1697) was a German Protestant clergyman and scholar who made his career in England. He became an influential evangelical figure in London from the later 1670s, in partnership with Richard Smithies, curate of St Giles Cripplegate.

Horneck was born at Bacharach, where his father was ‘recorder’ of the town, and brought him up as a Protestant. He studied at Heidelberg University under Friedrich Spanheim the Younger, then professor of divinity. He came to England about 1661, and became a member of The Queen's College, Oxford, 24 December 1663. There he was made chaplain by Thomas Barlow as Provost, and afterwards bishop of Lincoln. He was incorporated M.A. 15 March 1664.

He was presented by Lincoln College to the vicarage of All Saints, Oxford. In 1665 he became tutor to Christopher Monck, Lord Torrington, son of George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle The duke gave him the living of Dolton in Devon, and procured for him a prebend at Exeter Cathedral, where he was admitted 13 June 1670. In 1669 he visited Germany, and was received at the court of the Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine. In 1671 he was appointed preacher at the Savoy Hospital, and soon afterwards married.

He became so popular as a preacher to overflowing congregations that it was said that his parish extended from Whitechapel to Whitehall, reported by Richard Kidder; and John Evelyn's Diary (18 March 1683) calls him ‘a most pathetic preacher and a person of saint-like life.’ He resigned Dolton on obtaining the Savoy preachership; he had to hire a house near his church, became the father of four children, and gave to charity with an open hand. Kidder also says that he injured any chance of preferment by the plainness of his reproofs to great men. When John Tillotson was consulted by the Countess of Bedford on the appointment to the church of Covent Garden. Horneck's name had been suggested, but he was rejected on account of his unpopularity in the parish. He took the oaths to William and Mary; Kidder states that he lost many patrons at this time.

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