George Horne (bishop)
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The Right Reverend George Horne |
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| Bishop of Norwich | |
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| Diocese | Diocese of Norwich |
| In office | 1790–1792 |
| Predecessor | Lewis Bagot |
| Successor | Charles Manners-Sutton |
| Other posts | Dean of Canterbury (1781–1790) |
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| Born |
1 November 1730 Otham, Kent |
| Died | 17 January 1792 (aged 61) Bath, Somerset |
| Buried | Eltham Church |
| Nationality | British |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Education | Maidstone Grammar School |
| Alma mater | University College, Oxford |
George Horne (1 November 1730 – 17 January 1792) was an English churchman, academic, writer, and university administrator.
Horne was born at Otham near Maidstone, in Kent, the eldest surviving son of the Reverend Samuel Horne (1693-1768), rector of the parish, and his wife Anne (1697-1787), youngest daughter of Bowyer Hendley. He attended Maidstone Grammar School alongside his cousin and lifelong friend William Stevens, son of his father's sister Margaret, and from there went in 1746 to University College, Oxford (BA 1749; MA 1752; DD 1764). Three contemporaries at the college were also friends for life: Charles Jenkinson later first Earl of Liverpool, William Jones of Nayland. and John Moore, later Archbishop of Canterbury. His two younger brothers were also Oxford graduates and clergymen, Samuel Horne (1733 – about 1772) becoming an Oxford academic while William Horne (1740 – 1821) succeeded their father as rector of Otham.
In 1749 Horne became a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, of which college he was elected President on 27 January 1768. As an influential college head, he served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1776 until 1780. At the university, he fought against any relaxation of the law that required entrants to subscribe to the beliefs of the Church of England.
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