mathematician
Samuel Horsley.
Bishop of St David's; Bishop of Rochester; Dean of Westminster; Bishop of St Asaph (1733-1806)
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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.
Everything about Samuel Horsley →- Occupation
- mathematician, physicist, Anglican priest, Anglican theologian
- Position held
- Anglican Bishop of Rochester, Anglican Bishop of St Asaph, Dean of Westminster, Anglican Bishop of St Davids
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- September 15, 1733
- Died
- October 4, 1806