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.
- 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
