| Authorised form of name | Horsley; Samuel (1733 - 1806); mathematician |
| Other forms of surname | 'Samuel Rochester' |
| 'Samuel St Davids' |
| Dates | 1733 - 1806 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | St Martin's Place, by St Martin's-in-the-Fields, London, England |
| Date of birth | 15 September 1733 |
| Place of death | Brighton, Sussex |
| Date of death | 04 October 1806 |
| Dates and places | Burial:
Under the altar at St Mary's, Newington Butts, Surrey, removed to Thorley, Hertfordshire in 1876, when St Mary's was demolished to make room for the railway |
| Occupation | Clergyman, Church of England |
| Research field | Mathematics |
| Astronomy |
| Activity | Education:
Trinity Hall, Cambridge; LLB (1758); Incorporated at Oxford (1767); DCL (Oxford 1774)
Career:
Rector of St Mary, Newington, Surrey (1758-1793); Rector of Albury, Surrey (1774-1779); Rector of Thorley, Hertfordshire (1777-1782); Archdeacon of St Albans (1781-1788); Vicar of South Weald, Essex (1782-1793); Prebendary of St Paul's (1783-1794); Prebendary of Gloucester (1787-1793); Bishop of St David's (1788-1793); Bishop of Rochester (1793-1802); Dean of Westminster (1793-1802); Bishop of St Asaph (1802-1806); was active in the improvement of conditions of junior clergy
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 09/04/1767 |
| Royal Society activity | Royal Society roles:
Sec 1773-1778 |
| Relationships | Son of John Horsley, clerk, of St Martin's, Westminster.
Married: 1) Mary, daughter of John Botham, his predecessor at Albury (1774); 2) Sarah Wright |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Venn
References:
A D Atkinson, 'Dr Johnson and the Royal Society' in NR 1953 vol 10 pp 131-138
H W Robinson, 'Gleanings from the Library - I. A Note on the Early Minutes' in NR 1938 vol 1 pp 92-95
L B Glyn, 'Israel Lyons: a short but starry career. The life of an eighteenth-century Jewish botanist and astronomer' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 275-305
Notes:
DNB says that he withdrew from the Society, but this is incorrect as his name appears on PL until his death and he was a member of Council from 1804 until his death (index to BR). |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/39400117 |
| Royal Society code | NA6920 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| IM/002256 | Horsley, Samuel | nd |
| MM/1/14 | Letter from J Mill, Oxford, to Isaac Newton | 21 February 1693 |
| MM/1/34 | Copy of a Resolution from twelve Fellows of the Royal Society, recommending the reinstatement of Dr Charles Hutton as Foreign Secretary | 29 January 1784 |
| MM/3/12 | Letter from Nathaniel Matthew Wolf, Danzig, to Samuel Horsley, Secretary, Royal Society | 9 June 1778 |
| MM/1/35 | Copy of a Resolution from Nine Fellows of the Royal Society, deprecating Presidential influence in the election of Fellows | c.1784 |
| MM/1/13 | Copy of letter from Samuel Horsley, Bromley House, to John Robison | 16 November 1800 |
| CB/1/5/170 | Letter from C J Phipps, Mulgrave Hall to Charles Blagden | 12 September 1774 |
| NLB/7/595 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr J Pinches, 27 Oxenden Street, W.C. | 20 March 1893 |
| L&P/6/61 | Letter, 'Of ink' from Edward Bancroft to Samuel Horsley | 18 March 1774 |
| L&P/6/222 | Letter, 'Fumigation applied to a consumptive patient' from John Know to Samuel Horsley | 20 December 1776 |
| MS/391/115 | Bond of Samuel Horsley to the Treasurer of the Royal Society | 30 April 1767 |
| L&P/7/24 | Letter, 'Of the cause of earthquakes' from Christopher Gullett to Samuel Horsley | 5 December 1777 |
| L&P/6/51 | Letter, 'Description of a cavern near Plymouth' from John Corham Huxham to Samuel Horsley | 5 March 1774 |
| L&P/5/297 | Paper, 'The sieve of Erathosthenes - his method of finding prime numbers' by Samuel Horsley | 7 February 1772 |
| L&P/4/378 | Paper, 'Distance of the sun from the earth' by Samuel Horsley | 12 February 1767 |
| L&P/6/4 | Letter, 'Observations on the Chester bills of mortality for 1772' from John Haygarth to Samuel Horsley | 15 February 1774 |
| L&P/5/197 | Paper, 'Consideration of difficulties in the Newtonian theory of light' by Samuel Horsley | 13 June 1770 |
| L&P/5/112 | Paper, 'Of the late transit of Venus' by Samuel Horsley | 1769 |
| L&P/6/23 | Letter, 'Of the Gillaroo trout' from Daines Barrington to Samuel Horsley | 23 December 1773 |
| L&P/5/260 | Paper, 'Problems of a crust of spherical particles covering a surface' by Samuel Horsley | 1771 |
| L&P/7/204 | Letter, 'Two medical cases' from John Harrison and J Andrews to Samuel Horsley | 6 November 1780 |
| L&P/6/14 | Letter, 'Further proofs of insalubrity or marshy places' from Richard Price to Samuel Horsley | 21 December 1773 |
| L&P/6/5 | Letter, 'Population in Manchester and adjacent places' from Thomas Percival to Samuel Horsley | 15 February 1774 |
| L&P/6/117 | Paper, 'De polygonis [The polygons]' by Samuel Horsley | 1775 |
| L&P/5/303 | Paper, 'Supplement to RR/5/297, being extracts from Nicomahus and Boethius' by Samuel Horsley | 1772 |
| L&P/6/133 | Paper, 'Weather in London in 1774' by Samuel Horsley | 1775 |
| L&P/6/168 | Letter, 'Experiments in a heated chamber' from Thomas Henry, C Taylor and Thomas Smith to Samuel Horsley | 22 December 1775 |
| L&P/5/296 | Letter, 'A criticism of Charles Wildbore's paper' from Samuel Horsley to the Royal Society | 7 May 1772 |
| L&P/6/31 | Paper, 'Of de Luc's rules for ascertaining heights by the barometer' by Samuel Horsley | 18 November 1773 |
| MS/426/663 | Copy letter from B C [Benjamin Collins] Brodie; President of the Royal Society; to the Earl of Portsmouth [Isaac Newton Wallop] | 26 February 1859 |
| MS/391/206 | Bond of Samuel Horsley to the Royal Society | 12 January 1781 [?] |
| L&P/5/100 | Letter, 'Of the computation of the Sun's distance from the earth by the theory of gravity' from Samuel Horsley to Matthew Maty | 5 May 1769 |
| L&P/4/407 | Paper, 'The height of the Sun's atmosphere calculated from the height of the Sun's spots' by Samuel Horsley | 1767 |
| L&P/6/33 | Paper, 'Calculation of heights by the barometer' by Samuel Horsley | 1773 |
| L&P/6/257 | Paper, 'Report on the graduation of thermometers' by the Royal Society Commitee | 1777 |
| EC/1767/08 | Horsley, Samuel: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| L&P/6/244 | Letter, 'Of the wind required to move the heavier kind of wind machine' from John Stedman to Samuel Horsley | 27 March 1777 |
| L&P/7/57 | Letter, 'A method of extending Cardan's rule to solving the 'irreducible case' from Francis Maseres to Samuel Horsley | 27 May 1778 |
| MC/16/15 | Letter from John Pinches, 27 Oxenden Street, London, to John Evans | 22 February 1893 |
| MC/16 | Volume 16 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1893-1896 |
| P/0286 | Portrait of Horsley, Samuel | |