Samuel Horsley (15 September 1733 – 4 October 1806) was a British churchman, bishop of Rochester from 1792. He was also well versed on physics and mathematics, of 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 (Sir Joseph Banks) he withdrew in 1784. Entering Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1751, he became LL.B. in 1758 without...
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Samuel Horsley (15 September 1733 – 4 October 1806) was a British churchman, bishop of Rochester from 1792. He was also well versed on physics and mathematics, of 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 (Sir Joseph Banks) he withdrew in 1784. Entering Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1751, he became LL.B. in 1758 without...