![]() ![]() In 1749 Horne became a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, of which college he was elected President on 27 January 1768. 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. and John Moore, later Archbishop of Canterbury. ![]() Three contemporaries at the college were also friends for life: Charles Jenkinson later first Earl of Liverpool, William Jones of Nayland. 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). 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. George Horne (1 November 1730 – 17 January 1792) was an English churchman, academic, writer, and university administrator. ![]()
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