# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-horsley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:53:06.578Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-horsley"
name: "Samuel Horsley"
slug: "samuel-horsley"
description: "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."
tagline: "Bishop of St David's; Bishop of Rochester; Dean of Westminster; Bishop of St Asaph (1733-1806)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SamuelHorsley.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1733-09-15"
deathDate: "1806-10-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.19
  momentum:             1.363636363636364
  historical:           4.406012
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "سامويل هورسلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Horsley"
    title: "Samuel Horsley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Horsley"
    title: "Samuel Horsley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Horsley"
    title: "Samuel Horsley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Horsley"
    title: "Samuel Horsley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3471152"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump