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Samuel Horsley

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Bishop of St David's; Bishop of Rochester; Dean of Westminster; Bishop of St Asaph (1733-1806)

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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.

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Lived 1733 to 1806 · aged 73
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