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HORNE, THOMAS, eldest son of Thomas Horne (adm. 1721, qv); bapt. Spelsbury, Oxfordshire 5 Sep 1737; adm. (aged 8) Jun 1744; went to Eton Coll. , KS 1750-5; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 30 Oct 1755, aged 18; migrated to Trinity Coll. Oxford; BA 1759; MA 1762 (incorp. Cambridge 1769); BD and DD 1788; Fellow, Trinity Coll. ; ordained priest (Oxford) 22 Jun 1766; Master of the Manor House School, Chiswick, Middlesex; m. Frances Ann Price; d. 27 Jan 1824. [Perhaps Vicar of Withington, Herefs. , 9 May 1778 – res Jan 1797].

HORNE, THOMAS, eldest son of Thomas Horne (adm. 1744, qv); b.; adm. 17 Sep 1784; KS 1786; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1790, matr. 9 Jun 1790, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1799 – void by marriage 29 Jun 1799; BA 1794; MA 1797; BD 1805; Select Preacher 1815, Bampton Lecturer 1828; ordained; Vicar of Wooburn, Bucks., 26 Dec 1801; Rector of St. Catherine Coleman, London, from 9 Jan 1812; Vicar of Mursley, Bucks., 18 Oct 1833; carried on his father’s school at Chiswick 1824-35; author, The Religious Necessity of the Reformation asserted, 1828; m. 27 Jun 1799 Cecilia Clementina Eliza, second dau. of John Zoffany RA, Chiswick, painter; d. 19 Jan 1847, aged 74.

HORNE, WILLIAM HENRY, eldest son of William Horne (qv); b. 9 Sep 1832; adm. 1 Oct 1846 (Scott's); QS 1847; left 1851; Cornet, 15th Light Dragoons (Hussars) 27 Aug 1852; Lieut., 14 Sep 1855; Capt., 31 Aug 1858; 2nd Dragoon Guards 29 Apr 1859; ret. 2 Dec 1862; JP Suffolk; still listed in Kelly’s Handbook 1899; m. Agnes M. --- (1881 Census).

HORSEY, GEORGE, son of Jasper Horsey (or Horsley); b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1619, adm. scholar 1620; BA 1623/4; MA 1627 (incorp. Oxford 10 Jul 1627); Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1624 – c. 1637; ordained; Dean of Ross from 19 Nov 1637; m. Anne, dau. of George Byrdmore, Staffs.; d. 30 Jul 1639.

Horsfall, Nicholas Mark, son of Cdr. Thomas Mendelssohn Horsfall OBE RN, and Sonia Horsfall, BBC Russian Service, d. of Oscar Szapiro, med. practitioner, of Vilnius, Lithuania; b. 19 Sept. 1946; adm. Sept. 1959 (QS); left Dec. 1963; Peterhouse Camb., matric. 1964, BA 1967 (1st class hons Class. Trip. Pts 1 & 2), MA 1971; Hallam Prize 1965, Montagu Butler Prize 1966, Chancellor’s Medal 1967; Corpus Christi Coll. Oxf. (sen. schol. ) 1968-71, MA DPhil 1971; lecturer in Greek and Latin, UCL 1971-87; invited lecturer, Univ. of Camb. 1974-6; visiting Prof., Colgate Univ. USA 1976; visiting res. Fellow, Macquarie Univ., NSW, Australia 1980; Balsdon sen. res. Fellow, British Sch. at Rome, Italy 1985; resident in Italy 1987-2000; visiting Prof. Univ. of Cassino 1987-8, Istituto Orientale, Naples, 1988-9; now resident in Scotland; hon. Prof., Dept. of Classics and Ancient History, Univ. of Durham; author, commmentaries on Virgil, Aeneid; m. 1st, 1969 Julia Loraine, d. of A.B. Robinson of Gateshead, Co. Durham; 2nd, 1986 Mariateresa, d. of Prof. Mario Scotti, scholar and poet, of Rome, Italy; d. 1 Jan. 2019

HORSLEY, HENEAGE, only son of Right Rev. Samuel Horsley LLD, successively Bishop of St. Davids, Rochester and St. Asaph, and his first wife Mary, dau. of Rev. John Botham, Rector of Albury, Surrey; b. 23 Feb 1776; adm. 30 Jun 1788; Min. Can. 1790; KS 1791; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1795, matr. 3 Jun 1795, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1795 – void 11 May 1802, expiry year of grace as R. Woolwich; BA 1799; MA 1802; ordained 1799; Rector of Woolwich, Kent 6 May 1801-3; Vicar of Chirk, Denbighshire 14 Apr 1803-4; Prebendary of St. Asaph from 18 Apr 1803; Vicar of Gresford, Denbighshire, from 13 Oct 1803; Vicar of Castle Caereinion, Montgomeryshire, from 22 Jun 1804; Chaplain to Episcopal Church, Dundee 1807 (still 1842); Dean of Brechin (in 1842); m. 25 Jun 1801 Frances Emma, sister of Sir Richard Bourke (qv); d. 6 Oct 1847.

HOSKINS, THOMAS; b.; adm.; KS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1637, Westminster Student to 1641, but did not matr. (check).

HOTHAM, CHARLES, third son of Sir John Hotham, Bart. , Governor of Hull, and his second wife Anne, dau. of Ralph Rokeby, Secretary, Council of the North; b. 12 May 1615; adm. ; KS 1629 (Bodleian Library, Oxford, Tanner MSS lxix, f. 224); Peterhouse, Cambridge, adm. pens. 22 Nov 1631, matr. 1631; migrated to Christ’s Coll. , adm. pens. 7 May 1632; BA 1635/6; MA 1639; ordained; Vicar of Withernsea, Yorks. , 1640-4; Vicar of Hollyn in Holderness, Yorks. , 5 Nov 1640-4; returned to Cambridge; Fellow of Peterhouse 11 Jun 1644-51, Bursar 1646-8; University Preacher and Proctor 1646; preached against the Engagement Dec 1650; quarrelled with the Master of his college and petitioned against his “usurpations”; his publication of a pamphlet entitled Corporations Vindicated led to his expulsion from his fellowship in 1651; Rector of Nunburnholme, Yorks. , 22 Jul 1652; Rector of Wigan, Lancs. , 1653-62, when he was ejected for nonconformity after a prolonged resistance; emigrated to West Indies, where he became one of the ministers in the Somers Islands (Bermuda), so appointed 28 Feb 1668/9; a man of some scientific attainments, particularly interested in chemistry and astronomy; FRS 9 Jan 1667/8; translated Boehme, Consolatory Treatise of the Four Complexions, 1654; author, Ad Philosophiam Teutonicam Manuductio, 1648; m. 15 Sep 1656 Elizabeth, dau. of Stephen Thompson, Hambleton, Yorks. ; d. in Somers Islands 3 Mar 1671/2. DNB.

HOTHAM, WILLIAM FRANCIS, youngest son of Hon. Frederick Hotham (qv); b. 28 Mar 1819; adm. 21 Jan 1833 (Stikeman's); KS 1833; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1837, matr. 5 May 1837, Westminster Student; BA 1841; MA 1843; Fellow, All Souls’ Coll. Oxford 1843-55; ordained deacon 1841, priest 1842 (both Oxford); Rector of Buckland, Surrey, from 1853; m. 31 Jan 1855 Emma, fifth dau. of John Carbonell; d. 10 Sep 1883.

House, John Peter Humphry, son of Humphry House, sen. lecturer in English Literature and Fellow of Wadham Coll. Oxford, and Madeleine Edith, d. of Henry Pitman Church, co. dir.; b. 19 Apr. 1945; adm. Sept. 1958 (QS); left July 1963; New Coll. Oxf., matric. 1963 (open schol. ), BA 1967 (1st class hons Litt. Hum. ); Courtauld Inst. of Art, Univ. of Lond., MA 1969, PhD 1976; lecturer in History of Art, Univ. of East Anglia 1969-76, UCL 1976-80; lecturer, Courtauld Inst. 1980-7, Reader 1987-95, Prof. 1995-2002, Walter H. Annenberg Prof. 2002-10, Prof. Emeritus 2010-; dep. dir., Courtauld Inst. 1996-9; Slade Prof. of Fine Art Univ. of Oxf. 1986-7; res. Reader Brit. Acad. 1988-90; Samuel H. Kress Prof., Nat. Gall. of Art, Washington, DC, USA 2008-9; organiser of exhibitions of impressionist and related paintings; author, Monet 1977, Impressionist Masterpieces: NGA Washington 1985; co-author Renoir 1985, The Courtauld Collection 1987; m. 31 Aug. 1968 (div. 2009) Jill Elaine Turner, phonetician, d. of Ernest Sackville Turner, writer; d. 8 Feb. 2012.