Jorsley

JOHN HORSLEY (c. 1685 - 1732)

Horsley seems to have been born in Newcastle and attended the Grammar School there. He graduated at Edinburgh and spent time in Widdrington before founding a school in Morpeth. There he was able to attract pupils of the calibre of Newton Ogle, future Dean of Westminster. Horsley lectured on astronomy, mechanics and hydrostatics in Morpeth, Alnwick and Newcastle, where he spoke in the house of Mr Prior, the Master of the Mint, at the head of Tuthill Stairs.

Horsley became FRS in 1730, but it as an archaeologist that he is now known. His great work Britannia Romana, or the Roman Antiquities of Britain (London, 1732) is the first scientific treatise on Roman Britain and one of the scarcest and most valuable of its kind. Horsley also published two sermons and a handbook to his lectures. He also worked on a projected history of Northumberland and Durham.

Myers Literary Guide:	The North-East
JOHN HORSLEY (c. 1685 - 1732) Horsley seems to have been born in Newcastle and attended the Grammar School there. He graduated at Edinburgh and spent time in Widdrington before founding a school in Morpeth. There he was able to attract pupils of the calibre of Newton Ogle, future Dean of Westminster. Horsley lectured on astronomy, mechanics and hydrostatics in Morpeth, Alnwick and Newcastle, where he spoke in the house of Mr Prior, the Master of the Mint, at the head of Tuthill Stairs. Horsley became FRS in 1730, but it as an archaeologist that he is now known. His great work Britannia Romana, or the Roman Antiquities of Britain (London, 1732) is the first scientific treatise on Roman Britain and one of the scarcest and most valuable of its kind. Horsley also published two sermons and a handbook to his lectures. He also worked on a projected history of Northumberland and Durham.
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