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Thomas Hartwell Horne (20 October 1780 – 27 January 1862) was an English theologian and librarian.


Life

He was born in London and educated at
Christ's Hospital Christ's Hospital is a public school (English independent boarding school for pupils aged 11–18) with a royal charter located to the south of Horsham in West Sussex. The school was founded in 1552 and received its first royal charter in 1553 ...
until he was 15 when his father died and he had to work. He then became a clerk to a barrister, and used his spare time to write. Horne was initially affiliated with the
Wesleyans Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley. George Whitefield and John's ...
but later joined the
Church of England The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britain ...
. He was admitted to holy orders without the usual preliminaries, because of his published work. In 1833 he obtained a benefice in London and a prebend in
St Paul's Cathedral St Paul's Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in London and is the seat of the Bishop of London. The cathedral serves as the mother church of the Diocese of London. It is on Ludgate Hill at the highest point of the City of London and is a Grad ...
. Horne was a librarian in 1814 at the
Surrey Institution The Surrey Institution was an organisation devoted to scientific, literary and musical education and research, based in London. It was founded by private subscription in 1807, taking the Royal Institution, founded in 1799, as a model.The Microco ...
, which was dissolved in 1823. He was admitted sizar to
St John's College, Cambridge St John's College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge founded by the House of Tudor, Tudor matriarch Lady Margaret Beaufort. In constitutional terms, the college is a charitable corpo ...
in 1819. In 1824 he joined the staff at the
British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...
and was senior assistant in the printed books department there until 1860. He prepared a new system for cataloguing books at the museum but it was never used there.Colin Lee, ‘Currer, Frances Mary Richardson (1785–1861)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200
accessed 1 November 2014
/ref> He did use it, however, to reclassify the extensive library of
Frances Mary Richardson Currer Frances Mary Richardson Currer (3 March 1785 – 28 April 1861) was a British heiress and book collector. Life Frances Mary Richardson Currer was born shortly after the death of her father, Henry Richardson Currer in 1785. Shortly before he died, ...
in 1833.Stewart, C.J. A Catalogue of the Library Collected by Miss Richardson Currer, at Eshton Hall, Craven, Yorkshire. London: Privately printed, 1833


Works

Horne wrote more than forty works in bibliography, Bible commentaries, and
Christian apologetics Christian apologetics ( grc, ἀπολογία, "verbal defense, speech in defense") is a branch of Christian theology that defends Christianity. Christian apologetics has taken many forms over the centuries, starting with Paul the Apostle in ...
. One of his best known works is the three-volume ''Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures'' that was published in 1818. This work enjoyed widespread circulation in Britain and North America and went through at least eleven editions during the nineteenth century. It was reissued in North America in 1970. Horne also produced a "Tree Full of Bible Lore," a tree-shaped text of
statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ''wikt:Statistik#German, Statistik'', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of ...
on the Bible, in which he counted the number of books, chapters, verses, words, and even letters. He ended this tree with "It he Biblecontains knowledge, wisdom, holiness and love." (This "tree" is reproduced in the third series of Ripley's paperbacks, originally published hardbound in 1949.) He wrote an ''Introduction to the Study of Bibliography'' (1814), and various other works. Over a period of four years he catalogued the
Harleian manuscripts The Harleian Library, Harley Collection, Harleian Collection and other variants ( la, Bibliotheca Harleiana) is one of the main "closed" collections (namely, historic collections to which new material is no longer added) of the British Library in ...
then held at the British Museum.


Biographical source

* Clark, R. E. D., "Thomas Hartwell Horne," in ''The New International Dictionary of the Christian Church'', edited by J. D. Douglas. (Extere: Paternoster Press, 1978).


Select bibliography


''A compendium of the statute laws, and regulations of the Court of admiralty: relative to ships of war, privateers, prizes, recaptures, and prize-money. With an appendix of notes, precedents, &c''
(London: Printed for W. Clarke and sons, 1803)
''A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum''
4 vols. (London: G. Eyre and J. Strahan, 1808-1812).
''An introduction to the study of bibliography: to which is prefixed A memoir on the public libraries of the antients, Volume 2''
(London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1814)
''The History of the Mahometan Empire in Spain: Containing a General History of the Arabs, Their Institutions, Conquests, Literature, Arts, Sciences, and Manners, to the Expulsion of the Moors. Designed as an Introduction to the Arabian Antiquities of Spain''
(London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1816). Supplementary to ''Arabian Antiquities of Spain'' (1813) by
James Cavanah Murphy James Cavanah Murphy (1760–1814) was an Irish architect and antiquary. Life Murphy was born at Blackrock, Cork, and was originally a bricklayer. He made his way to Dublin to study, and his name appeared in a list of the pupils of the drawing s ...
, which Horne edited as well as supplying text. * ''The Campaign of Waterloo'' (London: T. Bensley, 1816). * ''Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures'', reprint of the 8th edition (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1970).
Tenth Edition
https://archive.org/details/anintroductiont07horngoog Volume 1

https://books.google.com/books?id=5IRUAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Volume

https://archive.org/details/anintroductiont05horngoo
Volume 3
https://archive.org/details/anintroductiont04horngoog Volume
Volume 4
* ''Introduction to the Critical Study of Bibliography'', 5 Vol. (London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1814).
''A summary of biblical geography and antiquities,''
(London: Printed For T. Cadell In The Strand, 1821)
''Outlines for the classification of a library: respectfully submitted to the consideration of the trustees of the British museum : official copy for the use of the trustees (not published).''
(London: printed by G. Woodfall, 1825)
''A Compendious Introduction to the Study of the Bible: Illustrated with Maps and Other Engravings : Being an Analysis of "An Introduction to the Critical Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures" in 4 Volumes by the Same Author''
(London: Printed For Thomas Cadell, 1827)
''A Catalogue of the Library of the College of St. Margaret Ad St. Bernard, Commonly Called Queen's College, Volume 2, Issue 1''
(London: S. and R. Bentley, 1827) * ''Manual of Biblical Bibliography'', (Mansfield Center, Connecticut: Martino Publishers, 2005). * ''An Essay on the History of Liturgies'', (London: W. Clowes, 1831). * ''The Complete Grazier'', (London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1833).
''A concise history and analysis of the Athanasian creed''
(London: T. Cadell, 1834)
''A Protestant memorial, for the commemoration, on the fourth day of October, MDCCCXXXV., of the third centenary of the Reformation, and of the publication of the first entire Protestant English version of the Bible, Oct. IV.MDXXXV''
(London: T. Cadell, 1835)
''The Biblical Keepsake, Or, Landscape Illustrations of the Most Remarkable Places Mentioned in the Holy Scriptures''
(London: J. Murray, 1835)
''Landscape illustrations of the Bible: consisting of views of the most remarkable places mentioned in the Old and New Testaments : from original sketches taken on the spot engraved by W. and E. Finden, Volume 1''
(London: J. Murray, 1836)
''Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures''
Volume 5. (London, 1846).
''Horae homileticae: or, Discourses digested into one continued series and forming a commentary upon every book of the Old and New Testament : to which is annexed, an improved edition of a translation of Claude's Essay on the composition of a sermon, Volume 4 ''
(London: J. Murray, 1836)
''A Manual of Biblical Bibliography: Comprising a Catalogue, Methodically Arranged, of the Principal Editions and Versions of the Holy Scriptures, Together with Notices of the Principal Philologers, Critics, and Interpreters of the Bible''
(London: T. Cadell, 1839) * ''Popery, the Enemy and Falsifier of Scripture'' * ''Romanism Contrary to the Bible'' * ''A Manual For the Afflicted''


References


External links


Introduction Critical Study Knowledge Holy Scripture. Horne. Davidson. Ayre. Tregelles.complete, 4vols, 2 extra vols, 14th,10th,11th,9th. 19thcent.
at the ''Internet Archive'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Horne, Thomas Hartwell 1780 births 1862 deaths People educated at Christ's Hospital British biblical scholars Christian apologists Employees of the British Museum Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge