George Horne, an English bishop, born at Otham, Kent, Nov. 1, 1730, died in Bath, Jan.

17, 1792. He took orders in 1753, and soon became distinguished as a preacher. He became president of Magdalen college, Oxford, in 1768; chaplain to the king in 1771; vice chancellor of the university of Oxford in 1776; dean of Canterbury in 1781; and bishop of Norwich in 1790. Sympathizing with the views of John Hutchinson, his first publication was an ironical attack on the philosophy of Newton in 1751, in which he draws a parallel between the heathen notions of Cicero's Somni-um Scipionis and the Newtonian doctrines. This was followed by other similar works attacking such men as Kennicott and Shuckford. He published several volumes of sermons; "Letters to Dr. Priestley;" "Letters on Infidelity;" and a letter to Adam Smith on the life, death, and philosophy of David Hume. His chief work is his " Commentary on the Psalms " (2 vols. 4to, Oxford, 1776), on which he labored 20 years. His writings were published in 1795, in 6 vols., with a memoir of his life, etc, by his chaplain, the Rev. William Jones; and his "Aphorisms," with a biography, in 1857.