HORSLET. 241 HORTENSIO. of his pictures is good, but their genre motives are often strained. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 18G6. HORSLEY, Samuel (17331806). An Eng- lish prelate. He was born at Saint Jlartin's- Place, London, September 1.5, 1733. He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. In 1758 he became curate to his father, then rector of Newington, and the lie.t year succeeded to the rectory, a living which he held for tliirty-four years, though he also enjoyed in the interval many other preferments. He was a scientist as well as a theologian, and first attracted attention by scientific writings. He is chiefly remembered, however, for his controversy with Dr. Joseph Priestley, growing out of the publication of the lattcr's IHstorij of tlic Corruptions of Christianity (1782), among which cnrruptions was included the orthodox doctrine of Christ's uncreated di- vinity. Horsley reviewed the work with great severity in his charge delivered to the elerg>' of the Archdeaconry of Saint Albans, Maj' 22, 1783. Priestley replied the same year in a publication entitled Letters to Dr. Horsley in Answer to His Animiidrersions, ete. In 1784 Horsley retorted in seventeen Letters from the Archdeacon of Saint Allans in Reply to Dr. Priestley, ete. These were, in return, met by a new series from Priest- ley. After a silence of eighteen months, Horsley again replied in his lieniarks on Dr. Priestley's i<eeo»d Letters, etc.. and in 1789 collected and published the whole that he had written on the subject. His services were rewarded with the Bishopric of Saint David's in 1788. whence he was translated to the Bishopric of Rochester in 171)3. then to Saint Asaph's in 1802. He died at Brighton, October 4. 180(>. His collected theologi- •cal works were published (London. 1845). HORSLEY, Victor Alexander Haden (1857 — ) . An English surgeon and neurologist. He studied medicine in London, and in 1881 re- ceived the gold medal in surgerj- from tJie Uni- versity School. He has been president of the Medical Defense Union, and is Fellow of the Royal Medical Chirurgical Society; member of the Pathological, Clinical, and Physiological so- cieties; corresponding member of the Biological Society of Paris, and of the Medical Society of Budapest ; honorary fellow of the American Sur- gical Society and of the American Neurological Society; surgeon to the University College Hospi- tal ; professor of pat holog>- in University College; surgeon to the National Hospital for par- alyzed and epileptic; and secretary of the Govern- ment Commission on Hydrophobia. The results of his researches in cerebral localization are of the greatest value, and have made him eminent. He is the author of a Hcport on Heptir Bacteria (1882) ; articles in Heath's Dictionart/ of Suniery and (,)uain's Dictionary of Medicine (1883) ; iSi/»"-- yicaJ Reports of Vnirrrsitii CoUcqe Hospital (I8S2 and 1SS3); "Functions of the ^larginal Convolutions," in Proceedinys of the Rami So- ciety (1884) and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1888); "Analysis of Jlove- nients Produced by Stimulating Ferrier's Cortical Arm Centre" (ib., 18Sfi-8!)) ; "On the Thvroid and Pituitary Bodies," in British Medical' Journal (1886); The Patholoqil of Epilepsy and Ca- ■nine Chorea (1885-86) j "On the Functions of the Thyroid Gland," in British Medical Journal ( 1885) ; Brain Surgery ( 1887) ; "On Localization of Disease in Cerebrum," in International Journal of the Medical Sciences (1887); Hydrophobia and Its Treatniott (1888) ; .4)1 Exjierimentul In- vestigation of the Central Motor Innervation of the Larynx, with Felix Semon (1890); The Structure and Functions of the Brain and Spinal Cord (1892); with Boyce, Preliminary Report on (Edema (1893); with Schiifer, Experimenti npon the Functions of the Cerebral Cortent (1888). HORSLEY, William (1774-18.58). An Enj^- lish organist and composer, born in London. He early l)egan the composition of glees, in which he did liis best work, and his first appointment as organist was to Ely Cliapel, Holborn (1794). Three years afterwards he liecame assistant, son- in-law. and successor (1802) to Dr. Calicott at the Female Orphan Asylum, having by that time received the degree of Mus. Bac. from Oxford. He was also organist at Belgrave Chapel, Grosve- nor Place (1812-37), and aftenvards at the Charterhouse (1838). He was one of the found- ers of the Philharmonic Society (1813). and be- longed to several other nuisical organizations. He will long be remembered for his anthem, M'hen Israel Came Out of Egypt (1800), Celia'.i Arbor (1807), and for five collections of such glees as See the Chariot at Band, Mine be a Cot, Cold is Cadwallo's Tongue, and Oh, Xighlingale, published 1801-27. He wrote also pianoforte pieces, hymn and psalm tunes, and several works on harmony, such as An Explanation of Musical Interrals of the Major and Minor Scales { 1825). HORT, Fenton .John Anthony (1828-92). A distinguished English theologian. He was horn of English ancestry at Leopardstown. near Dub- lin, Ireland. April 23, 1828, was educated at Rugby and Cambridge, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1852-57; vicar of Saint "ippolyts, Hertfordshire. 1857-72; lecturer and professor at Cambridge from 1872 to liis death. Xovem1)er 30, 1892. Hort was one of the most learned men of the nineteenth century. He distinguished himself not only by his marvelous attainments in classi- cal and patristic literature, but by an extensive acquaintance with botany and mathematics. Nevertheless he was always reluctant to publish the results of his studies. The great monument of his life-work is the Westeott-Hort Greek Testa- ment ( 1S81 ) . For over thirty years he made the Greek text of the New Testan'ient his chief study, and at his death was one of the first authorities in the world on this suhjeet. To him textiial criticism owes the clear and convincing exhibi- tion of the principles of genealogical evidence pre- sented in the Introduction to the .Veir Testament in Greek (1881). Since his death many of his lectures have been edited and published. Consult his Life and Letters, hv his son, A. J. Hort (New York, 1896). HORTA, hor'tA. Port. pron. Ctr'th. A seaport of the island of Fayal. -Azores, and capital of the District of Horta. It has a safe and good harbor. Population, in 1900, 6734. HORTENSE ETTGtNIE DE BEAtTHAR- NAIS, r.r'tiixs' r-'/hfi'ur' d,- bA'ar'nu'. See Bona- parte. HORTENSIO. hor-fen'shr-o. A suitor of Bi- anca, the younger sister of Katharine, in Shake- speare's Taming of the Shrew.
