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Thomas Hartwell Horne

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HORNE, THOMAS HARTWELL English theologian and bibliographer, was born in London on Oct. 20, 1780, and educated at Christ's Hospital, with S. T. Coleridge as an elder contemporary. On leaving school he became clerk to a barrister, but showed a keen taste for authorship. As early as 1800 he published A Brief View of the Necessity and Truth of the Christian Revelation, which was followed by many works on very varied subjects. He was appointed (1824) senior assistant librarian in the department of printed books in the British Mus eum. After the project of making a classified catalogue had been abandoned, he took part in the preparation of the alphabetical one, and his connection with the museum continued until within a few months of his death on Jan. 27, 1862.

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