Thomas Hartwell Horne (1780 - 1862), theologian, educated at Christ's Hospital, was for a time in the law, but became a great biblical scholar,
and in 1818 published Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures (1818), in consideration of which he was admitted to
orders without the usual preliminaries, and in 1833 obtained a benefice
in London and a prebend in St. Paul's, and was senior assistant in the
printed books department of the British Museum (1824-60). He wrote an
Introduction to the Study of Bibliography (1814), and various other
works, but he is chiefly remembered in connection with that first
mentioned, which was frequently reprinted, and was very widely used as a
text-book both at home and in America.