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Horsley

SAMUEL, an English bishop; born in 1733. He was appointed in 1788 Bishop of St. David's, from Bishop of St. David's , which he was translated to Rochester in 1793, receiving at the same time the deanery of Westminster; and finally to St. Asaph in 1802, when he resigned his deanery. Horsley was the greatest theological controversialist of his day, and is famous for his controversy with Priestley on Unitarianism. He died in 1806.

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