Thomas Horne

Son of Will. Horne of Cassall in Nottinghamshire, was born at West Halam in Derbyshire, became a Student in Magd. hall in the year 1624, and in that of his age 15, or thereabouts, and in 1633 he was advanced to the degree of Master of Arts. About that time he was made Master of a private School in London, afterwards of the Free-school at Leycester, where remaining two years, was translated to that of Tunbridge in Kent. At length after he had taught there about 10 years, he was, for his merits and excellent faculty that he had in pedagogie, preferr’d to be Master of the School at Eaton near Windsore, where he remain’d to his dying day. He hath written,

Janua Linguarum: or, a collection of Latine sentences, with the English of them. Lond. 1634. &c. oct. This is all or most taken from Janua Linguarum reserata, written by J. A. Comenius. Afterwards Horne’s Janua Linguarum was much corrected and amended by John Robotham, and lastly carefully reviewed by W. D.—Lond. 1659. oct. Which W. D. may be the same with Will. Dugard, sometimes Master of Merchant Taylors School. Quaere.

Manuductio in aedem Palladis, qua utilissima methodus authores bonos legendi, indigitatur, sive de usu authoris. Lond. 1641. in tw. &c.

Rhetoricae compendium Latino-Anglicè. Lond. 1651. oct. Besides which he hath made learned observations on the Epitome of the Greek tongue, written by Ant. Laubegeois, but when or where, printed, I cannot tell, for I have not as yet seen it. He gave way to fate at Eaton on the 22 of Aug. in sixteen hundred fifty and four,1654. and was buried in the Church or Chappel there, as I have been informed by Will. Horne his Son, Master of the Free-school at Harrow on the Hill in Middlesex. One Tho. Horne M. of A. became Rector of Methley in Yorkshire, on the death of Tim. Bright Doctor of Physick, in the latter end of Octob. 1615, but him I take to be Th. Horne who was Fellow of Mert. Coll. and afterwards Canon of Windsore. Another Tho. Horne is now, if I mistake not, Fellow of Eaton Coll, and hath extant one or more Sermons. He was Son to Tho. Horne the Writer, was born at Tunbridge in Kent, and afterwards made Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge, Chaplain to the Earl of S. Alban, and Senior Proctor of that University, about 1682.