Samuel Horsley — English Clergyman born on September 15, 1733, died on October 04, 1806
Samuel Horsley was a British churchman, bishop of Rochester from 1793. He was also well versed in physics and mathematics, on which he wrote a number of papers and thus was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1767; and secretary in 1773, but, in consequence of a difference with the president he withdrew in 1784... (wikipedia)