GEORGE, author of the Commentary on the Psalms, was born in 1730 at Oatham, in Kent. He was educated in the school of Maidstone, whence he passed to University College, Oxford. He afterwards became a fellow, and finally principal of Magdalen College. In 1771 he was chosen chaplain-in-ordinary to the king, and held that office for ten years. In 1776 he became vice-chancellor of the University; five years later, he was made dean of Canterbury; and in 1790 was promoted to the see of Norwich, which he retained till his death, Jan. 17, 1792.

Bishop Horne's only important work, his Commentary on the Psalms, exhibits a deep acquaintance with Hebrew and biblical lore, and is marked by a spirit of earnest piety. It has been frequently reprinted, and still retains its ground. His other works, for the most part fugitive pieces of a controversial character, are now forgotten. The best of them were written to defend the views of Hutchinson as against those of Sir Isaac Newton; which latter, until he understood them thoroughly, he at first believed were designed to subvert the theology of Scripture.