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Admitted 25 January, 1755.

Eldest son of Rev. John Horsley of Thorley, Herts. He was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he graduated LL.B. in 1758. He distinguished himself very early by his learning and literary acumen, and, having entered the Church, obtained rapid advancement. He became Prebend of Gloucester in 1787, Bishop of St. David's 1788, of Rochester 1793, and of St. Asaph 1802. He was not only a distinguished Divine, but of almost universal erudition and great intellectual powers. His polemical abilities were asserted in his famous controversy with Dr. Priestley. His published works, scientific and theological, are too long to catalogue. His Biblical Criticisms on the Books of the Old Testament were published in 4 vols in 1820. He died 4 Oct, 1806.

Admitted 26 January, 1838.

Third son of John Hosack of Glengaber, Dumfries. He was called to the Bar 29 Jan. 1841, made a Bencher of the Inn in 1875 and appointed Reader in 1884. In 1877 he became police magistrate at Clerkenwell, but he is better known for his historical studies, particularly his able defence of Mary Queen of Scots, published in 1869 and again in 1870—4. He died in Brompton 3 Nov. 1887, and was buried at Lytham in Lancashire.

Besides the work on Mary Queen of Scots he published A treatise on the Conflict of Laws of England and Scotland (1847); The Rights of British and Neutral Commerce (1854); and On the Rise and Growth of the Law of Nations (1882).

Admitted 13 March, 1592-3.

Third son of John Hoskins of Mount on (Monnington-upon-Wye), in the parish of Llanwarne, Herefordshire, where he was born in 1566. He is spoken of by Antony à Wood as the "most ingenious and admired poet of his time." He was called to the Bar 22 May, 1600. In 1619 he was Lent Reader of the Inn, and four years later made Serjeant-at-Law and one of the King's justices itinerant for Wales. Having become possessed of a considerable fortune by marriage, he entered Parliament and sat for Hereford in 1603, and again in 1614 and 1628; but for some expressions deemed seditious in his speeches there he was committed to prison, where he remained a full year. He had more repute, however, as a Poet and Wit than as a Politician, and he. was known to all the learned of his time. Twas he that published Ben Johnson, the poet, and made him speak clean … and 'twas he that viewed and reviewed the History of the World, written by Sir W. Raleigh, before it went to press" (Wood, Athen. Oxon. II., 626). He died in Herefordshire 27 Aug. 1638. He left behind him many writings, but none of them seem ever to have been published.

Admitted 7 July, 1647.

Son and heir of Bennet Hoskyns, one of the Masters of the Utter Bar, and Baronet, of Harewood Park, Herefordshire, and grandson of Serjeant (q.v.). He was called to the Bar 25 Nov. 1653, and to the Bench 11 Nov. 1671. He practised for some time as a lawyer, and was made a