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Robert Forman Horton

Robert Forman Horton (18 September 1855 – 30 March 1934) was an English clergyman and writer. He was minister of Lyndhurst Road Congregational Church , Hampstead , a position he...

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Robert Forman Horton (18 September 1855 – 30 March 1934) was an English clergyman and writer. He was minister of Lyndhurst Road Congregational Church, Hampstead, a position he held for 50 years.[1]

Early life and education

Horton born in London and was educated at Shrewsbury School and New College, Oxford, where he was awarded a First in classics. He was president of the Oxford Union in 1877. He became a fellow of his college in 1879 and lectured on history for four years.[2] He was the first non-Anglican to have a teaching position at the Oxford University since the Reformation.[3]

Church role

In 1880 Horton accepted an invitation to become minister of the Lyndhurst Road Congregational Church, Hampstead, and subsequently took a very prominent part in church and denominational work.[4] This included establishing a mission hall for the Hampstead church in Kentish Town, known as Lyndhurst Hall.

Horton delivered the Lyman Beecher lectures at Yale University in 1893. In 1898 he was chairman of the London Congregational Union, and in 1903 he was chair of the Congregational Union of England and Wales.[2] In 1909 he took a prominent part in the 75th anniversary celebration of Hartford Theological Seminary.

His numerous publications spanned theological, critical, historical, biographical and devotional subjects.

Animal welfare

Horton opposed blood sports and was an early vice-president of the League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports.[5]

Personal life

Author Mary Beaumont was lifelong friends with Horton. Beaumont and her husband lived with Horton from 1902 until Beaumont's death in 1910.[6] Horton married Violet Basden in 1918.[7] Their daughter was born in 1928.[8] Horton died in 1934, aged 78. There were 1500 mourners at his funeral held at Lyndhurst Road Congregational Church.[9]

Selected works

  • The Courage of Conviction. An address delivered before the Oxford University Nonconformist Union (James Thornton, Oxford, 1882 )
  • Inspiration and the Bible: An Inquiry (T.F. Unwin, 1889)
  • El Libro de los Proverbios (Serie Biblia del Expositor, 1891)
  • Verbum Dei: Las conferencias de Yale sobre la predicación (Macmillan & Co., Nueva York, 1893)
  • Alfred Tennyson: Una vida santa (Londres JM Dent & Co; Nueva York EF Dutton & Co, 1900)
  • Las fuentes de la alegría y otros sermones (Fleming H. Revell Company, 1900)
  • La Biblia: Un libro misionero (Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, Edimburgo y Londres, 1904)
  • La Iglesia Primitiva (Hodder & Stoughton, Nueva York, 1909)
  • Grandes Temas (Nueva York, The Macmillan Company, 1909)
  • "Las enseñanzas de Jesús" (Isbister and Company Limited, 1895)
  • "Mujer del Antiguo Testamento"
  • Estudios sobre la feminidad (James Nisbet & Co, Limited, 1904)

Referencias

  1. ↑ "Rev. Dr. RF Horton: Fallece en Londres un destacado clérigo de la Iglesia Libre" . Western Mail . 2 de abril de 1934. pág.  9.(Se requiere suscripción)
  2. 1 2 Pope Robert, Morgan D. Densil (2013). T&T Clark Companion to Nonconformity . Bloomsbury. pp. 616– 7. 
  3. ↑ Bebington, DW (2014). La conciencia inconformista . Routledge. pág. 1
  4. ↑ Elrington, CR (ed.) .«Hampstead: Inconformismo protestante», Historia del condado de Middlesex: Volumen 9: Hampstead, Paddington (1989), págs. 153-158 . British History Online . Consultado el 23 de febrero de 2014 .
  5. ↑ Amos, Henry B. (1934). "Opiniones y noticias" (PDF) . Cruel Sports . 8 (5): 34.
  6. ↑ Kaye, Elaine (2004). "Horton, Robert Forman (1855-1934)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (de pago). Consultado el 15 de mayo de 2014.
  7. ↑ "El Dr. Horton se casará" . The Halifax Daily Guardian . 26 de enero de 1918. pág. 2. (Se requiere suscripción)
  8. ↑ "Fallecimiento del Dr. RF Horton" . Western Gazette . 6 de abril de 1934. pág. 11. (Se requiere suscripción)
  9. ↑ "1500 dolientes" . The Leeds Mercury . 5 de abril de 1934. pág. 3. (Se requiere suscripción)

Este artículo incorpora texto de una publicación que ahora es de dominio público : Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). " Horton, Robert Forman ". Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 13 (11.ª ed.). Cambridge University Press. pág. 783.