“Hitherto they have had almost everything done for them that a nation could desire... everything, in short, has been done, except to make them intelligible to the general reader.”
About Richard Henry Horne
31 December 1803–13 March 1884
Richard Henry Horne entered the world in London on the last day of 1802 (though he himself, with characteristic contrariness, sometimes gave the date as New Year's Day 1803), the son of James Horne, a quarter-master in the 61st Regiment of Foot. His father's military postings took the family to Guernsey, where they…