John Horne

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John Horne (left) and Ben Peach outside the Inchnadamph Hotel, 1912
12 Keith Crescent, Edinburgh (right)
Peach and Horne monument

John Horne

FRS FRSE FEGS LLD (1 January 1848 – 30 May 1928) was a Scottish geologist.[1] He served as president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
from 1915 to 1919.

Life

Horne was born on 1 January 1848, in

High School, Glasgow, and the University of Glasgow where he studied under Lord Kelvin. He left university without graduating at the age on 19.[2]

In 1867 he joined the Scottish Branch of

Highlands, Horne and Peach wrote 'Northwest Highlands Memoir' in 1907. The work is regarded as one of the most important geological memoirs. Horne wrote most of the memoir himself. From 1901 until 1911, John Horne was the Director of the Scottish Branch of the Survey.[2]

Horne was elected a Fellow of the

Peter Tait and Robert Gray
, and won the Society's Neill Prize for 1889-92. Horne was very active in the affairs of the RSE and served as Councillor (1902-5; 1906-7; 1914–15), Vice-President (1907–13) and President (1915-19).

Horne was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1900 and was a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. He also served as president of the Edinburgh Geological Society
.

In 1901, he and Peach contributed a section on Scotland's geology to Francis Hindes Groome's book Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Graphic and Accurate Description of Every Place in Scotland.

In later life he lived at 12 Keith Crescent in Blackhall, Edinburgh.[3]

He died on 30 May 1928 in Edinburgh.

Family

He was married to Anna Leyland Taylor (d. 1926).[4]

He was grandfather to the psychologist Thomas Arthur Munro.[4]

Recognition

A monument to the work of Peach and Horne was erected at Inchnadamph, close to the Moine Thrust where they did some of their best-known work. The inscription reads: "To Ben N Peach and John Horne who played the foremost part in unravelling the geological structure of the North West Highlands 1883-1897. An international tribute. Erected 1930.".[5] As well as the 1930 memorial at Inchnadamph, a statue of the two geologists was erected at Knockan Crag in 2001.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Horne, John". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 875.
  2. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37571. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  3. ^ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1911-12.
  4. ^
    ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2016.
  5. ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Inchnadamph, Peach And Horne Memorial (286575)". Canmore. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
  6. ^ "Monument to Geologists Ben Peach (1842–1926) and John Horne (1848–1928) | Art UK". Discover Artworks. Art UK. 2013. Archived from the original on 12 March 2022. Retrieved 12 March 2022.

External links

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