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Francis Horner

Born: August 11 1778

Died: 0707 02 18171817

Francis Horner FRSE was a Scottish Whig politician, journalist, lawyer and political economist. He was the son of John Horner a linen merchant and his wife Joanna Baillie. He was educated at the High School in Edinburgh and at a private school in Shacklewell near London and studied law at the University of Edinburgh.

In 1802, Horner was one of the founders of the Edinburgh Review, and in the next few years he would contribute fourteen articles to that journal. He features as the character Frank the Tinker in John Paterson's Mare, James Hogg's allegorical satire on the Edinburgh publishing scene first published in the Newcastle Magazine in 1825.

He was MP for St. Ives in 1806, Wendover in 1807, and St. Mawes in 1812 .

Francis Horner

Born: August 11 1778

Died: 0707 02 18171817

Francis Horner FRSE was a Scottish Whig politician, journalist, lawyer and political economist. He was the son of John Horner a linen merchant and his wife Joanna Baillie. He was educated at the High School in Edinburgh and at a private school in Shacklewell near London and studied law at the University of Edinburgh.

In 1802, Horner was one of the founders of the Edinburgh Review, and in the next few years he would contribute fourteen articles to that journal. He features as the character Frank the Tinker in John Paterson's Mare, James Hogg's allegorical satire on the Edinburgh publishing scene first published in the Newcastle Magazine in 1825.

He was MP for St. Ives in 1806, Wendover in 1807, and St. Mawes in 1812 .

Books from Francis Horner

The Horner Papers: Selections from the Letters and Miscellaneous Writings of Francis Horner, MP, 1795 - 1817

The Economic Writings of Francis Horner in the Edinburgh Review 1802-6

Elements of Algebra

Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)