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"CHARLES SYLVESTER HORNE (1865-1914), English Nonconformist divine, was born at Cuckfield, Sus., April 15 1865. He was educated at Newport grammar school and Glasgow University, and subsequently studied theology at Mansfield College, Oxford, becoming minister of Kensington Congregational chapel in 1889. In 1892 he married the daughter of Lord Cozens-Hardy, afterwards Master of the Rolls. He was chairman of the London Congregational Union in 1902, and in 1903 became minister of Whitefield's chapel, Tottenham Court Road. In 1910 he was elected Liberal M.P. for Ipswich. He died suddenly while on a visit to America, May I 1914.

See Life, by W. B. Selbie (1920).