President of the BC Conference in 1880, born on 21 March 1833 at Morchard Bishop. He became a local preacher c.1851 and served as a hired local preacher for one year before entering the itinerancy in 1854. He retired to Exeter in 1897 and died at Bideford on 28 February 1917.

His son Herbert William Horwill (1864-1952; e.m. 1887) was born at Sandown, IOW and educated at Shebbear College and Wadham College, Oxford, where he was the first Bible Christian to gain an Oxford degree and won the Chancellor's Prize English Essay. In 1887 he gained a London MA and the gold medal in Classics. He was received into full connexion in 1889, and attended the Ecumenical Methodist Conference in Washington DC in 1891. But the following year he superannuated on health grounds. After one year in Adelaide, Australia, he returned to circuit work, but from 1896 was stationed in London without pastoral charge, first in Forest Hill and then in Dulwich. He devoted himself to scholarly writing and editing, including sermons published as The Old Gospel in the New Era (1894). He was London Correspondent of the New York Evening Post 1911-1920 and of the New York Times Book Review from 1924 and his articles appeared in such periodicals as the Atlantic Monthly and the Contemporary Review.

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