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Francis Horner
Francis Horner (12 August 1778 – 8 February 1817) was a Scottish Whig politician, journalist, lawyer and political economist.
==Early life: 1778–1806==
He was born in Edinburgh and studied at its university, where he was praised by Professor Dugald Stewart as an intellectual all-rounder.〔Roland Thorne, '(Horner, Francis (1778–1817) )', ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005, accessed 10 September 2012.〕 He left the university in 1795 and went with Rev. John Hewlett to Middlesex, where he almost lost his Scottish accent.〔 He was also a member of the Speculative Society (with Henry Brougham) and the Academy of Physics, the Chemical and Literary societies, as well as others. In May 1799 he read Henry Addington's speech in favour of the union with Ireland, and wrote in his journal: "I like, throughout this speech, that familiar acquaintance with the principles and language of the constitution...which...awakens all my veneration (some of which may be prejudice) for the ancient Whig politics of England, which are at present so much out of fashion, being hated by both parties".〔Leonard Horner (ed.), ''Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P. Volume I'' (London: John Murray, 1843), p. 79.〕 He read David Hume's history in August 1800 and wrote: "The history of Britain, during the eighteenth century, haunts me like a dream; and I am alternately intoxicated with visions of historic laurels and of forensic eminence".〔Horner, ''Volume I'', p. 116.〕
He was called to the bar in Scotland in 1800 and for England in 1807.
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. Here he became acquainted with fellow Whig journalists.〔 In June 1804 he wrote:
...in the general maxims and principles of Mr. Fox's party, both with regard to the doctrine of the constitution, to foreign policy, and to the modes of internal legislation, I recognise those to which I have been led by the results of my own reflection, and by the tenor of my philosophical education. And I am ambitious to co-operate with that party, in labouring to realise those enlightened principles in the government of our own country...All my feelings carry me towards that party; and all my principles confirm the predilection. Into that party, there, I resolve to enlist myself.〔Horner, ''Volume I'', pp. 253–254.〕
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