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He was born in Dublin, the great-grandson of Josiah Hort, Archbishop of Tuam in the eighteenth century.

In 1846 he passed from Rugby School to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was the contemporary of EW Benson, BF Westcott and JB Lightfoot.

The four men became lifelong friends and fellow-workers.

In 1850 Hort took his degree, being third in the classical tripos.

In 1851 he also took the recently established triposes in moral science and natural science, and in 1852 he became fellow of his college.

In 1854, in conjunction with J. E. B. Mayor and Lightfoot, he established the Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology, and plunged eagerly into theological and patristic study.

He had been brought up in the strictest principles of the Evangelical school, but at Rugby he fell under the influence of Thomas Arnold and Archibald Campbell Tait, and his acquaintance with John Frederick Denison Maurice and Charles Kingsley finally gave his opinions a direction towards Liberalism.