John Horne

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John Horne (left) and Ben Peach outside the Inchnadamph Hotel, 1912

John Horne (1 January 1848 - 30 May 1928) was a Scottish geologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1900. He was a pupil of Ben Peach.

Horne was born in 1848 near Stirling, Scottland and was educated at Glasgow University. He joined the Scottish Branch of the Geological Survey in 1867 as an assistant and became an apprentice to Benjamin Peach. The two soon became good friends and collaborators. Horne was involved in mapping the Midland Valley. Horne was a logical thinker and writer, complementing Peach's skills of resolving the internal structure of mountains by looking at the surface rocks. After their work in the Highlands, Horne and Peach wrote 'Northwest Highlands Memoir' in 1907. The work is regarded as one of the most important geological memoirs. Horne wrote most of the memoir himself. From 1901 until 1911, John Horne was the Director of the Scottish Branch of the Survey. He died in 1928.