John Charles Horobin (1856–1902) was a British academic. He was the first

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Homerton College, Cambridge Homerton College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Its first premises were acquired in Homerton, London in 1768, by an informal gathering of Protestant dissenters with origins in the seventeenth century. In 1894, the col ...

. Horobin was born in Tean, Staffordshire and educated at

Emmanuel College, Cambridge Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Elizabeth I. The site on which the college sits was once a priory for Dominican mo ...

, graduating BA in 1888 and MA in 1892. He was a member of the

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from 1891 to 1896; and Principal of Homerton from 1890 to his death on 26 July 1902.'Obituary'

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(London, England), Monday, July 28, 1902, Issue 36831, p.6.

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1856 births 1902 deaths People from Staffordshire Moorlands (district) Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Principals of Homerton College, Cambridge Members of the London School Board Educational administrators {{Academic-administrator-stub