Sir John Horsey (died 23 December 1546)[1] was a knight of Henry VIII and Lord of the Manor of Clifton Maubank.
He was born the son of Sir John Horsey (died 8 July 1531) and Elizabeth Turges.
When Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in the 16th century, Sir John, intending to collect a large share of the monastic property from the Crown, bribed Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex to appoint the compliant John Barnstable Abbot of Sherborne Abbey.
[4] John Barnstable was accordingly elected on 31 May 1535, and subsequently surrendered the monastery on 18 March 1539.
[1] Both Horsey and his son are buried in Sherborne Abbey: an "impressive" tomb with life-size effigies of the two in medieval armour is to be found there in the Wykeham Chapel.