List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1779
Appearance
Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1779.[1][2]
Fellows
[edit]- Robert Bromfield (d. 1786)
- George Buxton (1730–1805), physicist
- Tiberius Cavallo (1745–1809), Italian physicist
- Henry Dagge (b. c.1715)
- Josias Dupre (1721–1780), Governor of Madras
- John Duroure (c.1751–1801)
- John Eardley-Wilmot (1750–1815), barrister
- Samuel Farr (1741–1795), physician
- William Fullarton (1754–1808), soldier and diplomat
- James Glenie (1750–1817), Scottish businessman
- John Grant
- Edward Whitaker Gray (1748–1806), librarian
- Hugh Hamersley (d. 1790)
- John Henniker, 1st Baron Henniker (1724–1803)
- John Jebb (1736–1786), physician and reformer
- John Jennings
- Andrew Kippis (1726–1795), clergyman
- James Murray (c.1722–1794), Governor of Quebec
- Ralph Payne, 1st Baron Lavington (1738–1807)
- Joseph Poli (1746–1825)
- John Joshua Proby, 1st Earl of Carysfort (1751–1828)
- Charles Rainsford (1728–1809), Army officer
- Robert Richardson (1732–1781) prebendary, Lincoln Cathedral
- John Robertson (1741–1823), physician
- William Seward (1747–1799), anecdotist
- Samuel Foart Simmons (1750–1813), physician
- James Carmichael Smyth (1741–1821), Scottish physician
- Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (1753–1814)
- John Topham (1746–1803)
- Michael Tyson (1740–1780), clergyman
- Thomas Vage (d. 1815)
- Thomas Francis Wenman (1745–1796), natural historian
- John Whitehurst (1713–1788), clockmaker
References
[edit]- ^ "Fellows of the Royal Society". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-03-16.
- ^ "Fellowship of the Royal Society 1660–2015". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-10-15.