THE MENTAL ABILITY OF THE QUAKERS 663 



LIST OF FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON WHO ARE QUAKERS OR OF 



QUAKER DESCENT 



Name. 



4 



on 



Sir John Finch ...... 



Anthony Lowther ..... 



Richard Lower, M.D. . . . 



William Penn (? Friend) .... 



Total 1663-1700 



Richard Mead, M.D, (books on the plague and 



poisons) ....... 



Fettyplace Bellers (lawyer) .... 



John Bellers (social reformer) .... 



George Graham (clockmaker, writer on magnetism and 



astronomy) ...... 



Silvanus Bevan ...... 



Peter Collinson (botanist) .... 



Thomas Birch, D.D. (historian ; parents Friends) 

 Richard Brocklesby, M.D. .... 



Total 1701-1750 8 



John Fothergill, M.D. (founder of Ackworth 



School) ........ 



Thomas Dimsdale, M.D. (popularised inoculation for 



smallpox) ....... 



John Coakley Lettsom, M.D. (naturalist) . 



Jeremiah Dixon (astronomer) ..... 



Mark Beufoy ....... 



Thomas Young, M.D. (originator of undulatory theory 



of light and Egyptologist) .... 



Total 1751-1800 6 



Lewis Weston Dillwyn (parents Friends, M.P. for 



Glamorganshire) ..... 

 WilUam Allen (chemist and philanthropist) 



Robert WiUan, M.D 



John Sims ....... 



Michael Bland ...... 



Hudson Gurney ...... 



Luke Howard (a pioneer in meteorology) . 



John Dalton (author of the theory of atomic propor 



tions) . ...... 



John Scandrett Harford (left Friends) 



Richard Phillips (chemist) .... 



James Cowles Pritchard, M.D. (author of Natural 



History of Man, etc. ; left Friends) 

 William PhiUips (mineralogist and geologist) 

 Joseph Jackson Lister (investigator of achromatic 



lenses ; memoir in Phil. Trans, for 1829) 

 WilUam Allen Miller ..... 



William West ...... 



Robert Were Fox (magnetism and geology) 



John Fletcher Miller (meteorologist and astronomer) 



Total 1801-1850. 17 



Charles May ........ 



Isaac Fletcher (left Friends) ..... 



Bom. 



Died. Elected. 



1626 

 1631 



1673 

 1654 



1693 



1705 

 1722 



1712 



I712 

 1744 



1733 

 1764 



1773 



1778 

 1770 



1757 

 1749 



1775 

 1772 



1766 

 1785 



1786 

 1775 



1786 

 1817 



1798 

 1816 



1682 

 1672 

 I69I 



1734 

 1724 



I751 



1768 

 1766 

 1797 



1780 



i8oo 

 1815 

 1778 

 1827 



1829 



1855 



1843 

 1812 

 1831 

 1851 

 1864 

 1864 



1844 

 1866 



1848 

 1828 



1869 

 1870 



1877 

 1856 



1663 

 1663 

 1667 

 168 1 



1703 

 1711 

 1718 



1720 



1725 

 1728 



1734 

 1746 



1763 



1769 



1773 

 1790 

 1790 



1794 



1804 

 1807 

 1809 

 1814 

 1816 

 1818 

 1821 



1822 

 1823 

 1827 



1827 

 1827 



1832 



1845 

 1846 

 1848 

 1850 



1854 

 1855 



