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1836, Bristol The Marquis of LANSDOWNE (1780-1863), 

 F.E.S. [Sir Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquis, 1809] ; 

 M.P., 1803 seqq. ; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1806 ; 

 minister without portfolio, 1827-28 ; lord president of the 

 council at intervals 1830-41 and 1846-52 ; a whig in politics ; 

 active promoter of abolition of slave trade, etc. 



1837, Liverpool. The Earl of BURLINGTON (1808-99), 

 F.E.S. [William Cavendish, 2nd Earl, 1834, 6th Duke of 

 Devonshire, 1858]; M.P. for Cambridge Univ., 1829; 

 chancellor of the Univ. of London, 1886-56 ; Cambridge, 

 1861-91 ; president, Iron and Steel Last., 1868 ; Eoy. Agric. 

 Soc., 1870 ; chairman, Eoyal Commission on scientific 

 instruction and advancement of science ; promoter of iron 

 and steel works, Barrow-in-Furness, etc. ; benefactor of 

 Yorkshire College of Science and Owens College, Manchester. 



1838, Newcastle-on-Tyne. The Duke of NORTHUMBER- 

 LAND (1785-1847), F.E.S. [Sir Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke, 1817] ; 

 M.P., 1806 seqq. ; K.G., 1819 ; governor, King's College, 

 London, 1831 ; chancellor, Cambridge Univ., 1840-47. 



1839, Birmingham. Eev. William Vernon HARCOURT 

 (1789-1871), F.E.S. ; entered navy in early life ; canon of 

 York, 1824 ; constructed chemical laboratory and worked 

 with Davy and others ; general secretary, B.A., 1832-37. 



1840, Glasgow. John Campbell, 2nd Marquis of BREAD- 

 ALBANE (1796-1862), F.E.S. ; M.P. as Viscount Glenorchy, 

 1820-26, as Earl of Ormelie, 1832 ; succeeded to marquisate 

 1834 ; lord rector of Glasgow Univ., 1843. 



1841, Plymouth. Eev. William WHEWELL (1794-1866), 

 F.E.S. ; of Cambridge Univ. : professor of mineralogy, 

 1828-32 ; Knightbridge professor of moral philosophy, 

 1838-55 ; master of Trinity Coll., 1841-66 ; vice-chancellor, 

 1843, 1856 ; instrumental in founding Whewell professor- 

 ship of international law, moral sciences tripos, and natural 

 sciences tripos. 



1842, Manchester. Lord Francis EGERTON (1800-57), 

 F.E.S. ; M.P., 1822 seqq. ; P.C., 1828 ; secretary at war, 

 1830 ; Viscount Brackley and Earl of Ellesmere, 1846 ; 

 writer and translator of poetry ; archaeologist ; early 



