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Tenure of Office. 

 Sir John Hoskins, Bart Nov. 30, 1682-Nov. 30, 1683 



A. July 23, 1634 ; d. Sept. 12, 1705. Master in Chancery. Evelyn describes him as 

 ' a most learned virtuoso, as well as lawyer '. 



Sir Cyril Wyche, Kt Nov. 30, 1683-Nov. 30, 1684 



ft. 1632(?); d. Dec. 29, 1707. M.A.,D.C.L. (Oxon.). Statesman and man of science. 

 One of the Lords Justices governing Ireland (1693-5). Ambassador in Turkey 

 (1695). 



Samuel Pepys Dec. 1, 1684-Nov. 30, 1686 



ft. Feb. 23, 1632-3 ; d. May 26, 1703. M.A. (Camb.). Author of the celebrated 

 Diary and collector of the Pepysian Library. Clerk of the Acts of the Navy (1660). 

 Surveyor-General of the Victualling Office (1665). Master of Trinity House (1676). 

 Secretary to the Admiralty (1686). 



John, Earl of Carbery (Lord Vaughan) . . . Nov. 30, 1686 -Nov. 30, 1689 



b. 1640 ; d, Jan. 16, 1712-13. Governor of Jamaica (1674-8). 

 Thomas, Earl of Pembroke, K.G Nov. 30, 1689-Nov. 30, 1690 



ft. 1656 ; d. Jan. 22, 1732-3. First Lord of the Admiralty (1690). Lord Privy Seal 

 (1692). Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1707). Lord High Admiral (1708). 

 Mathematician and Antiquary. 



Sir Robert Southwell, Kt Dec. 1, 1690-Nov. 30, 1695 



ft. 1635 ; d. 1702. D.C.L. (Oxon.). Envoy extraordinary to the Court of Portugal 

 (1672). Appointed by William 111 Principal Secretary of State for Ireland (1690). 

 Contributed papers to the ' Philosophical Transactions ', principally on physio- 

 logical and chemical subjects. 



Charles Montagu (afterwards Earl of Hali- 

 fax, K.G.) Nov. 30, 1695-Nov. 30, 1698 



6. April 16, 1661; d. May 19, 1715. M.A. (Camb.). Appointed a lord of the 

 Treasury (1692), Chancellor of the Exchequer (1694). Aided by Somers, Locke, 

 Newton, and Halley, he determined to remedy the depreciation of the currency, 

 and succeeded in passing the Re-coinage Bill (1696). First Lord of the 

 Treasury (1697). 



John, Lord Somers Nov. 30, 1698-Nov. 30, 1703 



ft. 1652 ; d. April 26, 1716. Appointed Solicitor-General upon accession of William 

 and Mary ; Attorney-General (1692) ; Lord Keeper of the Great Seal (1693) ; 

 Lord Chancellor (1697) ; deprived of office and impeached, but acquitted (1700). 

 Took a leading part in effecting the Union with Scotland (1707). Lord President 

 of the Council (1708). 



Sir Isaac Newton, Kt Nov. 30, 1703-Mar. 20, 1727 



ft. Dec. 25, 1642 ; d. March 20, 1727. Discovered the Binomial Theorem, in the 

 beginning of 1665 ; the direct method of fluxions or elements of the differential 

 calculus, Nov., 1665 ; the unequal refrangibility of the rays of light, Jan., 1666 ; 

 the integral calculus, May, 1666. Made his first reflecting telescope, 1668. 

 Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, 1669. In 1686 the MS. of 

 the ' Principia ' was presented to the Royal Society, and in 1687 it was published. 

 Warden of the Mint (1695) ; Master of the Mint (1699). Publication of the 

 ' Opticks ', 1704. Knighted by Queen Anne, 1705. 



