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A HISTORY OF 



sidered it in every light, seem so desirous of." In a 

 subsequent letter, 1 Chesterfield informed Madden that 

 he saw reason to promote the scheme, adding that the 

 draft of the Charter shown to him seemed " to have all 

 the provisions in it that human prudence can make 

 against human iniquity." On the 2nd of April 1750, 

 the Charter 2 incorporating " the Dublin Society for 

 promoting Husbandry and other useful Arts in Ire- 

 land " was granted ; and on the 3rd of May, in the 

 Parliament House, the first election of members under 

 the new constitution was held. 



LIST OF MEMBERS NAMED IN THE CHARTER 3 



William, Earl of Harrington, 

 Lord Lieutenant, President. 



William, Duke of Devonshire. 



Lionel Cranfield, Duke of 

 Dorset. 



Philip Dormer, Earl of Chester- 

 field. 



George, Archbishop of Armagh, 

 Primate, Vice- President. 



Robert, Lord Newport, Lord 

 Chancellor of Ireland. 



Charles, Archbishop of Dublin, 

 Vice- President. 



James, Earl of Kildare, Vice- 

 President. 



John, Earl of Grandison, Vice- 

 President. 



Wills, Viscount Hillsborough. 



Humphrey, Viscount Lanes- 

 borough, Vice- President. 



Robert, Bishop of Clogher. 



Charles, Lord Tullamore. 



Richard, Lord Mornington. 



Henry Boyle, Chancellor of the 

 Exchequer. 



Sir Arthur Gore, Vice- President. 



Sir Thomas Taylor, Vice-Presi- 

 dent. 



Hercules Langford Rowley. 



John Maxwell. 



Thomas Butler. 



Thomas Tennison. 



Robert Downes, Treasurer. 



Thomas Prior, Secretary. 



Arthur Jones Nevill. 



John Putland. 



Thomas Waite. 



Alexander McAuley. 



William Maple, Registrar. 



Samuel Hutchinson, Dean of 

 Dromore. 



Richard Pococke, Archdeacon 

 of Dublin (i). 



John Kearney, D.D. 



John Wynne, D.D., Secretary. 



1 Letters, ii. 897. 



2 On the 2 ist of January 1836, Mr. William Watson, Temple 

 street, sent to the Society the original warrant of King George II, to 

 the then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, for granting the Charter, which 

 he had lately found among some of his family papers. It is now in 

 the National Library. 



3 Haliday Pamphlets, ccxxix. 2. 



