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The first forty Members 



1744. Deer. 18. 

 April 19. Mr. Maud. 



June 7. Conway Whithorne. March 5. 



Wesby Gill. 1747. 



14. Dr. Colly er. April 16. 



July 5. Dr. Barker. April 23. 



August 23. Sir Joseph Ayloffe. 



1745. Oct. 22. 

 Nov. 21. Jonathan Richard- 1748. 



son. Jany. 23. 



Feby. 13. Rev. Dr. Squire. 



Lord Willoughby of 



Parham. 

 March 6. Mr. Ellicott. 



1746. 

 March 27th. Richard Roderick. Sept. i. 



Rev. Edmd. Morris. 

 April 10. Benjn. Robins. 8. 



Dr. N. Munckley. 

 Jerem. Dyson. 

 Benj. Prideaux. 



Sir James Creed. 

 Martin Folkes, Presi- 

 dent. 

 Charles Stanhope. 



Wm. Freeman. 

 James Gibbs. 

 John Colebrooke. 

 Dr. Wm. Battie. 

 Dr. Charles Feake. 

 Dr. Mitchel. 

 Peter Da vail. 

 George Graham. 

 Dr. Gowin Knight. 



/ A scrutiny of this list shows that the great majority 

 of the early members were already Fellows of the Royal 

 Society. Of those who were not Fellows, eight were ulti- 

 mately elected into the Society, and eight do not appear 



\ to have been ever so elected. It is a matter of some interest 

 S to enquire into the qualifications, scientific, literary or social, 

 of this original nucleus of the Royal Society Club. They 

 included several accomplished antiquaries, such as Daniel 

 Wray (F.R.S. in 1728), who figured among the writers that 

 have been identified with " Junius"; Peter Newcome (F.R.S. 

 1742), who became prebendary of Llandaff, and in his later 

 years published a history of St. Albans Abbey ; Sir Joseph 

 Ayloffe, Bart., one of the Keepers of State papers, whose 

 recollections of the early days of the Club have been already 

 referred to ; and Martin Folkes, who became President of 

 the Society of Antiquaries in 1750 and was at the time of 

 his election into the Club (1747) President of the Royal 

 Society. Other members were noted mathematicians, such 

 as the barrister George Lewis Scott and Benjamin Robins 

 the military engineer, to whom the Copley Medal was 



-awarded in 1746. Faithful to the traditions of the Royal 

 Society, the Club did not forget to honour the mechanician 

 and inventor George Graham, whose skill and ingenuity 



