60 Presidentship of the Earl of Macclesfield 1757 



Another levy of 55. from each member of the Club was 

 accordingly ordered, and as deficiencies in attendance had 

 been so serious the number for whom commons were to 

 be provided at each dinner was reduced to twelve. 



At the Annual General Meeting held on 28th July 1757 

 there were seventeen members present, but no visitors, and 

 the chair was again taken by James Burrow. According 

 to the statement submitted by the Treasurer it appeared 

 that the disbursements in connection with the gifts for the 

 table amounted to L 8s. 6d., and that those caused by 

 deficiencies in the attendance of members came to g los. 6d., 

 leaving in his hands a balance of 5 135. nd. 



Five vacancies in the membership were declared, Dr. 

 Robert Watson and Richard Roderick had died ; Francis 

 Fauquier and Jonathan Richardson, unable to attend 

 frequently, wished to retire in favour of candidates who 

 could give more constant attendance, and Jeremiah Dyson, 

 not having been present for more than a year, had forfeited 

 his membership. As the result of the ballot the members 

 elected were Welbore Ellis, 1 Arthur Pond, Taylor White, 

 Lord Cadogan and Dr. Noah Thomas. Mr. Ellis (ante, p. 31) 

 had been elected into the Royal Society in 1745, Mr. Pond 

 in 1752, Mr. White in 1725, Lord Cadogan (ante, p. 52) 

 in 1718, and Dr. Thomas in 1753. The last-named member 

 was a physician of some eminence in London. He was 

 knighted in 1775. A fine portrait of him by Romney hangs 

 in the hall of St. John's College, Cambridge. 



It was the practice of the Club, as it was of the Royal 

 Society, to have at its meetings from time to time the repre- 

 sentatives of foreign Governments. This year M. Mello e 

 Castro, the Ambassador from Portugal, who had shortly 

 before been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, was a guest 

 of the Club. He seems to have been an amiable and un- 

 obtrusive member of the diplomatic body. When he left 

 London, Horace Walpole wrote to Lady Mary Coke " Our 

 loo parties are receiving a great loss by the departure of 



1 Mr. Ellis being out of England, it was decided at the General Meeting 

 next year that his election should be void. 



