198 Presidentship of Sir Joseph Banks 1793 



the result of the ballot the following gentlemen were elected 

 members : Sir William Young, Bart., Frederick Augustus 

 Barnard, Charles Townley, Dr. John Hunter and Captain 

 Philip d'Auvergne. 



Sir William Young the second baronet, son of the Sir 

 William Young already referred to (p. 31), sat in the House 

 of Commons from 1784 to 1806 and was then appointed 

 Governor of Tobago. He became F.R.S. in 1786. Frederick 

 Barnard was elected into the Royal Society in 1790. Charles 

 Townley was noted for the valuable collection of classical 

 antiquities which he had gathered together in Italy, and 

 which after his death was purchased by the British Museum. 

 He was made F.R.S. in 1791. Dr. John Hunter was an 

 Edinburgh M.D. who for a few years was superintendent 

 of military hospitals in Jamaica, afterwards practising in 

 London, where he was chosen Galstonian and Croonian 

 lecturer. He became F.R.S. in 1786. 



Captain Philip d'Auvergne, born in Jersey about 1745, 

 was educated in England and entered the royal navy 

 as midshipman. He claimed to belong to one of the old 

 ducal families of France. And the claim was allowed by 

 the Due de Bouillon, who chose him as his heir and left him 

 his valuable estates in France. At the peace of Amiens he 

 went to France where he soon discovered that his presence 

 was not liked by Buonaparte. He consequently quickly 

 quitted the country without having recovered the estates, 

 but George III. authorised him to assume the ducal title. 

 When in 1803 he again dined with the Club, he took his 

 place there as a member, with the title of Due de Bouillon, 

 and he had now risen to the rank of Admiral. He died in 

 London in November 1816 about 70 years of age. He had 

 been elected into the Royal Society in 1786. 



The continent of Europe was at this time in a ferment 

 from the Baltic to the Mediterranean. France had abolished 

 its Monarchy, beheaded its King and proclaimed a Republic, 

 and at the same moment was waging war against Spain, 

 Holland and Great Britain. Many of the upper classes 

 in that distracted country, who escaped the violence of 



