i8oo S. Lysons ; E. Home; J. Towneley 209 



The Treasurer's statement gave the receipts as 51 is. id. 

 and the disbursements as 56 8s., showing a balance against 

 the Club of /5 6s. nd. The annual contribution was again 

 fixed at one guinea. The total number of diners since the 

 last anniversary was 620, comprising 557 members and 63 

 visitors. 



Three vacancies in the membership were announced. 

 One of these remained over from the previous year, the 

 second arose from the death of Sir William Musgrave and 

 the third from the resignation of Sir William Watson, who 

 had been knighted in 1796 and had now retired to the 

 country. 1 Three candidates were nominated for election 

 and separately balloted for and were all elected, viz. Samuel 

 Lysons, Everard Home, and John Towneley. 



Samuel Lysons, barrister of the Inner Temple, was more 

 particularly noted for his antiquarian proclivities and his 

 authorship of a valuable work on the Romano-British 

 antiquities of England. He became F.R.S. in 1797. 



Everard Home, eminent as a surgeon, and created bar- 

 onet in 1813, had been elected into the Royal Society 

 in 1787. He was summoned to Clapham when Henry Cav- 

 endish was dying, and gave an account of the last hours 

 of the philosopher to Sir John Barrow. 2 



John Towneley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 

 in 1797. 



A few fresh visitors of note were entertained by the Club 

 this year. Among these was the Chevalier de Bray, brought 

 by Sir Charles Blagden. The President introduced Sir 

 Richard Pepper Arden, a barrister of the Middle Temple, 

 with a good University record, who entered parliament in 

 1782. In 1788 he became Master of the Rolls and in 1801 

 Lord Chief Justice, being then called to the House of Lords 

 as Baron Alvanley. He is said to have possessed such 

 wit and charm in conversation, that Pitt always insisted 

 on sitting next to him when they met at the same dinner. 

 But he is also reported to have had a quick temper which 



1 Son of Sir William Watson who died in 1787. 



2 Sketches of the Royal Society and Royal Society Club, 1849, p. 153. 



