1822 F. Chantrey; W. Sotheby; J.F.W. Herschel 275 



had now reached the utmost limit of toleration, and three of 

 these offenders were struck off. The other three were old 

 and valued members against whom no action was taken. 

 Four vacancies were accordingly declared, and on a ballot 

 these were filled by the election of [John ?] Walker, William 

 Sotheby, John Frederick William Herschel, and Francis 

 Chantrey. 



It was resolved that the Foreign Secretary of the Royal 

 Society should henceforth be an ex-officio member of the 

 Club, thus giving an official place in the Club to Thomas 

 Young, and that in future the Anniversary should be held 

 on the first Thursday in June after Whitsun-week. 



Of the new members Francis Chantrey, the eminent 

 sculptor, has been already mentioned as a visitor (p. 254). 

 He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1818, and 

 being now a member of the Club he attended the meetings, 

 not infrequently introducing a guest. 



William Sotheby, though his name is mainly associated 

 with his renderings of Homer and Virgil into English 

 verse and with some rather weak original poems and plays, 

 had in his youth been in the army. During the spring of 

 1805 he was introduced to Sir Walter Scott, who immediately 

 said that it was not the first time that he had had the 

 pleasure of seeing him ; for he well remembered, when he 

 was a boy in the High School of Edinburgh, being punished 

 for having left his class in order to follow a troop of the 

 Tenth Dragoons who were advancing up the street, headed 

 by Mr. Sotheby, to quell a mutinous Highland regiment, 

 then in temporary possession of the Castle. Sir Walter 

 related this with his usual animation, adding : " Had the 

 Highlanders fired down the street, we poets might both 

 have been swept away." Sotheby had been elected into 

 the Royal Society in 1794 and he took an active part in 

 the Dilettante Society. He translated the Iliad and Odyssey 

 when he was past seventy years of age. 



John F. W. Herschel, brilliant son of a distinguished 

 father, was now thirty years of age and had already entered 

 on a career which proved as fruitful as it was strenuous, 



