206 Record of the Royal Society. 



Years 



Date of in 



Election. Office. 



John, Earl of Carbery (Lord Vaughan) Nov. 30, 1686 3 



Died Jan. 16, 1712-13. For some years G-overnor of Jamaica. For 

 portrait see Plate 2. 



Thomas, Earl of Pembroke, K.G Nov. 30, 1689 1 



b. 1656; d. Jan. 22, 1732-3. First Lord of the Admiralty (1690). 

 Lord Privy Seal (1692). Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1707). 

 Lord High Admiral (1708). Mathematician and Antiquary. 



Sir Robert Southwell, Kt Dec. 1, 1690 5 



b. 1635; d. 1702. Envoy extraordinary to the Court of Portugal 

 (1672). Appointed by Will. Ill Principal Secretary of State for 

 Ireland. Contributed papers to the ' Philosophical Transactions,' 

 principally on physiological and chemical subjects. 



Charles Montague (afterwards Earl of Hali- 

 fax, K.G.) Nov. 30,1695 B 



b. April 16, 1661 ; d. May 19, 1715. Appointed a lord of the Treasury 

 (1692), Chancellor of the Exchequer (1694). Aided by Somers, 

 Locke, Newton, and Halley, he determined to remedy the deprecia- 

 tion of the currency, and succeeded in passing the Re-coinage Bill 

 (1696). First Lord of the Treasury (1697). 



John, Lord Somers Nov. 30, 1698 5 



b. 1652 ; d. April 26, 1716. Appointed Solicitor-General upon acces- 

 sion of William and Mary ; Attorney-General (1692) ; Lord 

 Keeper of the Great Seal (1693) ; Lord Chancellor (1697) ; Lord 

 President of the Council (1708). 



Sir Isaac Newton, Kt. Nov. 30, 1703 24 



b. Dec. 25, 1642; d. March 20, 1727. Discovered the Binomial 

 Theorem, in the beginning of 1665 ; the direct method of Flux- 

 ions or elements of the differential calculus, Nov., 1665; the 

 unequal refrangibility of the rays of light, Jan., 1666 ; the integral 

 calculus, May, 1666. Made his first reflecting telescope, 1668. 

 Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, 1669. In 1686 

 the MS. of the 'Principia' was presented to the Boyal Society, and 

 in 1687 it was published. Warden of the Mint (1695) ; Master 

 of the Mint (1699). Publication of the " Opticks," 1704. Knighted 

 by Queen Anne, 1705. 



Sir Hans Sloane, Bart Nov. 30, 1727 14 



b. April 16, 1660 ; d. Jan. 11, 1753. Fellow of the Coll. Phys. in 

 1687. Shortly afterwards accompanied Duke of Albemarle to 

 Jamaica, where he collected natural history specimens for fifteen 

 months. Created a baronet by Geo. I, an honour to which no 

 English physician had before attained. Physician General to the 

 Army (1716). Pres. Coll. Phys. (1727). There are twenty-four 

 papers by Sir Hans Sloane in the ' Philosophical Transactions.' 



