FORMER PHKS1 DIALS 



Sir John Iloskins, Bart ......... Nov. 30, 1682-Nov. 



ft. July 23, 1031 ; il. Sept. IL', 17o:,. Ma-tri in ( ham -,.,>-. Kvi-lyii dewribtt him M 

 ' a most learned virtuoso, as well as lawyer '. 



Sir Cyril Wyche, Kt ......... Nor. 80, 168S-N<T 



ft. 1032(?); '/.!><><. -M 7<>7. M.A., IU.J, Kon.). Statesman :m.l . 



One of the Lords Justices governing Ireland (1093-5). An n Turki-y 



Samuel Pepys ........... Dec. 1, 1684-Nov :;n. ] sr, 



ft. Feb. 23, 1632-3; d. May 26, 1703. M.A. (Camb.). Autbor of tbe rel.-l,.- 



Diary and collector of the Pepysian Library. Clerk of tbe Acts of tbe Navy (1660). 

 Surveyor-General of tbe Victualling Office (100.5). Master of Trinity Ilnimp (1 > 

 Secretary to tbe Admiralty (1686). 



John, Earl of Carbery (Lord Vaugban) . . . Nov. 30, 1686 -Nov. 30, 1689 



b. 1640 ; d. Jan. 16, 1712-13. Governor of Jamaica (1674-8). 

 Tbomas, Earl of Pembroke, K.G ..... Nov. 30, 1689-Nov. 30, 1690 



ft. 1050; d. Jan. 22, 1732-3. First Lord of tbe Admiralty (1690). Lord Privy s-al 

 (1692). Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1707). Lord High Admiral (i?8). 

 Mathematician and Antiquary. 



Sir Robert Southwell, Kt ........ Dec. 1, 1690-Nov. 30, 1695 



ft. 1635 ; d. 1702. D.C.L. (Oxon.). Envoy extraordinary to tbe Court of Portugal 

 (1672). Appointed by William III Principal Secretary of State for Ireland (IfiiMi). 

 Contributed papers to tbe ' Philosophical Transactions ', principally on phy-io- 

 logical and chemical subjects. 



Charles Montagu (afterwards Earl of Hali- 



fax, K.G.) ......... . . Nov. 30, 1695-Nov. 30, 1698 



ft. April 16, 1661 ; d. May 19, 1715. M.A. (Camb.). Appointed a lord of the 

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

 Newton, and Halley, he determined to remedy the depreciation of the currency. 

 and succeeded in passing the Re-coinage Bill (1090). First Lord of the 

 Treasury (1697). 



John, Lord Somers ....... . . Nov. 30, 1698-Nov. 30, 1703 



ft. 1652 ; d. April 20, 1716. Appointed Solicitor-General upon accession of William 

 and Mary; Attorney-General (1692); Lord Keeper of the Great Seal (1693); 

 Lord Chancellor (1697) ; deprived of office and impeached, but acquitted (1700). 

 Took a leading part in effecting the Union with Scotland (1707). Lord President 

 of the Council (1708). 



Sir Isaac Newton, Kt ......... Nov. 30, 1703-Mar. 20, 1727 



6. Dec. 25, 1642 ; d. March 20, 1727. Discovered the Binomial Theorem, in the 

 beginning of 1665 ; the direct method of fluxions or elements of tbe differential 

 calculus, Nov., 1005 ; the unequal refrangibility of the rays of light, Jan., 1666 ; 

 tbe integral calculus, May, 1066. Made his first reflecting telescope, 1668. 

 Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, 16(5!). In 10815 tbe MS. of 

 the ' Principia' was presented to the Royal Society, and in 1687 it was published. 

 Warden of the Mint (1695); Master of the Mint (1099). Publication of tbe 

 < Opticks', 1704. Knighted by Queen Anne, 1705. 



