List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1699

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This is a list of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1699. [1]

Royal Society English learned society for science

The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, commonly known as the Royal Society, is a learned society. Founded on 28 November 1660, it was granted a royal charter by King Charles II as "The Royal Society". It is the oldest national scientific institution in the world. The society is the United Kingdom's and Commonwealth of Nations' Academy of Sciences and fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, recognising excellence in science, supporting outstanding science, providing scientific advice for policy, fostering international and global co-operation, education and public engagement.

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Robert Shirley FRS, styled Hon. Robert Shirley after 1677, was a British politician and aesthete. An unsuccessful Parliamentary candidate for Staffordshire in 1698, he was admitted to the Royal Society the next year and died shortly thereafter.

John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale English politician

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William Cowper (anatomist) English surgeon and anatomist

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John Montagu (Trinity) English churchman and academic

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Francis Robartes FRS was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1673 and 1718.

Henry Frederick, Count of Hohenlohe-Langenburg was the youngest child of Count Philip Ernest of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and his wife Countess Anna Maria of Solms-Sonnewalde.

John Thompson, 1st Baron Haversham, known as Sir John Thompson, Bt, between 1673 and 1696, was an English politician.

References

  1. ↑ "Fellows of the Royal Society", Royal Society. "Fellowship from 1660 onwards" (xlsx file on Google Docs via the Royal Society)
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