List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1817

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Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1817. [1]

Fellows

  1. John Baillie (1772–1833)
  2. Edward Bromhead (1789–1855), mathematician
  3. William Burroughs (d. 1829), barrister
  4. George Byng, 6th Viscount Torrington (1768–1831)
  5. Joseph Constantine Carpue (1764–1846), surgeon
  6. Frederick Sylvester North Douglas (1791–1819), MP
  7. Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville (1771–1851)
  8. Hugh Fortescue, 2nd Earl Fortescue (1783–1861)
  9. Augustus Bozzi Granville (1783–1872), physician, writer
  10. Edward Hanmer (1758–1821)
  11. James Rawlins Johnson (d. 1840)
  12. William Lambton (1756–1823), surveyor
  13. Thomas Legh (1793–1857), MP
  14. John William Mackie (b. c. 1788), Chaplain to Duke of York
  15. William Macmichael (1784–1839), physician
  16. John Maddy (1766–1853) [2]
  17. Macvey Napier (1776–1847), legal scholar
  18. Gore Ouseley (1770–1844), diplomat
  19. Henry John Peachey, 3rd Baron Selsey (1787–1838)
  20. William Henry Francis Petre, 11th Baron Petre (1793–1850)
  21. Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (1781–1826), founder of Singapore
  22. John Reeves (1774–1856), naturalist
  23. William Somerville (1771–1860), physician
  24. William Strutt (1756–1830), inventor
  25. Peter Evan Turnbull (1786–1852)
  26. John Ashley Warre (1787–1860)

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References

  1. ↑ "Fellows of the Royal Society". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-03-16.
  2. ↑ Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. Vol. 10. 1900. p. 356.
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