List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1779

Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1779.

Fellows

Robert Bromfield (d. 1786) George Buxton (1730–1805), physicist Tiberius Cavallo (1745–1809), Italian physicist Henry Dagge (b. c.1715) Josias Dupre (1721–1780), Governor of Madras John Duroure (c.1751–1801) John Eardley-Wilmot (1750–1815), barrister Samuel Farr (1741–1795), physician William Fullarton (1754–1808), soldier and diplomat James Glenie (1750–1817), Scottish businessman John Grant Edward Whitaker Gray (1748–1806), librarian Hugh Hamersley (d. 1790) John Henniker, 1st Baron Henniker (1724–1803) John Jebb (1736–1786), physician and reformer John Jennings Andrew Kippis (1726–1795), clergyman James Murray (c.1722–1794), Governor of Quebec Ralph Payne, 1st Baron Lavington (1738–1807) Joseph Poli (1746–1825) John Joshua Proby, 1st Earl of Carysfort (1751–1828) Charles Rainsford (1728–1809), Army officer Robert Richardson (1732–1781) prebendary, Lincoln Cathedral John Robertson (1741–1823), physician William Seward (1747–1799), anecdotist Samuel Foart Simmons (1750–1813), physician James Carmichael Smyth (1741–1821), Scottish physician Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (1753–1814) John Topham (1746–1803) Michael Tyson (1740–1780), clergyman Thomas Vage (d. 1815) Thomas Francis Wenman (1745–1796), natural historian John Whitehurst (1713–1788), clockmaker

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