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The Astronomical Society of London - the First 200 Members The Astronomical Society of London - the first 200 members. M.G. Edmunds January 2020. Main Source: A List of the Members of the Astronomical Society of London on February 8, 1822 with additional information from the list of February 13, 1824, (both published in Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society) and from unpublished Minutes of the Meetings of the Astronomical Society of London. The ordinal numbers are from the Minutes. Original spelling preserved. No. Name Address Date Notes Proposed 1 Charles Babbage, Esq. M.A. F.R.S. L. & E. No. 5 Devonshire Street Portland Place 12 Jan 1820 Founder 2 Arthur Baily, Esq, Gray’s Inn 12 Jan 1820 Founder 3 Francis Baily, Esq. F.R.S. & L.S. Gray’s Inn 12 Jan 1820 Founder 4 Major Thomas Colby, of the Royal Engineers, LL.D. Tower 12 Jan 1820 Founder F.R.S. L. & E. 5 Henry T. Colebrooke, Esq. F.R.S. & L.S. Albany, Piccadilly 12 Jan 1820 Founder 6 Olinthus G. Gregory, LL.D. Professor of Royal Military Academy, Woolwich 12 Jan 1820 Founder Mathematics 7 Stephen Groombridge, Esq. F.R.S. S.R.A.Nap. Blackheath 12 Jan 1820 Founder 8 J.F.W. Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S. Slough 12 Jan 1820 Founder 9 Patrick Kelly, LL.D. Finsbury Square 12 Jan 1820 Founder 10 Daniel Moore, Esq. F.R.S. S.A. & L.S. Lincoln’s Inn 12 Jan 1820 Founder 11 Rev. William Pearson, LL.D. F.R.S. East Sheen, Surry 12 Jan 1820 Founder 12 James South, Esq. F.R.S. and L.S. No. 11 Blackman Street Southwark 12 Jan 1820 Founder 13 Charles Stokes, Esq. F.R.S. S.A. & L.S. Gray’s Inn 12 Jan 1820 Founder 14 Peter Slawinski D.P. Proff. University Wilna [Poland] 12 Jan 1820 Founder, later ASSOCIATE 15 David Brewster LL.D. F.R.S. L. & E. Edinburgh 8 Feb 1820 16 Rev. George Butler D.D. F.R.S. & S.A. Harrow 8 Feb 1820 Head of Harrow School 17 Richard Comfield Esq. Northampton 8 Feb 1820 18 Samuel Cooper, Esq Tranby, Yorkshire 8 Feb 1820 19 Rev. William Dealtry, M.A. F.R.S. Clapham 8 Feb 1820 20 George Dollond Esq. F.R.S. St Paul’s Churchyard 8 Feb 1820 21 Sir Robert L. Dundas No. 19 Arlington Street Piccadilly 8 Feb 1820 22 Davies Gilbert, Esq, Treas. & V.P.R.S. F.L.S. East Bourne, Sussex 8 Feb 1820 23 Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, Esq. Clapham 8 Feb 1820 Spital Square in 1820 24 Rev. James Grooby, M.A. Cirencester, Gloucestershire 8 Feb 1820 25 Lt. Col. John Hadfield F.R.S. No. 90 Pall Mall 8 Feb 1820 Died 8 Jan 21. Royal Engineers 26 William Handley, Esq. No. 12 Winchester Place, Pentonville 8 Feb 1820 27 Thomas Harrison, Esq. M.A. F.R.S. Streatham Park 8 Feb 1820 Died 1824, resigned before 1822? 28 Sir William Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S. L. & E. Slough 8 Feb 1820 Died 25 Aug 1822 29 Thomas Jones, Esq. Charing Cross 8 Feb 1820 30 Joshua King, Esq. Queen’s College Cambridge 8 Feb 1820 31 Thomas Leybourn, Esq. Royal Military College, Sandhurst 8 Feb 1820 32 William P. Moffatt, Esq. East Sheen, Surry 8 Feb 1820 33 Major Genl. William Mudge Roy.Art. LL.D. F.R.S. & 8 Feb 1820 Ordnance Survey, died 17 Apr 1820 S.A. 34 Stephen Pattisal, Esq. Change Alley Cornhill 8 Feb 1820 35 William Paul, Esq. Professor of Natural Philosophy King’s College Aberdeen 8 Feb 1820 in the University 36 H.F. Pelerin, Esq. No. 10 Canonbury Lane, Islington or 8 Feb 1820 Lloyds 37 William Hasle Pepys, Esq. F.R.S. Poultry 8 Feb 1820 38 Rev. J.H. Pinckney, D.D. East Sheen, Surry 8 Feb 1820 39 John Pond, Esq. Astronomer Royal, F.R.S. Greenwich 8 Feb 1820 40 John Rennie, Esq. F.R.S. S.A. & L.S. F.R.S.E. M.R.I.A. [Stratford Street, London] 8 Feb 1820 Died 4 Oct 1821 41 Col. John Rowley, of the Royal Engineers F.R.S. No. 90 Pall Mall 8 Feb 1820 Major General by 1822 42 Edward Ryan. Esq. No. 3 Hare Court, temple 8 Feb 1820 Lincolns Inn in 1820 43 Alexander Tilloch, Esq. LL.D. M.R.I.A. Picket Place Temple Bar 8 Feb 1820 44 Edward Troughton, Esq. F.R.S. L. & E. Fleet Street 8 Feb 1820 45 Henry Tucker, Esq. No. 34 Baker Street 8 Feb 1820 46 William Williams, Esq. No. 3 Gray’s Inn Place 8 Feb 1820 47 Rev. G.B. Wildig, M.A. Liverpool 8 Feb 1820 48 Daniel Wilson, Esq. No. 6 Mount Place Mile End 8 Feb 1820 49 Timothy Bramah, Esq. Pimlico 29 Feb 1820 50 W.H. Booth, Esq. Lincoln’s Inn 29 Feb 1820 51 Col. Mark Beaufoy, F.R.S. & L.S. Bushy-heath near Stanmore 29 Feb 1820 52 Maj.Gen. Sir Thomas Brisbane, K.C.B. F.R.S. L. & E. Brisbane near Greenock 29 Feb 1820 53 Edward P. Bromhead, Esq. M.A. F.R.S. Thurlby, Lincolnshire 29 Feb 1820 54 William Cary, Esq. Strand 29 Feb 1820 55 James Cross, Esq. Observatory, Glasgow 29 Feb 1820 56 William Domville, Esq. Lincoln’s Inn 29 Feb 1820 57 Sir H. C. Englefield, Bart. F.R.S. L. & E. F.S.A. & L.S. Tilney Street 29 Feb 1820 58 Rev. Fearon Fallows, M.A. F.R.S. St John’s College Cambridge, 29 Feb 1820 Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope 1820 59 Duplicate: [John Fuller] see 174 29 Feb 1820 Presumably not taken up at this date 60 Benjamin Gompertz, Esq. F.R.S. Kennington Terrace, Vauxhall 29 Feb 1820 61 Rt. Hon. Alexander, Duke of Gordon F.R.S. Gordon Castle 29 Feb 1820 Near Elgin 62 Robert Haldane, LL.D. Professor of Mathematics St. Andrews 29 Feb 1820 63 Charles Holford, Esq. Hampstead 29 Feb 1820 64 James Horsburgh, Esq. F.R.S. Herne Hill, Dulwich 29 Feb 1820 65 James Hoy, Esq. Gordon Castle 29 Feb 1820 Near Elgin 66 Thomas Jackson, LL.D. F.R.S.E. Professor of Natural St. Andrews 29 Feb 1820 Philosophy 67 James Jardine, Esq. F.R.S.E. Edinburgh 29 Feb 1820 68 Sir Alexander Johnston, F.R.S. No. 19 Great Cumberland Place 29 Feb 1820 69 Lt.Genl. A. Kyd, F.R.S. No. 22 Albermarle Street 29 Feb 1820 70 Capt. Fred Marryatt, of the Royal Navy, F.R.S. & Wimbledon 29 Feb 1820 L.S. 71 John Millington, Esq. Prof. of Mechanics at the No. 6 Leigh Street, Burton Crescent 29 Feb 1820 Royal Institution 72 Rev. George Peacock, M.A. F.R.S. Trinity College, Cambridge 29 Feb 1820 73 Charles Perkins, Esq. No. 67 Mark Lane 29 Feb 1820 74 Frederick Perkins, Esq. Lee, Kent 29 Feb 1820 75 Henry Perkins, Esq. Springfield, Surry 29 Feb 1820 76 Edward Adolphus, Duke of Somerset, F.R.S. & S.A. 29 Feb 1820 Elected first President but resigned membership 1820 77 Robert Stevenson, Esq. F.R.S.E. Edinburgh 29 Feb 1820 78 Edward Strachy, Esq. F.R.S. 31 Fitzroy Square 29 Feb 1820 79 William Strutt, Esq. F.R.S. Derby 29 Feb 1820 80 William Vaughan, Esq. F.R.S. Fenchurch Street 29 Feb 1820 81 William Wallace, Esq. Professor of Mathematics Edinburgh 29 Feb 1820 82 Rev. Michael Ward, LL.B. Tamworth, Staffordshire 29 Feb 1820 83 John Wrottesley, Esq. No. 10 New Square Lincoln’s Inn 29 Feb 1820 84 Edward Walker, Esq. Nelson Square 10 Mar 1820 85 Thomas F. Ellis, Esq. M.A. No. 15 Bedford Place 10 Mar 1820 86 Benjamin Bond, Esq. Change Alley, Cornhill 10 Mar 1820 Not in 1822 list 87 Rev. James Collet Ebden, M.A. Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, 14 Apr 1820 Cambridge 88 Charles French Bromhead, Esq. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 14 Apr 1820 89 George Howe Browne, Esq. King Street Covent Garden 14 Apr 1820 90 James Edwards, Esq. Putney 14 Apr 1820 91 Samuel Scott, Esq. Lower Grosvenor Street 14 Apr 1820 Listed as M.P. in 1820 92 Rev. Henry Parr Hamilton, M.A. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 14 Apr 1820 93 Rev. Thomas Catton, B.D. Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge 14 Apr 1820 F.R.S. 1821 94 Michael Faraday, Esq. Royal Insitution 14 Apr 1820 95 Thomas Telford, Esq. F.R.S.E. Salopian Charing Cross 14 Apr 1820 96 William Allen, Esq. F.R.S. Plough (Plow) Court Lombard Street 14 Apr 1820 97 Capt. Francis Beaufort, of the Royal Navy, F.R.S. Grove, Epping 14 Apr 1820 98 Bryan Donkin, Esq. Grange, Burmondsey 14 Apr 1820 99 Chamberlain Hinchliff, Esq. Park Street, Southwark 14 Apr 1820 100 Rev. John Brinkley, D.D. F.R.S. M.R.I.A. Andrews Dublin 12 May 1820 Professor of Astronomy in the University of Dublin 101 George Birkbeck, M.D. No. 25 Cateaton Street 12 May 1820 Late Prof. of Nat.Phil. Andrews Inst. Glasgow 102 Capt. Basil Hall, Royal Navy, F.R.S. L. & E. 12 May 1820 103 Samuel Peach, Esq. Portland Place 12 May 1820 104 John Bostock, M.D. F.R.S. Upper Bedford Place 12 May 1820 Great Coram (?) Street 1820 105 Capt. John Wilson of the Hon. East Indies Grove, Epping 12 May 1820 Company’s services 106 Rev.
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