The Astronomical Society of - 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information from the list of February 13, 1824, (both published in Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society) and from unpublished Minutes of the Meetings of the Astronomical Society of London.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 , 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 , 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 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 , 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 , 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 , 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 , 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 , 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 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. John William Whittaker, D.D. Fellow of St. Johns’ College, Cambridge 9 Jun 1820 107 Rev. Hastings Robinson, M.A. Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge 9 Jun 1820 108 Rev. Miles Bland, M.A. F.R.S. Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge 9 Jun 1820 109 John Barton, Esq. Deputy Comptroller of his Tower Hill 9 Jun 1820 Majesty’s Mint 110 William Coffin, Esq. Llandaff 9 Jun 1820 111 John Sanders, Esq. Reigate, Surry 9 Jun 1820 112 Joseph Parkinson, Esq. Newman Street Oxford Road 9 Jun 1820 113 Major Thomas Blanchard of the Royal Engineers No. 19 New Ormond Street 9 Jun 1820 114 Jean-Baptiste Biot Paris 9 Jun 1820 ASSOCIATE 115 Capt. John Ross of the Royal Navy Stranraer 10 Nov 1820 116 J.W. Woollgar, Esq. Lewes, Sussex 10 Nov 1820 117 James Shode Butt, Esq. Pulteney Street, Bath 10 Nov 1820 118 William Mylne, Esq. New River Head 10 Nov 1820 London 119 Walter Michael Mosely, Esq. Winterdyne House near Bewdley, 10 Nov 1820 Worcestershire 120 William Whewell, Esq. M.A. F.R.S, Trinity College, Cambridge 10 Nov 1820 121 Thackary Wetherall, Esq. of the Royal Navy 10 Nov 1820 122 Samuel Parkes, Esq. F.L.S. Acad. Scien. Nat. No. 30 Mecklenburg Square 10 Nov 1820 Only F.L.S. listed in 1820 and Philadel. & Soc. Phil. Paris. Cor. Soc. Imp. Hist. Nat. address as Goswell Street Mosc. Socius. 123 Rev. John Maddy, D.D. F.R.S. & S.A. Argyll Street 10 Nov 1820 124 Charles Frederick Gauss Göttingen 10 Nov 1820 ASSOCIATE 125 Charles Louis Harding Göttingen 10 Nov 1820 ASSOCIATE 126 Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre Paris 10 Nov 1820 ASSOCIATE 127 William Olbers Bremen 10 Nov 1820 ASSOCIATE 128 Henry John Walbeck Abö 10 Nov 1820 ASSOCIATE 129 Alexis Bouvard Paris 10 Nov 1820 ASSOCIATE 130 J.D. Vallot Dijon 10 Nov 1820 ASSOCIATE 131 Joseph Whidby, Esq. F.R.S. & L.S. Plymouth 8 Dec 1820 Listed as “Civil Engineer” 1820 132 Capt. Edward Parry of the Royal Navy Bath 8 Dec 1820 F.R.S. 1821; listed as “Commander” 1820 133 Giuseppe Piazzi Director of the Royal Observatory at 8 Dec 1820 ASSOCIATE Palermo 134 John Elert Bode Astronomer Royal at Berlin 8 Dec 1820 ASSOCIATE 135 Gerard Moll Professor of Mathematics and 8 Dec 1820 ASSOCIATE Astronomy at the University of Leyden 136 H. Schumacher Astronomer Royal at Copenhagen 8 Dec 1820 ASSOCIATE 137 Lewis Hayes Pettit, Esq. F.R.S. Lincoln’s Inn 12 Jan 1821 Listed as “Louis” 1821 138 Rev. Charles Parr Burney, M.A. F.R.S. Greenwich 12 Jan 1821 139 Sir Samuel Young, Bart. F.R.S. Formosa near Maidenhead. Berks 12 Jan 1821 140 Joseph F. Vandercom, Esq. Bush Lane Cannon Street 12 Jan 1821 141 John Alden Clarke, Esq. Battersea Rise 12 Jan 1821 142 Barnabas Oriani Professor of Astronomy in the Royal 12 Jan 1821 ASSOCIATE University of Pavia 143 Edmund Robert Daniell, Esq. Lincoln’s Inn 9 Mar 1821 144 George Harvey, Esq. Plymouth 9 Mar 1821 145 William Bullock, Esq. Prittlewell, Essex 9 Mar 1821 146 Rev. Thomas Jephson St. John’s College, Cambridge 9 Mar 1821 147 Rev. Thomas Waldron Hornbuckle St. John’s College, Cambridge 9 Mar 1821 148 Capt. Smyth of the Royal Navy 9 Mar 1821 149 Capt. Armar Lowry Corry of the Royal Navy Enniskillen, Ireland 9 Mar 1821 Real-Admiral 1852 150 Richard Watt, Esq. Bishop Burton near Beverley, Yorkshire 9 Mar 1821 151 Rev. William Farish, B.D. Jacksonian Professor of Experimental 9 Mar 1821 Listed as F.R.S. in 1822 (and again in Philosophy in the University of 1833), but there is no record at the Cambridge & President of the Phil.Soc. R.S. of his election. of Cambridge 152 Capt. Benjamin Blake Bengal 9 Mar 1821 153 Withdrawn 9 Mar 1821 A John Curnin was appointed The entry crossed out in the minutes looks like [Jeffery Square, St Mary (Aye?)] Astronomer at Bombay by the East John Curnin Esq. India Company 1822. 154 Rev. Richard Gwatkin M.A. St. John’s College Cambridge 9 Mar 1821 155 The Right Honorable George Earl of Macclesfield, 13 Apr 1821 F.R.S. 156 Sir William Watson F.R.S. Great Pulteney Street, Bath 13 Apr 1821 157 Rev. John P. Higman, M.A. F.R.S. Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge 13 Apr 1821 158 Rev. Lawrence Palk Baker, B.D. Fellow of St. John’s College Cambridge 13 Apr 1821 159 Richard Best, Esq. Greenwich 13 Apr 1821 160 John Tomkyns, Esq. Fellow of King’s College Cambridge, and 13 Apr 1821 Inner Temple, London 161 Charles Rumker, Esq. New South Wales 13 Apr 1821 In 1820 “formerly of Hamburgh” 162 James Bush, Esq. Bishop’s Teignton 11 May 1821 163 Lt. George Young, R.N. Formosa Place, Berks 11 May 1821 164 J.S. Memes, Esq. Moulsey Park, Surry 11 May 1821 165 Charles Tulley, Esq. Islington 11 May 1821 166 Professor H. Littrow Vienna 11 May 1821 ASSOCIATE 167 Rev. Thomas Belgrave, M.A. Rector of North Kilworth in 8 Jun 1821 Leicestershire 168 John Hinde, Esq. M.A. Fellow of Sidney Sussex College 8 Jun 1821 Cambridge and Mathematical Lecturer 169 Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, Bart. F.R.S. Whitton near Hounslow, Middlesex 8 Jun 1821 170 Basil Montagu, Esq. Lincoln’s Inn 8 Jun 1821 171 Andrew Ure, M.D. Professor of Chemistry and The Andersonian Institution, Glasgow 8 Jun 1821 Natural Philosophy 172 John Wilson Anderson, M.D. No. 1 West Richmond Street, Edinburgh 8 Jun 1821 Listed as “Glasgow” in 1822 173 Thomas Forster, Esq. Hartfield near East Grinstead, Surry 8 Jun 1821 174 John Fuller, Esq. Devonshire Place, Marylebone 8 Jun 1821 “Mad Jack”, philanthropist (see 59) 175 Baron de Zach Genoa 8 Jun 1821 ASSOCIATE 176 John Farndell, Esq. F.S.A. Lincoln 9 Nov 1821 177 John Clark, Esq. Chatham Place, Blackfriars 9 Nov 1821 178 Capt. Francis Alexander Halliday of the Royal Navy Ham, Surry 9 Nov 1821 179 Daniel Dowling, Esq. Highgate 9 Nov 1821 180 Capt. William Henry Shireff of the Royal Navy No. 5 Cumberland Street Portman 9 Nov 1821 Square 181 Sir Edward William Campbell Rich Owen, K.C.B. Deal 9 Nov 1821 182 Capt. W.F.W. Owen of the Royal Navy Deal 9 Nov 1821 183 His Excellency Alexis Greig, Vice Admiral of the Odessa 9 Nov 1821 !820 notes “Commander of the Fleet Imperial Russian Navy in the Balck Sea”. Scottish parentage. 184 Rev. Lewis Evans Vicar of Froxfield, Wilts 9 Nov 1821 185 Le Marquis de Laplace Paris 9 Nov 1821 ASSOCIATE 186 F. W. Bessel Königsberg 9 Nov 1821 ASSOCIATE Listed as “Bessell” 1820 187 (M.) François Arago Paris 9 Nov 1821 ASSOCIATE Listed as “Français” 1822 188 (M.) Alfred Gautier Geneva 9 Nov 1821 ASSOCIATE 189 (M.) Frederick Treschel Berne 9 Nov 1821 ASSOCIATE 190 Andrew Lang, Esq. St. Croix, West Indies 14 Dec 1821 191 James Adie Ogle M.D. Trinity College, Oxford 11 Jan 1822 Edward Riddle, Esq. First Mathematical Master in Greenwich 11 Jan 1822 the Royal Naval Asylum 193 Charles Hutton , L.L.D. F.R.S. S. & E. Bedford Row 8 Mar 1822 Died Jan. 1823 194 Peter Mark Roget, M.D. F.R.S. Bernard Street, Russel Square 8 Mar 1822 195 Thomas Furly Forster, Esq. F.L.S. Clapton 8 Mar 1822 196 William Stanley Clarke, Esq. F.R.S. Leatherhead 8 Mar 1822 197 D. Carlo Brioschi Director of the Royal Observatory at 8 Mar 1822 ASSOCIATE Naples 198 John Caley, Esq. F.R.S. & L.S. Gray’s Inn 12 Apr 1822 199 John Gage, Esq. F.S.A. Lincoln’s Inn 12 Apr 1822 Not listed in 1824. Added “Rokewode” to name in 1838 200 Rowland Hill, Esq. Hazelwood near Birmingham, 10 May 1822 Warwickshire 201 William Henry Fox Talbot, Esq. B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge 14 June 1822 Named “Charles Fox Talbot” in RAS minutes. 202 Henry Coddington, B.A. (M.A. and Fellow of by 1824) Trinity 14 June 1822 College, Cambridge

Entry 202 is the 200th Member. There was a duplicate (59 and 174) and a withdrawal (153)

A few further entries:

203 Rev. John Honywood Randolfe Fobbing in the County of Essex Nov 8 1822 Not listed in 1824 204 Capt. John Franklin R.N. F.R.S. (in 1824) No. 55 Devonshire Street, Explorer Portland Place

216 Capt. George Everest Bengal