FORMER RSE FELLOWS 1783- 2002
SIR CHARLES ADAM OF BARNS 06/10/178016/09/1853
Date of Election: 05/04/1824.
Profession: Royal Navy.
Notes: Date of election: 1820 also reported in RSE
lists
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN JACOB. ABEL 19/05/1857- 26/05/1938
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Date of Election: 03/07/1933.
Profession: Pharmacologist, Endocrinologist.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN ABERCROMBIE 12/10/1780- 14/11/1844
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 07/02/1831.
Profession: Physician, Author.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT ADAM 03/07/1728- 03/03/1792
Place of Birth: Kirkcaldy, Fife..
Date of Election: 28/01/1788.
Profession: Architect.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER ABERCROMBY, LORD ABERCROMBY
15/10/1745- 17/11/1795
Place of Birth: Clackmannanshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ADAM OF BLAIR ADAM 02/08/175117/02/1839
Place of Birth: Kinross-shire.
Date of Election: 22/01/1816.
Profession: Advocate, Barrister, Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ABERCROMBY, BARON DUNFERMLINE
07/11/1776- 17/04/1858
Date of Election: 07/02/1831.
Profession: Physician,Statesman.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN GEORGE ADAMI 12/01/1862- 29/08/1926
Place of Birth: Ashton-on-Mersey, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 17/01/1898.
Profession: Pathologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ABERCROMBY, BARON ABERCROMBY
15/01/1841- 07/10/1924
Date of Election: 07/02/1898.
Profession: Philologist, Antiquary, Folklorist.
Fellow Type: OF
ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL ADAMS
Date of Election: 19/12/1910.
Profession: Consulting Engineer.
Notes: Died 1918-19
Fellow Type: OF
RALPH ABERCROMBY, BARON DUNFERMLINE
06/04/1803- 02/07/1868
Date of Election: 19/01/1863.
Profession: Diplomat.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN COUCH ADAMS 05/06/1819- 21/01/1892
Place of Birth: Lidcot Farm, Laneast, Cornwall.
Date of Election: 19/02/1849.
Profession: Astronomer, Mathematician.
Notes: Contributed to the discovery of the planet
Neptune
Fellow Type: HF
SIR ROBERT ABERCROMBY OF BIRKENBOG AND
FORGLEN, bart. 04/02/1784- 06/07/1855
Date of Election: 02/12/1822.
Profession: Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER JAMES ADIE 16/12/1808- 03/04/1879
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/02/1846.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
ABERDEEN, EARL OF. SEE GORDON, GEORGE
HAMILTON.
CHARLES LAWRENCE ABERNETHY
Date of Election: 06/03/1922.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER JAMES ADIE
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 25/01/1819.
Profession: Optician, Meteorologist.
Notes: Born January 1775, Died 1859 Invented the
sympiesometer patented 1818
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ABERNETHY 14/06/1814- 08/03/1896
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 02/06/1879.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ADIE
Date of Election: 21/03/1842.
Profession: Optician.
Notes: Died 1856-7
Fellow Type: OF
GIORGIO ABETTI 05/10/1882- 24/08/1982
Place of Birth: Padova, Italy.
Date of Election: 04/07/1955.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
EDGAR DOUGLAS ADRIAN, BARON ADRIAN
30/11/1889- 04/08/1977
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 01/07/1946.
Profession: Physiologist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate, Physiology & Medicine
1932
Fellow Type: HF
SIR WILLIAM DE WIVELESLIE ABNEY 24/07/184303/12/1920
Place of Birth: Derby.
Date of Election: 02/02/1885.
Profession: Soldier, Education Administrator,
Photographic Chemist.
Notes: Elected as Captain Abney.(Gazetted Captain
1873 after service in India). Pioneer in the
advancement of photographic emulsion making
Fellow Type: OF
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FORMER RSE FELLOWS 1783- 2002
SIR JAMES ORMISTON AFFLECK ?-24/09/1922
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/01/1896.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1840
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID AITKEN 17/08/1796- 27/03/1875
Date of Election: 06/01/1868.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Church Historian.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN AITKEN 18/09/1839- 13/11/1919
Place of Birth: Falkirk, Stirlingshire.
Date of Election: 05/04/1875.
Profession: Meteorologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER AGASSIZ 17/12/1835- 27/03/1910
Place of Birth: Neuchatel, Switzerland.
Date of Election: 01/03/1897.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: HF
ROBERT AITKEN ?-17/03/1954
Date of Election: 05/03/1945.
Profession: Physician, Dermatologist.
Notes: Born 1888
Fellow Type: OF
JEAN LOUIS RODOLPHE AGASSIZ 28/05/180714/12/1873
Place of Birth: Motier, Fribourg Canton, Switzerland.
Date of Election: 20/04/1835.
Profession: Palaeontologist, Glaciologist, Naturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN AITKIN (AITKEN) ?-06/03/1860
Date of Election: 04/02/1822.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1796
Fellow Type: OF
ANTHONY JOHN AGLEN 30/05/1911- 25/04/1984
Date of Election: 04/03/1963.
Profession: Civil Servant.
Notes: Dept of Agriculture & Fisheries for Scotland,
Fisheries Secy for Scotland 1946-71 and President
1963-6, North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCIS ALBERT AUGUSTUS CHARLES EMMANUEL
ALBERT, HRH PRINCE 26/08/1819- 14/12/1861
Place of Birth: Rosenau, near Coburg, Saxony,
Germany.
Date of Election: 29/08/1842.
Profession: Royal Prince.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR STAIR AGNEW AGNEW 12/06/1831- 12/07/1916
Date of Election: 16/01/1871.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
LESLIE ALCOCK
Date of Election: 01/03/1976.
Profession: Archaeologist.
Fellow Type: OF
C.M. AIKMAN
Date of Election: 04/06/1888.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Died 1902-3
Fellow Type: OF
CYRIL ALDRED 19/02/1914- 23/06/1991
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 06/03/1978.
Profession: Egyptologist, Museum Keeper.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WHITELAW AINSLIE 17/02/1767- 29/04/1837
Place of Birth: Duns, Berwickshire.
Date of Election: 07/12/1829.
Profession: Surgeon, Writer on Materia Medica,
Orientalist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER JOHN ALEXANDER ?-31/01/1801
Date of Election: 26/01/1801.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Born 1750
Fellow Type: OF
SIR GEORGE BIDDELL AIRY 27/07/1801- 02/01/1892
Place of Birth: Alnwick, Northumberland.
Date of Election: 20/04/1835.
Profession: Astronomer, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
FRANK ALEXANDER 18/03/1917- 04/03/1998
Place of Birth: Newtown, Cheshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1961.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES EDWARD TIERNEY AITCHISON 28/10/183530/09/1898
Date of Election: 06/06/1881.
Profession: Surgeon, Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER OF WESTERTON
16/10/1803- 02/04/1885
Place of Birth: Stirling.
Date of Election: 02/01/1866.
Profession: Soldier and Explorer.
Notes: Promoted the erection of Cleopatra's Needle
on the Thames Embankment
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER CRAIG AITKEN 01/04/189503/11/1967
Place of Birth: Dunedin, New Zealand.
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR KENNETH JOHN WILSON ALEXANDER
14/03/1922- 27/03/2001
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/03/1978.
Profession: Economist.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW PEEBLES AITKEN
Date of Election: 04/02/1878.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Died 1903-4. Pioneer experimenter on
Fertilizer Response
Fellow Type: OF
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FORMER RSE FELLOWS 1783- 2002
WILLIAM ALEXANDER
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Date of death is given as 1783 and 9/9/1788
by different sources
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ALLAN
Date of Election: 06/03/1848.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Died 1852. Intimated in 1878 to RSE
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES KNOX ALLAN 14/09/1892- 12/10/1959
Date of Election: 01/03/1954.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ALEXANDER ?-21/12/1859
Date of Election: 18/03/1839.
Profession: Writer to The Signet.
Notes: Born 1798
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT ALLAN ?-28/12/1826
Date of Election: 04/06/1821.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Born February 1777 (Devlin-Thorp gives 1788).
Author of Allan's Surgery
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM GORDON ALEXANDER ?-23/01/1971
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/03/1965.
Profession: Civil Servant.
Notes: Born 1909
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT ALLAN 12/10/1806- 06/06/1863
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/02/1832.
Profession: Advocate, Stockbroker, Mineralogist.
Notes: Rogers gives year of death as 1862
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM LINDSAY ALEXANDER 24/08/180820/12/1884
Place of Birth: Leith, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 29/04/1867.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ROBERT GEORGE ALLAN 07/11/187904/01/1972
Date of Election: 01/03/1948.
Profession: Agriculturalist.
ROBERT GERVASE ALFORD ?-10/05/1921
Date of Election: 03/12/1894.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Born 1849
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS ALLAN OF LAURISTON 17/07/177712/09/1833
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 28/03/1805.
Profession: Banker, Mineralogist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON, bart. 29/12/179223/05/1867
Place of Birth: Parsonage of Kenley, Shropshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1830.
Profession: Advocate, Historian.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT EDGAR ALLARDICE 02/03/186206/05/1928
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 16/01/1888.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
ARCHIBALD ALISON 13/11/1757- 17/05/1839
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 26/01/1784.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Essayist.
Notes: Senior Incumbent 1800-4 Cowgate Qualified
Chapel, Edinburgh; 1804-18 Cowgate Episcopal
Chapel; 1818-31 St Paul's, Edinburgh
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM HENRY ALLCHIN 16/10/184608/02/1911
Date of Election: 07/01/1878.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ALISON 28/02/1861- 21/03/1952
Place of Birth: Kirkcaldy, Fife.
Date of Election: 01/04/1889.
Profession: Mathematician, Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
HERBERT STANLEY ALLEN 29/12/1873- 27/04/1954
Place of Birth: Bodmin, Cornwall.
Date of Election: 01/03/1920.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM PULTENEY ALISON ?-22/09/1859
Place of Birth: Boroughmuirhead, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 27/01/1817.
Profession: Physician and Philanthropist.
Notes: Born 1790. One of the first to stress the
relationship between poverty and disease
Fellow Type: OF
JACK ALLEN 19/09/1905- 01/02/1984
Place of Birth: Haewood, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1951.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN FRANK ALLEN 06/05/1908- 22/04/2001
Date of Election: 01/03/1948.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER ALLAN 28/01/189630/07/1967
Date of Election: 14/03/1927.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE JAMES ALLMAN ?-24/11/1898
Place of Birth: Cork, Ireland.
Date of Election: 21/01/1856.
Profession: Ecologist,Botanist, Zoologist.
Notes: Born 1812, Described Challenger hydroids
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCIS JOHN ALLAN 23/11/1858- 28/07/1932
Place of Birth: Kirkcudbrightshire.
Date of Election: 15/01/1894.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
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FORMER RSE FELLOWS 1783- 2002
STANLEY ALSTEAD 06/06/1905- 04/04/1992
Place of Birth: Wigan, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1959.
Profession: Pharmacologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR ANDERSON
Date of Election: 01/03/1886.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES HENRY WILLIAM GATACRE ANDERSON ?28/10/1965
Place of Birth: Peebles.
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Notes: Born 1900
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ALSTON OF AUCHENARD
Date of Election: 26/01/1818.
Profession: Soldier.
Notes: Died c. 1832
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS ALTY 10/09/1899- ?
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
DANIEL ELIE ANDERSON ?-22/01/1928
Place of Birth: Mauritius.
Date of Election: 04/06/1906.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
EMILE HILAIRE AMAGAT 02/01/1841- 15/02/1915
Place of Birth: Berri, Saint Satur, France.
Date of Election: 01/03/1897.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: HF
DAVID ANDERSON OF MOREDUN
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 19/03/1849.
Profession: Banker.
Notes: Born 1793 Died 1882
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM MELVILLE AMES 11/10/1895- 22/01/1964
Place of Birth: Dundee, Angus.
Date of Election: 04/03/1946.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR DAVID STIRLING ANDERSON 25/09/189518/01/1981
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 05/03/1951.
Profession: Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ARTHUR BARTON PILGRIM AMIES 17/10/190204/12/1976
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Dental Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
DOUGLAS MACDONALD WATT ANDERSON
10/11/1925- 26/11/1998
Date of Election: 06/03/1978.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDRE MARIE AMPERE 22/01/1775- 10/06/1836
Place of Birth: Lyons, France.
Date of Election: 07/01/1822.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
ERNEST MASSON ANDERSON 09/08/187708/08/1960
Place of Birth: Falkirk, Stirlingshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1920.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN AMYATT
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
ANCRAM, EARL OF. SEE KERR, WILLIAM, 6TH
MARQUIS OF LOTHIAN.
FREDERICK WILLIAM ANDERSON 13/01/190502/05/1982
Place of Birth: Leeds, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1947.
Profession: Geologist, Palaeontologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ADAM ANDERSON 27/06/1783- 05/12/1846
Date of Election: 24/01/1820.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Designed and supervised the Introduction of
Perth water supply and supervised construction of
Perth Gasworks
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE ANDERSON
Date of Election: 06/12/1824.
Profession: Educationalist.
Notes: Born 1802 Died 1878
Fellow Type: OF
ADAM ANDERSON, LORD ANDERSON ?-28/09/1853
Date of Election: 05/02/1849.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Born 1797
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE WISHART ANDERSON 25/01/191317/03/2002
Date of Election: 07/03/1977.
Profession: Theologian.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER ANDERSON
Date of Election: 16/01/1832.
Profession: Soldier.
Notes: Perhaps "Colonel Anderson of Winterfield"
reference Highland Society (1843)
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ANDERSON
Date of Election: 21/03/1836.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER ANDERSON ?-10/05/1811
Date of Election: 04/01/1791.
Profession: Surgeon, Botanist.
Notes: DNB gives date of death as 8/9/1811
Fellow Type: OF
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FORMER RSE FELLOWS 1783- 2002
THOMAS ANDERSON 02/07/1819- 02/11/1874
Place of Birth: Leith, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/02/1845.
Profession: Chemist, Physician.
Notes: Isolated Pyridine and Homologues from Coal
Tar
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ANDERSON ?-15/10/1808
Place of Birth: Long Hermiston, Midlothian.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Agriculturalist, Author.
Notes: Born 1739
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ANDERSON 17/01/1738- 06/08/1809
Place of Birth: Long Hermiston, nr Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 27/06/1791.
Profession: Physician, Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
WARREN HASTINGS ANDERSON
Date of Election: 02/06/1823.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died 1882
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ANDERSON ?-13/01/1796
Place of Birth: Manse of Roseneath, Dunbartonshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Natural Philosopher, Educationalist.
Notes: Born 1726. Founder of the Andersonian
University now Strathclyde University, Glasgow
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ANDERSON 20/01/1860- 30/05/1915
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 21/11/1904.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ANDERSON ?-18/03/1986
Date of Election: 07/03/1955.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN ANDERSON 09/12/1814- 28/07/1886
Place of Birth: Woodside, Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 04/12/1871.
Profession: Engineer, Inventor.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ANDERSON
Date of Election: 03/01/1870.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Born 1799 Died 1871
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ANDERSON 04/10/1833- 15/08/1900
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/03/1874.
Profession: Anatomist, Zoologist, Traveller.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ANDERSON ?-14/08/1948
Place of Birth: East Wemyss, Fife.
Date of Election: 23/01/1905.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN GRAHAM COMRIE ANDERSON 26/04/191020/02/2002
Place of Birth: Hillhead, Glasgow.
Date of Election: 03/03/1947.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDERSSON, ERIK HELGE OSWALD. SEE STENSIO,
ERIK HELGE OSWALD
ANTHONY TURNER ANDREASEN ?-08/06/1986
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MACVICAR ANDERSON ?-09/06/1915
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 01/05/1893.
Profession: Architect.
Notes: Born 1834
Fellow Type: OF
EDWARD RAYMOND ANDREW 27/06/192126/05/2001
Date of Election: 03/03/1952.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
KATHLEEN JANNETTE ANDERSON 22/05/192702/07/2002
Date of Election: 06/03/1995.
Profession: Biologist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE ANDREW 28/11/1873- 04/07/1956
Date of Election: 19/06/1905.
Profession: Classicist.
Fellow Type: OF
MARK LOUDEN ANDERSON 16/04/189506/09/1961
Place of Birth: Kinneff, Kincardineshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1952.
Profession: Forester.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ANDREW ?-01/12/1859
Place of Birth: East India College, Addiscombe,
Surrey.
Date of Election: 06/01/1845.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1811
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ROBERT ROWAND ANDERSON ?-01/06/1921
Date of Election: 05/03/1883.
Profession: Architect.
Notes: Born 1834
Fellow Type: OF
KEITH KURT ANDREWS UNTIL 1934 AUFRICHTIG
11/10/1920- 04/04/1989
Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany.
Date of Election: 06/03/1989.
Profession: Art Curator.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS ANDERSON
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Died 1813-14
Fellow Type: OF
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FORMER RSE FELLOWS 1783- 2002
THOMAS ANDREWS 19/12/1813- 26/11/1885
Place of Birth: Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Date of Election: 17/01/1870.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN ANTHONY 18/12/1891- 18/06/1972
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/03/1944.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS ANDREWS 16/02/1847- 19/06/1907
Place of Birth: Sheffield, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 02/04/1883.
Profession: Metallurgical Chemist, Ironmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER ELDER ANTON
Date of Election: 07/03/1977.
Profession: Lawyer.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
ARTHUR FREDERICK APPLETON
Date of Election: 19/02/1906.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Notes: Died 1942
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR HENRY HALLAM ANGLIN ?-25/01/1934
Place of Birth: Cork, Ireland.
Date of Election: 07/02/1881.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Born 1850
Fellow Type: OF
SIR EDWARD VICTOR APPLETON 06/09/189221/04/1965
Place of Birth: Bradford, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 07/07/1947.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate, Physics, 1947
Fellow Type: HF
CHARLES ALFRED ANGOT ?-16/03/1924
Date of Election: 02/07/1923.
Profession: Meteorologist.
Notes: Born 1848
Fellow Type: HF
JAMES R APPLEYARD ?-26/11/1921
Place of Birth: Bradford, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 05/12/1898.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Born 1870
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ANNAN 23/08/1872- 13/08/1952
Place of Birth: Lochee, Angus.
Date of Election: 03/03/1930.
Profession: Chartered Accountant.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM GILLIES ANNAN ?-04/02/1981
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Physician, Dermatologist.
Fellow Type: OF
DOMINIQUE FRANCOIS JEAN ARAGO 26/02/178602/10/1853
Place of Birth: Estagel, France.
Date of Election: 19/01/1815.
Profession: Physicist, Astronomer, Mathematician,
Statesman.
Fellow Type: HF
THOMAS ANNANDALE 02/02/1838- 20/12/1907
Place of Birth: Newcastle upon Tyne,
Northumberland.
Date of Election: 04/02/1867.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM FORBES ARBUCKLE 30/08/190204/05/1966
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/03/1963.
Profession: Civil Servant, Historian.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS NELSON ANNANDALE 15/06/187610/04/1924
Date of Election: 07/03/1921.
Profession: Zoologist, Anthropologist.
Notes: Recommended FRS by Council 1924 but died
before election
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ARBUTHNOT, VISCOUNT ARBUTHNOT
16/01/1778- 10/01/1860
Date of Election: 24/01/1814.
Profession: Soldier, Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
RICHARD ANSCHUTZ ?-08/01/1937
Place of Birth: Darmstadt, Germany.
Date of Election: 01/07/1935.
Profession: Organic Chemist.
Notes: Born c1853
Fellow Type: HF
ROBERT ARBUTHNOT OF HADDO RATTRAY ?05/11/1803
Place of Birth: Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 24/01/1785.
Profession: Adminstrator.
Notes: Born October 1728. Seconders in 01/11/1784
were John Robison and John Walker
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ANSTRUTHER OF TREESBANK 16/09/180319/05/1867
Date of Election: 21/12/1840.
Profession: Writer to The Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT ARBUTHNOT
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 28/01/1788.
Profession: Soldier, Diplomat.
Notes: Born 1760-61 Died 1809
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES ANTHONY 10/10/1865- 18/08/1949
Place of Birth: The Mansion House, Hereford.
Date of Election: 18/01/1915.
Profession: Civil Engineer, Astronomer,
Meteorologist, Archaeologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ROBERT KEITH ARBUTHNOT, bart. 09/09/180104/03/1873
Date of Election: 02/04/1855.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
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SIR WILLIAM ARBUTHNOT, bart. 24/12/176618/09/1829
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 27/01/1800.
Profession: Administrator.
Fellow Type: OF
ARNISTON, LORD. SEE DUNDAS, ROBERT.
RONALD NATHAN ARNOLD 23/12/190830/12/1963
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 03/03/1947.
Profession: Mechanical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
ARCHBOLD, HELEN KEMP. SEE PORTER, HELEN
KEMP.
FREDERICK LATHAM ARNOT 29/04/190415/10/1940
Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS CROXEN ARCHER ?-19/02/1885
Place of Birth: Northamptonshire.
Date of Election: 17/02/1862.
Profession: Botanist, Museum Director.
Notes: Born 1817
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE ARNOTT WALKER ARNOTT OF ARLARY
06/02/1799- 17/04/1868
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 14/02/1822.
Profession: Advocate, Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
WALTER E. ARCHER 04/07/1855- 19/08/1917
Date of Election: 01/05/1893.
Profession: Biologist, Ichthyologist.
Fellow Type: OF
EBENEZER H ARCHIBALD ?-06/05/1947
Date of Election: 20/12/1909.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM MELVILLE ARNOTT 14/01/190917/09/1999
Date of Election: 01/03/1971.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ARCHIBALD ?-16/11/1925
Date of Election: 24/06/1907.
Profession: Mathematician, Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
ARCHIBALD ARTHUR 06/09/1744- 14/06/1797
Place of Birth: Abbot's Inch, Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Philosopher.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ARCHIBALD ?-23/03/1908
Date of Election: 05/03/1883.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1846
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ARTHUR ?-22/02/1979
Place of Birth: Fergushill, Near Kilwinning, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1921.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Born c 1894
Fellow Type: OF
ARGYLL, 7TH DUKE OF. SEE CAMPBELL, JOHN
DOUGLAS EDWARD HENRY.
ARGYLL, 8TH DUKE OF. SEE CAMPBELL, GEORGE
JOHN DOUGLAS.
ERIC ASHBY, BARON ASHBY 24/08/190422/10/1992
Place of Birth: Leytonstone, Essex.
Date of Election: 03/03/1975.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: HF
GEORGE FREDERICK ARKLESS 26/12/192408/04/1981
Place of Birth: Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Northumberland.
Date of Election: 03/03/1975.
Profession: Mechanical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
HERBERT H. ASHDOWN
Date of Election: 04/04/1887.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Died 1892-3
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID GILFORD ARMSTRONG 09/07/192608/02/2000
Place of Birth: Whitley Bay, Northumberland.
Date of Election: 03/03/1969.
Profession: Biochemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES HARTLEY ASHWORTH 02/05/187404/02/1936
Place of Birth: Accrington, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 20/02/1911.
Profession: Marine Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE FREDERICK ARMSTRONG 15/05/184216/11/1900
Place of Birth: Doncaster, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1886.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS ASTLE 22/12/1735- 01/12/1803
Place of Birth: Yoxall, Staffordshire.
Date of Election: 23/01/1786.
Profession: Antiquary, Palaeographer.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY EDWARD ARMSTRONG 06/05/184813/07/1937
Place of Birth: Lewisham, London.
Date of Election: 02/07/1934.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR JOHN WILLIAM ATWELL 24/11/191105/07/1999
Date of Election: 04/03/1963.
Profession: Mechanical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
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LEWIS AUBER 24/06/1899- 16/09/1974
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria.
Date of Election: 03/03/1952.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN STANLEY DURRANT BACON 03/04/191719/11/1994
Date of Election: 05/03/1962.
Profession: Biochemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON (AUDOBON) 26/04/178527/01/1851
Place of Birth: Les Cayes, Haiti.
Date of Election: 05/03/1827.
Profession: Artist, Ornithologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN BACOUNIN
Date of Election: 22/01/1787.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
PAUL BACSICH ?-24/12/1996
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Anatomist.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLOTTE AUERBACH 14/05/1899- 17/03/1994
Place of Birth: Krefeld, Germany.
Date of Election: 07/03/1949.
Profession: Zoologist, Geneticist.
Fellow Type: OF
MUHAMMAD BADRE
Date of Election: 24/06/1907.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
AUFRICHTIG, KEITH KURT. SEE ANDREWS, KEITH
KURT.
JOHN AULD 02/11/1810- 28/03/1875
Date of Election: 05/12/1870.
Profession: Writer to The Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
LEO HENDRIK BAEKELAND 14/11/1863- 23/02/1944
Place of Birth: Ghent, Belgium.
Date of Election: 06/07/1936.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
GEORGE FRIEDRICH JULIUS ARTHUR AUWERS
12/09/1838- 24/01/1915
Place of Birth: Gottingen, Germany.
Date of Election: 04/06/1900.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHANN FRIEDRICH WILHELM ADOLF VON BAEYER
31/10/1835- 20/08/1917
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany.
Date of Election: 04/06/1900.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
RICHARD SIDDOWAY BAGNALL
Date of Election: 01/03/1920.
Profession: Forgemaster, Entomologist.
Fellow Type: OF
AVONTOUN, LORD. SEE BLAIR, ROBERT.
JOHN AYTON OF INCHDARNIE
Date of Election: 04/03/1822.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died 1831-3
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY BELLYSE BAILDON ?-06/09/1907
Place of Birth: Granton, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/12/1884.
Profession: Scholar of English.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN 21/06/181304/08/1865
Place of Birth: 21 Abercromby Place, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 19/02/1849.
Profession: Writer to The Signet, Advocate, Poet.
Notes: "Aytoun.. transformed a declining Chair of
Rhetoric into the pioneer Chair of English Literature in
the British Isles" D B Horn "A Short History of the
University of Edinburgh 1556-1889, EUP 1967, 194
Fellow Type: OF
SIR EDWARD BATTERSBY BAILEY 01/07/188119/03/1965
Place of Birth: Marden, Kent.
Date of Election: 01/03/1920.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
FREDERICK BAILEY ?-21/12/1912
Date of Election: 05/02/1894.
Profession: Forester.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR CHARLES BABBAGE 26/12/1792- 18/10/1871
Place of Birth: Teignmouth, Devonshire.
Date of Election: 24/01/1820.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Pioneer of mechanical computing
Fellow Type: OF
HAMILTON BAILEY 01/10/1894- 21/03/1961
Date of Election: 03/03/1947.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER DALLAS BACHE 19/07/180117/02/1867
Date of Election: 15/03/1858.
Profession: Chemist, Physicist, Engineer.
Notes: A descendant of Benjamin Franklin
Fellow Type: HF
JAMES LAMBERT BAILEY
Date of Election: 06/01/1879.
Profession: Banker.
Notes: Died 1898-9??
Fellow Type: OF
HELGE GOTRIK BACKLUND 03/09/1878- 29/01/1958
Place of Birth: Dorpat, Estonia.
Date of Election: 01/07/1946.
Profession: Geologist, Explorer.
Fellow Type: HF
CHARLES BAILLIE, LORD JERVISWOODE
03/11/1804- 23/07/1879
Place of Birth: Mellerstain, Berwickshire.
Date of Election: 06/04/1863.
Profession: Advocate, Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
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MATTHEW BAILLIE 27/10/1761- 23/09/1823
Place of Birth: Shotts Manse, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 24/06/1799.
Profession: Anatomist, Pathologist.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY FREDERICK BAKER 03/07/1866- 17/03/1956
Place of Birth: Cambridge.
Date of Election: 05/07/1943.
Profession: Mathematician, Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
FRANCIS GIBSON BAILY 18/03/1868- 23/02/1945
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 04/05/1896.
Profession: Electrical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT BALD
Place of Birth: Culross, Fife, (Then Perthshire).
Date of Election: 27/01/1817.
Profession: Civil & Mining Engineer, Antiquary.
Notes: Born 1776, Died December 1861
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID BAIN 05/12/1882- 25/12/1947
Place of Birth: Leslie, Fife.
Date of Election: 05/03/1934.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM BALD
Place of Birth: Burntisland, Fife.
Date of Election: 07/11/1829.
Profession: Civil Engineer, Cartographer.
Notes: Born c. 1789, Died March 1857
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES BAIN ?-25/04/1898
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 01/02/1875.
Profession: Ironmaster, Politician.
Notes: Born 1817
Fellow Type: OF
BALERNO, BARON. SEE SMITH, ALICK DRUMMOND
BUCHANAN-.
ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR, EARL OF BALFOUR
25/07/1848- 19/03/1930
Place of Birth: Whittinghame, East Lothian.
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Statesman.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ALEXANDER BAIN 20/08/190524/08/1971
Place of Birth: Dunbar, East Lothian.
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Physiologist, Pharmacologist.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID BALFOUR OF BALFOUR AND TRENABIE
14/10/1811- 19/11/1887
Date of Election: 06/03/1843.
Profession: Writer to The Signet.
Notes: Elected as "D. Balfour, Esq. of Elwick"
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE HUSBAND BAIRD 13/07/1761- 14/01/1840
Place of Birth: Borrowstouness, West Lothian.
Date of Election: 26/01/1795.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Previously proposed by James Finlayson, John
Walker, James Hutton (Physical Section Minute
03/06/1793 Lit. NLS Acc10,000/2)
Fellow Type: OF
EDWARD WILLIAM STURGIS BALFOUR OF
BALBIRNIE 06/12/1884- 23/12/1955
Date of Election: 04/03/1946.
Profession: Soldier,Agriculturalist, Horticulturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN LOGIE BAIRD 13/08/1888- 14/06/1946
Place of Birth: Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire.
Date of Election: 05/07/1937.
Profession: Inventor.
Notes: Credited with the invention of television
Fellow Type: HF
GEORGE WILLIAM BALFOUR 02/06/182309/08/1903
Place of Birth: Manse of Sorn, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 06/01/1879.
Profession: Physician Cardiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM MACDONALD BAIRD 10/04/188129/12/1946
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Chartered Surveyor.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ISAAC BAYLEY BALFOUR 31/03/185330/11/1922
Place of Birth: 27 Inverleith Row,Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/06/1877.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR BENJAMIN BAKER 31/03/1840- 19/05/1907
Place of Birth: Keyford, Frome, Somerset.
Date of Election: 07/07/1902.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN HUTTON BALFOUR 15/09/1808- 11/02/1884
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/01/1835.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
BEVAN BRAITHWAITE BAKER (BEVAN-BAKER) ?01/07/1963
Date of Election: 07/03/1921.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Born 1890
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS BALFOUR OF ELWICK 02/04/181030/03/1838
Date of Election: 16/03/1834.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
EDWIN ARTHUR BAKER 06/02/1891- 30/08/1980
Place of Birth: Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
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THOMAS ALEXANDER GOLDIE BALFOUR ?10/03/1895
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/01/1870.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born c 1825
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM MACLEOD BANNATYNE, FORMERLY
MACLEOD, LORD BANNATYNE 26/01/174330/11/1833
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate, Antiquarian, Historian.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID ARMITAGE BANNERMAN 27/11/188606/04/1979
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Zoologist, Ornithologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM BALFOUR
Date of Election: 06/04/1846.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
ALBERT HARRY ROY BALL
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM BURNEY BANNERMAN 06/07/185803/02/1924
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/05/1902.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
EDMUND BRUCE BALL 21/05/1873- 17/06/1944
Place of Birth: Thetford, Norfolk.
Date of Election: 04/03/1940.
Profession: Hydraulic Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER HUGH FREELAND BARBOUR
07/01/1856- 11/06/1927
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/12/1888.
Profession: Physician, Gynaecologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ROBERT STAWELL BALL 01/07/1840- 25/11/1913
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland.
Date of Election: 18/02/1889.
Profession: Astronomer, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
GEORGE BROWN BARBOUR 22/08/189012/07/1977
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN WILLIAM BALLANTYNE 04/06/186123/01/1923
Place of Birth: Eskbank,Dalkeith, Midlothian.
Date of Election: 04/01/1892.
Profession: Physician, Obstetrician.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE FREELAND BARBOUR OF BONSKEID AND
GRYFFE ?-15/01/1887
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 07/01/1867.
Profession: Landowner, Merchant.
Notes: Born 1810
Fellow Type: OF
SIR GEORGE BALLINGALL 02/05/1780- 04/12/1855
Place of Birth: Forglen, Banffshire.
Date of Election: 01/06/1820.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
BARCAPLE, LORD. SEE MAITLAND, EDWARD
FRANCIS
DAVID BALSILLIE
Date of Election: 04/03/1918.
Profession: Mineralogist, Geologist, Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW JEFFREY GUNION BARCLAY ?-15/09/1943
Date of Election: 04/01/1886.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Born c.1849
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID BAND 08/09/1901- 06/04/1988
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/03/1950.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE BARCLAY ?-24/11/1910
Date of Election: 15/01/1872.
Profession: Businessman.
Notes: Born 1820
Fellow Type: OF
PRABODH CHANDRA BANERJEE ?-14/11/1949
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE WALTER WOODFALL BARCLAY ?15/05/1922
Date of Election: 02/04/1883.
Profession: Accountant.
Notes: Born c 1848
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ARTHUR BANKS ?-01/12/1967
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 06/03/1967.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Born 1897
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ROBERTSON- BARCLAY, UNTIL 1799
ROBERTSON
Place of Birth: Fife.
Date of Election: 26/01/1784.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1753 died 1827
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOSEPH BANKS, bart. 13/02/1744- 19/06/1820
Place of Birth: Argyle Street, London.
Date of Election: 23/01/1792.
Profession: Botanist, Administrator of Science.
Fellow Type: OF
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JOHN BARCLAY 10/12/1758- 21/08/1826
Place of Birth: Cairn, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 22/06/1807.
Profession: Physician, Anatomist.
Fellow Type: OF
HAROLD BARNES 25/12/1908- 21/02/1978
Place of Birth: Keighley, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1959.
Profession: Marine Scientist, Biochemist, Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
LEWIS BENNETT BARCLAY
Date of Election: 21/03/1910.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY BARNES 20/07/1842- 12/04/1921
Place of Birth: Aikton, Cumberland.
Date of Election: 06/02/1882.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Photograph in NLS Acc 10000/380
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT STEVEN BARCLAY ?-20/03/1973
Place of Birth: Hurkisgarth, Sandwick, Orkney.
Date of Election: 07/03/1949.
Profession: Statistician.
Notes: Noted Orkney Scholar
Fellow Type: OF
R.S.FANCOURT BARNES ?-20/02/1908
Date of Election: 06/02/1893.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOSEPH BARCROFT 26/07/1872- 21/03/1947
Place of Birth: The Glen, Newry, Co. Down, Ireland.
Date of Election: 05/07/1943.
Profession: Physiologist.
Fellow Type: HF
THOMAS BARNES ?-31/03/1872
Place of Birth: Dockray Rigg House, nr Wigton,
Cumberland.
Date of Election: 06/12/1830.
Profession: Physician, Meteorologist.
Notes: Born 1793
Fellow Type: OF
NOEL DEAN BARDSWELL ?-01/12/1938
Date of Election: 04/05/1903.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ADAM JOHN GUILBERT BARNETT 22/12/190806/06/1957
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE BARGER 04/04/1878- 06/01/1939
Place of Birth: Manchester, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1922.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN BARNETT 15/06/1880- ?
Date of Election: 14/03/1927.
Profession: Actuary.
Notes: Died c1955
Fellow Type: OF
SIR DAVID WILSON- BARKER 01/10/185815/06/1941
Date of Election: 03/06/1895.
Profession: Royal Navy, Meteorologist.
Notes: Photograph NLS Acc10000/380
Fellow Type: OF
ARCHIBALD BARR 18/11/1855- 05/08/1931
Place of Birth: Glenfield House, Abbey, nr Paisley,
Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1921.
Profession: Scientific Engineer, Inventor.
Notes: Inventer of Barr & Stroud Rangefinder
Fellow Type: OF
SIDNEY GEORGE BARKER 29/03/1887- 28/08/1942
Place of Birth: York.
Date of Election: 04/03/1929.
Profession: Scientific Adviser in Fibre Industries.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES BARR 25/09/1849- 16/11/1938
Place of Birth: Co. Tyrone,Northern Ireland.
Date of Election: 04/07/1904.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Recognised for his work on care and
treatment of prisoners
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS HERBERT BARKER ?-24/10/1865
Date of Election: 01/04/1861.
Profession: Surgeon, Physician.
Notes: Born 1814
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES GLOVER BARKLA 07/06/1877- 23/10/1944
Place of Birth: Widnes, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 19/01/1914.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate Physics, 1917
Fellow Type: OF
LESLIE WILLIAMSON BARR
Date of Election: 06/03/1972.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
RICHARD MALING BARRER
Date of Election: 06/03/1950.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
THOMAS WILLIAM NAYLOR BARLOW
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Barrister-at-Law, Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM FLETCHER BARRETT 10/02/184426/05/1925
Date of Election: 06/04/1874.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM HENRY BARLOW 10/05/1812- 12/11/1902
Place of Birth: Woolwich, London..
Date of Election: 07/02/1887.
Profession: Civil Engineer, Railway Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
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STEPHEN EVERARD BASTOW ?-15/02/1970
Date of Election: 14/03/1927.
Profession: Electrical Engineer.
Notes: Born 1874
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES EUGENE BARROIS 21/08/185105/11/1939
Place of Birth: Lille, France.
Date of Election: 03/07/1916.
Profession: Geologist.
Notes: Proceedings gives date of birth as 21/4/1851
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN FREDERIC LA TROBE- BATEMAN 30/05/181010/06/1889
Place of Birth: Lower Wyke, near Halifax, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 07/01/1878.
Profession: Water Engineer.
Notes: Born 1820
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM BARRON (OR BARON) ?-28/12/1803
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Philosopher.
Fellow Type: OF
ALFRED BARRY 15/01/1826- 01/04/1910
Place of Birth: Ely Place, Holborn, London.
Date of Election: 15/12/1851.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
FREDERICK BATH 10/09/1900- 02/09/1982
Place of Birth: Islington, London.
Date of Election: 04/03/1929.
Profession: Mathematician, Civil Servant.
Fellow Type: OF
FREDERICK WILLIAM BARRY ?-12/10/1897
Place of Birth: Scarborough, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 06/02/1893.
Profession: Physician, Obstetrician.
Fellow Type: OF
BATTEN, EDMUND. SEE CHISHOLM, EDMUND.
EVELYN VIDA BAXTER ?-01/10/1959
Date of Election: 05/03/1951.
Profession: Ornithologist.
Notes: Born 1871
Fellow Type: OF
MARTIN BARRY 28/03/1802- 27/04/1855
Place of Birth: Fratton, Hampshire.
Date of Election: 18/04/1836.
Profession: Physician, Embryologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES HOUSTON BAXTER 23/02/1894- 01/04/1973
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Theologian.
Notes: Excavated Byzantine Imperial Palace, Istanbul
1933-9
Fellow Type: OF
T.D. COLLIS BARRY
Date of Election: 01/07/1889.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Died 1909-10
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM MUIRHEAD BAXTER
Date of Election: 02/05/1904.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
BARSKIMMING, LORD. SEE MILLER, THOMAS
TOM BARTH
Date of Election: 06/07/1959.
Profession: Geologist.
Notes: Died 1971-2
Fellow Type: HF
LEONARD ERNEST BAYLISS ?-20/08/1964
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Physiologist.
Notes: Born c1901
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN BARTHOLOMEW 12/02/1890- 09/02/1962
Date of Election: 07/03/1921.
Profession: Cartographer, Geographer.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN BAYLY ?-12/03/1905
Date of Election: 05/04/1880.
Profession: Soldier.
Notes: Born 1821
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN GEORGE BARTHOLOMEW 22/03/186013/04/1920
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/02/1887.
Profession: Geographer, Cartographer.
Notes: Introduced layer system of contrast colouring
for topographical maps
Fellow Type: OF
STEPHEN BAYNE
Date of Election: 05/03/1962.
Profession: Biochemist.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
JOSEPH BEARD ?-29/03/1964
Date of Election: 02/12/1912.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR DEREK HAROLD RICHARD BARTON 08/09/191816/03/1998
Date of Election: 05/03/1956.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate Chemistry, 1969
Fellow Type: OF
SIR THOMAS HUDSON BEARE 30/06/185910/06/1940
Place of Birth: Adelaide, South Australia.
Date of Election: 05/03/1888.
Profession: Civil Engineer, Entomologist.
Fellow Type: OF
EDWIN HENRY BARTON 23/10/1858- 23/09/1925
Place of Birth: Nottingham.
Date of Election: 01/07/1895.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
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ROBERT BEATSON OF VICARSGRANGE 25/06/174124/01/1818
Place of Birth: Dysart, Fife.
Date of Election: 26/06/1797.
Profession: Soldier, Agriculturalist, Writer.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES WARBURTON BEGBIE 19/11/182625/02/1876
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 21/02/1870.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR JAMES BEATTIE 28/06/1914- 20/02/1996
Date of Election: 04/03/1957.
Profession: Classicist, Archaeologist.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES MICHAEL MCINTYRE BEGG 29/09/191903/02/2001
Date of Election: 05/03/1962.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES BEATTIE 25/10/1735- 18/08/1803
Place of Birth: Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Poet, Moralist, Philosopher.
Fellow Type: OF
FERDINAND FAITHFUL BEGG 27/12/184704/12/1926
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/02/1887.
Profession: Stockbroker.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN CARRUTHERS BEATTIE 21/11/186610/09/1946
Place of Birth: Dumfriesshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1897.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES LIVINGSTONE BEGG ?-11/08/1958
Place of Birth: Dennistoun, Glasgow.
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Property Agent, Geologist.
Notes: Born 1874
Fellow Type: OF
JEAN BAPTISTE LOUIS LEONCE ELIE DE BEAUMONT
25/09/1798- 21/09/1874
Date of Election: 17/02/1845.
Profession: Geologist, Engineer.
Fellow Type: HF
DONALD BEITH 25/11/1815- 09/10/1894
Place of Birth: Lochgilphead, Argyll.
Date of Election: 16/01/1893.
Profession: Solicitor, Writer to The Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
GIOVANNI BATTISTA BECCARIA 03/10/171627/05/1781
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Posthumous election
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ALEXANDER ROSS BELCH 13/12/192026/03/1999
Date of Election: 07/03/1977.
Profession: Marine Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR J HENRICUS MEIRING BECK
Place of Birth: Worcester, South Africa.
Date of Election: 01/02/1892.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1855, died May 1919
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCIS EDWARD BELCOMBE ?-07/01/1893
Date of Election: 06/12/1875.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Born 1828, died 1893.
Fellow Type: OF
LUDWIG BECKER 08/01/1860- 09/11/1947
Place of Birth: Wesel, Germany.
Date of Election: 03/04/1893.
Profession: Astronomer, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
BELHAVEN, BARON. SEE HAMILTON, ROBERT
MONTGOMERIE.
ANDREW BELL 27/03/1753- 27/01/1832
Place of Birth: St Andrews, Fife.
Date of Election: 23/06/1800.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Educator.
Notes: Founder of the Madras System of Education
Fellow Type: OF
FRANK EVERS BEDDARD 19/06/1858- 14/07/1925
Place of Birth: Dudley, Worcestershire.
Date of Election: 05/06/1882.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW BEATSON BELL 20/09/1831- 06/01/1913
Date of Election: 05/04/1886.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
CECIL ARNOLD BEEVERS 27/05/1908- 17/01/2001
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Chemist,Physicist, Chrystallographer.
Fellow Type: OF
ARCHIBALD BELL 09/03/1776- 06/10/1854
Date of Election: 05/02/1821.
Profession: Advocate, Author.
Notes: The DNB gives the year of birth as 1755
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES BEGBIE ?-26/08/1869
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 19/02/1844.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born October 1798, A Boyle et. al. give date
of birth as May 1798. First in this country to give a
detailed description of exophthalmic goitre
Fellow Type: OF
BENJAMIN BELL OF HUNTHILL 06/04/174908/04/1806
Place of Birth: Dumfries.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: "Father of the Edinburgh Surgical School"
Fellow Type: OF
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SIR CHARLES BELL ?-28/04/1842
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 25/06/1808.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Born November 1774. Proposed by Robert
Jameson, John Playfair and Sir George Steuart
Mackenzie (Minute 03/12/1810 NLS Acc10,000/4).
Does this mean that Bell was elected in 1811 and not
in 1808?
Authority of the nervous system in man
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT BELL ?-27/04/1861
Date of Election: 05/05/1823.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Born 1782
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT JOHN TAINSH BELL ?-08/09/1963
Place of Birth: Falkirk, Stirlingshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1916.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Born 1877
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES DAVIDSON BELL ?-07/04/1882
Place of Birth: Newhall, Crail, Fife.
Date of Election: 04/03/1878.
Profession: Surveyor, Artist.
Notes: Born 1813
Fellow Type: OF
RONALD PERCY BELL 24/11/1907- 09/01/1996
Place of Birth: Willowfield,Court House
Road,Maidenhead, Berkshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1968.
Profession: Physical Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID JAMES BELL 12/08/1905- 03/04/1972
Place of Birth: Greenock, Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1955.
Profession: Biochemist, Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WALTER LEONARD BELL ?-24/07/1932
Date of Election: 01/03/1915.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
FRANK BELL 24/12/1904- 27/01/1992
Place of Birth: Derby.
Date of Election: 02/03/1953.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM BELL OF HUNTHILL ?-19/06/1849
Date of Election: 19/01/1824.
Profession: Writer to The Signet.
Notes: Born 1783.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE BELL
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 27/01/1806.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1777, died 1832
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM JAMES BELL
Date of Election: 05/03/1888.
Profession: Barrister.
Fellow Type: OF
PIERRE JOSEPH VAN BENEDEN 19/12/180908/01/1894
Place of Birth: Malines, Belgium.
Date of Election: 16/06/1884.
Profession: Zoologist, Anatomist.
Notes: 1843, established marine laboratory and
aquarium
Fellow Type: HF
GEORGE HOWARD BELL 24/01/1905- 17/04/1986
Date of Election: 03/03/1947.
Profession: Physician, Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE JOSEPH BELL 26/03/1770- 23/09/1843
Place of Birth: Fountainbridge, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/06/1822.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE BENNET ?-04/08/1979
Date of Election: 04/03/1929.
Profession: Mechanical Engineer.
Notes: Born c 1888
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES BELL 18/05/1905- 11/11/2000
Date of Election: 05/03/1956.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR LANCELOT CRAIG- BENNETT ?-12/07/1985
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES BELL ?-09/08/1794
Place of Birth: Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 27/06/1791.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Born 1742
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES BOWER BENNETT
Date of Election: 02/07/1900.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN HUGHES BENNETT 31/08/1812- 25/09/1875
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 06/03/1843.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: First to describe the blood disease
leucocythaemia
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN PATRICK FAIR BELL ?-01/03/1929
Date of Election: 19/03/1906.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
JOSEPH BELL 02/12/1837- 04/10/1911
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/05/1874.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Prototype of Conan Doyle's "Sherlock
Holmes"
Fellow Type: OF
ARCHIBALD BENNIE 01/11/1797- 21/09/1846
Date of Election: 18/03/1844.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
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HENRI LOUIS BERGSON 18/10/1859- 05/01/1941
Place of Birth: Paris, France.
Date of Election: 02/07/1923.
Profession: Hellenist, Philosopher.
Notes: Nobel Laureate Literature 1927
Fellow Type: HF
WALTER BERRY OF GLENSTRIVEN
Date of Election: 06/06/1881.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died 1904-5?
Fellow Type: OF
CLAUDE BERNARD 12/07/1813- 11/02/1878
Place of Birth: St Julien, France.
Date of Election: 17/01/1870.
Profession: Physiologist.
Fellow Type: HF
PIERRE EUGENE MARCELLIN BERTHELOT
25/10/1827- 18/03/1907
Place of Birth: Rue du Mouton, Paris, France.
Date of Election: 18/02/1889.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN MACKAY BERNARD OF DUNSINNAN ?19/04/1919
Date of Election: 04/04/1887.
Profession: Meteorologist.
Notes: Born 1857
Fellow Type: OF
CLAUDE LOUIS BERTHOLLET 09/12/174806/11/1822
Place of Birth: Talloire,Near Annency, Savoy, Italy..
Date of Election: 01/06/1820.
Profession: Physician,Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR HENRY BERNSTEIN
Date of Election: 05/02/1821.
Profession: Orientalist, Theologian.
Notes: Died 1853-7?
Fellow Type: OF
BERVIE, ANDREW. SEE RUTHERFURD OF
CROSSHALL, ANDREW.
JONS JACOB BERZELIUS 20/08/1779- 07/08/1848
Place of Birth: Vaversunda, East Gothland, Sweden.
Date of Election: 01/06/1820.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Proposed by Marshall Hall as Honorary Fellow
(Council Minute 05/03/1827 NLS Acc10,000/16),
Elected Honorary Fellow 5/3/1827
Fellow Type: HF
LUDWIK STANTHORPE BERNSTEIN
Date of Election: 04/01/1875.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died 1907-08?
Connected with Australia
Fellow Type: OF
FRIEDRICH WILHELM BESSEL 22/07/178417/03/1846
Place of Birth: Minden, Germany.
Date of Election: 03/02/1823.
Profession: Mathematician, Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW BERRY ?-24/08/1833
Date of Election: 27/06/1796.
Profession: Physician,Surgeon, Botanist.
Notes: Born 1764. The genus "Berria" is named after
him by his friend William Roxburgh, FRSE
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER WILLIAM MORTON BEVERIDGE ?23/12/1959
Place of Birth: Fife.
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Banker.
Notes: Born 1874
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID ANDERSON- BERRY ?-05/06/1926
Date of Election: 03/11/1902.
Profession: Ophthalmic Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1862
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE BERRY 12/01/1795- 01/05/1874
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 18/03/1861.
Profession: Merchant, Amateur Mineralogist and
Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ERSKINE BEVERIDGE ?-10/08/1920
Date of Election: 01/02/1904.
Profession: Linen Manufacturer, Historian,
Antiquarian.
Notes: Born December 1851
Fellow Type: OF
SIR GEORGE ANDREAS BERRY ?-18/06/1940
Date of Election: 01/05/1893.
Profession: Surgeon, Ophthalmologist,
Mathematician.
Notes: Born 1853
Fellow Type: OF
SIR GORDON SMITH GRIEVE BEVERIDGE
28/11/1933- 28/08/1999
Date of Election: 04/03/1974.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: President & Vice-Chancellor 1986-, Queen's
University, Belfast
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN BERRY OF TAYFIELD 05/08/1907- 19/02/2002
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Zoologist, Ecologist.
Fellow Type: OF
HOMI JEHANGIR BHABHA 30/10/1909- 24/01/1966
Place of Birth: Bombay, India.
Date of Election: 01/07/1957.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: HF
RICHARD JAMES ARTHUR BERRY 30/05/186730/09/1962
Place of Birth: Lancashire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1897.
Profession: Physician, Anatomist.
Fellow Type: OF
DAULATRAI BHATIA
Date of Election: 06/03/1944.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
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SOHAN LAL BHATIA 05/08/1891- 16/07/1981
Date of Election: 07/03/1932.
Profession: Soldier, Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES TAIT BLACK
Date of Election: 07/04/1884.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ALEXANDER GORDON BIGGAM ?-22/03/1963
Place of Birth: Stranraer, Wigtownshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1950.
Profession: Physician, Soldier.
Notes: Born 1889
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN SUTHERLAND BLACK 04/07/184620/02/1923
Place of Birth: Dunnikier,Kirkcaldy, Fife.
Date of Election: 05/05/1884.
Profession: Literary Editor, Amateur Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
JEAN BAPTISTE BIOT 21/04/1774- 03/02/1862
Place of Birth: Paris, France.
Date of Election: 19/01/1815.
Profession: Physicist, Astronomer, Geodeticist.
Notes: Pioneer in Polarimetry
Fellow Type: HF
JOSEPH BLACK 16/04/1728- 06/12/1799
Place of Birth: Bordeaux, France.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician, Chemist.
Notes: Classical investigations on Carbon Dioxide,
latent heat and specific heat
Fellow Type: OF
DE BURGH BIRCH 18/05/1852- 18/09/1937
Date of Election: 01/03/1880.
Profession: Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
MATTHEW BLACK 03/09/1908- 02/10/1994
Place of Birth: Kilmarnock, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1977.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE DAVID BIRKHOFF 21/03/1884- 12/11/1944
Place of Birth: Overisel, Michigan, USA.
Date of Election: 05/07/1943.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
THOMAS PURVES BLACK
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Mathematician, Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
BIRNMAN, LORD. SEE MURRAY, THOMAS DAVID
KING.
WILLIAM BLACK 01/09/1903- 16/05/1975
Place of Birth: West Lothian.
Date of Election: 07/03/1949.
Profession: Agriculturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES BISSET
Date of Election: 04/12/1899.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died 1910-11
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM AIRD PEDON BLACK 12/09/191028/07/1981
Place of Birth: Croftfoot House, Polmont,
Stirlingshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1955.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
KALIPADA BISWAS ?-29/12/1969
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Botanist.
Notes: Born 1899
Fellow Type: OF
VILHELM FRIMAN KOREN BJERKNES 14/03/186209/04/1951
Date of Election: 07/07/1930.
Profession: Physicist, Meteorologist, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
HENRY HOME BLACKADDER ?-13/01/1830
Date of Election: 09/01/1826.
Profession: Surgeon, Meteorologist.
Fellow Type: OF
HUGH BLACKBURN
Date of Election: 18/03/1850.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Born 1823, died 1909
Fellow Type: OF
ADAM BLACK 20/02/1784- 24/01/1874
Place of Birth: Charles Street, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 19/02/1866.
Profession: Publisher, Politician.
Notes: His firm published the 7th, 8th and 9th
editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica
Fellow Type: OF
PATRICK MAYNARD STUART BLACKETT, BARON
BLACKETT 18/11/1897- 13/07/1974
Place of Birth: Kensington, London.
Date of Election: 04/07/1966.
Profession: Physicist, Political & Military Strategist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate, Physics, 1948
Fellow Type: HF
D CAMPBELL BLACK ?-20/12/1898
Place of Birth: Oban, Argyll..
Date of Election: 06/01/1896.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN STUART BLACKIE 28/07/1809- 02/03/1895
Place of Birth: Charlotte Street, Glasgow.
Date of Election: 07/02/1853.
Profession: Classicist.
Fellow Type: OF
FREDERICK ALEXANDER BLACK ?-09/09/1934
Date of Election: 20/05/1907.
Profession: Solicitor, Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES BLACK ?-30/04/1867
Date of Election: 05/01/1857.
Profession: Physician, Palaeontologist.
Notes: Born c.1787 in Scotland
Fellow Type: OF
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JOSEPH JOHN BLACKIE ?-30/10/1946
Place of Birth: Duns, Berwickshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Chemist, Pharmacist.
Notes: Born c1894
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT BLAIR, LORD AVONTOUN ?-20/05/1811
Place of Birth: Manse of Athelstaneford, East
Lothian.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Born 1741
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN BLACKWOOD 07/12/1818- 29/10/1879
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 16/02/1857.
Profession: Publisher.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR GILBERT BLANE OF BLANEFIELD, bart.
29/08/1749- 26/06/1834
Place of Birth: Blanefield, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Responsible, with Thomas Trotter, for the
introduction of measures to combat disease among
seamen on long voyages. Devlin-Thorp states that he
died at Culverlands, Berkshire
Fellow Type: OF
DANIEL PATTERSON BLADES, LORD BLADES ?06/02/1959
Place of Birth: Berwickshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1956.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Born 1889
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES BLAIKIE
Date of Election: 03/03/1879.
Profession: Educationalist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR KENNETH LYON BLAXTER 19/06/191918/04/1991
Place of Birth: Sprowston, Norfolk.
Date of Election: 01/03/1965.
Profession: Biologist, Nutritionist, Agriculturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
WALTER BIGGAR BLAIKIE 23/11/1847- 03/05/1928
Place of Birth: Pilrig, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/03/1897.
Profession: Civil Engineer, Printer, Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
EDWARD J BLES
Date of Election: 01/02/1904.
Profession: Zoologist.
Notes: Died 1925-6
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM GARDEN BLAIKIE 05/02/1820- 11/06/1899
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 06/01/1862.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCIS JAMES BLIGHT 22/04/1858- 27/01/1935
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 04/03/1918.
Profession: Engineering Draughtsman, Publisher.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR DAVID HUNTER BLAIR OF BLAIRQUHAN, bart.
03/12/1778- 26/12/1857
Date of Election: 01/05/1826.
Profession: Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS BLIZARD (BLIZZARD) ?-07/05/1838
Date of Election: 24/06/1799.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: born 1772
Fellow Type: OF
DUNCAN MCCALLUM BLAIR 22/07/189610/11/1944
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Physician, Anatomist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM BLIZARD (BLIZZARD) 01/03/174327/08/1835
Place of Birth: Barn Elms, Surrey.
Date of Election: 24/06/1799.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
HUGH BLAIR 05/04/1718- 27/12/1800
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
FELIX BLOCH 23/10/1905- 10/09/1983
Place of Birth: Zurich, Switzerland.
Date of Election: 04/07/1966.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Director General 1954-5 European Council for
Nuclear Research, Geneva. Joint Nobel Laureate,
Physics, 1952.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR JAMES HUNTER BLAIR (UNTIL 1777, HUNTER),,
bart. 21/02/1741- 01/07/1787
Place of Birth: Ayr.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Banker, Landowner, Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
BINDON BLOOD
Date of Election: 06/04/1829.
Profession: Independent means; Book Collector.
Notes: died February 1855. Member of well known
Irish family of Cranagher and Rockforest, Co. Clare.
Resided in Edinburgh 1829-42
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT BLAIR ?-22/12/1828
Place of Birth: Garvald, East Lothian.
Date of Election: 23/01/1786.
Profession: Astronomer.
Notes: Born c.1748 at Merchiston, Edinburgh(DevlinThorp,1981)
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM PERCY BLOUNT ?-10/07/1968
Date of Election: 03/03/1947.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Notes: Born c 1905
Fellow Type: OF
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JOHANN FRIEDRICH BLUMENBACH 11/05/175222/01/1840
Place of Birth: Gotha, Germany.
Date of Election: 01/06/1820.
Profession: Zoologist, Anthropologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES BONAR 29/09/1757- 25/03/1821
Place of Birth: Perthshire.
Date of Election: 29/01/1798.
Profession: Lawyer, Amateur Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN BONAR OF KIMMERGHAME
Date of Election: 03/03/1823.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Born 1793, died 1834
Fellow Type: OF
BENJAMIN HALL BLYTH 25/05/1849- 13/05/1917
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/02/1898.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM BONAR 03/02/1798- 09/11/1866
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/01/1822.
Profession: Banker.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES BLYTH
Date of Election: 04/03/1878.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: died May 1906
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCIS T. BOND
Date of Election: 07/01/1884.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Died 1911-12
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE FREDERICK BODDIE 23/01/190019/08/1985
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/03/1946.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
AUGUSTE DENIS FOUGEROUX DE BONDAROY
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Archaeologist, Physiologist.
Notes: Born 1732, died 1789
Fellow Type: OF
MARSTON TAYLOR BOGERT 18/04/186821/03/1954
Place of Birth: Flushing, New York, USA.
Date of Election: 05/07/1937.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
ALFRED ARCHIBALD BOON ?-01/04/1943
Date of Election: 18/01/1915.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Born 1867
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT BOGLE OF DALDOWIE
Date of Election: 23/06/1788.
Profession: Merchant in Glasgow.
Fellow Type: OF
NORMAN LOFTUS BOR 02/05/1893- 22/12/1972
Place of Birth: Tramore, Co. Waterford, Ireland.
Date of Election: 03/03/1947.
Profession: Botanist, Forester.
Fellow Type: OF
NIELS HENRIK DAVID BOHR 07/10/188518/11/1962
Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Denmark.
Date of Election: 04/07/1927.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate, Physics, 1922
Fellow Type: HF
JULES JEAN BAPTISTE VINCENT BORDET
13/06/1870- 06/04/1961
Place of Birth: Soignies, Belgium.
Date of Election: 04/07/1927.
Profession: Physician, Bacteriologist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate Physiology and Mdicine, 1919
Fellow Type: HF
THOMAS ROBERT BOLAM 07/09/1893- 08/07/1969
Place of Birth: Bristol,.
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
MAX BORN 11/12/1882- 05/01/1970
Place of Birth: Breslau, Germany.
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate, Physics, 1954
Fellow Type: OF
HERBERT BOLTON ?-18/01/1936
Place of Birth: Bacup, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 15/01/1894.
Profession: Palaeontologist, Geologist.
Notes: Born 1863. Photograph NLS Acc 10,000/380
Fellow Type: OF
ALBERT WILLIAM BORTHWICK ?-19/04/1937
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Botanist, Forester.
Notes: Born 1873
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM BOLTON 25/12/1913- 05/07/1999
Date of Election: 04/03/1957.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE AUGUSTUS BORTHWICK
Date of Election: 24/01/1820.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Notes: died c1844
Fellow Type: OF
LUDWIG BOLTZMANN 20/02/1844- 05/09/1906
Date of Election: 06/05/1895.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: HF
ERNEST BONAR
Date of Election: 18/12/1854.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Of Castlle Dobel, Styria
Fellow Type: OF
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JOHN BORTHWICK OF CROOKSTON ?-18/09/1845
Place of Birth: Near Glasgow.
Date of Election: 25/01/1819.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: born 1787. Ms proposal seconded also by
Thomas Thomson
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXIS BOUVARD 27/06/1767- 07/06/1843
Place of Birth: Haut-Faucigny, Chamonix, France.
Date of Election: 07/04/1828.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
ROBERT HENRY BOW
Date of Election: 17/05/1869.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: died 1908
Fellow Type: OF
SAHAY RAM BOSE
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
NATHANIEL BOWDITCH 26/03/1773- 16/03/1838
Place of Birth: Salem, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date of Election: 26/01/1818.
Profession: Mathematician, Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN DONALDSON BOSWALL OF WARDIE
Date of Election: 04/02/1822.
Profession: Royal Navy.
Notes: died 1848
Fellow Type: OF
FREDERICK ORPEN BOWER 04/11/1855- 11/04/1948
Place of Birth: Ripon, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 01/02/1886.
Profession: Botanist.
Notes: Photograph NLS Acc10000/380
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ALEXANDER BOSWELL OF AUCHINLECK, bart.
09/10/1775- 26/03/1822
Place of Birth: Auchinleck, Ayrshire..
Date of Election: 25/01/1813.
Profession: Antiquary, Poet.
Notes: died as a result of a duel with James Stuart
Jnr.of Dunearn (son of Charles Stuart, FRSE 17451826) at Auchtertool, Fife
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER BOWMAN
Date of Election: 03/03/1924.
Profession: Marine Biologist, Zoologist,
Oceanographer.
Fellow Type: OF
BERIAH BOTFIELD 05/03/1807- 07/08/1863
Place of Birth: Earl's Ditton, Shropshire.
Date of Election: 16/12/1850.
Profession: Bibliographer, Geologist, Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
FREDERICK HUNGERFORD BOWMAN ?-28/05/1925
Place of Birth: Huddersfield, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 04/02/1884.
Profession: Industrial Chemist.
Notes: Born 1839
Fellow Type: OF
FILIPPO BOTTAZZI
Date of Election: 03/07/1933.
Profession: Physiologist.
Notes: Died December 1941
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN BOWMAN ?-06/05/1951
Place of Birth: Liberton, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/03/1940.
Profession: Water Engineer.
Notes: Born 1878
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES THOMSON BOTTOMLEY 10/01/184518/05/1926
Place of Birth: Belfast, Ireland.
Date of Election: 01/04/1872.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW EDWARD WILSON BOYD ?-12/01/1981
Place of Birth: St Petersburg, Russia.
Date of Election: 02/03/1970.
Profession: Botanist, Mycologist.
Notes: Born 1916
Fellow Type: OF
JONATHAN BOUCHER 12/03/1738- 27/04/1804
Place of Birth: Blencogo, Cumberland.
Date of Election: 30/01/1804.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Philologist.
Notes: Proposed by A Fraser Tytler (Lord
Woodhouselee) John Robison, Andrew Duncan
(Literary Section Minute 23/12/1802 NLS
Acc10,000/3)
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE SCOTT BOYD 10/07/1924- 10/01/1983
Place of Birth: Crieff. Perthshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1966.
Profession: Biochemist.
Fellow Type: OF
MARCELLIN BOULE
Date of Election: 02/07/1923.
Profession: Anthropologist.
Fellow Type: HF
IAN ALEXANDER BOYD ?-14/09/1987
Date of Election: 04/03/1968.
Profession: Physician, Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
MATTHEW BOULTON 03/09/1728- 18/08/1809
Place of Birth: Birmingham, Warwickshire.
Date of Election: 26/01/1784.
Profession: Engineer, Inventor, Manufacturer.
Notes: " The first manufacturer in England". Entered
into a productive partnership with James Watt at the
Soho Foundry, Birmingham
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MORTON BOYD 31/01/1925- 25/08/1998
Place of Birth: Darvel, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1968.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
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KENNETH WILLIAM BRAID 30/05/1887- ?
Date of Election: 08/03/1926.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR THOMAS JAMIESON BOYD 22/02/181822/08/1902
Place of Birth: Leith, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 15/05/1871.
Profession: Publisher.
Notes: Largely responsible for the building of
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary
Fellow Type: OF
DANIEL BRAITHWAITE ?-28/12/1817
Date of Election: 27/06/1791.
Profession: Administrator.
Notes: Born c. 1731
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM BOYD
Date of Election: 03/03/1873.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: died 1902-3? Associated with Peterhead
Fellow Type: OF
SIR BYROM BRAMWELL 18/12/1847- 27/04/1931
Place of Birth: North Shields, Northumberland.
Date of Election: 03/05/1886.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID BOYLE OF SHEWALTON, LORD BOYLE
27/07/1772- 04/02/1853
Place of Birth: Nr. Irvine, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 24/01/1820.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
BYROM STANLEY BRAMWELL 16/11/187724/10/1948
Date of Election: 04/03/1940.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR CHARLES VERNON BOYS 15/03/185530/03/1944
Place of Birth: Wing, Rutlandshire.
Date of Election: 06/07/1936.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: HF
EDWIN BRAMWELL 11/01/1873- 21/03/1952
Date of Election: 19/11/1906.
Profession: Physician, Neurologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM BRAND 05/01/1807- 18/10/1869
Place of Birth: Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 19/01/1863.
Profession: Writer to The Signet, Banker, Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
JEAN BRACHET 19/03/1909- 10/08/1988
Place of Birth: Etterbeck, Brussels, Belgium.
Date of Election: 06/07/1959.
Profession: Zoologist, Embryologist.
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE 11/02/178811/02/1866
Place of Birth: Arlington Street, St James', London.
Date of Election: 19/01/1815.
Profession: Apothecary, Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN BUCKLEY BRADBURY 27/02/184104/06/1930
Place of Birth: Saddleworth, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 03/12/1900.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES COUPER BRASH ?-19/01/1958
Place of Birth: Cathcart,Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1932.
Profession: Surgeon, Anatomist.
Notes: Born 1886
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCIS ERNEST BRADLEY ?-03/09/1933
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 06/03/1916.
Profession: Barrister-at-Law.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR HERBERT ARCHBOLD BRECHIN 03/11/190325/01/1979
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/03/1969.
Profession: Quantity Surveyor.
Fellow Type: OF
ORLANDO CHARNOCK BRADLEY 08/05/187121/11/1937
Place of Birth: Wheelton, Near Chorley, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1903.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
SCIPIONE BREISLAK 17/08/1750- 15/02/1826
Place of Birth: Rome,Italy..
Date of Election: 03/02/1823.
Profession: Priest, Geologist, Vulcanologist, Physicist,
Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG 02/07/186212/03/1942
Place of Birth: Westward, Wigton, Cumberland.
Date of Election: 04/07/1927.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate 1915 Physics, with his
son Sir William Lawrence Bragg FRSE(Hon)
Fellow Type: HF
ALEXANDER BREMNER ?-18/09/1943
Place of Birth: Kincorth, Nigg, Kincardineshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1918.
Profession: Geologist.
Notes: Born 1864
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM LAWRENCE BRAGG 31/03/189001/07/1971
Place of Birth: Adelaide, Australia.
Date of Election: 05/07/1943.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate 1915, Physics, with his
father Sir William Henry Bragg FRSE 1862-1942
Fellow Type: HF
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BRUCE ALLAN BREMNER ?-04/12/1895
Place of Birth: Dominica, West Indies.
Date of Election: 04/12/1875.
Profession: Physician, Philanthropist.
Notes: Born 1817
Fellow Type: OF
SIR THOMAS MAKDOUGALL BRISBANE OF BRISBANE
AND MAKERSTOUN, bart. 23/07/1773- 27/01/1860
Place of Birth: Brisbane House, Largs, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 01/01/1811.
Profession: Soldier, Astronomer, Meteorologist,
Statesman.
Notes: Previously proposed byThomas Charles Hope,
Lord Webb Seymour, John Playfair (Draft Minute
05/12/1808 NLS Acc10,000/12). River Brisbane is
named after him
Fellow Type: OF
HENRI EDOUARD PROSPER BREUIL 28/02/187714/08/1961
Place of Birth: Mortain, Manche, France.
Date of Election: 04/07/1955.
Profession: Priest, Prehistorian, Archeologist.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN RICHARD BRITTLE
Date of Election: 01/03/1886.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Died 1906-7
Fellow Type: OF
SIR DAVID BREWSTER 11/12/1781- 10/02/1868
Place of Birth: Canongate, Jedburgh, Roxburghshire.
Date of Election: 25/06/1808.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Previously proposed by Alexander Dirom, John
Playfair, John Leslie (Minute 02/02/1807 NLS
Acc10,000/4 & Acc10,000/12) "Father of Modern
Optics"
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN STEWART BROADLEY ?-04/09/1982
Date of Election: 01/03/1971.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE BROADRICK
Date of Election: 05/03/1877.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Died c.1909. Resided at Claremont Cottage,
Leith, Edinburgh
Fellow Type: OF
PERCY WRAGG BRIAN 05/09/1910- 17/08/1979
Place of Birth: Hall Green, Yarnley, Worcestershire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1964.
Profession: Botanist, Mycologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDRE JEAN FRANCOIS MARIE BROCHANT DE
VILLIERS 06/08/1772- 16/05/1840
Place of Birth: Villiers,Nr. Nantes, France.
Date of Election: 01/06/1820.
Profession: Geologist, Mineralogist.
Fellow Type: OF
ADOLPHUS EDWARD BRIDGER ?-02/02/1920
Date of Election: 04/12/1911.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY BRIGGS ?-26/08/1935
Place of Birth: Stott Park,Lakeside, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1916.
Profession: Mining Engineer.
Notes: Born 1883
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID JOHN HENRY BROCK 05/06/193625/11/2004
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 07/03/1983.
Profession: Geneticist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR CHARLES BRIGHT 25/12/1863- 20/11/1937
Date of Election: 07/01/1895.
Profession: Civil and Electrical Engineer.
Notes: Pioneer in application of radio to shipping and
aircraft. Photograph NLS Acc. 10,000/380
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE SANDISON BROCK ?-16/02/1949
Date of Election: 06/03/1893.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born c1859
Fellow Type: OF
LIONEL JOHN FARNHAM BRIMBLE 16/01/190415/11/1965
Place of Birth: Radstock, Somerset.
Date of Election: 02/03/1953.
Profession: Scientific Journalist, Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
W J BROCK
Date of Election: 01/02/1892.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Died 1907-8
Fellow Type: OF
SIR THOMAS DAWSON BRODIE, bart. 26/12/183206/09/1896
Date of Election: 07/07/1890.
Profession: Writer to The Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN BRINKLEY ?-14/09/1835
Place of Birth: Woodbridge, Suffolk.
Date of Election: 19/01/1824.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Astronomer,
Mathematician.
Notes: Born 1763
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM BRODIE BRODIE ?-29/08/1937
Date of Election: 06/05/1901.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Born c 1871
Fellow Type: OF
WALDEMAR CHRISTOFER BROGGER 10/11/185117/02/1940
Place of Birth: Oslo, Norway.
Date of Election: 09/01/1905.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: HF
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SIR EDWARD FFRENCH BROMHEAD, bart.
26/03/1789- 14/03/1855
Date of Election: 03/02/1823.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
PATRICK BROUGH
Date of Election: 05/03/1934.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY BROUGHAM OF BROUGHAM HALL
18/06/1742- 13/02/1810
Place of Birth: Scales Hall, Westmoreland.
Date of Election: 28/06/1784.
Profession: Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
ADOLPHE THEODORE BRONGNIART 14/01/180119/02/1876
Place of Birth: Paris, France.
Date of Election: 02/03/1874.
Profession: Botanist, Physiologist.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN BROUGHAM OF BROOKHILL, CO CAVAN,
IRELAND 02/07/1748- 22/05/1811
Place of Birth: Westmoreland.
Date of Election: 27/01/1794.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDRE BRONGNIART 05/02/1770- 07/10/1847
Place of Birth: Paris, France.
Date of Election: 03/02/1823.
Profession: Geologist, Mineralogist.
Notes: Pioneer in stratigraphical geology
Fellow Type: OF
LUITZEN EGBERTUS JAN BROUWER 27/02/188102/12/1966
Place of Birth: Overschie, near Rotterdam,
Netherlands.
Date of Election: 04/07/1955.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
GEOFFREY BERNARD BROOK
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1903. Died February 1988
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE BROOK
Date of Election: 06/02/1888.
Profession: Zoologist, Embryologist.
Notes: Died 1892-3
Fellow Type: OF
A.B. BROWN
Date of Election: 07/02/1887.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Died 1905-6
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE BERNARD BROOK ?-15/10/1950
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER BROWN ?-27/01/1947
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 20/05/1907.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Born 1878
Fellow Type: OF
FREDERICK TOM BROOKS 17/12/1882- 11/03/1952
Place of Birth: Wells, Somerset.
Date of Election: 01/07/1946.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: HF
ALEXANDER CRUM BROWN 26/03/183828/10/1922
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/12/1863.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Pioneer in the study of the relationship
between Chemical Constitution and Physiological
Activity
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN BURNS BROOKSBY 25/12/1914- 17/12/1998
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 04/03/1968.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon, Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT BROOM 30/11/1866- 06/04/1951
Place of Birth: 66 Back Sneddon Street,Paisley,
Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 07/07/1947.
Profession: Physician, Palaeontologist.
Fellow Type: HF
ALEXANDER RUSSELL BROWN ?-17/08/1916
Place of Birth: Longriggend, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 02/06/1913.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Notes: Born February 1889
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN HOWIE FLINT BROTHERSTON 09/03/191512/05/1985
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/03/1956.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Chief Medical Officer 1964-77, Scottish Home
& Health Department; Professor 1977-80,
Community Medicine, Edinburgh University
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW BROWN 22/08/1763- 19/02/1834
Place of Birth: Silverknowes, Biggar, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 27/06/1803.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW JOHNSTONE BROWN ?-17/04/1958
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Dental Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1883
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES BROUGH ?-28/10/1988
Date of Election: 04/03/1940.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
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ARCHIBALD GRAY ROBERTSON BROWN
08/07/1889- 14/05/1960
Place of Birth: Blackridge, West Lothian.
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Actuary.
Fellow Type: OF
LESLIE MAURICE BROWN 23/04/1904- 10/04/1999
Place of Birth: Rye, Sussex.
Date of Election: 03/03/1947.
Profession: Mathematician, Minister of Religion.
Notes: Ordained Episcopal Church in Scotland, 1974,
Non Stipendiary Priest 1974-84, Honorary Assistant
Curate 1984-9, Church of St. John The Evangelist,
Edinburgh
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID BROWN ?-21/06/1921
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/03/1898.
Profession: Pharmacist, Manufacturing Chemist.
Notes: Born 1840
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT BROWN 21/12/1773- 10/06/1858
Place of Birth: Montrose, Angus.
Date of Election: 03/01/1825.
Profession: Botanist, Palaeobotanist.
Notes: Discovered Brownian Movement
Fellow Type: HF
DAVID RAINY BROWN ?-09/01/1921
Date of Election: 19/06/1911.
Profession: Manufacturing Chemist.
Notes: Born 1871
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT BROWN 29/07/1908- ?
Date of Election: 02/03/1959.
Profession: Botanist.
Notes: Died July 1999
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE BROWN ?-05/03/1806
Date of Election: 22/01/1787.
Profession: Landowner.
Notes: Born 1722
Fellow Type: OF
SIR SAMUEL BROWN OF NETHERBYRES ?-15/03/1852
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 07/02/1831.
Profession: Engineer, Royal Navy.
Notes: Born 1776, Pioneer in Suspension Bridge
Building
Fellow Type: OF
SIR GEORGE MALCOLM BROWN 05/10/192527/03/1997
Date of Election: 06/03/1967.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS BROWN OF LANFINE AND WATERHAUGH
?-16/03/1853
Date of Election: 05/04/1830.
Profession: Surgeon,Botanist, Mineral and Fossil
Collector.
Notes: born 1774
Fellow Type: OF
HUGH WYLIE BROWN 06/04/1874- 05/03/1951
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Actuary.
Fellow Type: OF
JEHOIADA JOHN BROWN
Date of Election: 03/03/1975.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
THOMAS BROWN 23/04/1811- 04/04/1893
Place of Birth: Manse of Langton, Berwickshire.
Date of Election: 07/01/1861.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Geologist, Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN BROWN 22/09/1810- 11/05/1882
Place of Birth: Biggar, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 17/01/1859.
Profession: Physician,Essayist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS BROWN 09/01/1778- 02/04/1820
Place of Birth: Manse of Kirkmabreck,
Kirkcudbrightshire.
Date of Election: 01/01/1812.
Profession: Metaphysician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ALEXANDER HARVIE- BROWN OF
SHIRGARTON, QUARTER & DUNIPACE 27/08/184426/07/1916
Place of Birth: Nr Larbert, Stirlingshire.
Date of Election: 07/02/1881.
Profession: Ecologist, Ornithologist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS BROWN
Date of Election: 26/01/1818.
Profession: Naturalist.
Notes: died 1862
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN JAMES GRAHAM BROWN ?-28/02/1925
Date of Election: 02/07/1883.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1853
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS ARNOLD BROWN 21/05/189313/05/1965
Date of Election: 03/03/1924.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MACDONALD BROWN ?-18/11/1935
Date of Election: 04/05/1885.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
WALTER BROWN 29/04/1886- 14/04/1957
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
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WILLIAM BROWN ?-20/01/1887
Date of Election: 16/02/1835.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: born 1796
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER LOW BRUCE
Date of Election: 16/01/1893.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died 1893-4
Fellow Type: OF
BROWN-MORISON, JOHN. SEE MORRISON OF
FINDERLIE AND MURIE, JOHN BROWN.
ALEXANDER NINIAN BRUCE ?-02/01/1968
Date of Election: 03/06/1912.
Profession: Physician, Neurologist.
Notes: Succeeded his father as Editor of " The Review
of Neurology & Psychiatry"
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES CRICHTON- BROWNE 29/11/184031/01/1938
Place of Birth: 3 St John's Hill, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/01/1870.
Profession: Physician, Psychologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR DAVID BRUCE 29/05/1855- 27/11/1931
Place of Birth: Melbourne, Australia.
Date of Election: 04/07/1927.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM ALEXANDER FRANCIS BROWNE ?02/03/1885
Place of Birth: Nr. Stirling.
Date of Election: 07/01/1861.
Profession: Alienist.
Notes: born 1805
Fellow Type: OF
FREDERICK MALLOCH BRUCE 13/07/191223/07/1997
Date of Election: 05/03/1962.
Profession: Electrical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ALEXANDER FRANCIS BALFOUR- BROWNE
27/12/1874- 28/09/1967
Place of Birth: 16 Ebury Street, London.
Date of Election: 19/12/1904.
Profession: Zoologist, Entomologist, Barrister-at-Law.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN BRUCE 06/03/1905- 30/12/1975
Place of Birth: Dalkeith, Midlothian.
Date of Election: 04/03/1963.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN BRUCE OF GRANGEHILL AND FALKLAND ?16/04/1826
Place of Birth: Fifeshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Historian.
Notes: born 1745
Fellow Type: OF
CARL HAMILTON BROWNING 21/05/188122/01/1972
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 05/03/1945.
Profession: Physician, Bacteriologist.
Notes: Discovered the therapeutic properties of
acridine dyes
Fellow Type: OF
ONESIPHORUS TYNDALL BRUCE OF FALKLAND
(UNTIL 1828 TYNDALL) 11/02/1790- 19/03/1855
Place of Birth: Bristol.
Date of Election: 04/04/1831.
Profession: Barrister,Landowner, Philanthropist.
Notes: His wife, Margaret Bruce, was born at
Cawnpore, India, the daughter of Colonel Robert
Bruce 1751-96, HEIC and an Indian Lady
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN BROWNLEE
Date of Election: 15/02/1909.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES LAW BROWNLIE ?-13/11/1946
Place of Birth: Coatbridge, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1935.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1889
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT BRUCE OF KENNET, LORD KENNET
24/12/1718- 08/04/1785
Place of Birth: Clackmannanshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
EBENEZER BROWNRIGG
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ROBERT BRUCE ?-27/03/1955
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Journalist.
Notes: Born c1872
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER BRUCE ?-04/06/1911
Place of Birth: Ardiffery,Cruden, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 04/12/1882.
Profession: Physician, Neurologist.
Notes: born 1854. Editor of "The Review of
Neurology & Psychiatry"
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM SPEIRS BRUCE 01/08/1867- 28/10/1921
Place of Birth: 43 Kensington Gardens Square,
London.
Date of Election: 18/12/1905.
Profession: Marine Biologist, Antarctic Explorer.
Notes: Leader of The Scotia Expedition 1902-4
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER BRUCE ?-11/02/1946
Date of Election: 07/03/1921.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Born 1878
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM STRATON BRUCE
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
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JAMES BRYCE ?-06/07/1826
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 27/06/1803.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: born c. 1770, Also proposed by Sir George
Steuart Mackenzie, John Playfair, Thomas Charles
Hope (Minute 07/02/1803 NLS Acc10,000/4
Fellow Type: OF
HERMANN ALEXANDER BRUCK 15/08/190504/03/2000
Place of Birth: Berlin.
Date of Election: 03/03/1958.
Profession: Astronomer.
Notes: Astronomer 1943, Assistant Director 1946,
Cambridge Observatory; Director 1947-57, Dunsink
Observatory & Professor, Astronomy, Dublin Institute
for Advanced Studies; Professor 1957-, Edinburgh
University and Astronomer Royal for Scotland
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS HASTIE BRYCE 20/10/1862- 16/05/1946
Place of Birth: Dalkeith, Midlothian.
Date of Election: 04/04/1898.
Profession: Anatomist, Archaeologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR MARC ISAMBARD BRUNEL 25/04/176912/12/1849
Place of Birth: Hacqueville, Normandy, France.
Date of Election: 17/03/1845.
Profession: Inventor, Engineer.
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM BRYDEN 30/12/1904- 16/12/1992
Place of Birth: Martinborough, New Zealand.
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES BRUNLEES 05/06/1816- 02/06/1892
Place of Birth: Kelso, Roxburghshire.
Date of Election: 06/05/1878.
Profession: Civil Engineer, Railway and Harbour
Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
PATRICK BRYDONE 05/01/1736- 19/06/1818
Place of Birth: Coldingham, Berwickshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Traveller, Author.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER BRUNTON 02/10/1772- 09/02/1854
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 24/01/1814.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER BRYSON 12/10/1816- 07/12/1866
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/01/1858.
Profession: Biologist, Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ANTON BRUUN 14/12/1901- 13/12/1961
Place of Birth: Jelling, Denmark.
Date of Election: 04/07/1955.
Profession: Marine Zoologist, Ichthyologist,
Oceanographer.
Fellow Type: HF
ROBERT BRYSON ?-08/08/1852
Date of Election: 02/03/1840.
Profession: Watchmaker.
Notes: Born 1778. Pointed out to Leonard Horner the
need for a technical college in Edinburgh
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ANDREW MEIKLE BRYAN 01/03/189327/06/1988
Date of Election: 05/03/1945.
Profession: Mining Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM A. BRYSON
Date of Election: 02/04/1888.
Profession: Electrical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
BUCCLEUCH, 3RD DUKE OF. SEE SCOTT, HENRY.
ARCHIBALD HAMILTON BRYCE
Date of Election: 21/01/1867.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: died c.1903
Fellow Type: OF
BUCCLEUCH, 5TH DUKE OF. SEE SCOTT, WALTER
FRANCIS.
CHRISTIAN LEOPOLD VON BUCH 26/04/177404/03/1853
Place of Birth: The Castle of Stolpe,
Pomerania,Germany.
Date of Election: 01/06/1820.
Profession: Traveller, Geologist, Palaeontologist.
Notes: Campbell gives date of death as 4/8/1853
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID BRYCE 03/04/1803- 07/05/1876
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/01/1856.
Profession: Architect.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID LAWRENCE BRYCE ?-26/10/1934
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 14/03/1927.
Profession: Marine Zoologist.
Notes: Born 1852. Specialist in Rotifera
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER BUCHAN 11/04/1829- 13/05/1907
Place of Birth: Kinnesswood, Kinross-shire.
Date of Election: 21/12/1868.
Profession: Meteorologist, Schoolmaster.
Notes: Laid the foundations of weather forecasting
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES BRYCE 22/10/1806- 11/07/1877
Place of Birth: Killeagoe, nr. Coleraine, Ireland.
Date of Election: 03/05/1875.
Profession: Schoolmaster, Mathematician, Geologist.
Notes: Killed by a rockfall from a granite mass he was
examining on the shores of Loch Ness
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER FAIRLEY BUCHAN ?-10/01/1976
Date of Election: 04/03/1940.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Born 1904
Fellow Type: OF
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JOHN BROWN BUIST ?-29/01/1915
Place of Birth: Newburgh, Fife.
Date of Election: 07/02/1887.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES BUCHAN ?-12/02/1834
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/06/1821.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born c1769
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM BULLERWELL 27/09/1916- 25/11/1977
Place of Birth: 57 Hunters Road, Newcastle-uponTyne.
Date of Election: 05/03/1973.
Profession: Geologist, Geophysicist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN NORMAN STEWART BUCHAN, BARON
TWEEDSMUIR 25/11/1911- 20/06/1996
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 03/03/1975.
Profession: Colonial administrator, Naturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT WILHELM EBERHARD BUNSEN 31/03/181116/08/1899
Place of Birth: Gottingen, Germany.
Date of Election: 19/04/1858.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
STEVENSON BUCHAN 04/03/1907- 14/07/1996
Place of Birth: Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1962.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
BUCHAN, GEORGE. SEE HEPBURN, GEORGE
BUCHAN-.
THOMAS LOWE BUNTING ?-18/02/1925
Place of Birth: Heanor, Derbyshire.
Date of Election: 19/06/1905.
Profession: Physician, Radiologist.
Notes: Born 1868
Fellow Type: OF
CLAUDIUS BUCHANAN 12/03/1766- 09/02/1815
Place of Birth: Cambuslang, Glasgow.
Date of Election: 27/01/1806.
Profession: Theologian.
Fellow Type: OF
JOSEPH LANGLEY BURCHNALL 08/12/189229/04/1975
Place of Birth: Whichford, Warwickshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1953.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
BUCHANAN, FRANCIS HAMILTON. SEE HAMILTON,
FRANCIS.
GEORGE BUCHANAN ?-30/10/1852
Place of Birth: Montrose, Angus.
Date of Election: 01/04/1833.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Born c.1790. Supervised the construction of
the Granton and Edinburgh railway tunnel
Fellow Type: OF
ADAM BURG 28/01/1797- 01/02/1882
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria.
Date of Election: 03/02/1823.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN YOUNG BUCHANAN 20/02/1844- 16/10/1925
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 02/05/1870.
Profession: Chemist, Oceanographer.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER G. BURGESS ?-29/03/1932
Place of Birth: Wishaw, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1902.
Profession: Mathematician, Physicist, Schoolmaster.
Notes: Born 1873
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT M BUCHANAN
Date of Election: 03/03/1902.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
GEOFFREY HAROLD ORCHARD BURGESS
Date of Election: 01/03/1971.
Profession: Fish Technologist.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
THOMAS RYBURN BUCHANAN ?-07/04/1911
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 01/05/1882.
Profession: Statesman.
Notes: Born 1846
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES BURGESS 14/08/1832- 03/10/1916
Place of Birth: Kirkmahoe, Dumfriesshire.
Date of Election: 05/02/1894.
Profession: Mathematician, Archaeologist.
Fellow Type: OF
W.M. BUCHANAN
Date of Election: 02/03/1857.
Profession: Medicine.
Notes: Died 1911
Fellow Type: OF
EDMUND BURKE 12/01/1729- 09/07/1797
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland.
Date of Election: 28/06/1784.
Profession: Statesman, Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
BUFFON, COMPTE DE. SEE LECLERC, GEORGES
LOUIS.
BURN, JOHN. SEE MURDOCH OF GARTENCABER,
JOHN BURN.
GEORGE BUIST 22/11/1805- 01/11/1860
Place of Birth: Tannadice, Angus..
Date of Election: 16/02/1846.
Profession: Anglo-Indian Journalist, Geologist,
Natural Historian.
Notes: Proceedings Obit gives date of death as
1/10/1860
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN HENRY BURN
Date of Election: 06/01/1902.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
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BURN, WILLIAM. SEE CALLANDER, WILLIAM BURN-
JOHN HILL BURTON 22/08/1809- 10/08/1881
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 01/02/1847.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Author of "Life and Correspondence of David
Hume"
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM BURN 20/12/1789- 15/02/1870
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/02/1827.
Profession: Architect.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR FRANK MACFARLANE BURNET 03/09/189931/08/1985
Place of Birth: Traralgon,Victoria, Australia.
Date of Election: 06/07/1970.
Profession: Microbiologist.
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM KEITH BURTON 12/10/1922- 30/12/1996
Place of Birth: Manchester, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1958.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
RAYMOND KEILLER BUTCHART ?-30/03/1930
Place of Birth: Dundee.
Date of Election: 01/02/1915.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Born 1888
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN BURNET OR BURNETT ?-07/12/1810
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 04/01/1791.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Born 1763
Fellow Type: OF
SAMUEL HENRY BUTCHER 16/04/1850- 29/12/1910
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland.
Date of Election: 07/05/1883.
Profession: Classicist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN JAMES BURNET 31/05/1857- 02/07/1938
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 06/12/1886.
Profession: Architect.
Fellow Type: OF
BUTE, 3RD EARL OF. SEE STUART, JOHN.
BURNETT, EDWARD BANNERMAN. SEE RAMSAY,
EDWARD BANNERMAN.
BUTE, 6TH MARQUIS OF. SEE STUART, JOHN
CRICHTON-.
GEORGE MURRAY BURNETT 12/07/192104/09/1980
Place of Birth: Messina, South Africa.
Date of Election: 05/03/1956.
Profession: Chemist, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID STANLEY BUTLER
Date of Election: 06/03/1972.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
DUGALD BUTLER
Date of Election: 05/01/1903.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID BURNS 04/09/1884- 04/04/1969
Date of Election: 06/03/1944.
Profession: Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
HUGH ERNEST BUTLER 27/12/1916- 10/05/1978
Place of Birth: Llandaff, Glamorganshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1959.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS BURNS 03/03/1853- 15/01/1938
Place of Birth: Mansfield, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 02/04/1888.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN BUTT ?-03/07/2002
Date of Election: 05/03/1990.
Profession: Economist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM BURNS 06/07/1884- 08/04/1970
Date of Election: 05/03/1945.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN WATT BUTTERS ?-11/01/1946
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/04/1896.
Profession: Schoolmaster, Mathematician.
Notes: Born 1863
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE BARNHILL BURNSIDE
Date of Election: 05/03/1917.
Profession: Mechanical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID RAITT ROBERTSON BURT 19/06/189908/05/1983
Date of Election: 03/03/1930.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ANTRHONY BUXTON ?-30/12/1979
Date of Election: 07/03/1966.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES BYRES OF TONLEY ?-03/09/1817
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Architect, Antiquary.
Notes: Born 1733
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN GRAHAM MACDONALD BURT ?-09/02/1868
Date of Election: 03/02/1845.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
COSMO INNES BURTON ?-31/10/1890
Date of Election: 06/06/1887.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Born 1862
Fellow Type: OF
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WILLIAM CADDELL OF TRANENT 07/11/177316/06/1840
Date of Election: 03/02/1823.
Profession: Banker.
Fellow Type: OF
PHILIP HUGH CALDERBANK
Date of Election: 05/03/1962.
Profession: Chemical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
HENRY CALDERWOOD 10/05/1830- 19/11/1897
Place of Birth: Peebles.
Date of Election: 01/03/1869.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Philosopher.
Notes: Proceedings gives date of death as
19/11/1898
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY MOUBRAY CADELL OF GRANGE ?10/04/1934
Date of Election: 07/03/1887.
Profession: Geologist, Landowner, Colliery
Proprietor.
Notes: Born 1860
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN CALDERWOOD
Date of Election: 07/07/1879.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Died 1902-3?
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ARCHIBALD CADELL OF BANTON
27/06/1775- 19/02/1855
Place of Birth: Carron Park, nr Falkirk.
Date of Election: 01/01/1812.
Profession: Traveller, Mathematician, Antiquarian,
Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT SIBBALD CALDERWOOD ?-03/03/1960
Date of Election: 18/07/1910.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
COLIN HOUGHTON CADMAN ?-27/09/1971
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 06/03/1950.
Profession: Botanist.
Notes: Born 1916
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM LEADBETTER. CALDERWOOD ?-02/05/1950
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 06/03/1893.
Profession: Zoologist, Marine Biologist.
Notes: Born 1865
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MORRISON CAIE ?-22/12/1949
Place of Birth: Banffshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1940.
Profession: Civil Servant.
Notes: Born 1878
Fellow Type: OF
HAROLD GARNET CALLAN 15/03/1917- 03/11/1993
Place of Birth: Maidenhead, Berkshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1952.
Profession: Zoologist, Cytologist.
Fellow Type: OF
EDWARD CAIRD 22/03/1835- 01/11/1908
Place of Birth: Greenock, Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 04/06/1900.
Profession: Philosopher.
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM BURN- CALLANDER (UNTIL 1822 BURN)
8TH OF WESTERTOWN & 4TH OF PRESTONHALL
07/02/1792- 05/04/1854
Date of Election: 07/04/1828.
Profession: Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN CAIRD 15/12/1820- 30/07/1898
Place of Birth: Greenock, Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 15/03/1897.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM THOMAS CALMAN 29/12/187129/09/1952
Place of Birth: Dundee, Angus.
Date of Election: 05/07/1937.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: HF
ROBERT CAIRD ?-01/12/1915
Date of Election: 07/12/1896.
Profession: Shipbuilder.
Fellow Type: OF
MELVIN CALVIN 08/04/1911- 08/01/1997
Place of Birth: St Paul, Minnesota, USA.
Date of Election: 01/07/1963.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate, Chemistry, 1961
Fellow Type: HF
SIR ALEXANDER KIRKLAND CAIRNCROSS
11/02/1911- 21/10/1998
Place of Birth: Lesmahagow. Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1992.
Profession: Economist.
Notes: Master 1969-78, St Peter's College Oxford;
Chancellor 1972-96, Glasgow University
Fellow Type: HF
ALFRED ERNEST HENDERSON CAMERON ?27/02/1952
Date of Election: 08/03/1926.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SANTIAGO RAMON Y CAJAL 01/05/185217/10/1934
Place of Birth: Petilla, southern Pyrenees, Spain.
Date of Election: 03/11/1913.
Profession: Histologist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate Medicine 1906
Fellow Type: HF
AUGUSTUS JOHN DARLING CAMERON ?-27/11/1884
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/06/1881.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Born October 1841
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER CALDER ?-03/03/1987
Date of Election: 04/03/1929.
Profession: Animal Breeder.
Fellow Type: OF
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GEORGE CAMPBELL 25/12/1719- 06/04/1796
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
FINLAY JAMES CAMERON 13/12/1880- 09/04/1954
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Actuary.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ANGUS CAMERON
Place of Birth: Nairn, Morayshire.
Date of Election: 15/01/1894.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1846, Died November 1924
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE JOHN DOUGLAS CAMPBELL, 8TH DUKE OF
ARGYLL 30/04/1823- 24/04/1900
Place of Birth: Ardincaple, Dunbartonshire..
Date of Election: 03/12/1849.
Profession: Landowner, Geologist, Statesman,
Author.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES DAVIDSON STUART CAMERON
28/12/1900- 13/02/1969
Place of Birth: Montrose, Angus.
Date of Election: 04/03/1963.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ILAY CAMPBELL, LORD SUCCOTH, bart.
25/08/1734- 28/03/1823
Place of Birth: Argyll (Shapin) Edinburgh (Anderson).
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN CAMERON, LORD CAMERON 08/02/190030/05/1996
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 07/03/1949.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Proposed by Council as Honorary British
Fellow 7/2/1983, Elected Honorary Fellow, 7/3/1983
Fellow Type: HF
JAMES ALLAN CAMPBELL ?-08/06/1980
Date of Election: 06/03/1967.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN CAMPBELL OF STONEFIELD, LORD
STONEFIELD ?-19/06/1801
Place of Birth: Argyllshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate, Landowner, Agricultural
Improver.
Notes: Born c.1727
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN CAMERON ?-17/03/1964
Date of Election: 04/03/1940.
Profession: Pharmaceutical Chemist.
Notes: Born 1891
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN CAMERON 16/09/1873- 27/11/1960
Place of Birth: Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire.
Date of Election: 23/01/1905.
Profession: Physician, Anatomist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN CAMPBELL
Date of Election: 16/12/1907.
Profession: Soldier.
Notes: Not on RSE lists after 1911
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW CAMPBELL ?-16/02/1941
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/03/1921.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Born 1868
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN CAMPBELL OF CARBROOKE
Date of Election: 22/06/1807.
Profession: Lawyer.
Notes: Born c 1760, Died 1855
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN CAMPBELL, BARON CAMPBELL 15/09/177922/06/1861
Place of Birth: Springfield, nr Cupar, Fife.
Date of Election: 19/01/1835.
Profession: Barrister, Biographer.
Notes: Inaugurated important legal reforms.
Proceedings Obituary gives date of birth as 15/9/1781
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL OF SUCCOTH, LORD
SUCCOTH, bart. 01/08/1769- 23/07/1846
Date of Election: 04/06/1821.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES DUFF CAMPBELL ?-24/05/1924
Date of Election: 01/02/1904.
Profession: Linguist, Etymologist.
Notes: Born 1847
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN CAMPBELL ?-16/05/1835
Date of Election: 06/12/1824.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR DAVID CAMPBELL 06/05/1889- 30/05/1978
Place of Birth: Patna, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1951.
Profession: Physician, Pharmacologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL ?-25/10/1906
Place of Birth: Argyllshire.
Date of Election: 01/07/1878.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
DOUGLAS HOUGHTON CAMPBELL
Date of Election: 03/07/1916.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL ?-07/09/1866
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/01/1837.
Profession: Writer to The Signet.
Notes: Born 1788
Fellow Type: OF
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JOHN DOUGLAS EDWARD HENRY CAMPBELL, 7TH
DUKE OF ARGYLL 24/12/1777- 26/04/1847
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 25/01/1819.
Profession: Landowner, Politician, Soldier.
Notes: Elected as Lord John Campbell
Fellow Type: OF
WALTER FREDERICK CAMPBELL OF SHAWFIELD
10/04/1798- 08/02/1855
Date of Election: 03/06/1822.
Profession: Statesman.
Notes: Perhaps "Walter Frederick Campbell of Islay"
reference Highland Society(1817)
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN FLETCHER- CAMPBELL (UNTIL 1779 FLETCHER)
?-10/12/1806
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Soldier, Landowner.
Notes: Born 1727 however there may be confusion
between this man and his brother General Henry
Fletcher. Shapin gives his date of birth as c1735 and
death c1807
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM WALLACE CAMPBELL 11/04/186215/06/1938
Place of Birth: Hancock County, Ohio, USA.
Date of Election: 21/06/1920.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
PETRUS CAMPER 11/05/1722- 07/04/1789
Place of Birth: Leiden, Netherlands.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Anatomist, Obstetrician,
Ophthalmologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN GORDON CAMPBELL 04/06/1916- 18/04/1987
Place of Birth: Oxford.
Date of Election: 05/03/1956.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
ALPHONSE LOUIS PIERRE PYRAMUS DE CANDOLLE,
27/10/1806- 04/04/1893
Place of Birth: Paris, France.
Date of Election: 15/01/1877.
Profession: Botanist.
Notes: Roy Soc gives date of birth as ?27/10/1806
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN LORNE CAMPBELL OF CANNA 01/10/190625/04/1996
Place of Birth: Argyllshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1989.
Profession: Gaelic Scholar, Folklorist, Entomologist,
Landowner.
Notes: Bought Canna 1938, gifted to the Nation
1981
Fellow Type: OF
AUGUSTIN PYRAMUS DE CANDOLLE 04/02/177809/09/1841
Place of Birth: Geneva, Switzerland.
Date of Election: 03/02/1823.
Profession: Botanist, Plant Taxonomist.
Notes: Created the Geneva Botanic Garden
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MENZIES CAMPBELL 09/06/1887- 27/06/1974
Place of Birth: Paisley, Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1918.
Profession: Dental Practitioner, Historian.
Fellow Type: OF
STANISLAO CANNIZZARO 13/07/1826- 10/05/1910
Date of Election: 01/03/1897.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
MALCOLM MURRAY CAMPBELL ?-28/10/2001
Date of Election: 05/03/1984.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
HERBERT GRAHAM CANNON 14/04/189706/01/1963
Place of Birth: Wimbledon, London.
Date of Election: 14/03/1927.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR MATTHEW CAMPBELL 23/05/1907- 07/03/1998
Date of Election: 06/03/1961.
Profession: Civil Servant.
Fellow Type: OF
NEIL CAMPBELL 29/08/1903- 24/07/1996
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/03/1950.
Profession: Chemist, Athlete.
Fellow Type: OF
WALTER BRADFORD CANNON 19/10/187102/10/1945
Place of Birth: Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, USA..
Date of Election: 07/07/1930.
Profession: Physiologist.
Notes: Developed X-Rays and the opaque meal for
the study of movements of the gastro-intestinal tract
Fellow Type: HF
RICHARD VARY CAMPBELL ?-10/11/1901
Date of Election: 07/02/1898.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Born 1840
Fellow Type: OF
MORITZ CANTOR
Date of Election: 09/01/1905.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
ROBERT CAMPBELL 01/01/1881- 19/02/1957
Place of Birth: Auchinblae, Kincardineshire..
Date of Election: 01/02/1915.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
DANIEL FOWLER CAPPELL 28/02/1900- 13/02/1976
Date of Election: 04/03/1946.
Profession: Physician, Pathologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT CAMPBELL OF SKERRINGTON 09/12/181429/12/1868
Date of Election: 01/12/1862.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN W. CAPSTICK
Date of Election: 02/05/1887.
Profession: Mathematician, Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
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GIOVANNI BATTISTA CARBURI ?-05/12/1808
Place of Birth: Cefalonia, Greece.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Born 1734, Roy Soc gives date of birth as
1722
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN GARDNER CARR 23/10/1913- ?
Date of Election: 06/03/1944.
Profession: Geneticist.
Fellow Type: OF
BENJAMIN CARRINGTON 18/01/1827- 18/01/1893
Place of Birth: Lincoln.
Date of Election: 02/02/1874.
Profession: Physician, Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
EDMOND WILLIAM WACE CARLIER ?-02/09/1940
Place of Birth: Norwich, Norfolk.
Date of Election: 05/12/1898.
Profession: Physician, Physiologist, Entomologist.
Notes: Born 1861. Previously Balloted 7/5/1888
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN ANTHONY CARROLL 08/01/189902/05/1974
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Astronomer,Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES AUGUSTUS CARLOW ?-13/08/1954
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Mining Engineer.
Notes: Born 1878
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN BENNETT CARRUTHERS
Date of Election: 22/01/1906.
Profession: Botanist.
Notes: Died 1909-10
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER CARLYLE 26/01/1722- 25/08/1805
Place of Birth: Prestonpans, East Lothian.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Soubriquet "Jupiter" Carlyle
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT GEORGE CARRUTHERS
Date of Election: 01/03/1920.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE ALEXANDER CARSE ?-20/08/1950
Date of Election: 21/11/1904.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOSEPH DACRE CARLYLE ?-12/04/1804
Place of Birth: Carlisle, Cumberland.
Date of Election: 27/01/1794.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Born 1759
Fellow Type: OF
HORATIO SCOTT CARSLAW 12/02/187011/11/1954
Date of Election: 06/05/1901.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS CARLYLE 04/12/1795- 04/02/1881
Place of Birth: Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire.
Date of Election: 03/12/1866.
Profession: Essayist, Historian, Mathematician.
Notes: Translated Legendre's Elements de geometrie
Fellow Type: HF
AGLIONBY ROSS CARSON ?-04/11/1850
Place of Birth: Holywood, Dumfriesshire.
Date of Election: 04/06/1821.
Profession: Classicist, Schoolteacher.
Notes: born 1780
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON- CARMICHAEL OF
SKIRLING, bart. 06/06/1812- 08/05/1850
Date of Election: 02/05/1836.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN IRVINE CARSWELL ?-03/05/1973
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS DAVID GIBSON- CARMICHAEL OF
SKIRKLING, BARON CARMICHAEL 18/03/185916/01/1926
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/03/1902.
Profession: Politician, Administrator, Art
Connoisseur.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE STUART CARTER 15/09/1893- 02/12/1969
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY (HARRY) WILLIAM CARTER 07/09/178716/07/1863
Place of Birth: Canterbury, Kent.
Date of Election: 26/01/1818.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR DAVID CARNEGIE OF SOUTHESK, bart.
22/11/1753- 25/05/1805
Place of Birth: Kincardineshire.
Date of Election: 26/01/1784.
Profession: Politician, Landowner, Agricultural
Improver.
Fellow Type: OF
JOSEPH HENRY CARTER ?-15/05/1930
Date of Election: 17/07/1905.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID CARNEGIE ?-14/03/1949
Date of Election: 16/05/1910.
Profession: Civil and Ordnance Engineer.
Notes: Born 1868
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ALLAN CARTER ?-07/09/1921
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/03/1898.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Born 1847
Fellow Type: OF
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ARTHUR CAYLEY 16/08/1821- 26/01/1895
Place of Birth: Richmond, Surrey.
Date of Election: 04/12/1865.
Profession: Mathematician, Barrister.
Notes: First used the word " Matrix" in mathematics
Fellow Type: HF
DAME MARY LUCY CARTWRIGHT 17/12/190003/04/1998
Date of Election: 01/07/1968.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM FISHER CASSIE 29/06/1905- 20/04/1985
Place of Birth: Monifieth, Angus.
Date of Election: 03/03/1947.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN GIBSON CAZENOVE ?-30/09/1896
Date of Election: 03/04/1876.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: born 1821
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES MURRAY CATHCART, LORD GREENOCK,
EARL CATHCART 21/12/1783- 16/07/1859
Place of Birth: Walton, Essex.
Date of Election: 06/05/1833.
Profession: Soldier, Geologist.
Notes: Elected as Lord Greenock, The mineral
Greenockite is named after him
Fellow Type: OF
TULLIO LEVI- CIVITA 29/03/1873- 29/12/1941
Date of Election: 02/07/1923.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR JAMES CHADWICK 20/10/1891- 24/07/1974
Place of Birth: Bollington, Cheshire.
Date of Election: 01/07/1946.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate, Physics, 1935
Fellow Type: HF
EDWARD PROVAN CATHCART 18/07/187718/02/1954
Place of Birth: Ayr.
Date of Election: 07/03/1932.
Profession: Physician, Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
AMULYARATAN CHAKRAVARTI 14/08/188806/07/1957
Place of Birth: Dinajpur, Bengal, India.
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ELIAS CATHCART OF AUCHINDRANE ?-22/02/1877
Date of Election: 06/03/1826.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
ALFRED ROBERT CATTON
Date of Election: 03/01/1865.
Profession: unknown.
Notes: born 1841, died 1875
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID CHALMERS OF REDHALL ?-02/05/1899
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 16/04/1866.
Profession: Industrialist.
Notes: born 1820
Fellow Type: OF
AUGUSTIN LOUIS CAUCHY 21/08/1789- 23/05/1857
Place of Birth: Paris, France.
Date of Election: 17/02/1845.
Profession: Mathematician, Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
JAMES GOWANS CHALMERS 02/08/190715/09/1985
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
MAURICE JULES GASTON CORNEILLE CAULLERY
05/09/1868- 13/07/1958
Place of Birth: Bergues, Nord France.
Date of Election: 07/07/1930.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN CHALMERS ?-07/05/1800
Place of Birth: Banffshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Agriculturalist.
Notes: Born 1712
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS FRANCIS CAVANAGH
Date of Election: 03/02/1908.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Campbell gave date of death as November
1913. Appears in RSE lists until 1922
Fellow Type: OF
LIONEL CHALMERS
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1715, died 1777. Member of The
Philosophical Society of Edinburgh. Erroneously
included in the first list of Fellows (Minutes of General
Meetings, June 23, 1783- July 6, 1791)
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN CAY 31/08/1790- 13/12/1865
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/03/1821.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS CHALMERS 17/03/1780- 31/05/1847
Place of Birth: Anstruther, Fife.
Date of Election: 17/02/1834.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Principal 1843, New College, Edinburgh;
Moderator 1832,, Church of Scotland General
Assembly, 1843 Free Church of Scotland General
Assembly.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM DYCE CAY ?-02/12/1925
Date of Election: 06/03/1882.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Born 1837
Fellow Type: OF
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WILLIAM CHALMERS 02/10/1746- 14/12/1792
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCIS CHARTERIS, EARL OF WEMYSS AND
MARCH 15/04/1772- 28/06/1853
Date of Election: 27/01/1817.
Profession: Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT CHAMBERS 10/07/1802- 17/03/1871
Place of Birth: Peebles, Peeblesshire.
Date of Election: 03/02/1840.
Profession: Publisher, Geologist, Author.
Fellow Type: OF
MATTHEW CHARTERIS ?-07/07/1897
Place of Birth: Wamphray, Dumfriesshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1896.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT CHAMBERS ?-23/03/1888
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/12/1884.
Profession: Publisher.
Notes: Born March 1832
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES CHATHAM ?-28/12/1934
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/12/1898.
Profession: Actuary.
Notes: Born 1857, Photograph NLS Acc 10,000/380
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM CHAMBERS OF GLENORMISTON
16/04/1800- 20/05/1883
Place of Birth: Peebles.
Date of Election: 17/04/1860.
Profession: Publisher.
Notes: With Henry Littlejohn carried out the first
great slum clearance in Edinburgh
Fellow Type: OF
BANAWARI LAL CHAUDHURI
Date of Election: 06/05/1912.
Profession: Zoologist.
Notes: Died 1931
Fellow Type: OF
SYDNEY GEORGE CHECKLAND 09/10/191622/03/1986
Place of Birth: Ottowa, Canada.
Date of Election: 03/03/1980.
Profession: Economist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR FRANCIS LEGATT CHANTREY 07/04/178125/11/1841
Place of Birth: Norton, Derbyshire.
Date of Election: 07/01/1822.
Profession: Sculptor.
Fellow Type: OF
RICHARD CHENEVIX ?-05/04/1830
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland.
Date of Election: 28/03/1805.
Profession: Chemist, Mineralogist.
Notes: Born c. 1774. Campbell gives date of election
as 26/1/1807, RSE Roll Book gives 1805. Date
28/3/1805 appears probable
Fellow Type: OF
SYDNEY CHAPMAN 29/01/1888- 16/06/1970
Place of Birth: Eccles, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 06/07/1953.
Profession: Mathematician,Geophysicist,
Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
CHARLES GEDDES COULL CHESTERS 09/03/190413/02/1993
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 02/03/1953.
Profession: Botanist, Mycologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ENID CHARLES
Date of Election: 01/03/1954.
Profession: Statistician.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
JOHN JAMES CHARLES
Date of Election: 02/06/1890.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Died 1911-12, Photograph NLS Acc
10.000/380
Fellow Type: OF
(POSSIBLY) JACQUES LOUIS VINCENT CHEVALIER
23/12/1770- ?
Date of Election: 04/01/1791.
Profession: Engineer-Optician in Paris.
Notes: died c. 1840
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN KAYE CHARLESWORTH 03/01/188926/01/1972
Place of Birth: Leeds, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1950.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
MICHEL EUGENE CHEVREUL 31/08/178608/04/1889
Place of Birth: Angers, France.
Date of Election: 03/12/1866.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
THOMAS MALCOLM CHARLTON 01/09/192301/02/1997
Place of Birth: South Normanton, Derbyshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1973.
Profession: Civil Engineer, Historian of Engineering.
Fellow Type: OF
CHEWTON, VISCOUNT. SEE LESLIE, GEORGE
WALDEGRAVE.
HENRY CHEYNE OF TANGWICK 24/08/180427/02/1868
Date of Election: 06/01/1862.
Profession: Writer to The Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
JEAN (JOHANN) G F DE CHARPENTIER 07/12/178612/09/1855
Place of Birth: Freiberg, Germany.
Date of Election: 17/02/1845.
Profession: Mining Engineer, Geologist.
Fellow Type: HF
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JAMES AUCHINLECK CHEYNE OF OXENDEAN AND
KILMARON ?-21/06/1853
Date of Election: 07/01/1839.
Profession: Writer to the Signet.
Notes: Born c1795
Fellow Type: OF
HIRAN CHANDRA CHOUDHURI
Date of Election: 04/03/1946.
Profession: Botanist.
Notes: Died February 1991
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER CHRISTIE
Date of Election: 19/04/1847.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN CHEYNE 03/02/1777- 31/01/1836
Place of Birth: Leith, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 24/01/1814.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Remembered for Cheyne-Stokes Respiration
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ROBERTON CHRISTIE ?-21/08/1932
Date of Election: 07/03/1932.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Born 1866
Fellow Type: OF
ALBERT CHARLES CHIBNALL 28/01/189410/01/1988
Date of Election: 06/07/1953.
Profession: Biochemist.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN CHRISTIE 04/07/1824- 19/08/1902
Place of Birth: Old Monkland, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 03/05/1875.
Profession: Landowner, Ironmaster, Arboriculturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN CHIENE 25/02/1843- 29/05/1923
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/05/1874.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS BEATH CHRISTIE ?-15/01/1892
Date of Election: 15/04/1872.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
VERE GORDON CHILDE 14/04/1892- 19/10/1957
Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Date of Election: 07/03/1932.
Profession: Archaeologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER CHRISTISON ?-25/06/1820
Place of Birth: Redpath, Longformacus, Berwickshire.
Date of Election: 23/06/1800.
Profession: Schoolmaster, Classicist, Mathematician.
Notes: Born c1751
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN GEORGE CHILDREN 18/05/1777- 01/01/1852
Place of Birth: Ferox Hall, Tunbridge, Kent..
Date of Election: 01/01/1812.
Profession: Physicist, Chemist, Astronomer,Zoologist,
Mineralogist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ROBERT CHRISTISON, bart. 18/07/179727/01/1882
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/12/1823.
Profession: Physician, Toxicologist.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES BERNARD CHILDS 23/06/189504/07/1956
Date of Election: 05/03/1956.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE CHRYSTAL 08/03/1851- 03/11/1911
Place of Birth: Mill of Kinggoodie,Bourtie,
Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 02/02/1880.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM HAROLD JOSEPH CHILDS 19/01/190526/04/1983
Place of Birth: Bromley by Bow, London.
Date of Election: 07/03/1949.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
FEODOR VASILEVICH CHUKHROV
Date of Election: 03/03/1986.
Profession: Geologist.
Notes: Died 1987-8
Fellow Type: HF
EDMUND CHISHOLM, UNTIL 1858 BATTEN ?13/02/1897
Place of Birth: Kingston nr Yeovil, Somerset.
Date of Election: 19/04/1858.
Profession: Barrister, Antiquary.
Notes: Born 1817
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES CHUMLEY ?-12/12/1948
Place of Birth: Leeds, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Oceanographer.
Notes: Born 1861
Fellow Type: OF
GEOFFREY DUNCAN CHISHOLM 30/09/193110/11/1994
Place of Birth: Hawera, North Island, New Zealand.
Date of Election: 07/03/1994.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM REID CLANNY ?-10/01/1850
Place of Birth: Bangor, Co. Down, Ireland.
Date of Election: 04/04/1825.
Profession: Physician,Author.
Notes: Born 1776. Practiced at Bishopwearmouth for
45 years. Devlin-Thorp gives date of death as
10/6/1850
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE GOUDIE CHISHOLM 01/05/185009/02/1930
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/03/1924.
Profession: Geographer.
Fellow Type: OF
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ALFRED JOSEPH CLARK 19/08/1885- 30/07/1941
Place of Birth: Glastonbury, Somerset.
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Physician, Pharmacologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ANDREW CLARK, 26/09/1911- 19/11/1983
Place of Birth: Girvan, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1957.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR MELVILLE CLARK OF HERRIOTSHALL
20/08/1895- 21/03/1990
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Scholar of English Literature.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER ROSS CLARKE 16/12/1828- 11/02/1914
Date of Election: 16/05/1892.
Profession: Soldier, Geodesist.
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM EAGLE CLARKE 16/03/1853- 10/05/1938
Place of Birth: Leeds, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1903.
Profession: Ornithologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES CLARK (CLERK) ?-21/01/1819
Date of Election: 04/01/1791.
Profession: Physician, Chemist, Natural Historian.
Notes: Born c.1737.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT DURWARD CLARKSON
Date of Election: 15/06/1914.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN CLARK
Date of Election: 04/12/1837.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Died 1845
Fellow Type: OF
RUDOLPH JULIUS EMMANUEL CLAUSIUS
02/01/1822- 24/08/1888
Place of Birth: Coslin, Pomerania, Germany.
Date of Election: 30/01/1888.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN BROWN CLARK 30/04/1861- 19/07/1947
Place of Birth: West Linton, Peebleeshire.
Date of Election: 02/02/1891.
Profession: Mathematician, Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS MORRISON CLAYTON ?-21/03/1949
Place of Birth: Felling, Co. Durham.
Date of Election: 17/05/1909.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1870
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT CLARK ?-17/03/1894
Date of Election: 01/02/1875.
Profession: Publisher.
Notes: Born c.1826
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER CLEGHORN ?-04/05/1922
Date of Election: 02/06/1913.
Profession: Marine Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT SELBIE CLARK ?-29/09/1950
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 04/03/1935.
Profession: Marine Zoologist.
Notes: Notes 1882
Fellow Type: OF
HUGH CLEGHORN
Place of Birth: Fifeshire.
Date of Election: 25/01/1790.
Profession: Diplomat.
Notes: Born c1751, died February 1836. Responsible
for annexing Sri Lanka formerly Ceylon to the British
Crown
Fellow Type: OF
SIR THOMAS CLARK, bart. 05/09/1823- 24/12/1900
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/03/1886.
Profession: Publisher.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR THOMAS CLARK, bart.
Date of Election: 07/03/1932.
Profession: Publisher.
Notes: Died c.1976
Fellow Type: OF
HUGH FRANCIS CLARKE CLEGHORN OF STRAVITHIE
09/08/1820- 16/05/1895
Place of Birth: Madras, India.
Date of Election: 01/12/1862.
Profession: Physician, Botanist, Forester.
Notes: "The Father of Scientific Forestry in India"
Endowed the Chair of Forestry, Edinburgh University
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS ARCHIBALD BENNET- CLARK 13/01/190324/11/1975
Place of Birth: George Street, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/07/1968.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: HF
ROBERT CLEGHORN ?-18/06/1821
Date of Election: 23/06/1788.
Profession: Physician, Chemist, Pharmacologist.
Notes: Born c1755
Fellow Type: OF
W.D. CLARK
Date of Election: 16/04/1866.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS CLEGHORN 03/03/1818- 13/06/1874
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/05/1856.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM INGLIS CLARK 04/06/1855- 21/12/1932
Place of Birth: Bombay, India.
Date of Election: 19/12/1910.
Profession: Pharmaceutical Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
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ANDREW CLEPHANE ?-25/08/1838
Date of Election: 03/04/1826.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Born 1780
Fellow Type: OF
SIR THOMAS SMITH CLOUSTON 22/04/184019/04/1915
Place of Birth: Orkney.
Date of Election: 01/02/1875.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Photograph NLS Acc10000/380
Fellow Type: OF
SIR DUGALD CLERK 31/03/1854- 12/11/1932
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 06/03/1922.
Profession: Mechanical Engineer.
Notes: Pioneer in the developmernt of the Internal
Combustion Engine
Fellow Type: OF
ARCHIE CLOW 11/01/1909- 14/12/1996
Date of Election: 02/03/1953.
Profession: Chemist, Broadcaster, Author.
Fellow Type: OF
CLYDESMUIR, BARON. SEE COLVILLE, RONALD
JOHN BILSLAND.
CLERK, GEORGE. SEE MAXWELL, GEORGE CLERK-.
SIR GEORGE CLERK OF PENNYCUIK, bart.
19/11/1787- 23/12/1867
Place of Birth: Nr Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/01/1812.
Profession: Advocate, Landowner, Statesman.
Notes: Elected 1812
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY COATES
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, USA.
Date of Election: 16/05/1892.
Profession: Naturalist, Conchologist, Geologist.
Notes: Born 1859, Died 1935. Photograph NLS Acc
10000/380
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN CLERK, LORD ELDIN ?-30/05/1832
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 26/01/1784.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Born April 1757
Fellow Type: OF
SIR PETER COATS (COATES) ?-09/03/1890
Date of Election: 05/12/1881.
Profession: Industrialist, Philanthropist.
Notes: Born c 1809
Fellow Type: OF
ARCHIBALD COCHRANE, EARL OF DUNDONALD
01/01/1749- 01/07/1831
Date of Election: 26/01/1784.
Profession: Naval Officer, Landowner, Industrial
Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN CLERK OF PENNYCUIK, bart. ?-24/02/1798
Place of Birth: Midlothian.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Naval Officer.
Notes: Born 1736
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER MURRAY COCKBURN 08/08/190128/02/1959
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN CLERK OF ELDIN 10/12/1728- 10/05/1812
Place of Birth: Penicuik, Midlothian.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Naval Author, Artist, Geologist,
Landowner.
Notes: Friend and Associate of Dr James Hutton
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN COCKBURN
Date of Election: 02/05/1887.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Resigned 1909-10
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN DUTTON CLERK OF PENICUIK, bart.
30/01/1917- 25/10/2002
Date of Election: 07/03/1977.
Profession: Royal Naval Officer, Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN COCKBURN
Date of Election: 17/02/1840.
Profession: Wine Merchant.
Notes: Died 1861-2
Fellow Type: OF
CLERK, JAMES. SEE RATTRAY OF CRAIGHALL,
JAMES CLERK-.
CHARLES THOMAS CLOUGH ?-27/08/1916
Place of Birth: Huddersfield, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1916.
Profession: Geologist.
Notes: Born 1853
Fellow Type: OF
EMILIO COIA 13/04/1911- 17/06/1997
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 05/03/1984.
Profession: Artist.
Fellow Type: OF
ERNEST GEORGE COKER 26/04/1869- 09/04/1946
Place of Birth: Wolverton, Buckinghamshire.
Date of Election: 07/12/1903.
Profession: Mathematician, Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID CLOUSTON 13/12/1871- 18/04/1948
Place of Birth: Orkney.
Date of Election: 07/03/1932.
Profession: Agriculturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
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THOMAS FREDERICK COLBY 01/09/178409/10/1852
Place of Birth: St Margaret's-next-Rochester, Kent.
Date of Election: 22/01/1816.
Profession: Surveyor.
Notes: Responsible for The Ordinance Survey of
Scotland 1813-20, and Ireland 1824-46
Fellow Type: OF
COLONSAY AND ORONSAY, BARON. SEE MCNEILL,
DUNCAN.
SIR IAIN COLQUHOUN, bart.
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Land Owner.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN CAMPBELL COLQUHOUN OF MILLIGS
31/01/1785- 21/08/1854
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 24/01/1820.
Profession: Advocate, writer on psychical research.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY THOMAS COLEBROOKE 15/06/176510/03/1837
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 22/01/1816.
Profession: Linguist, Mathematician.
Notes: First great Sanscrit scholar of Europe
Fellow Type: OF
WALTER COLQUHOUN ?-02/04/1930
Date of Election: 02/05/1904.
Profession: Physician, Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOSEPH JAMES COLEMAN ?-18/12/1888
Date of Election: 06/12/1886.
Profession: Industrial Chemist.
Notes: Born c1839. Invented dry-air mechanical
refrigerators.
Fellow Type: OF
RONALD JOHN BILSLAND COLVILLE, BARON
CLYDESMUIR 21/05/1917- 02/10/1996
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 06/03/1978.
Profession: Company Director.
Fellow Type: HF
ALFRED CHARLES COLES ?-26/09/1944
Date of Election: 07/12/1903.
Profession: Physician, Microbiologist.
Notes: Born 1866
A COLYAR
Date of Election: 05/01/1829.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Stated to be "R C Colyar" in billet intimating
election. Died c.1880
Fellow Type: OF
Extra biographical information received by email
13/7/05 from Caroline Gurney (1st cousin 3 times
removed):
Place of birth- Bournemouth
Father- Alfred Case Coles, chemist and druggist in the
Holdenhurst area of Bournemouth
Mother- Sarah Coles
Marital Status- Married (1924)- Frances Edith
Bagshaw, duaghter of Richard Bagshaw
Appointments held- Consultant (by 1935) at Royal
Victoria Hospital
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES SCARTH COMBE 05/01/1796- 14/02/1883
Place of Birth: Leith, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 16/12/1850.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Notes: First to describe pernicious anaemia
Fellow Type: OF
PETER GEORGE LE COMBER 19/02/194109/09/1992
Place of Birth: Ilford, Essex.
Date of Election: 05/03/1984.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS RICHARDSON COLLEDGE ?-28/10/1879
Place of Birth: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
Date of Election: 15/04/1844.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1796
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT SEMPLE COMLINE 03/12/1919- 04/08/1998
Date of Election: 04/03/1974.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon, Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
LEON WILLIAM COLLET 23/09/1880- 13/10/1957
Place of Birth: Fiez, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland.
Date of Election: 04/07/1949.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: HF
PETER COMRIE ?-20/12/1944
Date of Election: 15/03/1909.
Profession: Mathematician, Physicist, Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN NORMAN COLLIE 10/09/1859- 01/11/1942
Place of Birth: Alderley Edge, Cheshire.
Date of Election: 16/01/1888.
Profession: Chemist, Mountaineer.
Fellow Type: OF
EDWIN GRANT CONKLIN 24/11/1863- 21/11/1952
Place of Birth: Waldo, Ohio, USA.
Date of Election: 03/07/1933.
Profession: Biologist, Marine Zoologist.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR EDWARD FOYLE COLLINGWOOD 17/01/190025/10/1970
Place of Birth: Lilburn Tower near Wooler,
Northumberland.
Date of Election: 01/03/1954.
Profession: Mathematician, Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
DANIEL M. CONNAN
Date of Election: 07/12/1885.
Profession: Educationalist.
Notes: "Unknown whereabouts" 1926-7
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR CONNELL 30/11/1794- 31/10/1863
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/03/1829.
Profession: Advocate, Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
MARY COLLINS ?-27/12/1989
Date of Election: 03/03/1952.
Profession: Psychologist.
Fellow Type: OF
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SIR CHARLES GIBSON CONNELL 11/03/189926/02/1986
Place of Birth: Newington, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/03/1965.
Profession: Writer to The Signet, Ornithologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES COOPER
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Mining Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN COOPER
Date of Election: 26/01/1795.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ARCHIBALD DAVID CONSTABLE ?-14/01/1915
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 19/02/1872.
Profession: Printer and Publisher.
Notes: Born 1843
Fellow Type: OF
MALCOLM MCGREGOR COOPER 17/08/191001/09/1989
Place of Birth: Havelock Farm North, New Zealand.
Date of Election: 05/03/1956.
Profession: Agriculturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR (ANDREW) HENDERSON BRIGGS
CONSTABLE, LORD CONSTABLE ?-04/11/1928
Place of Birth: Benarty, Fife.
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
ROLAND EDGAR COOPER ?-31/01/1962
Place of Birth: Kingston-on-Thames, London.
Date of Election: 02/03/1942.
Profession: Botanist.
Notes: Born 1891
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS CONSTABLE 29/06/1812- 26/05/1881
Place of Birth: Craigcrook, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 19/02/1866.
Profession: Printer and Publisher.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS MACKAY COOPER, BARON COOPER ?15/07/1955
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Born 1892
Fellow Type: OF
ELSIE CONWAY (NEE PHILLIPS) 15/03/190222/07/1992
Date of Election: 06/03/1967.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
RALPH COPELAND 03/09/1837- 27/10/1905
Place of Birth: Moorside Farm, Near Woodplumpton,
Lancashire.
Date of Election: 02/12/1889.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE COOK ?-13/05/1845
Place of Birth: Fife.
Date of Election: 22/01/1816.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Born December 1772. The ms proposal is
seconded also by John Davidson
Fellow Type: OF
PATRICK COPLAND ?-10/11/1822
Place of Birth: Manse of Fintray, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physicist, Mathematician.
Notes: Born January 1749
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES WILFRED COOK 10/12/1900- 21/10/1975
Place of Birth: South Kensington, London.
Date of Election: 04/03/1940.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM COPLAND OF COLLISTON AND
BLACKWOOD ?-07/09/1851
Date of Election: 15/12/1834.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Born c.1808
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN COOK OF NEWBURN ?-01/07/1815
Place of Birth: Fife.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Philosopher.
Notes: Born 1739
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN TERENCE COPPOCK 02/06/1821- 28/06/2000
Place of Birth: Crieff, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1976.
Profession: Geographer.
Notes: Lord Chamberlain's Department, Ministry of
Works, Board of Custom and Excise
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN COOK ?-30/12/1915
Date of Election: 15/01/1894.
Profession: Physicist,Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT PERCIVAL COOK 14/04/1906- 26/08/1989
Date of Election: 04/03/1946.
Profession: Physician, Biochemist.
Fellow Type: OF
EDWARD THOMAS COPSON 21/08/190116/02/1980
Place of Birth: Coventry, Warwickshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1924.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY ANSTEY COOKSON 01/07/1886- 16/05/1949
Date of Election: 03/03/1941.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES ALFRED COOPER 16/09/1829- 14/04/1916
Place of Birth: Hull, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 01/12/1890.
Profession: Journalist.
Fellow Type: OF
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SIR JOHN ROSE CORMACK 01/03/1815- 13/05/1882
Place of Birth: Stow Manse, Midlothian.
Date of Election: 06/02/1843.
Profession: Physician, Medical Journalist.
Notes: 1841-55 founded & edited Edinburgh
Monthly Journal of Medical Science, London Medical
Journal, & The Associated Medical Journal
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER COUTIE 18/11/1895- 28/04/1969
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Chemist, Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES COUTTS
Date of Election: 04/03/1940.
Profession: Pharmacist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE WASHINGTON CORNER 12/12/188928/09/1981
Place of Birth: Baltimore, USA.
Date of Election: 02/07/1951.
Profession: Zoologist,Anatomist, Embryologist.
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM BARRON COUTTS 26/05/188516/12/1946
Place of Birth: Kinghorn, Fife.
Date of Election: 01/12/1913.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID CORRIE ?-22/03/1930
Date of Election: 19/12/1904.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW COVENTRY ?-17/12/1830
Place of Birth: Stitchel, Roxburghshire.
Date of Election: 23/01/1792.
Profession: Physician, Agriculturalist, Rural
Economist.
Notes: Born February 1762, First Professor of
Agriculture in Great Britain
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES COSSAR ?-24/07/1998
Date of Election: 02/03/1942.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY COTTERILL 06/01/1812- 16/04/1886
Date of Election: 15/01/1872.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW COVENTRY
Date of Election: 06/03/1843.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Born 1801 died c.1877
Fellow Type: OF
TOM LEADBETTER COTTRELL 08/06/192302/06/1973
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/03/1960.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE COVENTRY 05/04/1791- 01/03/1872
Date of Election: 01/05/1826.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE COULL ?-10/01/1934
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/03/1929.
Profession: Pharmaceutical Chemist.
Notes: Born 1862
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER COWAN ?-18/12/1943
Date of Election: 19/12/1910.
Profession: Papermaker, Botanist, Agriculturalist.
Notes: Born 1863
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES COWAN 07/06/1801- 29/03/1889
Place of Birth: Charlotte Street, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 20/04/1863.
Profession: Papermaker, Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES ALFRED COULSON 13/12/191007/01/1974
Place of Birth: Dudley, Worcestershire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1941.
Profession: Theoretical Chemist, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR HENRY KENNETH COWAN 17/06/190016/06/1971
Place of Birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Date of Election: 05/03/1956.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM COUPER ?-04/08/1857
Date of Election: 25/01/1819.
Profession: Zoologist, Natural Historian.
Notes: Born 1792
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MACQUEEN COWAN
Place of Birth: Banchory, Kincardineshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Botanist.
Notes: Born 1892, d.1960.
Fellow Type: OF
VICTOR COUSIN 28/11/1792- 13/01/1867
Place of Birth: Paris, France.
Date of Election: 20/04/1835.
Profession: Philosopher.
Notes: Peer of France 1832. Proposed by Sir William
Hamilton, John C Colquhoun, Thomas Stewart Traill,
1/12/1834, (ms Proposal NLS Acc 10,000/45)
Fellow Type: HF
ROBERT CRAIG COWAN ?-22/03/1937
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Paper Manufacturer.
Notes: Born 1865
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES JOHNSTONE COUSLAND ?-14/09/1966
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Printer.
Notes: Born 1876
Fellow Type: OF
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SAMUEL HUNTER COWAN
Date of Election: 04/03/1935.
Profession: Engineer.
Notes: Expert on the mechanical side of Astronomical
Science
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM CRAIG, LORD CRAIG 06/06/174508/07/1813
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate, Essayist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT J COX 06/05/1845- 02/06/1899
Place of Birth: Gorgie House, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/01/1879.
Profession: Industrialist, Member of Parliament.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM CRAIG 28/03/1832- 03/02/1922
Place of Birth: High Ploughland,Avondale,
Strathaven, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 04/01/1875.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon, Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES COXE ?-09/05/1878
Place of Birth: Gorgie, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/12/1854.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1811
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM GIBSON- CRAIG OF RICCARTON, bart.
02/08/1797- 12/03/1878
Date of Election: 02/03/1829.
Profession: Advocate, Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM GRANT CRAIB 10/03/1882- 01/09/1933
Place of Birth: Banff.
Date of Election: 01/03/1920.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM STUART MCRAE CRAIG 19/07/190321/06/1975
Place of Birth: Bingley, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
EDWARD CRAIG
Date of Election: 06/04/1835.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Died 1850
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID CRAIGIE 06/06/1793- 17/05/1866
Place of Birth: Leith, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/03/1833.
Profession: Physician, Author.
Notes: Prolific writer on clinical subjects
Fellow Type: OF
EDWARD HUBERT CUNNINGHAM- CRAIG ?24/04/1946
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/03/1916.
Profession: Geologist.
Notes: Born 1874
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM CRAMER
Date of Election: 18/02/1907.
Profession: Physiologist.
Notes: Last entry in records October 1915
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES IRELAND CRAIG 24/02/1868- 26/01/1952
Place of Birth: Buckhaven, Fife.
Date of Election: 17/02/1908.
Profession: Schoolmaster, Surveyor, Meteorologist,
Mathematician.
Notes: Director 1920-2, Food Control, Upper Silesia
Plebiscite Commission
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ARNOLD CRANSTON 15/08/1891- 26/04/1972
Place of Birth: Shanghai, China.
Date of Election: 07/03/1966.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
ADAIR CRAWFORD ?-29/07/1795
Place of Birth: Antrim, N. Ireland.
Date of Election: 22/01/1787.
Profession: Physician, Chemist.
Notes: Born 1748
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES THOMSON GIBSON- CRAIG OF RICCARTON
12/03/1799- 18/07/1886
Date of Election: 01/03/1830.
Profession: Writer to The Signet, Antiquarian.
Fellow Type: OF
DONALD CRAWFORD 03/05/1837- 01/01/1919
Date of Election: 05/05/1873.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN CRAIG
Date of Election: 26/01/1818.
Profession: Economist.
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCIS CHALMERS CRAWFORD 24/08/185109/02/1908
Date of Election: 07/03/1898.
Profession: Stockbroker, Botanist, Ornithologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT MELDRUM CRAIG 13/07/1882- 28/03/1956
Place of Birth: Ardentinny, Argyllshire.
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN BALFOUR CRAWFORD
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Banker.
Notes: Born c1892
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT WILLIAM CRAIG ?-15/07/1952
Place of Birth: Pathhead, Ford, Midlothian.
Date of Election: 06/03/1944.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1879
Fellow Type: OF
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LAWRENCE (LAURENCE) CRAWFORD ?-05/04/1951
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 05/01/1903.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Born 1867
Fellow Type: OF
CECIL JOHN TURRELL CRONSHAW 13/06/188905/01/1961
Place of Birth: Bury, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS JACKSON CRAWFORD ?-11/10/1875
Place of Birth: St Andrews, Fife.
Date of Election: 01/05/1871.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Born 1812
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN HALLIDAY CROOM 15/01/184727/09/1923
Place of Birth: United Presbyterian Manse,Sanquhar,
Dumfriesshire.
Date of Election: 05/04/1886.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM CALDWELL CRAWFORD 02/12/184221/06/1918
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 07/02/1887.
Profession: Naturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW CROSBIE OF HOLM ?-25/02/1785
Place of Birth: Dumfries.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Born 1736. Original of Councillor Pleydell in
Sir Walter Scotts's "Guy Mannering"
Fellow Type: OF
CRAWFORD AND BALCARRES, EARL OF. SEE
LINDSAY, DAVID ALEXANDER ROBERT.
ROBERT CRAIGIE CROSS 24/11/1911- 13/09/2000
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 07/03/1977.
Profession: Philosopher.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM CREECH 21/04/1745- 14/01/1815
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 26/01/1784.
Profession: Publisher, Printer and Bookseller.
Notes: Published the Edinburgh Edition of the poems
of Robert Burns
Fellow Type: OF
CROWFOOT, DOROTHY MARY. SEE HODGKIN,
DOROTHY MARY CROWFOOT.
ERNEST WILLIAM HENDERSON CRUICKSHANK ?29/12/1964
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/03/1929.
Profession: Physician,Physiologist.
Notes: Born 1888
Fellow Type: OF
LORENTZ FLORENZ FREDERICK VON CRELL
21/01/1744- 07/06/1816
Place of Birth: Helmstadt, Germany.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
LUIGI CREMONA 07/12/1830- 10/06/1903
Place of Birth: Pavia, Italy.
Date of Election: 19/02/1883.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Resident in Rome
Fellow Type: HF
MARTIN MELVIN CRUICKSHANK 22/03/188810/10/1964
Place of Birth: Leith, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Ophthalmic Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCIS ALBERT ELEY CREW 02/03/188626/05/1973
Place of Birth: Tipton,Staffordshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1922.
Profession: Geneticist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT CRUICKSHANK ?-16/08/1974
Date of Election: 02/03/1959.
Profession: Bacteriologist.
Notes: Born September 1899
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN CRICHTON ?-26/08/1958
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Meteorologist.
Notes: Born c 1892
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER CULLEN ?-07/11/1963
Date of Election: 01/03/1948.
Profession: Architect.
Notes: Born c1891
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ANDREW CRICHTON 05/10/1899- 24/08/1985
Place of Birth: Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1960.
Profession: Nutritionist, Agriculturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER CULLEN
Date of Election: 17/01/1898.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died 1910-1
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES EDWARD CROMBIE ?-06/08/1932
Place of Birth: Old Machar, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1916.
Profession: Millowner, Meteorologist,Seismologist.
Notes: Born 1862
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY CULLEN ?-11/10/1790
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born c1758
Fellow Type: OF
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ROBERT CULLEN, LORD CULLEN 22/09/174228/11/1810
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM GORDON GORDON- CUMMING OF
ALTYRE AND GORDONSTON, bart. 20/07/178725/11/1854
Date of Election: 07/01/1828.
Profession: Politician, Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM CULLEN 15/04/1710- 05/02/1790
Place of Birth: Hamilton, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician, Chemist, Agriculturalist.
Notes: First in Britain to stress the importance of
Chemistry in Medicine
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM MURDOCH CUMMING 02/11/1891- ?
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
BRYSSON CUNNINGHAM
Date of Election: 05/03/1917.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
ERNEST GEOFFREY CULLWICK 24/05/190313/05/1981
Place of Birth: Wolverhampton, Staffordshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1950.
Profession: Electrical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
DANIEL JOHN CUNNINGHAM 15/04/185023/06/1909
Place of Birth: Manse of Crieff, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 07/01/1878.
Profession: Anatomist.
Fellow Type: OF
A. S. CUMMING
Date of Election: 02/05/1887.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID CUNNINGHAM 14/07/1838- 13/06/1896
Place of Birth: Dundee, Angus.
Date of Election: 07/12/1885.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER CUMMING ?-08/03/1814
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Mathematician, Mechanic and
Watchmaker.
Notes: born 1733.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE CUNNINGHAM, AFTER 1883 MILLERCUNNINGHAM OF LEITHEN HOPES 08/05/182925/03/1897
Date of Election: 05/03/1877.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER CHARLES CUMMING 12/08/188028/09/1940
Place of Birth: Melbourne,Victoria, Australia.
Date of Election: 25/05/1914.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
J. T. CUNNINGHAM
Date of Election: 02/06/1884.
Profession: Marine Biologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES CUNNINGHAM 18/03/1800- 06/11/1878
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 16/02/1852.
Profession: Writer to The Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE ALEXANDER CUMMING 28/03/190116/09/1955
Place of Birth: Lower Largo, Fife.
Date of Election: 05/03/1951.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN CUNNINGHAM ?-06/08/1968
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/03/1930.
Profession: Physician,Bacteriologist.
Notes: Born c1882
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN CUMMING 10/11/1810- 05/07/1881
Place of Birth: Fintray, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 21/02/1853.
Profession: Minister of Religion and Author.
Notes: DNB gives the date of birth as 10/11/1807
Fellow Type: OF
LESLIE BENNET CRAIGIE CUNNINGHAM ?31/08/1946
Date of Election: 05/03/1945.
Profession: Mathematician, Physicist.
Notes: Born 1895
Fellow Type: OF
PATRICK CUMMING (CUMIN) 11/10/174127/10/1820
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Philologist.
Notes: his tenure of a Professorial Chair of 59 years
was (is ?) a record
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT JAMES BLAIR CUNYNGHAME ?-23/12/1903
Date of Election: 06/02/1871.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: born January 1841
Fellow Type: OF
SIR RONALD STUART CUMMING ?-17/11/1982
Date of Election: 06/03/1967.
Profession: Company Director.
Notes: Born April 1900
Fellow Type: OF
SAMUEL NEWBY CURLE 18/06/1930- 27/06/1989
Place of Birth: Sunderland, Co Durham.
Date of Election: 07/03/1977.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
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ROBERT CROWE CURRAN
Date of Election: 05/03/1962.
Profession: Physician, Pathologist.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
SIR DAVID PATON CUTHBERTSON 09/05/190015/04/1989
Place of Birth: Kilmarnock, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1949.
Profession: Chemist, Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR SAMUEL CROWE CURRAN 23/05/191225/02/1998
Date of Election: 03/03/1947.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN CUTHBERTSON ?-08/04/1933
Place of Birth: Kilmaurs, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1904.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Notes: Born 1859
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ALASTAIR ROBERT CURRIE 08/10/192112/01/1994
Place of Birth: Isle of Islay.
Date of Election: 02/03/1964.
Profession: Physician, Pathologist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGES LEOPOLD CHRETIEN FREDERIC DAGOBERT
CUVIER 23/08/1769- 13/05/1832
Place of Birth: Montbeliard, France.
Date of Election: 25/01/1813.
Profession: Anatomist, Palaeontologist.
Fellow Type: HF
ETHEL DOBBIE CURRIE ?-24/03/1963
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 07/03/1949.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
DAER, BARON. SEE DOUGLAS, BASIL, WILLIAM.
DAER, BARON. SEE DOUGLAS, THOMAS, 5TH EARL
OF SELKIRK.
JAMES CURRIE 13/04/1863- 03/11/1930
Place of Birth: Leith, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/12/1897.
Profession: Shipowner, Mineralogist, Botanist,
Archaeologist.
Fellow Type: OF
FREDERICK SYDNEY DAINTON, BARON DAINTON
11/11/1914- 05/12/1997
Place of Birth: Sheffield, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1996.
Profession: Physical Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
RONALD IAN CURRIE 10/10/1928- 19/02/1996
Place of Birth: Paisley, Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1969.
Profession: Marine Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT GILLIES MUIR DAKERS 27/11/189522/12/1961
Place of Birth: Haddington, East Lothian.
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
STANLEY CURSITER 29/04/1887- 22/04/1976
Place of Birth: Kirkwall, Orkney.
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Artist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR HENRY HALLETT DALE 09/06/1875- 23/07/1968
Place of Birth: 5 Devonshire Street, Islington,London.
Date of Election: 06/07/1936.
Profession: Physiologist, Pharmacologist.
Fellow Type: HF
LISCOMBE JOHN CURTIS
Date of Election: 02/06/1823.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
ELMSLIE WILLIAM DALLAS 27/06/1809- 26/01/1879
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 07/04/1851.
Profession: Artist, Teacher, Photographer.
Fellow Type: OF
ERNST CURTIUS ?-11/07/1896
Place of Birth: Lubeck, Germany.
Date of Election: 18/02/1889.
Profession: Classical Archaeologist.
Notes: Born 1814
Fellow Type: HF
SIR THOMAS DALLING 23/04/1892- 23/05/1982
Place of Birth: 77 Howdenhall Road, Liberton,
Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/03/1942.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon, Bacteriologist.
Fellow Type: OF
HARVEY WILLIAMS CUSHING 08/04/186907/10/1939
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Date of Election: 03/07/1939.
Profession: Surgeon, Neurologist.
Fellow Type: HF
JAMES DALMAHOY 23/03/1800- 27/04/1880
Date of Election: 19/04/1841.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR ROBERTSON CUSHNY 06/03/186625/02/1926
Place of Birth: Manse of Speymouth,Fochabers,
Morayshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1919.
Profession: Pharmacologist, Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES DALRYMPLE GRAY DALRYMPLE OF
WOODHEAD, UNTIL 1902 JAMES DALRYMPLE
DUNCAN 07/07/1852- ?
Date of Election: 07/01/1889.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Name changed in RSE records 1902 (Billet
7/7/1902). Resided at Meiklewood, Stirling
Fellow Type: OF
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SIR JOHN DALRYMPLE OF COUSLAND AND
CRANSTOUN, OR DALRYMPLE HAMILTON MACGILL,
bart. ?-26/02/1810
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate, Chemist, Author.
Notes: Born 1726
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR DUKINFIELD DARBISHIRE ?-26/12/1915
Date of Election: 15/07/1912.
Profession: Zoologist, Geneticist.
Notes: Born 1879
Fellow Type: OF
JEAN GASTON DARBOUX 13/08/1842- 25/02/1917
Place of Birth: Nimes, France.
Date of Election: 07/07/1902.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN DALTON 06/09/1766- 27/07/1844
Place of Birth: Eaglesfield, nr Cockermouth,
Cumberland.
Date of Election: 20/04/1835.
Profession: Chemist, Natural Philosopher.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR FRANK FRASER DARLING 23/06/190322/10/1979
Place of Birth: Soresby Street, Chesterfield,
Derbyshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1934.
Profession: Genetecist, Ecologist.
Fellow Type: OF
IVAN DE BURGH DALY 14/04/1893- 08/02/1974
Place of Birth: Pyrmont,Brinswood Avenue,
Leamington Spa,Warwicks..
Date of Election: 05/03/1934.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
MOIR TOD STORMONTH- DARLING (LORD
STORMONTH- DARLING) 03/11/1844- 02/06/1912
Date of Election: 02/03/1891.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
REGINALD ALDWORTH DALY
Date of Election: 04/07/1921.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR WILLIAM YOUNG DARLING 08/05/188504/02/1962
Place of Birth: Carlisle, Cumberland.
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Company Director.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW DALZEL (DALZIEL) 06/10/174208/12/1806
Place of Birth: Gateside of Newliston, West Lothian.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Classicist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR CHARLES GALTON DARWIN 19/12/188731/12/1962
Place of Birth: Newnham Grange Cambridge.
Date of Election: 03/03/1924.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALLEN DALZELL ?-29/07/1869
Place of Birth: Madras, India.
Date of Election: 19/01/1852.
Profession: Chemist, Pharmacologist.
Notes: Born 1821
Fellow Type: OF
NICOL (NICHOLAS) ALEXANDER DALZELL
21/04/1817- ?
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/03/1862.
Profession: Botanist.
Notes: Died January
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN 12/02/180919/04/1882
Place of Birth: The Mount, Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
Date of Election: 04/12/1865.
Profession: Naturalist, Author.
Notes: Author of the theory of the origin of species
by natural selection
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN GRAHAME DALZIEL
Date of Election: 06/05/1878.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Associated with St. Andrews and Glasgow
Fellow Type: OF
SIR FRANCIS DARWIN 16/08/1848- 19/09/1925
Place of Birth: Down House, Kent.
Date of Election: 03/07/1916.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: HF
CARL PETER HENRIK DAM
Date of Election: 06/07/1953.
Profession: Biochemist.
Notes: Died 1975-6
Fellow Type: HF
SIR GEORGE HOWARD DARWIN 09/07/184507/12/1912
Place of Birth: Down, Kent.
Date of Election: 15/03/1897.
Profession: Barrister, Astronomer, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
JAMES DWIGHT DANA 12/02/1813- 15/04/1895
Place of Birth: Utica, New York, USA.
Date of Election: 19/04/1858.
Profession: Geologist, Mineralogist, Educator.
Fellow Type: HF
ATULANANDA DAS ?-10/12/1952
Date of Election: 03/03/1941.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
SATISH CHANDRA DAS
Date of Election: 02/03/1942.
Profession: Pharmacologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALFRED DANIELL ?-12/01/1937
Place of Birth: Llanelly,Wales.
Date of Election: 02/02/1885.
Profession: Barrister, Advocate, Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
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RASIK LAL DATTA
Date of Election: 07/03/1921.
Profession: Industrial Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES NORMAN DAVIDSON 05/03/191111/09/1972
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/03/1941.
Profession: Biochemist.
Fellow Type: OF
SATCHIDINANDA DATTA
Date of Election: 04/03/1940.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Notes: Removed from Roll 1956-7
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN DAVIDSON OF STEWARTFIELD AND HALTREE
?-29/11/1797
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Writer to The Signet, Antiquary.
Notes: Born c1725
Fellow Type: OF
GABRIEL AUGUSTE DAUBREE 25/06/181429/05/1896
Place of Birth: Metz, France.
Date of Election: 06/05/1895.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: HF
JOSEPH GEORGE DAVIDSON 07/02/189209/10/1969
Place of Birth: New York, USA.
Date of Election: 04/07/1949.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
ROBERT DAUN 16/04/1785- 14/06/1871
Date of Election: 06/01/1840.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
JOSHUA HENRY DAVIDSON ?-05/01/1847
Date of Election: 25/01/1813.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born c1785
Fellow Type: OF
A. DYCE DAVIDSON
Date of Election: 06/04/1885.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Died 1885-6
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ANDREW DAVIDSON 12/03/1892- 13/03/1962
Place of Birth: Dalmuir, Dunbartonshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1942.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR LEYBOURNE STANLEY PATRICK DAVIDSON
03/03/1894- 27/09/1981
Place of Birth: Ceylon.
Date of Election: 07/03/1932.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES FINDLAY DAVIDSON 16/07/191101/11/1967
Place of Birth: Monifieth, Angus.
Date of Election: 04/03/1935.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
MAXWELL DAVIDSON 29/02/1896- 21/05/1983
Place of Birth: Hawick, Roxburghshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1935.
Profession: Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID DAVIDSON 20/05/1808- 30/10/1891
Place of Birth: 8 Heriot Row, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/01/1867.
Profession: Banker.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM MACKAY DAVIDSON 04/09/190908/11/1991
Place of Birth: Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1964.
Profession: Physician, Haematologist.
Fellow Type: OF
DUNCAN DAVIDSON OF TULLOCH CASTLE ?18/09/1881
Date of Election: 20/02/1843.
Profession: Soldier, Politician.
Notes: Born 1800
Fellow Type: OF
CEDRIC THORPE DAVIE 30/05/1913- 18/01/1983
Date of Election: 06/03/1978.
Profession: Musician, Composer.
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCIS DAVIES 15/12/1897- 15/04/1965
Place of Birth: Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Physician, Anatomist.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY DAVIDSON
Date of Election: 20/03/1848.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died c 1888
Fellow Type: OF
LEWIS MERSON DAVIES ?-22/09/1955
Place of Birth: Nagpur, India.
Date of Election: 03/03/1930.
Profession: Soldier, Geologist, Palaeontologist.
Notes: Born 1883
Fellow Type: OF
HUGH DAVIDSON
Date of Election: 07/06/1897.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES DAVIDSON ?-28/05/1956
Place of Birth: Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Lawyer.
Notes: Born 1873
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS STEPHENS DAVIES 01/01/179506/01/1851
Date of Election: 04/04/1831.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
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LESLIE JOHN DAVIS
Date of Election: 06/03/1944.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR DEANE 06/06/1875- 12/01/1954
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
PETER HADLAND DAVIS ?-05/03/1992
Place of Birth: Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset..
Date of Election: 07/03/1955.
Profession: Botanist.
Notes: Born 1918
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCIS DEAS 01/07/1839- 25/01/1874
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 21/01/1867.
Profession: Advocate, amateur microscopist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR HUMPHRY DAVY, bart. 17/12/1778- 29/05/1829
Place of Birth: Penzance, Cornwall.
Date of Election: 05/12/1808.
Profession: Chemist, Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
PHILIP IVOR DEE 08/04/1904- 17/04/1983
Place of Birth: Stroud, Gloucestershire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1946.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN DAVY 24/05/1790- 24/01/1868
Place of Birth: Penzance, Cornwall.
Date of Election: 22/02/1842.
Profession: Physician, Chemist.
Notes: Demonstrated the elementary nature of
chlorine
Fellow Type: OF
JOSEPH MARIE DE DEGERANDO (DE GERANDO) ?12/11/1842
Date of Election: 01/06/1820.
Profession: Legal Scholar, Philosopher, Educational
Theorist.
Notes: Born 1772
Fellow Type: OF
RICHARD DAVY ?-25/08/1920
Date of Election: 03/03/1884.
Profession: Surgeon, Landowner.
Notes: Born 1838
Fellow Type: OF
YVES DELAGE 13/05/1854- 07/10/1920
Place of Birth: Avignon, France.
Date of Election: 21/06/1920.
Profession: Zoologist.
Notes: Who Was Who gives date of death as
3/10/1920
Fellow Type: HF
SIR JOHN WILLIAM DAWSON 13/10/182019/11/1899
Place of Birth: Pictou, Nova Scotia.
Date of Election: 06/05/1895.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: HF
JEAN BAPTISTE JOSEPH DELAMBRE 19/09/174919/08/1822
Place of Birth: Amiens, France.
Date of Election: 24/01/1820.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
SHEPHERD DAWSON ?-26/03/1935
Place of Birth: Whitehaven, Cumberland.
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Psychologist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE DEMPSTER OF DUNNICHEN AND SKIBO
08/02/1732- 13/02/1818
Place of Birth: Dundee, Angus.
Date of Election: 28/01/1788.
Profession: Advocate, Landowner, Agricultural
Improver, Politician.
Notes: other sources give date of birth as 8/12/1732
Fellow Type: OF
WARREN ROYAL DAWSON 13/10/1888- 05/05/1958
Place of Birth: Ealing, London.
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Librarian, Underwriter, Egyptologist.
Fellow Type: OF
KENNETH GEORGE DENBIGH
Date of Election: 05/03/1956.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
ST. JOHN VINCENT DAY
Date of Election: 20/12/1869.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ARCHIBALD DENNY, bart. 07/02/186029/05/1936
Place of Birth: Dumbarton.
Date of Election: 05/02/1894.
Profession: Shipbuilder, Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS CUTHBERT DAY ?-13/06/1935
Place of Birth: Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire..
Date of Election: 05/03/1917.
Profession: Chemist, Geologist.
Notes: Born 1852
Fellow Type: OF
PETER DENNY ?-22/08/1895
Place of Birth: Dumbarton.
Date of Election: 07/02/1876.
Profession: Shipbuilder.
Notes: Born 1820
Fellow Type: OF
SIR GEORGE EDWARD RAVEN DEACON 21/03/190616/11/1984
Place of Birth: Leicester.
Date of Election: 04/03/1957.
Profession: Chemist, Oceanographer.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM DENNY 25/05/1847- 17/03/1887
Place of Birth: Dumbarton.
Date of Election: 03/02/1879.
Profession: Shipbuilder, Marine Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
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BHIMBHAI NICHHABHAI DESAI
Date of Election: 04/03/1935.
Profession: Meteorologist.
Notes: Died 1977-8
Fellow Type: OF
SASINDRA CHANDRA DHAR ?-30/10/1947
Place of Birth: Dacca, India.
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Born 1894
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID DEUCHAR
Date of Election: 01/04/1895.
Profession: Actuary.
Notes: Died 1904-5
Fellow Type: OF
DIAMANT, ARTHUR. SEE ERDELVI, ARTHUR.
SIR ALEXANDER DICK OF PRESTONFIELD, bart.
23/10/1703- 10/11/1785
Place of Birth: Prestonfield House, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician, Landowner, Antiquary.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY DEWAR OF LASSODIE (OR LASODDIE) ?18/01/1823
Date of Election: 22/01/1816.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born c1780
Fellow Type: OF
DICK, THOMAS LAUDER-. SEE LAUDER, THOMAS
DICK-.
WALTER GEORGE BURNETT DICKINSON
22/04/1858- 06/08/1914
Place of Birth: Boston, Lincolnshire.
Date of Election: 02/05/1904.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Notes: Photograph NLS Acc 10,000/380
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES DEWAR 20/09/1842- 27/03/1923
Place of Birth: Kincardine-on-Forth, Fife.
Date of Election: 15/02/1869.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Famed for his work on the liquifaction of
gases
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER DICKSON 21/02/1836- 30/12/1887
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/01/1869.
Profession: Morphological Botanist, Artist.
Notes: Died during a curling match
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES CAMPBELL DEWAR
Date of Election: 15/05/1905.
Profession: Chartered Accountant.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN DEWAR, BARON FORTEVIOT 17/03/188524/10/1947
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Company Director.
Fellow Type: OF
ANTHONY DICKSON
Date of Election: 06/02/1832.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN DEWAR ?-28/10/1856
Date of Election: 03/02/1823.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Born 1796
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES SCOTT DICKSON, LORD SCOTT DICKSON
13/09/1850- 05/08/1922
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 04/02/1884.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MICHAEL DEWAR ?-24/05/1941
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Physician, Gynaecologist, Ornithologist.
Notes: Born 1883
Fellow Type: OF
SIR DAVID JOHN (OR JAMES?) HAMILTON DICKSON
?-02/01/1850
Place of Birth: Bedrule, Roxburghshire.
Date of Election: 27/01/1817.
Profession: Naval Physician, Surgeon.
Notes: Born c1781. Devlin-Thorp states place of
death as Stonehouse
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS WILLIAM DEWAR ?-24/11/1931
Date of Election: 19/02/1906.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY NEWTON DICKSON 24/06/1866- 02/04/1922
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/02/1888.
Profession: Oceanographer, Meteorologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM MCLACHLAN DEWAR 19/04/190516/09/1979
Place of Birth: Crieff, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1958.
Profession: Classicist, Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES DOUGLAS HAMILTON DICKSON
01/05/1849- 06/02/1931
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 06/03/1876.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER JOHN DEY ?-19/12/1937
Place of Birth: Rothiemay, Banffshire.
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Pharmaceutical Chemist.
Notes: Born c1868
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS ELDER DICKSON 26/08/1899- 31/03/1978
Date of Election: 04/03/1940.
Profession: Artist.
Fellow Type: OF
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WILLIAM DICKSON ?-15/04/1889
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 21/12/1868.
Profession: Merchant.
Notes: Born c1817
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES BELL DOBBIE ?-26/06/1934
Date of Election: 07/12/1896.
Profession: Banker, Ornithologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES JOHNSTON DOBBIE 04/08/185219/06/1924
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 02/11/1903.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM DICKSON 23/01/1905- 21/10/1992
Place of Birth: St Abb's, Berwickshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1963.
Profession: Chemist, Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
LEONARD DOBBIN 30/07/1858- 03/03/1952
Place of Birth: Belfast, Ireland.
Date of Election: 04/04/1881.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Secretary of the Alembic Club
Fellow Type: OF
BHALCHANDRA BABAJI DIKSHIT 01/08/190213/12/1977
Place of Birth: Amraoti, Nr Nagpur, India.
Date of Election: 05/03/1951.
Profession: Physician, Pharmacologist.
Fellow Type: OF
NORMAN DOBSON ?-05/09/1985
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Notes: Born c 1894
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES HAWKER DINHAM
Date of Election: 03/03/1924.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
PAUL ADRIEN MAURICE DIRAC 08/08/190220/10/1984
Place of Birth: Bristol,.
Date of Election: 01/07/1946.
Profession: Mathematician, Physicist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate, Physics, 1933
Fellow Type: HF
ALEXANDER SCOTT DODD 27/10/1885- 05/11/1964
Date of Election: 04/03/1918.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES MUNRO DODD 26/05/1915- 15/12/1986
Place of Birth: Manchester, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1957.
Profession: Marine Zoologist.
Notes: Date of Birth given as 15/5/1915 in RSE
Obituary
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY DIRCKS 26/08/1806- 17/09/1873
Place of Birth: Liverpool, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 01/04/1867.
Profession: Civil Engineer, Author.
Notes: Invented "Pepper's Ghost" 1858
Fellow Type: OF
SIR EDWARD CHARLES DODDS, bart. 13/10/189916/12/1973
Place of Birth: Liverpool, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1941.
Profession: Biochemist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER DIROM OF MOUNT ANNAN ?06/10/1830
Place of Birth: Banffshire.
Date of Election: 27/06/1796.
Profession: Soldier, Landowner, Agricultural
Improver.
Fellow Type: OF
FELIX ANTON DOHRN 29/09/1840- 26/09/1909
Date of Election: 07/07/1902.
Profession: Marine Zoologist.
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM DITTMAR 14/04/1833- 09/03/1892
Place of Birth: Umstadt, nr. Darmstadt, Germany.
Date of Election: 16/02/1863.
Profession: Analytical Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER THOM DOIG ?-03/12/1983
Date of Election: 04/03/1957.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES MAIN DIXON ?-27/09/1933
Date of Election: 04/05/1885.
Profession: Scholar of English.
Notes: Born 1856, Resident in Tokyo Japan when
elected
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID DOIG 14/02/1719- 16/03/1800
Place of Birth: Monifeith, Angus.
Date of Election: 22/01/1798.
Profession: Schoolmaster, Philologist.
Notes: Commerative Tablet in West Church, Stirling
Fellow Type: OF
JOSEPH ANTHONY DIXON
Date of Election: 03/04/1882.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died 1882
Fellow Type: OF
ARCHIBALD THOMAS JOHN DOLLAR 18/05/190824/11/1981
Date of Election: 04/03/1940.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
RONALD AUDLEY MARTINEAU DIXON OF THEARNE
HALL ?-17/07/1960
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Natural Historian, Antiquarian.
Notes: Born c 1871
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ARCHIBALD WATT DOLLAR 28/11/186611/11/1947
Place of Birth: Lewisham, Kent.
Date of Election: 07/07/1902.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
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ALEXANDER GRAHAM DONALD ?-20/12/1941
Place of Birth: Barry, Angus.
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Actuary.
Notes: Born 1875
Fellow Type: OF
NORMAN MCOMISH DOTT 26/08/1897- 10/12/1973
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Surgeon, Neurosurgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN DOUGALL ?-25/02/1960
Place of Birth: Kippen, Stirlingshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1921.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Born June 1867
Fellow Type: OF
HUGH PATERSON DONALD ?-21/08/1989
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Geneticist.
Notes: Born 1909
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER STUART DOUGLAS 02/10/192115/11/1998
Place of Birth: Elgin, Moray.
Date of Election: 01/03/1993.
Profession: Physician, Haematologist.
Fellow Type: OF
KENNETH WILLIAM DONALD
Date of Election: 07/03/1960.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
ALEXANDER DONALDSON ?-19/05/1793
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Philologist, Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
BASIL WILLIAM DOUGLAS, LORD DAER
16/03/1763- 05/11/1794
Date of Election: 24/01/1785.
Profession: Politician, Agricultural Improver.
Fellow Type: OF
GORDON DONALDSON 13/04/1913- 16/03/1993
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/03/1978.
Profession: Historian.
Fellow Type: OF
CARSTAIRS CUMMING DOUGLAS ?-28/09/1940
Place of Birth: Kirkcaldy,Fife.
Date of Election: 07/01/1901.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born October 1866
Fellow Type: OF
HAY DONALDSON ?-30/09/1822
Place of Birth: Haddington, East Lothian.
Date of Election: 24/01/1814.
Profession: Writer to The Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID DOUGLAS OF RESTON, LORD RESTON ?23/04/1819
Date of Election: 27/01/1817.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES DONALDSON 26/04/1831- 09/03/1915
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 04/03/1867.
Profession: Educationalist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM DONALDSON ?-16/10/1913
Date of Election: 06/04/1896.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID DOUGLAS ?-04/04/1916
Place of Birth: Stranraer, Wigtownshire.
Date of Election: 15/01/1866.
Profession: Publisher.
Notes: Born 1823. Editor of "Proceedings of The
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland."
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM GALLOWAY DONALDSON ?-25/03/1934
Date of Election: 23/01/1905.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR DONALD MACLEOD DOUGLAS
Date of Election: 05/03/1973.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
FRANZ CORNELIUS DONDERS 27/05/181824/03/1889
Place of Birth: Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands.
Date of Election: 03/03/1879.
Profession: Physiologist, Opthalmologist.
Fellow Type: HF
DUNBAR HAMILTON DOUGLAS OF BALDOON, EARL
OF SELKIRK, UNTIL 1744 HAMILTON 01/12/172226/05/1799
Date of Election: 24/01/1785.
Profession: Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
FREDERICK GEORGE DONNAN 06/09/187016/12/1956
Place of Birth: Colombo, Ceylon.
Date of Election: 06/07/1936.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
FRANCIS BROWN DOUGLAS 02/04/181408/08/1885
Place of Birth: Largs, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 18/03/1839.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID BROWN DOTT ?-05/01/1941
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 16/01/1882.
Profession: Industrial Chemist.
Notes: Born 1852. Expert in the production of
Alkaloids
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE DOUGLAS, EARL OF MORTON
03/04/1761- 17/07/1827
Date of Election: 24/01/1785.
Profession: Landowner, Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
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SIR GEORGE HENRY SCOTT DOUGLAS OF
SPRINGWOOD, bart. 19/06/1825- ?
Date of Election: 17/02/1851.
Profession: Soldier, Politician.
Notes: Died June 1885
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES DREVER 08/04/1873- 10/08/1950
Place of Birth: Shapinsay, Orkney.
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Psychologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES DREVER 29/01/1910- 05/11/1991
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/03/1959.
Profession: Psychologist.
Fellow Type: OF
LOUDON MACQUEEN DOUGLAS ?-27/01/1944
Date of Election: 18/07/1910.
Profession: Author and Lecturer with an interest in
pigs.
Notes: Born 1864
Fellow Type: OF
SAMUEL DREW
Place of Birth: Chapeltown, nr Sheffield, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 06/05/1878.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Died c. 1888
Fellow Type: OF
SYLVESTER DOUGLAS, BARON GLENBERVIE
24/05/1743- 02/05/1823
Place of Birth: Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 27/01/1806.
Profession: Barrister, Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
HARRY DRINKWATER ?-11/07/1925
Date of Election: 20/07/1908.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS DOUGLAS, EARL OF SELKIRK 20/06/177108/04/1820
Place of Birth: St Mary's Isle, Kircudbrightshire.
Date of Election: 22/01/1798.
Profession: Landowner, Originator of Highland
Settlements in Canada.
Notes: Proposed as Lord Daer 1798
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS WILLIAM DRINKWATER ?-25/01/1940
Place of Birth: Ireland.
Date of Election: 06/05/1901.
Profession: Chemist, Physician, Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1852
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM DOUGLAS OF ORCHARDTON ?-09/07/1821
Place of Birth: Kirkcudbrightshire.
Date of Election: 01/01/1812.
Profession: Advocate, Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT WILSON DRON ?-16/04/1932
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 05/03/1917.
Profession: Mining Engineer.
Notes: Born c1868
Fellow Type: OF
HEINRICH WILHELM DOVE 06/10/1803- 04/04/1879
Place of Birth: Leignitz, Silesia.
Date of Election: 01/03/1875.
Profession: Physicist, Meteorologist.
Fellow Type: HF
DAVID THOMAS KER DRUMMOND 25/08/180509/06/1877
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/03/1868.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Resigned from Scottish Episcopal Church 1842
and established St Thomas' English Church in
Edinburgh. A number of other Episcopal clergy did
likewise- "The Drummondite Schism".
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID RUTHERFORD DOW
Date of Election: 05/03/1934.
Profession: Physician, Anatomist.
Notes: Died 1979-80
Fellow Type: OF
PATRICK DOYLE
Date of Election: 16/05/1892.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Died 1908-9
Fellow Type: OF
SIR FRANCIS WALKER DRUMMOND OF
HAWTHORNDEN, UNTIL 1810 WALKER, bart.
09/06/1781- 29/02/1844
Date of Election: 07/01/1828.
Profession: Writer to the Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM PATRICK DOYLE ?-27/03/1987
Date of Election: 05/03/1973.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Born c.1923
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE STIRLING HOME DRUMMOND OF ARDOCH
01/03/1813- 03/06/1876
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/01/1867.
Profession: Landowner, Antiquarian.
Fellow Type: OF
DREGHORN, LORD. SEE MACLAURIN, JOHN.
ALEXANDER MURRAY DRENNAN 04/01/188429/02/1984
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 07/03/1932.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY DRUMMOND 17/08/1851- 11/03/1897
Place of Birth: Park Place, Stirling.
Date of Election: 05/04/1880.
Profession: Naturalist, Geologist, Traveller.
Fellow Type: OF
HARALD IRVING DREVER 17/03/1912- 04/10/1975
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/03/1940.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
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HENRY HOME DRUMMOND OF BLAIRDRUMMOND
28/07/1783- 12/09/1867
Place of Birth: Perthshire.
Date of Election: 19/01/1815.
Profession: Advocate, Politician, Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
PETER MCLAREN DONALD DUFF 31/01/192723/03/1998
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/03/1974.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES MONTAGU F. DRUMMOND
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Botanist.
Notes: Born 1881
Fellow Type: OF
PIERRE LOUIS DULONG 12/02/1785- 19/07/1838
Place of Birth: Rouen, France.
Date of Election: 21/03/1836.
Profession: Chemist, Physicist.
Notes: Proc Roy Soc states that he was born in Paris,
France. Discovered the law of atomic heats with A T
Petit
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN DRUMMOND ?-14/04/1804
Date of Election: 26/01/1789.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JEAN BAPTISTE ANDRE DUMAS 14/07/180011/04/1884
Place of Birth: Alais, Gard, France.
Date of Election: 19/02/1855.
Profession: Organic Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR WILLIAM JAMES CHARLES MARIA DRUMMOND
OF LOGIEALMOND ?-29/03/1828
Place of Birth: Perthshire.
Date of Election: 22/01/1798.
Profession: Scholar, Diplomat.
Notes: Born c.1770
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER DUNBAR 21/02/1907- 11/07/1984
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY DRYERRE ?-05/02/1959
Place of Birth: Blairgowrie, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Physiologist.
Notes: Born1881
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE DUNBAR ?-06/12/1851
Place of Birth: Coldingham, Berwickshire.
Date of Election: 27/01/1806.
Profession: Classicist, Lexicographer.
Notes: Born 1777, DNB gives date of birth as 1774
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES VICKERY DRYSDALE ?-07/02/1961
Date of Election: 07/03/1921.
Profession: Electrical Engineer.
Notes: Born c.1874
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES DUNBAR ?-28/05/1798
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Philosopher.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN DRYSDALE 29/04/1718- 16/06/1788
Place of Birth: Kirkcaldy, Fife.
Date of Election: 26/01/1784.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
ALAN JAMES DUNCAN 04/11/1938- 09/07/1999
Place of Birth: Kingston, nr North Berwick, East
Lothian.
Date of Election: 02/03/1992.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN DUCKWORTH ?-11/04/1960
Place of Birth: Manchester, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1954.
Profession: Biochemist.
Notes: Born c.1908
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW DUNCAN 17/09/1744- 05/07/1828
Place of Birth: Pinkerton, nr. St Andrews, Fife.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
PATRICK DUDGEON OF CARGEN ?-09/02/1895
Place of Birth: Marionville House,
Restalrig,Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/04/1860.
Profession: Mineralogist,Meteorologist, Landowner.
Notes: Born 1817
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW DUNCAN 10/08/1773- 13/05/1832
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 26/06/1797.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: First Editor of the "Edinburgh Medical and
Surgical Journal"
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID KERR DUFF 29/12/1892- 20/09/1963
Date of Election: 05/03/1951.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
DUNCAN, JAMES. SEE DALRYMPLE, JAMES
DALRYMPLE GRAY.
NORWICH DUFF
Date of Election: 02/06/1823.
Profession: Royal Navy.
Notes: Born 1793, died 1862
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES DUNCAN 02/11/1810- 16/08/1866
Place of Birth: Perth.
Date of Election: 07/12/1857.
Profession: Physiologist, Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
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JAMES DUNCAN
Date of Election: 06/03/1876.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died c1905
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ROBERT DUNDAS OF BEECHWOOD, bart.
30/06/1761- 26/12/1835
Date of Election: 03/02/1823.
Profession: Writer to The Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES MATTHEWS DUNCAN 29/04/182601/09/1890
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 16/02/1863.
Profession: Physician,Obstetrician,Surgeon.
Notes: Founder of the Edinburgh Hospital for
Children
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM JOHN DUNDAS 16/03/1849- 09/07/1921
Date of Election: 03/03/1919.
Profession: Writer to The Signet, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
DUNDONALD, EARL OF. SEE COCHRANE,
ARCHIBALD.
DUNFERMLINE, 1ST BARON. SEE ABERCROMBY,
JAMES.
JOHN DUNCAN 18/08/1839- 24/08/1899
Date of Election: 03/01/1870.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Noted athlete
Fellow Type: OF
DUNFERMLINE, 2ND BARON. SEE ABERCROMBY,
RALPH.
SIR KINGSLEY CHARLES DUNHAM ?-04/04/2001
Date of Election: 01/03/1971.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM BARR MCKINNON DUNCAN
16/12/1922- 05/11/1984
Date of Election: 03/03/1980.
Profession: Mechanical Engineer.
Notes: Proposers cont'd. Wm. W Fletcher, Wm. M
Hutchison, Alastair M North, George M Burnett, Lord
Balerno, Robert A Smith
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN SAMUEL DUNKERLEY
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR DERRICK MELVILLE DUNLOP 03/04/190219/06/1980
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
J.J. KIRK DUNCANSON ?-12/03/1913
Place of Birth: Near Dunfermline, Fife.
Date of Election: 03/06/1878.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Born c1846
Fellow Type: OF
ERNEST MCMURCHIE DUNLOP ?-29/04/1969
Date of Election: 06/03/1944.
Profession: Physician, Bacteriologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR DAVID DUNDAS OF BEECHWOOD, bart.
28/08/1803- 30/03/1877
Date of Election: 03/02/1851.
Profession: Advocate, Landowner, Agricultural
Improver.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY DUNLOP OF CRAIGTON
Date of Election: 03/04/1854.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY DUNDAS, VISCOUNT MELVILLE 28/04/174229/05/1811
Place of Birth: Bishop's Land, Bishop's Close, High
St. Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate, Statesman.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES DUNLOP 31/10/1795- 22/09/1848
Place of Birth: Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 16/01/1832.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN COLIN DUNLOP ?-26/01/1842
Date of Election: 06/05/1833.
Profession: Advocate, Author.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT DUNDAS, LORD ARNISTON 18/07/171313/12/1787
Place of Birth: Midlothian.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate, Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM BROWN DUNLOP ?-23/01/1946
Date of Election: 01/02/1904.
Profession: Company Director.
Notes: Born 1861
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT DUNDAS OF ARNISTON 19/06/179708/06/1838
Date of Election: 24/01/1820.
Profession: Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
DUNMORE, 4TH EARL OF. SEE MURRAY, JOHN.
DUNMORE, 5TH EARL OF. SEE MURRAY, GEORGE.
ROBERT DUNDAS OF ARNISTON 06/06/175817/06/1819
Place of Birth: Midlothian.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate, Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE MACKENZIE DUNNET 19/04/192811/09/1995
Place of Birth: Caithness,.
Date of Election: 02/03/1970.
Profession: Zoologist, Ornithologist.
Fellow Type: OF
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JOHN DUNS 11/07/1820- 05/02/1910
Place of Birth: Duns, Berwickshire.
Date of Election: 07/02/1859.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Who Was Who gives date of death as
1/2/1909
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT DYCE ?-11/01/1869
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 07/03/1864.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born November 1798
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM DYCE 19/09/1806- 14/02/1864
Place of Birth: Marischal Street, Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 02/04/1832.
Profession: Artist.
Fellow Type: OF
DUNSINNAN, LORD. SEE NAIRNE OF DUNSINNAN
BT, WILLIAM.
JAMES DUNSMURE 23/04/1814- 15/10/1886
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 19/02/1866.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM DYCE OF FONTHILL AND CUTTLEHILL
31/08/1770- 10/03/1835
Date of Election: 03/06/1822.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN DUNSTAN ?-09/09/1930
Date of Election: 04/05/1903.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM TURNER THISELTON- DYER
28/07/1843- 23/12/1928
Place of Birth: Westminster, London.
Date of Election: 03/11/1913.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: HF
MALCOLM JAMES ROWLEY DUNSTAN 19/08/186328/05/1938
Date of Election: 16/05/1892.
Profession: Agriculturalist.
Notes: First Balloted 6/6/1887, presumably proposed
by Council on 16/05/1892
Fellow Type: OF
EDMUND GILBERT DYMOND ?-26/10/1952
Place of Birth: Hairwain, South Wales.
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Physicist, Meteorologist.
Notes: Born 1900
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCOIS PIERRE CHARLES DUPIN 06/10/178418/01/1873
Place of Birth: Varzy, France.
Date of Election: 03/02/1823.
Profession: Naval Engineer, Mathematician,
Economist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR FRANK WATSON DYSON 08/01/186825/05/1939
Place of Birth: Measham, nr Ashby de la Zouche,
Leicestershire.
Date of Election: 19/03/1906.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES DURHAM
Date of Election: 05/03/1888.
Profession: Geologist.
Notes: Died 1904-5
Fellow Type: OF
EDWARD EARL
Date of Election: 05/03/1821.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM DURHAM ?-23/01/1893
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/02/1874.
Profession: Chemist, Papermaker, Astronomer.
Notes: Born November 1834
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR EARLAND
Date of Election: 02/03/1942.
Profession: Civil Servant, Marine Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ARCHIBALD DURWARD 06/04/1902- 04/03/1964
Place of Birth: Denny, Stirlingshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1945.
Profession: Physician, Anatomist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE EASON 15/03/1930- 15/05/1999
Place of Birth: Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1975.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE DUTHIE
Date of Election: 06/02/1899.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Died 1921
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE SAMUEL EASTWOOD
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Mathematician, Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ARTHUR STANLEY EDDINGTON 28/12/188222/11/1944
Place of Birth: Kendal, Westmorland.
Date of Election: 07/07/1930.
Profession: Mathematician, Astrophysicist.
Fellow Type: HF
ALEXANDER DYCE
Date of Election: 01/01/1812.
Profession: Soldier.
Notes: Died c1834
Fellow Type: OF
HANDYSIDE (HANDASIDE) EDGAR
Place of Birth: Hamilton, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 23/01/1786.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
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JAMES EDGAR ?-26/11/1799
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Classical Scholar.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN EDWARDS ?-03/02/1937
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 04/07/1904.
Profession: Lawyer, Businessman, Palaeographer.
Notes: Born 1846
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM LEONARD EDGE 08/11/1904- 27/09/1997
Place of Birth: Stockport, Cheshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1934.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN FRANCIS HALL- EDWARDS 19/12/185815/08/1926
Place of Birth: Moseley, Birmingham, Warwickshire.
Date of Election: 03/07/1911.
Profession: Physician, Radiographer.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER EDINGTON ?-14/07/1928
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 16/01/1893.
Profession: Bacteriologist.
Notes: Born 1860
Fellow Type: OF
M.ALPHONSE MILNE- EDWARDS
Date of Election: 03/05/1886.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: HF
GEORGE HENRY EDINGTON 10/01/187024/09/1943
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 02/03/1942.
Profession: Surgeon, Anatomist.
Fellow Type: OF
VERO COPNER WYNNE- EDWARDS 04/07/190605/01/1997
Place of Birth: Leeds, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1950.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS EDINGTON ?-26/07/1859
Date of Election: 16/03/1835.
Profession: Geologist, Mineralogist.
Notes: Discoverer of the mineral Edingtonite,
(Haidinger 1825)
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM JULIUS EGGELING 18/07/190910/02/1994
Place of Birth: Upper Largo, Fife.
Date of Election: 07/03/1960.
Profession: Forester, Naturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES EDMONSTONE OF NEWTON ?-24/06/1793
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Soldier.
Notes: Lifelong friend of David Hume
Fellow Type: OF
PHILIP EGGLETON 19/03/1903- 07/10/1954
Place of Birth: Kingston-on-Thames, London.
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Biochemist, Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALBERT EDWARD EDWARD VII 09/11/184106/05/1910
Place of Birth: Buckingham Palace, London.
Date of Election: 07/12/1863.
Profession: Royal Personage.
Notes: Elected as The Prince of Wales
Fellow Type: HF
GUSTAV EGLOFF 10/11/1886- 29/04/1955
Place of Birth: New York City, USA.
Date of Election: 06/07/1953.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
CHRISTIAN GOTTFRIED EHRENBERG 19/04/179527/06/1876
Place of Birth: Delitzsch, Prussia, Germany.
Date of Election: 17/02/1845.
Profession: Zoologist.
Notes: A Founder of Protozoology
Fellow Type: HF
EDWARD VIII 23/06/1894- 28/05/1972
Date of Election: 07/06/1920.
Profession: Royal Personage.
Notes: Elected as HRH The Prince of Wales
Fellow Type: HF
T EDGECUMBE EDWARDES
Date of Election: 05/03/1900.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
PAUL EHRLICH 14/03/1854- 20/08/1915
Place of Birth: Strehlen, Silesia.
Date of Election: 09/01/1905.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate (1908)
Fellow Type: HF
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE EDWARDS
Date of Election: 20/01/1862.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Died 1868
Fellow Type: OF
ALBERT EINSTEIN 14/03/1879- 18/04/1955
Place of Birth: Ulm, Wurttemberg,Germany.
Date of Election: 04/07/1927.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: HF
HENRI MILNE- EDWARDS 23/10/1800- 29/07/1885
Place of Birth: Bruges, Belgium.
Date of Election: 19/02/1855.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: HF
EDWARD EISNER 20/12/1929- 25/12/1987
Place of Birth: Sarvar, Hungary.
Date of Election: 07/03/1977.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
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GEORGE ELDER ?-22/07/1897
Place of Birth: Kirkcaldy, Fife.
Date of Election: 04/01/1869.
Profession: Businessman.
Notes: Born November 1816
Fellow Type: OF
RICHARD WHITE BERNARD ELLIS 25/08/190215/09/1966
Date of Election: 03/03/1952.
Profession: Physician, Paediatrician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM MITCHELL ELLIS 10/08/1809- 08/06/1886
Date of Election: 21/01/1856.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ELDER 18/08/1864- 02/07/1931
Place of Birth: Crofthill, Carnwath. Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 02/05/1904.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
MERVYN ARCHDALL ELLISON 05/05/190912/09/1963
Place of Birth: Feuthard-on-Sea, Co. Wexford,
Ireland.
Date of Election: 01/03/1948.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
ELDIN, LORD. SEE CLERK, JOHN.
FRANCIS ELGAR 24/04/1845- 16/01/1909
Place of Birth: Portsmouth, Hampshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1885.
Profession: Naval Architect.
Notes: Named "Edgar" in billet of 19/1/1885
Fellow Type: OF
EDWIN CYRIL ELLWOOD ?-03/01/1972
Place of Birth: Suffolk.
Date of Election: 07/03/1966.
Profession: Metallurgist.
Notes: Born c1915
Fellow Type: OF
LEONARD ALSAGER ELGOOD 13/12/189231/01/1987
Date of Election: 05/03/1962.
Profession: Chartered Accountant, Company
Director.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR MAURICE DOUGLAS WARBURTON
ELPHINSTONE, bart. 13/04/1909- 05/12/1995
Place of Birth: Eynsford, Kent.
Date of Election: 01/03/1948.
Profession: Actuary, Stockbroker.
Fellow Type: OF
ELLIOCK, LORD. SEE VEITCH OF ELLIOCK, JAMES.
DANIEL GIRAUD ELLIOT 07/03/1835- ?
Place of Birth: New York, USA..
Date of Election: 04/01/1875.
Profession: Traveller, Naturalist.
Notes: Died December 1915
Fellow Type: OF
MOUNTSTUART ELPHINSTONE 06/10/177920/11/1859
Date of Election: 05/04/1830.
Profession: Statesman, Historian.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE FRANCIS SCOTT ELLIOT
Date of Election: 20/01/1913.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
SIDNEY HERBERT BULLER-FULLERTON
ELPHINSTONE, BARON ELPHINSTONE 27/07/186928/11/1955
Place of Birth: Carberry Tower, Musselburgh.
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Landowner, Company Director.
Fellow Type: OF
ELLIOT, GILBERT. SEE KYNYNMOND, GILBERT
ELLIOT-MURRAY-.
THOMAS ARMSTRONG ELLIOT
Date of Election: 05/01/1880.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCIS WILLIAM HENRY ELSLEY 15/11/193419/11/1977
Date of Election: 07/03/1977.
Profession: Agriculturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
WALTER ELLIOT ELLIOT 09/09/1888- 08/01/1958
Place of Birth: Lanark.
Date of Election: 03/03/1924.
Profession: Physician, Politician, Statesman.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM GIDLEY EMMETT 21/08/1887- 05/01/1985
Place of Birth: Beeston, Nottinghamshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1954.
Profession: Industrial Chemist, Educationalist.
Fellow Type: OF
FREDERICK JACOB ELLIOTT ?-09/01/1985
Date of Election: 01/03/1948.
Profession: Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHANN FRANZ ENCKE 23/09/1791- 26/08/1865
Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany.
Date of Election: 18/01/1841.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
DANIEL ELLIS ?-17/01/1841
Place of Birth: Gloucester.
Date of Election: 01/01/1812.
Profession: Physician, Aerologist.
Notes: Born 1772, Contributed articles on vegetable
anatomy to the Encyclopaedia Britannica
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY ENGELHART
Date of Election: 29/06/1789.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID ELLIS 09/06/1874- 16/01/1937
Place of Birth: South Wales.
Date of Election: 18/06/1906.
Profession: Bacteriologist, Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
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SIR HENRY CHARLES ENGLEFIELD, bart. ?-21/03/1822
Place of Birth: Nr. Reading, Berkshire.
Date of Election: 27/06/1796.
Profession: Antiquary, Scientific Writer.
Notes: Born 1752. Wrote on Astronomy and
Mathematics
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM EVANS ?-23/10/1922
Place of Birth: Curator's House,Old Experimental
Garden, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/07/1884.
Profession: Actuary, Naturalist.
Notes: Born 1851. Photograph NLS Acc10000/380
Fellow Type: OF
FEDERIGO ENRIQUES ?-14/06/1946
Place of Birth: Leghorn, Italy.
Date of Election: 04/07/1938.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Born 1871
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM EDGAR EVANS 15/07/1882- 18/03/1963
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/03/1924.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
DOUGLAS HUGH EVERETT 26/12/1916- 24/03/2002
Date of Election: 06/03/1950.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR ERDELYI (FORMERLY DIAMANT)
02/10/1908- 12/12/1977
Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary.
Date of Election: 05/03/1945.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOSEPH DAVID EVERETT 11/09/1831- 09/08/1904
Place of Birth: Rushmere, nr Ipswich, Suffolk.
Date of Election: 16/03/1863.
Profession: Mathematician,Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ERICKSON 17/04/1929- 10/02/2002
Date of Election: 01/03/1982.
Profession: Defence Specialist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES COSSAR EWART 26/11/1851- 31/12/1933
Place of Birth: Penicuik, Midlothian.
Date of Election: 06/01/1879.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID ERSKINE ?-05/04/1791
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Writer to The Signet.
Notes: Born c.1740
Fellow Type: OF
JOSEPH EWART 30/04/1759- 27/01/1792
Place of Birth: Kirkcudbrightshire.
Date of Election: 25/01/1790.
Profession: Diplomat.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MAXWELL ERSKINE, BARON ERSKINE OF
RERRICK 14/12/1893- 14/12/1980
Place of Birth: Kirkcudbright,.
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Banker.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN TAYLOR EWEN ?-15/12/1942
Date of Election: 02/12/1901.
Profession: Mechanical Engineer, Educationalist.
Notes: Birth c1863
Fellow Type: OF
ESKGROVE, LORD. SEE RAE OF ESKGROVE BT,
DAVID.
JAMES EWING ?-29/11/1853
Date of Election: 02/03/1829.
Profession: Merchant.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT ETHERIDGE 03/12/1819- 18/12/1903
Place of Birth: Ross, Herefordshire.
Date of Election: 19/02/1855.
Profession: Palaeontologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES ALFRED EWING 27/03/1855- 07/01/1935
Place of Birth: Dundee, Angus.
Date of Election: 04/02/1878.
Profession: Physicist,Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
IVOR MALCOLM HADDON ETHERINGTON
08/02/1908- 01/01/1994
Place of Birth: Lewisham, London.
Date of Election: 05/03/1934.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
VICTOR AMBROSE EYLES 10/10/1895- 08/03/1978
Place of Birth: Bristol.
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Geologist, Science Historian.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM EUING (EWING) 20/05/1788- 16/05/1874
Place of Birth: Partick, Glasgow.
Date of Election: 18/12/1865.
Profession: Insurance Broker, Philanthropist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN WILLIAM HENRY EYRE 18/07/186917/02/1944
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 04/12/1899.
Profession: Physician, Bacteriologist,
Ophthalmologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR HUMBLE EVANS 23/02/1855- 28/03/1943
Place of Birth: Scremerston, Nothumberland.
Date of Election: 03/03/1924.
Profession: Ornithologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ALEXANDER FAIRBAIRN ?-28/11/1984
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/03/1955.
Profession: Forester,Ornithologist.
Notes: Born c1902
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE RICHARD EVANS 23/09/1913- 24/10/1976
Date of Election: 05/03/1956.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
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WILLIAM RONALD DODDS FAIRBAIRN 11/08/188931/12/1964
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Physician, Psychologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN BRETLAND FARMER 05/04/186526/01/1944
Place of Birth: Atherstone, Warwickshire.
Date of Election: 04/07/1927.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: HF
MUNGO MCCALLUM FAIRGRIEVE 30/10/187204/08/1937
Place of Birth: Saltcoats, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 16/05/1910.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCIS FARQUHARSON OF HAUGHTON
Place of Birth: Nr. Alford, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 26/01/1807.
Profession: Landowner.
Notes: Died 1808
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS FAIRLEY ?-21/02/1919
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 01/02/1875.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Born 1843
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM FARQUHARSON ?-25/01/1823
Place of Birth: Balfour, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 25/01/1790.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1760. Date of death also reported as
23/9/1823
Fellow Type: OF
REGINALD FRANCIS JOSEPH FAIRLIE ?-28/10/1952
Date of Election: 04/03/1946.
Profession: Architect.
Notes: Born c.1883
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES A FAWSITT ?-16/02/1928
Date of Election: 06/02/1888.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES FALCONER FAIRWEATHER 23/01/186909/02/1963
Place of Birth: Carmyllie, Angus.
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Solicitor, Writer to The Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOSEPH FAYRER, bart. 06/12/1824- 19/05/1907
Place of Birth: Plymouth, Devonshire.
Date of Election: 03/01/1859.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Portrait in NLC Acc,10000/380, lithograph
from Provincial Medical Journal of July 1st 1887. Who
Was Who gives date of death as 21/5/1907
Fellow Type: OF
VALENTINE GRANTHAM FAITHFULL ?-30/05/1894
Date of Election: 17/02/1862.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Born June 1820
Fellow Type: OF
NORMAN FEATHER 16/11/1904- 14/08/1978
Place of Birth: Schoolhouse, Pecket Well,
Grimsworth, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1946.
Profession: Physicist, Nuclear Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN DOWNIE FALCONER 01/11/1876- 16/04/1947
Place of Birth: Midlothian.
Date of Election: 18/02/1907.
Profession: Geologist, Geographer.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM MOSES FELDMAN ?-02/07/1939
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT FALL
Date of Election: 26/01/1784.
Profession: Merchant.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT WILLIAM FELKIN ?-28/12/1926
Date of Election: 07/05/1883.
Profession: Physician, Anthropologist.
Notes: Born 1853
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES FALSHAW, bart. 21/03/1810- 14/06/1889
Place of Birth: Leeds, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 02/04/1866.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES FELLOWES ?-30/12/1857
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 23/06/1800.
Profession: Military Physician.
Notes: Born 1771
Fellow Type: OF
GIULIO FANO
Place of Birth: Mantua, Italy.
Date of Election: 07/07/1930.
Profession: Physiologist.
Notes: Died 1931-2
Fellow Type: HF
EDWARD WYLLIE FENTON 04/11/1889- 16/09/1962
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
MICHAEL FARADAY 22/09/1791- 25/08/1867
Place of Birth: Newington Butts, Surrey.
Date of Election: 20/04/1835.
Profession: Chemist, Physicist.
Fellow Type: HF
WILFRID DAVID DRYSDALE FENTON 27/03/190804/05/1985
Place of Birth: Dumfriesshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1959.
Profession: Electrical Engineer, Barrister(1943).
Fellow Type: OF
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THOMAS FERGUSON 23/05/1900- 01/05/1977
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW FREELAND FERGUS ?-24/10/1932
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 01/05/1899.
Profession: Ophthalmic Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1858
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM FERGUSON OF KINMUNDY ?-31/07/1887
Date of Election: 02/02/1874.
Profession: Botanist, Entomologist.
Notes: Born 1820
Fellow Type: OF
EDWARD OSWALD FERGUS ?-09/12/1946
Date of Election: 19/11/1906.
Profession: Dental Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1861
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ADAM FERGUSSON OF KILKERRAN, bart.
07/05/1733- 25/09/1813
Place of Birth: Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate, Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
ADAM FERGUSON 20/06/1723- 22/02/1816
Place of Birth: Logierait, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Philosopher, Social Scientist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR CHARLES DALRYMPLE FERGUSSON OF NEW
HAILES, bart. 26/08/1800- 18/03/1849
Place of Birth: Fort George, Inverness-shire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1829.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
ANNE FERGUSON (NEE GLEN, MRS GERALD COLLEE)
26/07/1941- 21/12/1998
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 05/03/1990.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE FERGUSSON, LORD HERMAND
25/08/1743- 09/08/1827
Place of Birth: Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
HUGH FERGUSON 17/05/1912- 02/10/1996
Date of Election: 07/03/1966.
Profession: Agriculturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES FERGUSON OF PITFOUR 25/05/173506/09/1820
Place of Birth: Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate, Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES FERGUSSON OF KILKERRAN, bart.
18/09/1904- 25/10/1973
Place of Birth: Dailly, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1968.
Profession: Journalist, Historian.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES HAIG FERGUSON 18/12/1862- 02/05/1934
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/03/1904.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon, Gynaecologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM FERGUSSON, bart. 20/03/180810/02/1877
Place of Birth: Prestonpans, East Lothian.
Date of Election: 04/03/1839.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN FERGUSON ?-02/11/1916
Date of Election: 05/03/1888.
Profession: Chemist, Historian.
Notes: Born 1837
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM FERGUSSON 19/06/1773- 19/01/1846
Place of Birth: Ayr,.
Date of Election: 26/01/1818.
Profession: Military Physician.
Notes: Devlin-Thorp gives date of death as 2/1/1847
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT FERGUSON OF RAITH ?-03/12/1840
Place of Birth: Fife.
Date of Election: 27/01/1806.
Profession: Landowner, Advocate, Mineralogist,
Politician.
Notes: Born 1767
Fellow Type: OF
ENRICO FERMI 29/09/1901- 28/11/1954
Place of Birth: Rome, Italy.
Date of Election: 04/07/1949.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate, physics, 1938
Fellow Type: HF
ROBERT M'NAIR. FERGUSON ?-31/12/1912
Place of Birth: Airdrie, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 06/01/1868.
Profession: Schoolteacher, Mathematician.
Notes: Born July 1828
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM LEONARD FERRAR 21/10/1893- ?
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
RONALD CRAUFURD MUNRO- FERGUSON,
VISCOUNT NOVAR 06/03/1860- 30/03/1934
Place of Birth: Kirkcaldy, Fife.
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Soldier, Statesman.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR DAVID FERRIER 13/01/1843- 19/03/1928
Place of Birth: Woodside, Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 04/06/1900.
Profession: Physician, Physiologist.
Fellow Type: HF
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GAETANO FICHERA
Date of Election: 01/03/1976.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Died May 1996
Fellow Type: HF
DONALD FINLAYSON 16/10/1889- 26/04/1975
Place of Birth: Wick, Caithness.
Date of Election: 03/03/1958.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
C. LEOPOLD FIELD
Date of Election: 05/04/1886.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Died 1899-1900
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES FINLAYSON 15/02/1758- 28/01/1808
Place of Birth: Nether Cambusnie, Dunblane,
Perthshire.
Date of Election: 22/01/1787.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Campbell (1989 list) gives date of death as
25/1/1808
Fellow Type: OF
FREDERICK FIELD 02/08/1826- 03/04/1885
Place of Birth: Lambeth, London.
Date of Election: 18/01/1858.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR HAROLD MONTAGUE FINNISTON 15/08/191202/02/1991
Place of Birth: 26 Aitkenhead Road, Govanhill,
Glasgow.
Date of Election: 06/03/1978.
Profession: Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
FINCASTLE, BARON. SEE MURRAY, JOHN 4TH EARL
OF DUNMORE.
JAMES DERRICK FINDLAY 20/06/1918- 17/06/1974
Date of Election: 02/03/1970.
Profession: Physiologist.
Notes: Proposers cont'd Sir David P Cuthbertson, Sir
Norman C Wright
Fellow Type: OF
EMIL HERMANN FISCHER 09/10/1852- 14/07/1919
Place of Birth: Euskirchen, Germany.
Date of Election: 04/11/1907.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate 1902 Chemistry
Fellow Type: HF
SIR JOHN EDMUND RITCHIE FINDLAY, bart. ?06/09/1962
Date of Election: 07/03/1932.
Profession: Company Director, Politician.
Notes: Born c1902
Fellow Type: OF
REGINALD BRETTAUER FISHER 13/02/190711/11/1986
Date of Election: 07/03/1960.
Profession: Biochemist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN RITCHIE FINDLAY, bart. 13/01/186613/04/1930
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/07/1898.
Profession: Breeder of Pedigree Aberdeen Angus
Cattle at Aberlour, Banffshire.
Notes: Collector of Scientific Instruments
Fellow Type: OF
RONALD CAMPBELL FISHER 06/08/189923/10/1958
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/03/1952.
Profession: Forester.
Fellow Type: OF
WALTER FISHER ?-14/11/1828
Place of Birth: Portsburgh, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 26/06/1797.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Born 1749
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT FINDLAY 23/11/1721- 15/06/1814
Place of Birth: Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Anderson gives date of birth as 23/3/1721
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE FRANCIS FITZGERALD 03/08/185122/02/1901
Place of Birth: 19 Lower Mount Street, Dublin.
Date of Election: 04/06/1900.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: HF
DAVID WHITE FINLAY ?-04/11/1923
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 06/02/1899.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born c 1840
Fellow Type: OF
ARMAND HIPPOLYTE LOUIS FIZEAU 24/09/181918/09/1896
Place of Birth: Paris, France.
Date of Election: 16/02/1892.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: HF
GILBERT LAURIE FINLAY 29/09/1792- 01/04/1872
Date of Election: 20/04/1840.
Profession: Writer to The Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS MATTHEW FINLAY ?-31/01/1954
Place of Birth: Sandwick, Shetland.
Date of Election: 14/03/1927.
Profession: Geologist, Palaeontologist.
Notes: Born c1880
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER FLECK, BARON FLECK 11/11/188906/08/1968
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 01/07/1957.
Profession: Industrial Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
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SIR ALEXANDER FLEMING 06/08/1881- 11/03/1955
Place of Birth: Lochfield, Darvel, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 07/07/1947.
Profession: Bacteriologist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate, Physiology & Medicine,
1945. Discovered Penicillin
Fellow Type: HF
FLETCHER, JOHN. SEE CAMPBELL, JOHN FLETCHER-.
WILLIAM WHIGHAM FLETCHER ?-04/04/2001
Date of Election: 06/03/1967.
Profession: Biologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW FLEMING 07/03/1822- 25/03/1901
Date of Election: 06/12/1852.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon, Palaeontologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN SMITH FLETT 26/06/1869- 26/01/1947
Place of Birth: Kirkwall, Orkney.
Date of Election: 05/03/1900.
Profession: Physician, Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES SIMPSON FLEMING ?-08/07/1899
Place of Birth: Forfar, Angus.
Date of Election: 06/03/1876.
Profession: Lawyer, Banker.
Notes: Born 1828
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ROBERTS FLETT ?-22/08/1979
Place of Birth: Orkney.
Date of Election: 03/03/1952.
Profession: Geologist.
Notes: Born 1900
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN FLEMING ?-17/05/1829
Date of Election: 27/01/1817.
Profession: Physician, Politician.
Notes: Born 1747, See Shapin 175 for comments on
date of death
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES FLINT ?-15/12/1810
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1733
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT FLINT 14/03/1838- 25/11/1910
Place of Birth: Sibbaldbie, Applegarth, Dumfriesshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1880.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN FLEMING 10/01/1785- 18/11/1857
Place of Birth: Kirkroads Farm, Nr. Bathgate, West
Lothian.
Date of Election: 24/01/1814.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Zoologist, Geologist.
Notes: Name omitted from RSE Roll Book
Fellow Type: OF
MARCEL FLORKIN ?-03/05/1979
Date of Election: 04/07/1955.
Profession: Biochemist.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN ARNOLD FLEMING ?-22/10/1966
Date of Election: 20/02/1911.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Born 1871
Fellow Type: OF
MARIE-JEAN PIERRE FLOURENS 13/04/179406/12/1867
Place of Birth: Maureilhan, near Beziers, Herault,
France.
Date of Election: 03/12/1838.
Profession: Experimental physiologist.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN GIBSON FLEMING 02/12/1809- 02/10/1879
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 15/01/1872.
Profession: Surgeon, Physician.
Notes: Known for his work on medical statistics of
Life Assurance
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM HENRY FLOWER 30/11/183101/07/1899
Place of Birth: Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire.
Date of Election: 15/03/1897.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon, Comparative
Anatomist, Museum Curator.
Fellow Type: HF
ROBERT ALEXANDER FLEMING ?-06/12/1947
Place of Birth: Dundee, Angus.
Date of Election: 22/01/1906.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born c 1862
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES EDWARD FOISTER 17/08/190323/07/1989
Place of Birth: Cambridge.
Date of Election: 01/03/1954.
Profession: Botanist, Plant Pathologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM LAUNCELOT SCOTT FLEMING
07/08/1906- 30/07/1990
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/03/1971.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Geologist. Polar
Explorer.
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR FORBES, 9TH OF CULLODEN 25/01/181916/03/1879
Date of Election: 18/12/1843.
Profession: Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
HAROLD ROY FLETCHER 14/04/1907- 27/08/1978
Place of Birth: The Glossop, Derbyshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES FORBES
Date of Election: 05/01/1835.
Profession: Banker.
Fellow Type: OF
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ERIC GRAY FORBES 30/03/1933- 21/11/1984
Place of Birth: St Andrews, Fife.
Date of Election: 05/03/1984.
Profession: Astronomer, Science Historian.
Notes: Year Book 1985 gives Date of Death as
6/12/1984
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN SIMPSON FORD ?-27/03/1944
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 16/05/1892.
Profession: Chemist, Microbiologist.
Notes: Born 1866
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCOIS ALPHONSE FOREL
Date of Election: 07/11/1910.
Profession: Naturalist, Limnographer.
Notes: Died 1911-12
Fellow Type: HF
GEORGE FORBES 05/09/1790- 26/09/1857
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 25/01/1819.
Profession: Banker.
Fellow Type: OF
J. GORDON FORLONG
Date of Election: 05/12/1859.
Profession: Soldier.
Notes: Died 1903-4
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE FORBES 05/04/1849- 22/10/1936
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/02/1872.
Profession: Electrical Engineer.
Notes: Authority on hydro-electric schemes
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE TOPHAM FORREST
Date of Election: 07/03/1921.
Profession: Architect.
Fellow Type: OF
IAN ALEXANDER FORBES 27/10/1915- 19/11/1986
Place of Birth: Alloa, Clackmannanshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1978.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES FORREST OF COMISTON, bart.
16/10/1780- 05/04/1860
Date of Election: 21/03/1842.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES DAVID FORBES 20/04/1809- 31/12/1868
Place of Birth: 86 George Street, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/01/1831.
Profession: Physicist, Glaciologist.
Notes: Invented the Seismometer 1842
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES FORREST ?-11/01/1966
Place of Birth: Fairlie, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Born c1889
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN STUART HEPBURN FORBES OF
FETTERCAIRN AND PITSLIGO, bart. 25/09/180428/05/1866
Place of Birth: Dean House, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 15/04/1833.
Profession: Advocate, Agriculturalist.
Notes: Campbell (1989 list) gives date of death as
17/5/1866
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES FORRESTER 06/03/1895- 05/11/1980
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN FORSTER
Date of Election: 07/04/1828.
Profession: Architect.
Fellow Type: OF
NORMAN HAY FORBES 01/03/1863- 27/06/1916
Place of Birth: Rawal Pindi, Punjab, India.
Date of Election: 01/02/1904.
Profession: Surgeon, Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW RUSSELL FORSYTH 18/06/185802/06/1942
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 21/05/1900.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR WILLIAM FORBES OF MONYMUSK AND
PITSLIGO, bart. 21/12/1773- 24/10/1828
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 25/06/1804.
Profession: Banker, Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES FORSYTH OF DUNACH 18/09/1819- ?
Date of Election: 03/02/1840.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died c.1862
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM FORBES OF PITSLIGO AND
MONYMUSK, bart. 05/04/1739- 10/11/1806
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Banker, Author, Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
FORTEVIOT, BARON. SEE DEWAR, JOHN.
PHILIP GILBERT FOTHERGILL 21/02/190824/06/1967
Date of Election: 07/03/1955.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
EBENEZER FORD 22/09/1890- 14/10/1974
Place of Birth: Hove, Sussex.
Date of Election: 06/03/1950.
Profession: Marine Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
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JEAN BERNARD LEON FOUCAULT 18/09/181911/02/1868
Place of Birth: Paris, France.
Date of Election: 05/12/1864.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Famed for his researches into the velocity of
light
Fellow Type: HF
ALEXANDER FRASER ?-24/06/1955
Date of Election: 20/12/1909.
Profession: Actuary.
Notes: Born 1875
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER CAMPBELL FRASER 03/09/181902/12/1914
Place of Birth: Ardchattan, near Loch Etive, Argyll.
Date of Election: 01/02/1858.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Philosopher.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN FOULERTON ?-26/06/1918
Date of Election: 02/05/1864.
Profession: Surgeon, Amateur Palaeontologist.
Notes: Born c1828
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER YULE FRASER ?-09/11/1890
Place of Birth: Nr Perth.
Date of Election: 01/06/1885.
Profession: Mathematician, Schoolmaster.
Notes: Born c 1857
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN M. FOWLER, bart. 15/07/1817- 20/11/1898
Date of Election: 07/02/1887.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Born 1817
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID KENNEDY FRASER ?-26/08/1962
Date of Election: 04/03/1929.
Profession: Psychologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM HOPE FOWLER ?-04/10/1933
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Physician, Radiologist.
Notes: Born 1876
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE FRASER ?-07/07/1954
Date of Election: 05/03/1934.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
RICHARD TAUNTON FRANCIS ?-13/02/1930
Date of Election: 08/03/1926.
Profession: Printer, Publisher.
Notes: Born 1883
Fellow Type: OF
SIR IAN FRASER 09/02/1901- 11/05/1999
Place of Birth: Belfast, N Ireland.
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR EDWARD FRANKLAND 18/01/1825- 09/08/1899
Place of Birth: Churchtown, nr Lancaster.
Date of Election: 07/07/1884.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
JAMES HENRY FRASER 18/05/1909- 14/03/1990
Place of Birth: Liverpool, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1947.
Profession: Marine Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 17/01/1706- 17/04/1790
Place of Birth: Milk Street, Boston, Massachusetts,
USA.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Statesman, Scientist, Interested in
Electricity, General Physics, Oceanography,
Meteorology.
Notes: State President, Pennsylvania; Delegate to
Convention framing the US Constitution; 1788
retired from public life
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES PINKERTON FRASER
Date of Election: 02/01/1855.
Profession: Banker, Naturalist, Geologist.
Notes: Died c. 1862
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN FRASER, bart. ?-01/12/1947
Place of Birth: Tain, Rosshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN FRANKLIN 15/04/1786- 11/06/1847
Place of Birth: Spilsby, Lincolnshire.
Date of Election: 17/03/1845.
Profession: Arctic Explorer.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN FRASER ?-18/01/1925
Place of Birth: Thornhill, Dumfriesshire.
Date of Election: 06/04/1896.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born c1846
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS BEDFORD FRANKLIN ?-11/08/1960
Date of Election: 01/03/1920.
Profession: Mathematician, Meteorologist,
Schoolmaster, Agricultural Historian.
Fellow Type: OF
JOSEPH ROBERT FRASER ?-22/01/1933
Date of Election: 03/05/1915.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM FRANKLIN ?-16/11/1813
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, USA.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Administrator.
Notes: Born 1731. Imprisoned 1777-8 for loyalty to
Great Britain. A founder of the Board of Associated
Loyalists. Left America,1782 with the loss of his
estates to reside in England
Fellow Type: OF
KENNETH FRASER ?-28/12/1969
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
KENNETH BOYD FRASER 10/03/1917- 17/07/2001
Date of Election: 06/03/1961.
Profession: Physician, Bacteriologist.
Fellow Type: OF
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PATRICK NEILL FRASER
Date of Election: 04/04/1892.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died 1904-5
Fellow Type: OF
ELIAS MAGNUS FRIES 15/08/1794- 08/02/1878
Place of Birth: Femsjo,Smaland, Sweden.
Date of Election: 05/12/1864.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: HF
THOMAS HOWDEN FRASER ?-18/05/1975
Date of Election: 01/03/1948.
Profession: Economist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN FROST ?-17/03/1840
Place of Birth: Charing Cross, London.
Date of Election: 04/02/1828.
Profession: Physician, Botanist.
Notes: Born 1803.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR THOMAS RICHARD FRASER 05/02/184104/01/1920
Place of Birth: Calcutta, India.
Date of Election: 04/02/1867.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: With Crum Brown studied the relationship
between chemical constitution and physiological
activity
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES (JOHN) ANTHONY FROUDE 23/04/181820/10/1894
Place of Birth: Dartington Rectory, Devon.
Date of Election: 02/03/1874.
Profession: Historian.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR JOHN CLAUD FORTESCUE FRYER 13/08/188622/11/1948
Place of Birth: The Priory, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1948.
Profession: Entomologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM FRASER ?-14/12/1941
Date of Election: 01/12/1913.
Profession: Printer.
Notes: Born 1869
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW FRAZER (FRASER) ?-31/08/1792
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Soldier, Engineer.
Notes: Designed and superintended construction of
Fort George, Morayshire. Architect of St Andrew's
Church, George Street, Edinburgh
Fellow Type: OF
J HAMILTON FULLARTON ?-06/05/1920
Place of Birth: Isle of Arran, Bute.
Date of Election: 01/12/1890.
Profession: Zoologist.
Notes: Born 1856
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM FULLARTON OF FULLARTON 12/01/175413/02/1808
Place of Birth: Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 23/01/1786.
Profession: Soldier, Statesman, Agriculturalist,
Author.
Notes: Founder of St Vincent's Botanical Garden,
West Indies
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES GEORGE FRAZER 01/01/185407/05/1941
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 07/11/1910.
Profession: Social Anthropologist, Barrister.
Fellow Type: HF
RENE MAURICE FRECHET 02/09/1878- 04/06/1973
Place of Birth: Maligny, Yonne, France.
Date of Election: 07/07/1947.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
FREDERICK FULLER ?-28/10/1909
Date of Election: 07/01/1867.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Born 1819
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT FREER (FRIER) ?-09/04/1827
Place of Birth: Perthshire.
Date of Election: 27/06/1796.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1745. Previously proposed by Daniel
Rutherford, James Hutton, John Walker (Minute
01/07/1793 NLS Acc10,000/4)
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN FULLERTON (FULLARTON), LORD FULLERTON
16/12/1775- 03/12/1853
Date of Election: 22/01/1816.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
ANGUS ANDERSON FULTON ?-23/06/1983
Date of Election: 02/03/1953.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
ERWIN FINLAY- FREUNDLICH 29/05/188524/07/1964
Place of Birth: Biebrich, Rhineland, Germany.
Date of Election: 03/03/1941.
Profession: Astronomer.
Notes: Who Was Who 6.gives date of death as
12/8/1964
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS ALEXANDER WEMYSS FULTON ?07/10/1929
Date of Election: 04/05/1891.
Profession: Physician, Marine Biologist.
Notes: Born 1851
Fellow Type: OF
FREY, ALBERT. SEE WYSSLING, ALBERT FREY-.
GREVILLE FURNEAUX FRIEND 14/10/189525/10/1978
Place of Birth: Great Torrington, Devon.
Date of Election: 06/03/1950.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
REINHOLD HENRY FURTH 20/10/1893- 17/07/1979
Place of Birth: Prague, Bohemia.
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
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ANDREW FYFE 18/01/1792- 31/12/1861
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/05/1823.
Profession: Surgeon, Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
SANJIBAN GANGULI
Date of Election: 06/05/1901.
Profession: Philosopher, Scholar of English.
Notes: Died 1980-81
Fellow Type: OF
PETER FYFE
Date of Election: 06/06/1892.
Profession: Sanitary Inspector.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER GARDEN ?-15/04/1791
Place of Birth: Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician, Botanist, Zoologist.
Notes: Born January 1730
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN HENRY GADDUM 31/03/1900- 30/06/1965
Place of Birth: Bowden,Hale, Cheshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Pharmacologist.
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCIS GARDEN, LORD GARDENSTONE
24/06/1721- 22/07/1793
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 25/01/1790.
Profession: Advocate, Agricultural Improver.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES GAINER (GAYNER)
Date of Election: 15/04/1867.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died c1917
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCIS GARDEN ?-10/05/1884
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 04/12/1848.
Profession: Theologian.
Notes: Born 1810.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER GALBRAITH ?-08/10/1962
Place of Birth: Stranraer, Wigtownshire.
Date of Election: 15/07/1907.
Profession: Marine Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
GARDENSTONE, LORD. SEE GARDEN, FRANCIS.
AUGUSTUS WILLIAM DE ROHAN GALBRAITH ?11/03/1957
Place of Birth: Durham.
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Engineer.
Notes: Born 1876
Fellow Type: OF
FREDERICK GARDINER ?-08/09/1933
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Physician, Radiologist, Dermatologist.
Notes: Born 1874
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN GALLOWAY GALLOWAY ?-11/08/1949
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Company Director.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN GARDINER (GARDNER) ?-17/03/1807
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born c 1738
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT KIRKLAND GALLOWAY 27/03/185008/03/1903
Date of Election: 04/03/1878.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
ALFRED CHARLES GARDNER ?-02/12/1952
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Engineer.
Notes: Born 1880
Fellow Type: OF
T LINDSAY GALLOWAY ?-22/09/1921
Date of Election: 04/03/1918.
Profession: Mining Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN DAVIDSON GARDNER ?-21/09/1964
Date of Election: 08/03/1926.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER GALT 13/12/1854- 26/06/1938
Place of Birth: Mauchline, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 05/12/1887.
Profession: Chemist, Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT CAMPBELL GARRY 21/04/190016/04/1993
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR GAMGEE 10/10/1841- 29/03/1909
Place of Birth: Florence, Italy.
Date of Election: 21/01/1867.
Profession: Physician, Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
MAXWELL GARTSHORE (GARTHSHORE)
28/10/1732- 01/03/1812
Place of Birth: Kirkcudbright.
Date of Election: 23/01/1792.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOSEPH SAMPSON GAMGEE 17/04/182818/09/1886
Place of Birth: Livorno, Italy.
Date of Election: 02/03/1868.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Known for his work on anti-septic surgical
dressings
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM GARTSHORE 28/10/1764- 05/04/1806
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 26/01/1795.
Profession: Politician.
Notes: Campbell (1989 list) gives date of birth as
18/10/1764
Fellow Type: OF
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HUGH SHAW DUNN GARVEN ?-07/02/1968
Place of Birth: Kilmarnock, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1946.
Profession: Physician, Physiologist.
Notes: Born 1899
Fellow Type: OF
SIR PATRICK GEDDES 02/10/1854- 17/04/1932
Place of Birth: Ballater, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 07/06/1880.
Profession: Biologist, Sociologist, Pioneer Town
Planner.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES GASCOIGNE (GASKING)
Date of Election: 27/06/1796.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1756 died November 1817
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM GEORGE NICHOLSON GEDDES
29/07/1913- 10/11/1993
Place of Birth: Oldhamstocks, Berwickshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1975.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
HERBERT SPENCER GASSER 05/07/188811/05/1963
Place of Birth: Plattville, Wisconsin, USA.
Date of Election: 05/07/1943.
Profession: Physiologist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate, Physiology & Medicine
1944
Fellow Type: HF
CARL GEGENBAUR 21/08/1826- 14/06/1903
Place of Birth: Wurzburg, Bavaria, Germany.
Date of Election: 15/01/1877.
Profession: Anatomist, Zoologist.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR ARCHIBALD GEIKIE 28/12/1835- 10/11/1924
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/03/1861.
Profession: Geologist.
Notes: Photograph NLS Acc10000/380
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS ERNEST GATEHOUSE ?-31/03/1921
Place of Birth: Norwich.
Date of Election: 05/12/1898.
Profession: Electrical Engineer.
Notes: Born 1854
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES (MURDOCH) GEIKIE 23/08/1839- 01/03/1915
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/04/1871.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES HENRY GATTY 06/03/1836- 12/12/1903
Date of Election: 15/01/1894.
Profession: Landowner, Zoologist, Meteorologist.
Notes: Funded the building of The Gatty Marine
Laboratory,St Andrews, opened 1896
Fellow Type: OF
ALAN ROBERTSON GEMMELL 10/05/191305/07/1986
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 06/03/1950.
Profession: Botanist, Broadcaster.
Fellow Type: OF
JEAN ALBERT GAUDRY 16/09/1827- 27/11/1908
Date of Election: 07/07/1902.
Profession: Palaeontologist.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN EDWARD GEMMELL ?-24/01/1931
Date of Election: 01/12/1913.
Profession: Surgeon, Gynaecologist.
Notes: Born 1863
Fellow Type: OF
KARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS 30/04/1777- 23/02/1855
Place of Birth: Brunswick, Germany.
Date of Election: 01/06/1820.
Profession: Mathematician, Astronomer, Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES FAIRLIE GEMMILL 28/11/1867- 10/02/1926
Place of Birth: Hillhead, Mauchline, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Zoologist, Marine Biologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM GAYTON
Date of Election: 02/07/1900.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Died August 1913. Photograph NLS Acc
10,000/380
Fellow Type: OF
ADRIEN MARIE LE GENDRE 18/09/1752- 10/01/1833
Place of Birth: Toulouse, France.
Date of Election: 01/06/1820.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER EBENEZER M'LEAN GEDDES
08/02/1885- 26/12/1970
Place of Birth: Fordyce,Banff.
Date of Election: 03/03/1930.
Profession: Physicist, Meteorolgist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM GENTLE ?-31/03/1964
Place of Birth: Dundee, Angus.
Date of Election: 21/12/1908.
Profession: Schoolmaster, Mathematician, Physicist.
Notes: Born 1877
Fellow Type: OF
AUCKLAND CAMPBELL GEDDES, BARON GEDDES
21/06/1879- 08/01/1954
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 15/05/1909.
Profession: Physician, Public Servant.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES CLARK GENTLES 18/03/1921- 15/11/1997
Place of Birth: Coatbridge, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1981.
Profession: Botanist, Mycologist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE H. GEDDES
Date of Election: 03/06/1889.
Profession: Mining Engineer.
Notes: Died 1905-6
Fellow Type: OF
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JOHN MICHAEL GEOGHEGAN ?-01/11/1947
Profession: Chartered Accountant.
Notes: Born c 1881
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER GIBSON 06/11/1843- 09/03/1887
Date of Election: 01/03/1886.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS NEVILLE GEORGE 13/05/1904- 18/06/1980
Place of Birth: Swansea, Glamorgan.
Date of Election: 01/03/1948.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ALEXANDER DRUMMOND GIBSON 11/02/192614/01/1995
Place of Birth: Motherwell, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1978.
Profession: Musician, Conductor.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER GERARD 22/02/1728- 22/01/1795
Place of Birth: Manse of Chapel of Garioch,
Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
ARNOLD HARTLEY GIBSON
Date of Election: 19/02/1912.
Profession: Engineer.
Notes: Born 1878
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR GEOFFREY LANGFORD GERARD ?11/03/1996
Date of Election: 03/03/1941.
Profession: Electrical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES ROBERT GIBSON ?-06/01/1931
Date of Election: 24/01/1910.
Profession: Businessman, Author of Popular Science
Books.
Notes: Born 1870
Fellow Type: OF
RALPH WALDO GERARD 07/10/1900- 17/02/1974
Date of Election: 01/07/1968.
Profession: Physician, Physiologist.
Fellow Type: HF
DAVID TEMPLETON GIBSON 23/11/189906/03/1985
Date of Election: 05/03/1956.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
ABDUL GHAFFAR
Date of Election: 05/03/1945.
Profession: Physician, Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE ALEXANDER GIBSON 19/04/185801/04/1930
Place of Birth: Greenlaw, Berwickshire.
Date of Election: 02/12/1889.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
BIRENDRA NATH GHOSH 06/02/1882- 03/11/1957
Place of Birth: Calcutta, India.
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Physician, Pharmacologist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE ALEXANDER GIBSON 27/01/185418/01/1913
Place of Birth: Muckhart, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 03/01/1881.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
SUDHAMOY GHOSH 13/01/1890- ?
Date of Election: 01/03/1920.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ALEXANDER GIBB 12/02/1872- 21/01/1958
Place of Birth: Broughty Ferry, Angus.
Date of Election: 15/06/1914.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN GIBSON 13/05/1855- 02/01/1914
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/04/1877.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALFRED WILLIAM GIBB ?-12/07/1937
Date of Election: 06/03/1916.
Profession: Geologist.
Notes: Born 1864
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN GIBSON GIBSON 03/09/1889- 13/06/1970
Place of Birth: Leith, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/03/1941.
Profession: Mathematician, Physicist, Civil Servant.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID GIBB ?-28/03/1946
Place of Birth: Leven, Fife.
Date of Election: 24/01/1910.
Profession: Mathematician, Astronomer.
Notes: Born c 1883
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT GIBSON, LORD GIBSON 20/04/188609/04/1965
Place of Birth: Hamilton, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1944.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
SYDNEY GUY GIBBONS
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Naturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT JOHN HARVEY- GIBSON 02/11/186003/06/1929
Date of Election: 06/04/1885.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER GIBSON ?-29/03/1956
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/03/1917.
Profession: Orthopaedic Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1883
Fellow Type: OF
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THOMAS GIBSON 24/11/1915- 13/02/1993
Place of Birth: Kilbarchan, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1976.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN BORTHWICK GILCHRIST ?-09/01/1841
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 26/01/1807.
Profession: Surgeon, Orientalist.
Notes: Born 1759. Previously proposed by Dugald
Stewart, James Russell, Andrew Coventry (Minute
04/03/1805 NLS Acc10,000/4) RSE Roll Book gives
1805
Fellow Type: OF
WALCOT GIBSON 24/08/1864- 28/11/1941
Date of Election: 07/03/1921.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR DAVID GILL 12/06/1843- 24/01/1914
Place of Birth: 48 Skene Terrace, Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 16/05/1892.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
GIDDY, DAVIES. SEE GILBERT, DAVIES.
SIR HENRY ALBERT JOHN GIDNEY 09/06/187305/05/1942
Place of Birth: Igatpuri, West Ghats, India.
Date of Election: 15/05/1911.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
A. LOCKHART GILLESPIE 12/06/1865- 02/01/1901
Date of Election: 01/02/1897.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Who Was Who gives date of death as
25/12/1904
Fellow Type: OF
SIR CHARLES LEWIS (KARL LUDWIG OR JOHANN
GEORG) GIESEKE (METZLER) ?-05/03/1833
Place of Birth: Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany.
Date of Election: 02/04/1821.
Profession: Mineralogist.
Notes: Born 1761. Changed name c.1780
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER GILLESPIE ?-01/09/1859
Date of Election: 01/01/1812.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
ADAM GIFFORD, LORD GIFFORD 29/02/182020/01/1887
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/05/1870.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Founder of the Gifford Lectureships
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER MACANDREW GILLESPIE ?-08/09/1984
Place of Birth: West Lothian.
Date of Election: 07/03/1949.
Profession: Physician, Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER STEWART GILLESPIE ?-24/06/1968
Date of Election: 06/03/1950.
Profession: Biologist.
Notes: Born c1895
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES HENRY PEARSON GIFFORD 17/10/190909/01/1994
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Lawyer.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES GILLESPIE ?-02/06/1791
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion,Theologian.
Notes: Born 1722
Fellow Type: OF
HERBERT JAMES GIFFORD
Date of Election: 01/02/1892.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT POLLOCK GILLESPIE 21/11/190301/01/1977
Place of Birth: Johnstone, Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
GIL, D. EMILIO JIMENO. SEE JIMENO, D. EMILIO
JEMINO.
DAVIES GILBERT, (UNTIL 1817 GIDDY) 06/03/176724/12/1839
Place of Birth: Tredrea, St Erth, Cornwall.
Date of Election: 07/04/1828.
Profession: Botanist, Geologist, Mathematician,
Politician.
Fellow Type: HF
THOMAS HAINING GILLESPIE ?-03/08/1967
Place of Birth: Dumfries.
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Solicitor, Zoological Administrator,
Broadcaster.
Notes: Born 1876
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW RAE GILCHRIST
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN GILLIES 18/01/1747- 15/02/1836
Place of Birth: Brechin, Angus.
Date of Election: 26/01/1795.
Profession: Tutor, Historian, Man of Letters.
Fellow Type: OF
DOUGLAS ALSTON GILCHRIST ?-04/04/1927
Place of Birth: Bothwell, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 05/02/1900.
Profession: Agriculturalist.
Notes: Born 1860.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM KING GILLIES
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
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WILLIAM GILMOUR
Date of Election: 04/04/1887.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died 1905-6
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN GLAISTER ?-04/10/1971
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 05/03/1934.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1892
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS GILRAY ?-03/02/1920
Date of Election: 03/03/1879.
Profession: Scholar of English.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE GLEIG 12/05/1753- 07/03/1840
Place of Birth: Boghall, Arbuthnott, Kincardineshire.
Date of Election: 26/06/1797.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE RITCHIE GILRUTH ?-15/08/1921
Date of Election: 02/02/1880.
Profession: Surgeon, Physician.
Notes: Photograph NLS, Acc 10000/380
Fellow Type: OF
GLEN, ANNE. SEE FERGUSON, ANNE.
GLENBERVIE, BARON. SEE DOUGLAS, SYLVESTER.
GLENCORSE, LORD. SEE INGLIS, JOHN.
JOHN ANDERSON GILRUTH ?-04/03/1937
Place of Birth: Nr. Arbroath, Angus.
Date of Election: 18/03/1907.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon, Pathologist.
Notes: Born 1871. Half-tone publication of a portrait
in oils by Sir John Longstaff, NLS Acc 10,000/380
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES GLENIE (GLENNIE) ?-23/11/1817
Place of Birth: Fife.
Date of Election: 27/01/1794.
Profession: Military Engineer, Mathematician.
Notes: Born 1750
Fellow Type: OF
DON ANTONIO GIMBERNAT 19/09/176512/10/1834
Date of Election: 27/01/1793.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Campbell (1989 list) gives date of birth as
1734 and death 1816
Fellow Type: OF
GLENLEE, LORD. SEE MILLER, THOMAS.
GLENLEE, LORD. SEE MILLER OF GLENLEE, WILLIAM.
GEORGE GLENNIE 24/01/1768- 09/11/1845
Date of Election: 24/01/1814.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Philosopher.
Fellow Type: OF
CHRISTOPHER GIRTANNER 07/12/1760- 17/05/1800
Place of Birth: St. Gall, Switzerland.
Date of Election: 25/01/1790.
Profession: Chemist, Physician.
Notes: Corresponding Member of The Royal Society
at Gottingen
Fellow Type: OF
MARCEL EUGENE EMILE GLEY ?-24/10/1930
Place of Birth: Epinal, France.
Date of Election: 03/07/1916.
Profession: Physiologist.
Notes: Born 1857
Fellow Type: HF
SIR HUGH STEUART GLADSTONE OF CAPENOCH
30/04/1877- 05/04/1949
Date of Election: 05/07/1909.
Profession: Ornithologist, Local Government.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT MORTIMER GLOVER ?-09/04/1859
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 02/12/1850.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1816
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN GLADSTONE (UNTIL 1835 GLADSTONES)
OF FASQUE, bart. 11/12/1764- 07/12/1851
Place of Birth: Leith, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 20/01/1834.
Profession: Merchant, Politician, Philanthropist.
Fellow Type: OF
KARL IMMANUEL EBERHARD RITTER VON GOEBEL
08/03/1855- 09/10/1932
Place of Birth: Billigheim, Baden, Germany.
Date of Election: 07/11/1910.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: HF
REGINALD JOHN GLADSTONE 09/06/186512/02/1947
Date of Election: 20/02/1911.
Profession: Physician, Anatomist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE 28/08/174922/03/1832
Place of Birth: Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
Date of Election: 03/02/1823.
Profession: Lawyer, Poet, Dramatist, Philosopher,
Naturalist.
Fellow Type: HF
JAMES WHITBREAD LEE GLAISHER 05/11/184807/12/1928
Place of Birth: Lewisham, Kent.
Date of Election: 03/07/1916.
Profession: Mathematician, Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
ARCHIBALD HAYMAN ROBERTSON GOLDIE
07/07/1888- 24/01/1964
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Meteorologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN GLAISTER 09/03/1856- 17/12/1932
Place of Birth: Lanark.
Date of Election: 07/03/1898.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
CAMILLO GOLGI ?-21/02/1926
Date of Election: 03/07/1916.
Profession: Pathologist.
Notes: Born c1834. Nobel Laureate (Medicine), 1906
Fellow Type: HF
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JOSEPH STRICKLAND GOODALL ?-22/11/1934
Date of Election: 20/06/1910.
Profession: Physician, Physiologist.
Notes: Born 1874
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN GORDON 19/04/1786- 14/06/1818
Place of Birth: Forres, Morayshire.
Date of Election: 01/01/1812.
Profession: Physician,Surgeon, Anatomist.
Notes: Born some sources state 19/4/1788, Elected
1812
Fellow Type: OF
GRAHAM WILLIAM GOODAY
Date of Election: 06/03/1989.
Profession: Biologist.
Notes: Proposers also C H Gimingham, F W
Robertson, G M Dunnet, P T Grant. Died c2002
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN THOMSON GORDON 19/03/1813- 21/09/1865
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/01/1849.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN GOODSIR 20/03/1814- 06/03/1867
Place of Birth: Anstruther, Fife.
Date of Election: 05/12/1842.
Profession: Anatomist.
Notes: Pioneer in the study of the cell
Fellow Type: OF
LEWIS D.B. GORDON ?-28/04/1876
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 21/04/1845.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Born 1815
Fellow Type: OF
JOSEPH TAYLOR GOODSIR 16/09/1815- 27/04/1893
Place of Birth: Lower Largo, Fife.
Date of Election: 02/03/1868.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
MANFRED GORDON 10/05/1917- 03/03/2000
Date of Election: 01/03/1965.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES GOODWILLIE ?-22/07/1953
Place of Birth: Liberton, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/07/1901.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Born 1866
Fellow Type: OF
PATRICK HUNTER- GORDON ?-28/03/1978
Date of Election: 07/03/1977.
Profession: Soldier, Electrical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT GORDON 05/05/1786- 21/10/1853
Place of Birth: Old Crawfordton, Glencairn,
Dumfriesshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1827.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Invented a self-registering hygrometer
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS S GOODWIN
Date of Election: 06/03/1899.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
CECIL GORDON ?-16/03/1960
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Physicist, Zoologist, Physiologist.
Notes: Born 1907
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS GORDON ?-11/03/1797
Place of Birth: Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Philosopher, Mathematician, Antiquarian.
Notes: Born 1714
Fellow Type: OF
COSMO GORDON OF CLUNY ?-19/11/1800
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate, Politician, Agricultural
Improver.
Notes: Born c.1736
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM GORDON ?-22/05/1932
Date of Election: 01/03/1920.
Profession: Mechanical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE HAMILTON GORDON, EARL OF ABERDEEN
28/01/1784- 14/12/1860
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 16/04/1849.
Profession: Statesman, Landowner, Antiquarian.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM SMITH GORDON 02/05/1902- 20/10/1967
Place of Birth: Pollokshields, Glasgow.
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM THOMAS GORDON 27/01/188412/12/1950
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 18/11/1912.
Profession: Geologist, Palaeontologist,
Palaeobotanist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE JAMES GORDON
Date of Election: 16/03/1846.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN GORDON OF CAIRNBULG 20/03/178718/09/1861
Date of Election: 01/12/1823.
Profession: Advocate,Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM CRAWFORD GORGAS 03/10/185404/07/1920
Place of Birth: Mobile, Alabama, USA.
Date of Election: 03/07/1916.
Profession: Physician, Tropical Medicine Specialist.
Fellow Type: HF
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ROBERT MACLAGAN GORRIE ?-20/12/1970
Date of Election: 05/03/1934.
Profession: Forester.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES METHUEN GRAHAM ?-13/03/1962
Date of Election: 06/03/1944.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1882
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ARTHUR HULIN GOSLING 26/07/190108/08/1982
Place of Birth: Forest of Dean.
Date of Election: 02/03/1942.
Profession: Forester.
Fellow Type: OF
RICHARD D. GRAHAM ?-12/09/1920
Date of Election: 04/05/1891.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Born c1836
Fellow Type: OF
W. DRISCOLL GOSSET ?-19/05/1899
Date of Election: 04/03/1850.
Profession: Engineer, Soldier.
Notes: Born 1822
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT GRAHAM 03/12/1786- 07/08/1845
Place of Birth: Stirling.
Date of Election: 08/01/1821.
Profession: Physician, Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
STEPHEN JAY GOULD ?-20/05/2002
Date of Election: 05/03/1990.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: HF
ROBERT JAMES DOUGLAS GRAHAM 20/07/188403/09/1950
Place of Birth: Perth.
Date of Election: 03/03/1924.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN SCOTT GOURLAY ?-20/06/1969
Place of Birth: Stevenston, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1968.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Born 1905
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS GRAHAM 20/12/1805- 16/09/1869
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 07/04/1828.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Transferred to Honorary Fellowship in
17/3/1845. He made the first public statement of his
law of the diffusion of gases to the RSE in 1829
Fellow Type: HF
RAM KUMAR GOYAL
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
TOM GRAHAME ?-05/08/1971
Date of Election: 03/03/1947.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE WALTER GRABHAM 28/06/188229/01/1955
Place of Birth: Madeira,.
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS GRAINGER OF CRAIGPARK 12/11/179425/07/1852
Place of Birth: Gogar Green, Ratho, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 18/03/1850.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Died from injuries sustained in a rail crash near
Stockton-on- Tees
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW GRAHAM ?-01/12/1889
Place of Birth: Dalkeith, Midlothian.
Date of Election: 21/01/1867.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1817
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ALEXANDER GRANT, OF DALVEY, bart.
13/09/1826- 30/11/1884
Place of Birth: New York, USA..
Date of Election: 15/03/1869.
Profession: Classicist, Philosopher.
Notes: Author of "The Story of the University of
Edinburgh"
Fellow Type: OF
DENIS COULTHARD GRAHAM ?-12/10/2002
Date of Election: 03/03/1975.
Profession: Biological Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES GRAHAM 21/12/1790- 03/07/1842
Date of Election: 04/02/1822.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR GEORGE MACPHERSON GRANT OF
BALLINDALLOCH. (UNTIL 1806 MACPHERSON OF
INVERESHIE), bart. 25/02/1781- 24/11/1846
Date of Election: 06/03/1826.
Profession: Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES GRAHAM
Date of Election: 03/05/1880.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died c1898
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES GRANT OF GRANT, bart. 19/05/173818/02/1811
Place of Birth: Moray.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Landowner, Politician.
Notes: President of the Physical Class of the RSE
1783-6. DNB gives date of death as 18/12/1811
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES DAVID PROVINS GRAHAM 08/02/191416/05/1989
Place of Birth: Barrhead, Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1969.
Profession: Physician, Pharmacologist.
Fellow Type: OF
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JAMES GRANT 23/01/1800- 28/07/1890
Place of Birth: Portmoak, Kinross-shire.
Date of Election: 21/04/1851.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Financial Director.
Notes: Director 1840-90, Scottish Widows Fund
Fellow Type: OF
ALBERT ALEXANDER GRAY 08/10/186804/01/1936
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 02/05/1898.
Profession: Physician, Otologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES SHAW GRANT 22/05/1910- 28/07/1999
Place of Birth: Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.
Date of Election: 01/03/1982.
Profession: Journalist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ALEXANDER GRAY 06/01/1882- 17/02/1968
Place of Birth: Lochee, Dundee.
Date of Election: 02/03/1942.
Profession: Economist, Poet.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES WILLIAM GRANT OF WESTER ELCHIES
12/08/1788- 17/12/1865
Place of Birth: Wester Elchies, Morayshire.
Date of Election: 05/04/1852.
Profession: Astronomer, Landowner.
Notes: Died 17/9/1855 according to Campbell
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW GRAY 02/07/1847- 10/10/1925
Place of Birth: Lochgelly, Fife.
Date of Election: 05/03/1883.
Profession: Physicist, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
ASA GRAY 18/11/1810- 30/01/1888
Place of Birth: Paris Township, Oneida County,New
York, USA..
Date of Election: 03/03/1879.
Profession: Naturalist, Plant Taxonomist,
Bibliographer.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR JOHN. MACPHERSON GRANT OF INVERESHIE &
BALLINDALLOCH, bart. ?-02/12/1850
Date of Election: 02/05/1836.
Profession: Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID GRAY
Date of Election: 04/01/1847.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Died March 1856
Fellow Type: OF
LEWIS ALEXANDER GRANT, (FROM 1811 OGILVIE
GRANT) EARL OF SEAFIELD 22/03/1767- 26/10/1840
Place of Birth: Moy, Inverness-shire.
Date of Election: 23/06/1788.
Profession: Landowner, Advocate, Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCIS GRAY, BARON GRAY 01/09/176520/08/1842
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/01/1812.
Profession: Landowner, Politician, Soldier.
Notes: Elected 1812
Fellow Type: OF
SIR MATTHEW ALISTAIR GRANT 06/03/193722/01/2001
Date of Election: 03/03/1997.
Profession: Company Director.
Fellow Type: OF
PATRICK THOMAS GRANT ?-28/07/1988
Date of Election: 02/03/1970.
Profession: Biochemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES GRAY ?-14/06/1942
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/03/1941.
Profession: Manufacturing Chemist.
Notes: Born 1884
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT GRANT ?-21/02/1959
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Bookseller, Publisher.
Notes: Born 1879
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES GORDON GRAY ?-06/11/1934
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 18/01/1909.
Profession: Mathematician, Physicist.
Notes: Born 1876
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT EDMOND GRANT 11/11/1793- 23/08/1874
Place of Birth: Argyle Square, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 19/01/1824.
Profession: Anatomist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT GRAY 15/08/1825- 18/02/1887
Place of Birth: Dunbar, East Lothian.
Date of Election: 04/01/1875.
Profession: Banker, Ornithologist.
Notes: Mrs Robert Gray was a noted collector of the
fossils of the Silurian rocks of the South of Scotland
and helped her husband in his ornithological pursuits
Fellow Type: OF
RONALD GRANT
Date of Election: 04/03/1935.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
GRANTON, LORD. SEE HOPE, CHARLES.
ROBERT BRUCE M'GREGOR GRAY ?-02/03/1929
Date of Election: 16/05/1910.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
GIOVANI BATTISTA GRASSI 27/03/185404/05/1925
Place of Birth: Rovellasca, Como Province, Italy.
Date of Election: 03/07/1916.
Profession: Zoologist, Entomologist, Anatomist.
Fellow Type: HF
THOMAS GRAY
Date of Election: 06/12/1880.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
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WILLIAM FORBES GRAY 14/04/1874- 12/05/1950
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/03/1918.
Profession: Editor, Author.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM OSBORNE GREENWOOD ?-08/01/1947
Place of Birth: Halifax, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1922.
Profession: Surgeon, Physician, Minister of Religion.
Notes: Born 1873
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM MICHAEL HERBERT GREAVES 10/09/189724/12/1955
Place of Birth: Barbados, West Indies.
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Mathematician, Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCIS GREGOR ?-12/07/1815
Place of Birth: Cornwall.
Date of Election: 25/01/1802.
Profession: Landowner, Politician.
Notes: Born 1760
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES EDWARD GREEN ?-06/01/1920
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 16/05/1910.
Profession: Publisher.
Notes: Born 1866, Founder and Proprietor of the
Scots Law Times
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES WYLLIE GREGOR 14/01/1900- 30/09/1980
Place of Birth: Innerwick Farm, Dunbar, East Lothian.
Date of Election: 04/03/1957.
Profession: Botanist, Genecologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES GREGORY ?-02/04/1821
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician, Classicist.
Notes: Born January 1753. Died as a result of carriage
accident
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE GREEN
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Physicist, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
WALTER GEORGE GREEN
Date of Election: 05/03/1956.
Profession: Mechanical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
JAMES CRAWFORD GREGORY 05/12/180128/12/1832
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/02/1828.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM GREENFIELD ?-28/06/1827
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Mathematician.
Notes: Devlin-Thorp states that he was later
excommunicated and had his university degrees
withdrawn. His family assumed the name Rutherfurd
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN WALTER GREGORY 27/01/1864- 02/06/1932
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 20/01/1905.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM SMITH GREENFIELD 09/01/184612/08/1919
Place of Birth: Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Date of Election: 03/05/1886.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM GREGORY 25/12/1803- 24/04/1858
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/02/1832.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Expert on Diatomacea
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ROBERTSON CAMPBELL GREENLEES
14/12/1878- 16/05/1951
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Physician, Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID CUNNINGHAM GREIG 16/02/192204/07/1999
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 03/03/1975.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS DUNCAN GREENLEES ?-22/01/1929
Place of Birth: Kilmarnock, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1897.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1859
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID MIDDLETON GREIG ?-04/05/1936
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Born c 1864
Fellow Type: OF
GREENOCK, LORD. SEE CATHCART, CHARLES
MURRAY.
EDWARD DAVID WILSON GREIG 20/03/187413/04/1950
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 19/03/1906.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ALAN WILLIAM GREENWOOD 29/06/189704/05/1981
Place of Birth: Melbourne, Australia.
Date of Election: 14/03/1927.
Profession: Zoologist, Geneticist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES GREIG 24/04/1903- 12/12/1991
Date of Election: 05/03/1956.
Profession: Electrical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
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JOHN RUSSELL GREIG
Place of Birth: Leith, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Notes: Born September 1889
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ROBERT GRIEVE 11/12/1910- 25/10/1995
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 03/03/1980.
Profession: Civil Engineer, Regional Planner.
Fellow Type: OF
HARRY DEVONALD GRIFFITH ?-11/04/1964
Place of Birth: Clifton, Bristol.
Date of Election: 01/03/1954.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ROBERT BLYTH GREIG 23/03/1874- 29/11/1947
Place of Birth: Balcurvie, Fife.
Date of Election: 20/02/1905.
Profession: Agriculturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR RICHARD JOHN GRIFFITH, bart. 20/09/178422/09/1878
Place of Birth: Hume Street, Dublin, Eire.
Date of Election: 22/06/1807.
Profession: Civil Engineer, Geologist.
Fellow Type: HF
RICHARD ARBUTHNOT REYNELL GRESSON ?02/06/1986
Date of Election: 02/03/1942.
Profession: Zoologist.
Notes: Born 1899
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR BOWER GRIFFITHS
Date of Election: 07/12/1886.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES FRANCIS GREVILLE 12/05/174923/04/1809
Place of Birth: Warwick.
Date of Election: 24/01/1785.
Profession: Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
PERCY HALL GRIMSHAW ?-14/11/1939
Place of Birth: Leeds, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 20/12/1909.
Profession: Zoologist, Entomologist.
Notes: Born 1869
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT KAYE GREVILLE 13/12/1794- 04/06/1866
Place of Birth: Bishop Auckland, Durham.
Date of Election: 02/04/1821.
Profession: Botanist, Artist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT GROAT ?-02/10/1824
Date of Election: 19/01/1824.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
KENNETH EDMUND GREW
Date of Election: 02/03/1942.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
FABIUS GROSS ?-18/06/1950
Place of Birth: Krosno, Austria.
Date of Election: 07/03/1949.
Profession: Zoologist.
Notes: Born 1906
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER MILLAR MEEK GRIERSON ?-13/04/1961
Date of Election: 04/03/1935.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1902
Fellow Type: OF
PAUL HEINRICH RITTER VON GROTH 23/06/184302/12/1927
Place of Birth: Magdeburg, Germany.
Date of Election: 09/01/1905.
Profession: Geologist, Mineralogist.
Fellow Type: HF
DAVID GRIEVE 09/02/1808- 25/06/1889
Date of Election: 15/01/1872.
Profession: Lawyer, Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY GRIEVE ?-10/02/1810
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Born 1736
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM ROBERT GROVE 11/07/181102/08/1896
Place of Birth: Swansea, Wales.
Date of Election: 17/01/1881.
Profession: Barrister, Judge, Physicist.
Notes: Invented Grove voltaic cell
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN GRIEVE ?-19/04/1803
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Merchant, Local Politician.
Notes: Collaborator in the Edinburgh Mound Project
Fellow Type: OF
NICHOLAS GRUT
Date of Election: 18/03/1844.
Profession: Actuary.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN GRIEVE
Date of Election: 03/03/1884.
Profession: Physician, Naturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
EDWARD GRAHAM GUEST ?-12/04/1962
Place of Birth: Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1899.
Profession: Schoolmaster, Company Director, Baker,
Confectioner.
Notes: Born 1869
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN GRIEVE ?-21/12/1805
Place of Birth: Peeblesshire.
Date of Election: 26/01/1784.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1753
Fellow Type: OF
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FRANCOIS PIERRE GUILLAUME GUIZOT 04/10/178712/09/1874
Date of Election: 17/02/1845.
Profession: Historian, Orator, Statesman.
Fellow Type: HF
GUSTAFSON, THORE GUSTAF. SEE HALLE, THORE
GUSTAF.
CHARLES JOHN GUTHRIE, LORD GUTHRIE
04/04/1849- 28/04/1920
Date of Election: 06/03/1916.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MASSON GULLAND 14/10/1898- 26/10/1947
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 14/03/1927.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
DOUGLAS JAMES GUTHRIE 08/09/188508/06/1975
Place of Birth: Dysart, Fife.
Date of Election: 03/03/1930.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
GILBERT HENRY GULLIVER ?-24/10/1952
Date of Election: 18/02/1907.
Profession: Engineer, Metallurgist.
Fellow Type: OF
FREDERICK GUTHRIE 15/10/1833- 21/10/1886
Place of Birth: Bayswater, London.
Date of Election: 16/01/1860.
Profession: Physicist, Chemist.
Notes: A founder of the Physical Society
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES GERALD GULLIVER 17/08/1930- 12/09/1996
Place of Birth: Campbelltown, Argyll.
Date of Election: 05/03/1990.
Profession: Company Director, Entrepreneur.
Fellow Type: OF
MATTHEW GUTHRIE ?-30/08/1807
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician, Mineralogist.
Notes: Born 1743. Councillor of State to the Empress
Catherine II and Alexander I
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ANDREW GUNN 26/01/1882- ?
Date of Election: 20/02/1911.
Profession: Physician, Pharmacologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN CURRIE GUNN 13/09/1916- 26/07/2002
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 02/03/1959.
Profession: Mathematical Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
SEATON (SETON) GUTHRIE
Date of Election: 16/04/1868.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died c1873
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT HALLIDAY GUNNING (FORMERLY
GUNNION) 12/12/1818- 22/03/1900
Place of Birth: Wood House, Ruthwell,
Dumfriesshire.
Date of Election: 04/12/1882.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon, Philanthropist.
Notes: Nominated for election 3/5/1847, Benefactor
to many institutions
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS GUTHRIE 12/07/1803- 24/02/1873
Place of Birth: Brechin, Angus.
Date of Election: 20/04/1868.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Philanthropist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ALEXANDER GUTHRIE
Date of Election: 06/03/1922.
Profession: Chemist, Petroleum Technologist.
Fellow Type: OF
GUNNION, ROBERT HALLIDAY. SEE GUNNING,
ROBERT HALLIDAY.
ALBERT CHARLES LEWIS GOTTHILF GUNTHER
03/10/1830- 01/02/1914
Place of Birth: Esslingen, Wurtemberg, Germany.
Date of Election: 06/05/1895.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM GILMOUR GUTHRIE 02/09/190515/09/1978
Place of Birth: Foulford Schoolhouse, Cowdenbeath,
Fife.
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY BROUGHAM GUPPY 23/12/185423/04/1926
Place of Birth: Falmouth, Devon.
Date of Election: 05/03/1888.
Profession: Surgeon, Naturalist, Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM GUY 03/12/1859- 29/05/1950
Place of Birth: Biddenden, Kent.
Date of Election: 15/05/1911.
Profession: Dental Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
ABRAHAM GUYOT ?-22/05/1794
Date of Election: 26/01/1789.
Profession: Banker.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID GRAINGER MARCUS WOOD- GUSH
20/11/1922- 01/12/1992
Place of Birth: Transkei, South Africa.
Date of Election: 02/03/1981.
Profession: Animal Geneticist, Ethologist.
Fellow Type: OF
RICHARD LLOYD GWILT 25/07/1901- 21/08/1972
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/03/1941.
Profession: Actuary.
Fellow Type: OF
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ALBAN THOMAS JONES GWYNNE
Date of Election: 04/03/1833.
Profession: Landowner.
Notes: RSE Records give "Allan T.J.Gwynne".
Associated with Monachty, Cardiganshire, Wales
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID HALDANE ?-31/01/1957
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/03/1934.
Profession: Geologist.
Notes: Born 1884
Fellow Type: OF
ALBERT SZENT- GYORGYI 16/09/1893- 22/10/1980
Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary.
Date of Election: 07/07/1947.
Profession: Biochemist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate, Physiology & Medicine, 1937
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN HALDANE
Date of Election: 15/12/1834.
Profession: Amateur natural historian.
Notes: Died 1856-7
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN SCOTT HALDANE 03/05/1860- 15/03/1936
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/07/1934.
Profession: Physiologist, Philosopher.
Fellow Type: HF
JACQUES SALOMON HADAMARD 08/12/186517/10/1963
Place of Birth: Versailles, France.
Date of Election: 01/07/1946.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
ROBERT HALDANE 27/01/1772- 09/03/1854
Place of Birth: Overtown, Lecropt, Stirling-shire.
Date of Election: 24/01/1820.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Mathematician.
Notes: Proposers given as George Dunbar, Robert
Jameson, Patrick Neill, (Minutes NLS Acc 10,000/12)
Fellow Type: OF
HADDINGTON, 9TH EARL OF. SEE HAMILTON,
THOMAS.
HADDINGTON, 11TH EARL OF. SEE HAMILTON,
GEORGE BAILLIE-.
HADDINGTON, 12TH EARL OF. SEE HAMILTON,
GEORGE BAILLIE-.
WILLIAM SPENCE HALDANE
Date of Election: 05/03/1945.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ALEXANDER HADDOW 18/01/1907- 21/01/1976
Place of Birth: Leven, Fife.
Date of Election: 06/03/1961.
Profession: Physician, Pathologist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE ELLERY HALE 29/06/1868- 23/02/1938
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Date of Election: 03/11/1913.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
ALEXANDER JOHN HADDOW 27/12/191226/12/1978
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 06/03/1967.
Profession: Physician, Zoologist, Entomologist.
Fellow Type: OF
BASIL HALL 31/12/1788- 11/09/1844
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/01/1812.
Profession: Officer of The Royal Navy, Author,
Astronomer, Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR THOMAS DOUGLAS HADDOW 09/02/191326/12/1986
Date of Election: 04/03/1968.
Profession: Civil Servant.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES HALL OF DUNGLASS, bart. 17/01/176123/06/1832
Place of Birth: Dunglass, East Lothian.
Date of Election: 26/01/1784.
Profession: Landowner,Geologist, Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
ERNST HEINRICH HAECKEL
Place of Birth: Potsdam, Germany.
Date of Election: 30/01/1888.
Profession: Zoologist.
Notes: Born 1834. Died 1919
Fellow Type: HF
JAMES HALL ?-26/10/1854
Date of Election: 05/12/1825.
Profession: Advocate, Amateur Artist.
Notes: Born c. 1800 Campbell's lists prior to 1989
state that he Resigned 1826-30. Campbell states that
he was a Judge in Illinois
Fellow Type: OF
WILHELM KARL RITTER VON HAIDINGER
05/02/1795- 19/03/1871
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria.
Date of Election: 19/01/1824.
Profession: Geologist, Mineralogist, Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN HALL OF DUNGLASS, bart. 16/09/178702/04/1860
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/06/1820.
Profession: Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
DANIEL RUTHERFORD HALDANE ?-12/04/1887
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/02/1867.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1824
Fellow Type: OF
MARSHALL HALL 18/02/1790- 11/08/1857
Place of Birth: Basford, nr. Nottingham.
Date of Election: 25/01/1819.
Profession: Physiologist, Physician, Mathematician.
Notes: Coined the term " Reflex Action"
Fellow Type: OF
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WILLIAM HALL OF WHITEHALL ?-07/01/1800
Place of Birth: Berwickshire.
Date of Election: 23/01/1792.
Profession: Landowner, Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
Date of Election: 03/02/1823.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1762, died 1837-40
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM HALL OF DUNGLASS
Date of Election: 24/01/1820.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
ALLAN M'LANE HAMILTON 06/10/184823/11/1919
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Date of Election: 06/02/1899.
Profession: Alienist, Psychiatrist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ROBERT HALL ?-14/05/1978
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Banker.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID JAMES HAMILTON 06/03/1849- 19/02/1909
Place of Birth: Falkirk,Stirlingshire.
Date of Election: 04/04/1881.
Profession: Surgeon, Pathologist.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY HALLAM 09/07/1777- 21/01/1859
Place of Birth: Windsor,Berkshire.
Date of Election: 17/03/1845.
Profession: Barrister, Historian.
Fellow Type: HF
HAMILTON, DUNBAR. SEE DOUGLAS, DUNBAR
HAMILTON.
FREDERICK HALLARD 11/05/1821- 12/01/1882
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 21/01/1867.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCIS (HAMILTON) HAMILTON, FORMERLY
BUCHANAN 15/02/1762- 15/06/1829
Place of Birth: Branziet,Callander, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 27/01/1817.
Profession: Physician, Botanist, Author.
Notes: Elected as Francis Buchanan
Fellow Type: OF
THORE GUSTAF HALLE (FORMERLY GUSTAFSON) ?12/05/1964
Place of Birth: Mullsjo, Sweden.
Date of Election: 05/07/1943.
Profession: Palaeobotanist, Geologist.
Fellow Type: HF
GAVIN HAMILTON
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 28/01/1799.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1755, died 1829
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES HERBERT BROCKENCOTE HALLEN ?20/08/1901
Date of Election: 18/03/1867.
Profession: Soldier, Veterinary Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1829. Who Was Who and Devlin-Thorp
gives date of death as 1/8/1901
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE BAILLIE- HAMILTON, FROM 1858 BAILLIEHAMILTON-ARDEN, 11TH EARL OF HADDINGTON,
26/07/1827- 11/06/1917
Date of Election: 01/03/1886.
Profession: Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ANDREW HALLIDAY ?-06/09/1839
Place of Birth: Copeland, Dryfesdale, Dumfriesshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1823.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1781, some sources say 1783. Previously
Proposed by Archibald Alison, William Creech,
Alexander Monro secundus, Alexander Monro tertius,
(Minute 07/12/1812 NLS Acc10,000/4 & [no date] NLS
Acc 10,000/12)
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE BAILLIE- HAMILTON, 12TH EARL OF
HADDINGTON 18/09/1894- 17/04/1986
Date of Election: 02/03/1953.
Profession: Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY PARR HAMILTON 03/04/1794- 07/02/1880
Date of Election: 07/01/1822.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Mathematician.
Notes: Campbell's list prior to 1989 says that he
Resigned 1836-40
Fellow Type: OF
JACOB KARL ERNST HALM 30/11/1866- 17/07/1944
Place of Birth: Eingen, Germany.
Date of Election: 21/11/1904.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES HAMILTON ?-27/10/1835
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1749
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER HAMILTON ?-23/05/1802
Place of Birth: Fordoun, Kincardineshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1739. Among the first to recognise the
infectious nature of puerperal fever
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES HAMILTON 27/11/1814- 24/11/1867
Place of Birth: Paisley, Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 01/02/1841.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER HAMILTON ?-01/01/1884
Date of Election: 06/05/1833.
Profession: Writer to The Signet.
Notes: Born 1797
Fellow Type: OF
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JAMES HAMILTON ?-21/11/1839
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 19/01/1824.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1767
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM HAMILTON 31/07/1758- 13/03/1790
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM HAMILTON 16/12/1755- 02/03/1797
Place of Birth: Londonderry, Ireland.
Date of Election: 28/01/1788.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Geologist,
Meteorologist, Antiquary.
Notes: Murdered by mob
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ALEXANDER KING HAMILTON 11/01/190013/07/1982
Place of Birth: Ealing, London.
Date of Election: 07/03/1966.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
RICHARD ALEXANDER HAMILTON 02/11/191217/03/1991
Place of Birth: Dublin.
Date of Election: 04/03/1957.
Profession: Meteorologist, Explorer.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON 13/12/1730- 06/04/1803
Place of Birth: Linlithgowshire.
Date of Election: 24/01/1785.
Profession: Diplomat, Archaeologist, Vulcanologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM JAMES HAMILTON 21/07/190303/05/1975
Place of Birth: Co. Antrim, Ireland.
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Physician, Anatomist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT HAMILTON ?-29/05/1830
Place of Birth: Coleraine, Co Londonderry, Ireland.
Date of Election: 02/04/1821.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1748
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM ROWAN HAMILTON 04/08/180502/09/1865
Place of Birth: Dublin.
Date of Election: 20/04/1835.
Profession: Astronomer, Mathematician.
Notes: Inventor of Quaterions
Fellow Type: HF
ROBERT HAMILTON 11/06/1743- 14/07/1829
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Mathematician, Political Economist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT HAMILTON 19/04/1763- 13/12/1831
Date of Election: 26/01/1795.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM (STIRLING) HAMILTON OF PRESTON,
bart. 08/03/1788- 06/05/1856
Place of Birth: In the College of Glasgow.
Date of Election: 26/01/1818.
Profession: Metaphysician, Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT HAMILTON 06/12/1721- 09/11/1793
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 23/06/1788.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOSEPH VON HAMMER (AFTER 1835 HAMMERPURGSTALL) 09/06/1774- 23/11/1856
Place of Birth: Graz, Austria.
Date of Election: 25/01/1819.
Profession: Orientalist.
Notes: ms Proposal 20/12/1818 NLS Acc10,000/42
seconded also by John Clerk (Lord Eldin)
Fellow Type: HF
ROBERT HAMILTON 19/05/1707- 03/04/1787
Place of Birth: Manse of Cramond, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT MONTGOMERIE HAMILTON, BARON
BELHAVEN AND STENTON
Date of Election: 04/04/1825.
Profession: Landowner.
Notes: Born 1793, died 1868
Fellow Type: OF
PETER DAVID HANDYSIDE 26/10/1808- 21/02/1881
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 20/02/1837.
Profession: Anatomist, Surgeon.
Notes: Founded Livingston Memorial Dispensary and
Training Institution
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS HAMILTON ?-07/12/1842
Date of Election: 07/04/1828.
Profession: Philosopher, Author.
Notes: Born 1789
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT HANDYSIDE, LORD HANDYSIDE
26/03/1798- 17/04/1858
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 19/04/1847.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS HAMILTON, 9TH EARL OF HADDINGTON
21/06/1780- 01/12/1858
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 16/04/1849.
Profession: Politician, Statesman, Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM HANDYSIDE OF KIRKLANDS
Date of Election: 04/03/1861.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
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JULIUS FERDINAND VON HANN 23/03/183901/10/1921
Place of Birth: Muhlkreis nr. Linz, Austria.
Date of Election: 19/02/1883.
Profession: Meteorologist, Climatologist.
Notes: Editor 1865-1920 Meteorologische Zeitschift
Fellow Type: HF
THOMAS HARDY (HARDIE) OF CHARLESFIELD
22/04/1748- 21/11/1798
Place of Birth: Navitie, Fife.
Date of Election: 26/01/1795.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM BATE HARDY 06/04/1864- 23/01/1934
Place of Birth: Erdington, Warwickshire.
Date of Election: 07/07/1930.
Profession: Biologist, Histologist.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN HANNAH 16/07/1818- 01/06/1888
Place of Birth: Lincoln.
Date of Election: 20/03/1848.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR WILLIAM HARE
Date of Election: 01/02/1886.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES HANNAY 17/02/1827- 08/01/1873
Place of Birth: Dumfries.
Date of Election: 05/01/1863.
Profession: Author, Journalist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES HARE OF CALDERHALL
Date of Election: 24/01/1785.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Died 1826-30
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES BALLANTYNE HANNAY 01/01/185517/03/1931
Date of Election: 07/02/1876.
Profession: Scientist, Inventor.
Notes: Precision Instrument Maker
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES MACADAM HARE ?-12/02/1831
Place of Birth: Scotland.
Date of Election: 25/01/1813.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1777
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT KERR HANNAY 31/12/1867- 19/03/1940
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 06/03/1922.
Profession: Historian.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW FULLER HARGREAVES
Date of Election: 05/05/1902.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Died 1908-9
Fellow Type: OF
BJORN HELLAND- HANSEN 16/10/1877- 07/09/1957
Place of Birth: Oslo, Norway.
Date of Election: 02/07/1934.
Profession: Physicist, Oceanographer.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR CHARLES ROBERT HARINGTON 01/08/189704/02/1972
Place of Birth: Llanerfyl, North Wales.
Date of Election: 02/07/1951.
Profession: Biochemist.
Fellow Type: HF
CHRISTOPHER HANSTEEN 26/09/1784- 11/04/1873
Place of Birth: Christiania (Oslo), Norway.
Date of Election: 17/02/1845.
Profession: Astronomer, Physicist.
Fellow Type: HF
ROBERT HARKNESS 28/07/1816- 04/10/1878
Place of Birth: Ormskirk, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 17/04/1854.
Profession: Geologist, Mineralogist.
Fellow Type: OF
PATRICK SINCLAIR HARDIE ?-07/03/1943
Date of Election: 04/03/1918.
Profession: Physicist, Arabic Scholar.
Fellow Type: OF
SYDNEY CROSS HARLAND 19/06/1891- 08/11/1982
Place of Birth: Snainton, Scarborough, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1951.
Profession: Agricultural Botanist.
Notes: Director 1926-35, Cotton Research Station,
Trinidad, WI; Director 1940-9,Inst of Genetics,
National Agri Soc of Peru; Reader 1949-50, Genetics,
Professor 1950-58, Botany, Manchester University
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM GERALD HARDING ?-09/11/1966
Place of Birth: Middlesex.
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Philologist, Entomologist, Antiquarian.
Notes: born 1895
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ALISTER CLAVERING HARDY 10/02/189622/05/1985
Place of Birth: Nottingham.
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Zoologist, Oceanographer.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS HARLAND 03/11/1794- 12/04/1882
Place of Birth: Rosedale, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 03/02/1823.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
GODFREY HAROLD HARDY 07/02/187701/12/1947
Place of Birth: Cranleigh, Surrey.
Date of Election: 01/07/1946.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM ARTHUR HARLAND 07/03/192609/01/1985
Date of Election: 03/03/1980.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
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JOHN GORDON HARROWER 04/04/189009/04/1936
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 08/03/1926.
Profession: Physician, Anatomist.
Fellow Type: OF
GAYLORD P. HARNWELL ?-17/04/1982
Date of Election: 03/03/1975.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Born c.1904
Fellow Type: HF
ALFRED ALEXANDER HARPER 19/06/190718/11/1996
Date of Election: 02/03/1959.
Profession: Physician, Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM MCCONNACHIE HARROWES ?-04/08/1977
Date of Election: 04/03/1940.
Profession: Physician, Psychologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM TREVELYAN HARRY ?-20/06/1964
Place of Birth: Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1961.
Profession: Geologist.
Notes: Born c1911
Fellow Type: OF
WALTER FEARN HARPER ?-19/12/1987
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Anatomist.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID HARRIS ?-17/06/1912
Place of Birth: Dunster, Somerset.
Date of Election: 01/06/1896.
Profession: Statistician, Philanthropist.
Notes: Born June 1842
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID BERRY HART ?-10/06/1920
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/05/1888.
Profession: Physician, Gynaecologist.
Notes: Born October 1851
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID FRASER HARRIS (LATER FRASER-HARRIS) ?03/01/1937
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/06/1896.
Profession: Physician, Physiologist.
Notes: Born 1857, Photograph NLS Acc10000/380
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS HART ?-04/12/1946
Date of Election: 04/03/1940.
Profession: Chartered Accountant.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR CHARLES AUGUSTUS HARTLEY ?-20/02/1915
Date of Election: 04/01/1869.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Born 1825
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT GRAHAM HARRIS ?-08/09/1964
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Aeronautical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
EDWARD PHILIP HARRISON ?-06/05/1948
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 17/11/1913.
Profession: Physicist, Meteorologist.
Notes: Born 1877. Specialised in torpedoes and
magnetic mines
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WALTER NOEL HARTLEY 03/02/184711/09/1913
Place of Birth: Lichfield, Staffordshire.
Date of Election: 15/01/1877.
Profession: Chemist, Spectroscopist.
Notes: Proc Roy Soc gives year of birth as 1846.
Photograph NLS Acc 10000/380
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE HESLOP- HARRISON ?-03/06/1964
Date of Election: 03/03/1947.
Profession: Entomologist.
Notes: Born c 1911
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE HARVEY ?-29/10/1834
Date of Election: 19/01/1824.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN HARRISON 17/08/1847- 10/07/1922
Date of Election: 05/03/1917.
Profession: Master Tailor.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR GEORGE FREDERICK HARVEY ?-22/01/1876
Place of Birth: 59 Main Street, St Ninians, Stirling.
Date of Election: 07/01/1867.
Profession: Artist.
Notes: Born February 1806
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN HESLOP- HARRISON 10/02/1920- 07/05/1998
Place of Birth: Middlesbrough, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1953.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS HARVEY
Date of Election: 02/05/1870.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Notes: Born 1823 Died 1901
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN VERNON HARRISON 16/03/1892- 30/07/1972
Date of Election: 05/03/1934.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM FREDERICK HARVEY ?-11/09/1948
Date of Election: 08/03/1926.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1873
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN WILLIAM HESLOP HARRISON 22/01/188123/01/1967
Date of Election: 07/03/1921.
Profession: Schoolmaster, Botanist, Geneticist,
Entomologist.
Fellow Type: OF
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WILLIAM ALBERT HARWOOD
Date of Election: 02/03/1942.
Profession: Meteorologist.
Notes: Does not appear on RSE lists after 1975
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE HAY, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDALE
01/02/1787- 10/10/1876
Place of Birth: Yester House, East Lothian.
Date of Election: 17/12/1849.
Profession: Soldier,Landowner, Agriculturalist,
Meteorologist.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES HATCHETT 02/01/1765- 10/03/1847
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 26/06/1797.
Profession: Chemist, Mineralogist.
Notes: First to isolate a Niobium Compound
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE WILLIAM HAY OF WHITERIG
Date of Election: 03/01/1859.
Profession: Agriculturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHANN FRIEDERICH LUDWIG HAUSMANN
22/02/1782- 26/12/1859
Place of Birth: Hanover, Germany.
Date of Election: 01/05/1826.
Profession: Geologist, Mineralogist.
Fellow Type: HF
JAMES HAY
Date of Election: 03/12/1855.
Profession: Merchant.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN HAY OF SMITHFIELD & HAYSTOUN, bart.
15/01/1755- 23/05/1830
Place of Birth: Peeblesshire.
Date of Election: 25/01/1819.
Profession: Banker, Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
RENE JUST HAUY 28/02/1743- 03/06/1822
Place of Birth: St. Just, Oise, France.
Date of Election: 24/01/1814.
Profession: Mineralogist, Crystallographer.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR JOHN HAY OF SMITHFIELD & HAYSTOUN, bart.
03/08/1788- 01/11/1838
Place of Birth: Peeblesshire.
Date of Election: 01/06/1820.
Profession: Advocate, Landowner, Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
ERIC HENRY EDWARDES HAVELOCK 09/07/189124/12/1974
Date of Election: 05/03/1945.
Profession: Civil Servant.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MORRISON HAY 28/09/1892- 10/10/1960
Place of Birth: Forfar, Angus.
Date of Election: 01/03/1948.
Profession: Mechanical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN HAWKSHAW ?-02/06/1891
Place of Birth: Leeds, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1875.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Born 1811. Engineer to construction of Severn
Tunnel
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT HAY ?-02/10/1824
Date of Election: 01/06/1820.
Profession: Royal Navy.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN HAWTHORN 30/03/1921- 21/07/1993
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 04/03/1963.
Profession: Chemist, Food Scientist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT WALKER HAY 17/09/1934- 08/01/1991
Date of Election: 06/03/1978.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ANDREW LEITH HAY OF RANNES 17/02/178513/10/1862
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 07/02/1825.
Profession: Soldier, Writer on Architecture.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN BERRY HAYCRAFT ?-30/12/1922
Date of Election: 01/03/1880.
Profession: Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM HAYES 18/01/1913- 07/01/1994
Place of Birth: Rathfarnham, Co Dublin, Eire.
Date of Election: 04/02/1968.
Profession: Physician, Bacteriologist,Geneticist.
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR HAY, 9TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDALE
09/11/1824- 28/12/1878
Place of Birth: Yester, East Lothian.
Date of Election: 04/01/1869.
Profession: Soldier, Ornithologist.
Notes: Elected as Lord Walden
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN HAYGARTH ?-10/06/1827
Place of Birth: Garsdale, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 22/01/1787.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1740
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID RAMSAY HAY ?-10/09/1866
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/01/1849.
Profession: Artist, Interior Decorator, Writer on Arts.
Notes: Born March 1798
Fellow Type: OF
PETER JOSEPH HEALD 26/07/1925- 03/10/1996
Place of Birth: Alderley Edge, Cheshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1968.
Profession: Biochemist.
Fellow Type: OF
DENYS HAY 29/08/1915- 14/06/1994
Place of Birth: Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Date of Election: 07/03/1977.
Profession: Historian.
Fellow Type: OF
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HENRY JOSEPH HEANEY 02/01/1935- 14/09/1999
Date of Election: 02/03/1992.
Profession: Librarian.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN HENDERSON ?-09/06/1933
Date of Election: 04/12/1899.
Profession: Electrical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS HEATH ?-08/12/1926
Date of Election: 01/02/1892.
Profession: Astronomer.
Notes: Born 1850
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN HENDERSON
Date of Election: 05/05/1884.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died 1889
Fellow Type: OF
W. E. HEATHFIELD
Date of Election: 07/02/1870.
Profession: Pharmaceutical Chemist?.
Notes: Died 1890-1
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN HENDERSON OF FORDELL, bart.
08/01/1752- 12/12/1817
Place of Birth: Fife.
Date of Election: 26/01/1784.
Profession: Advocate, Landowner, Politician,
Antiquary.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES HECTOR 16/03/1834- 05/11/1907
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/02/1862.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN HENDERSON 23/01/1883- 10/05/1965
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Insurance.
Fellow Type: OF
MATTHEW FORSTER HEDDLE 28/04/182819/11/1897
Place of Birth: Mellsetter, Hoy, Orkney.
Date of Election: 01/05/1876.
Profession: Physician, Chemist, Mineralogist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ROBERTSON HENDERSON 21/05/186326/10/1925
Place of Birth: Melrose, Roxburghshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES FERGUSON HEGGIE ?-29/11/1990
Date of Election: 01/03/1948.
Profession: Physician, Pathologist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS HENDERSON ?-09/03/1941
Place of Birth: Morayshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Educationalist.
Notes: Who Was Who 4.gives date of death as
23/3/1941
Fellow Type: OF
SIR PATRICK HEHIR 27/05/1859- 01/05/1937
Date of Election: 06/02/1893.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ROGER JEAN HEIM
Date of Election: 01/07/1957.
Profession: Zoologist.
Notes: Died ?1981
Fellow Type: HF
THOMAS HENDERSON 28/12/1798- 23/11/1844
Place of Birth: Dundee, Angus.
Date of Election: 17/02/1834.
Profession: Lawyer, Astronomer, Mathematician.
Notes: First to determine the parallax of a fixed star
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN BRIAN HELLIWELL 02/01/1924- 14/07/1992
Place of Birth: York.
Date of Election: 04/03/1963.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS HENDERSON ?-23/03/1945
Place of Birth: Penrith, Cumberland.
Date of Election: 04/03/1929.
Profession: Actuary.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS ARTHUR HELME ?-05/09/1921
Date of Election: 07/07/1890.
Profession: Physician, Obstetrician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM DAWSON HENDERSON ?-23/09/1958
Place of Birth: Banffshire.
Date of Election: 17/02/1908.
Profession: Zoologist.
Notes: Born March 1876
Fellow Type: OF
HERMANN LUDWIG FERDINAND VON HELMHOLTZ
31/08/1821- 08/09/1894
Place of Birth: Potsdam, Germany.
Date of Election: 05/12/1864.
Profession: Physiologist, Physicist.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR WILLIAM MACGREGOR HENDERSON
17/07/1913- 29/11/2000
Date of Election: 07/03/1977.
Profession: Civil Servant,Veterinary Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR DAVID KENNEDY HENDERSON
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Physician, Psychiatrist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN HENNEN 21/04/1779- 03/11/1828
Place of Birth: Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Eire.
Date of Election: 25/01/1819.
Profession: Army Surgeon, Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE OTTO THOMSON DAWSON HENDERSON ?27/04/1989
Date of Election: 01/03/1948.
Profession: Zoologist, Marine Biologist.
Fellow Type: OF
81/1
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ISAAC ANDERSON HENRY
Date of Election: 04/01/1869.
Profession: Horticulturalist.
Notes: Died 1883-4
Fellow Type: OF
PERCY THEODORE HERRING ?-24/10/1967
Place of Birth: Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1916.
Profession: Physician, Physiologist.
Notes: Born 1872
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT HENRY 18/02/1718- 24/11/1790
Place of Birth: St Ninians, Stirlingshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Historian.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL, bart.
07/03/1792- 11/05/1871
Place of Birth: Slough, nr London.
Date of Election: 24/01/1820.
Profession: Astronomer, Mathematician, Physicist.
Notes: Elected to Honorary Fellowship 20/2/1832
Fellow Type: HF
DAVID HEPBURN ?-09/03/1931
Place of Birth: Milnathort, Kinross-shire.
Date of Election: 06/01/1890.
Profession: Physician, Anatomist.
Notes: Born 1859
Fellow Type: OF
EWALD FRIEDRICH VON HERZBERG 02/09/172522/05/1795
Date of Election: 25/01/1790.
Profession: Statesman.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR GEORGE BUCHAN- HEPBURN OF SMEATON
HEPBURN (UNTIL 1764 BUCHAN), bart. ?-26/06/1819
Place of Birth: Nr Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate, Agriculturalist.
Notes: Born March 1739
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW FERGUS HEWAT ?-03/08/1957
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born c1884
Fellow Type: OF
ARCHIBALD HEWAT
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/02/1908.
Profession: Actuary.
Notes: Born 1838, died April 1915
Fellow Type: OF
WILLAM ALLAN FORSYTH HEPBURN 30/03/189107/08/1950
Place of Birth: Bridge of Dee, Castle Douglas,
Kirkcudbrightshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Schoolmaster, Eductionalist.
Fellow Type: OF
COLIN LESLIE HEWETT 19/08/1909- 22/12/1976
Date of Election: 05/03/1962.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM BIRD HERAPATH 28/02/1820- 12/10/1868
Place of Birth: Bristol.
Date of Election: 17/04/1854.
Profession: Surgeon, Toxicologist, Chemist.
Notes: A Boyle states he was Surgeon in Queen
Elizabeth Hospital, Bristol
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ARTHUR HEWITT ?-10/03/1953
Place of Birth: Alloa, Clackmannanshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1947.
Profession: Physiologist.
Notes: Born 1889
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW JOHN HERBERTSON ?-31/07/1914
Date of Election: 06/01/1896.
Profession: Geographer.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM MORSE GRAILLY HEWITT 03/08/182827/08/1893
Date of Election: 06/05/1889.
Profession: Physician, Obstetrician.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM ABBOTT HERDMAN 08/09/185821/07/1924
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/02/1881.
Profession: Zoologist, Oceanographer.
Notes: Naturalist on the Challenger Oceanic
Expedition
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN KENNETH HEYES 03/11/1928- 13/02/1998
Date of Election: 02/03/1964.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE HIBBERD 17/05/1901- 08/11/1989
Place of Birth: Muirkirk, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1954.
Profession: Mining Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
HERMAND, LORD. SEE FERGUSON, GEORGE.
CHARLES HERMITE 24/12/1822- 14/01/1901
Place of Birth: Dieuze, Lorraine, France.
Date of Election: 16/06/1884.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
SAMUEL HIBBERT, LATER HIBBERT-WARE
21/04/1782- 30/12/1848
Place of Birth: St Ann's Square, Manchester.
Date of Election: 24/01/1820.
Profession: Antiquary, Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER MACMILLAN HERON
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
82/1
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CHARLES HAYES HIGGINS ?-14/01/1898
Place of Birth: Off the Island of Java.
Date of Election: 30/01/1871.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1811 aboard the flagship of Admiral Sir
John Hayes
Fellow Type: OF
SIR CYRIL NORMAN HINSHELWOOD 19/06/189709/10/1967
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 03/07/1961.
Profession: Physicist, Chemist, Biochemist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate, Chemistry, 1956
Fellow Type: HF
JOEL H. HILDEBRAND 16/11/1881- 30/04/1983
Place of Birth: Camden, New Jersey, USA.
Date of Election: 01/07/1946.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
LIONEL WORDSWORTH HINXMAN 21/03/185529/04/1936
Place of Birth: Dunmore, Stirlingshire.
Date of Election: 06/01/1902.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALFRED HILL
Date of Election: 05/02/1894.
Profession: Surgeon, Chemist.
Notes: Died 1921-2
Fellow Type: OF
SIR EDMUND LANGLEY HIRST 21/07/189829/10/1975
Place of Birth: Preston, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1948.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE HILL 22/05/1750- 19/12/1819
Place of Birth: St Andrews, Fife.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
WILHELM HIS ?-01/05/1904
Place of Birth: Basel, Swizerland.
Date of Election: 04/06/1900.
Profession: Anatomist.
Notes: Born 1831
Fellow Type: HF
GEORGE WILLIAM HILL 03/03/1838- 16/04/1914
Place of Birth: New York City, USA.
Date of Election: 04/11/1907.
Profession: Mathematician, Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN HISLOP
Date of Election: 06/01/1879.
Profession: Administrator.
Notes: Born 1821, died 1904
Fellow Type: OF
SIR IAN GEORGE WILSON HILL 07/09/190405/05/1982
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/03/1948.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM BELL HISLOP 28/05/1882- 31/12/1970
Place of Birth: Leith, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Photo-engraver, block-maker.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN HILL 27/04/1747- 07/12/1805
Place of Birth: St Andrews, Fife.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Classicist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHAN HJORT 18/02/1869- 07/10/1948
Place of Birth: Christiania (Oslo), Norway.
Date of Election: 04/07/1921.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM CHARLES OSMAN HILL 13/07/190125/01/1975
Date of Election: 01/03/1948.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
DERRICK ERNEST HOARE 31/03/1926- ?
Date of Election: 01/03/1971.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Died 1998
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN HILLS 19/08/1834- 18/06/1902
Place of Birth: Neechindipore, Bengal, India.
Date of Election: 21/03/1859.
Profession: Engineer, Soldier.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR FREDERICK THOMAS GEORGE HOBDAY
04/11/1869- 24/06/1939
Place of Birth: Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Date of Election: 07/12/1903.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN RUSSELL HIND 12/05/1823- 23/12/1895
Date of Election: 06/05/1895.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
ALFRED DENNIS HOBSON 25/07/1901- 12/07/1974
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
EDWARD HINDLE 21/03/1886- 22/01/1973
Place of Birth: Sheffield, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1922.
Profession: Zoologist, Parasitologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM VALLANCE DOUGLAS HODGE
17/06/1903- 07/07/1975
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Mathematician, Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
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ARNOLD FREDERIK HOLLEMAN
Date of Election: 02/07/1923.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR ALAN LLOYD HODGKIN 05/02/1914- 20/12/1998
Date of Election: 01/07/1974.
Profession: Biophysicist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate, Physiology & Medicine
1963
Fellow Type: HF
ARTHUR HOLMES 14/01/1890- 20/09/1965
Place of Birth: Hebburn, Nr Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Northumberland.
Date of Election: 06/03/1944.
Profession: Physicist, Physical Geologist.
Notes: Vetlesen Prize Winner 1964
Fellow Type: OF
DOROTHY MARY CROWFOOT HODGKIN, NEE
CROWFOOT 12/05/1910- 29/07/1994
Place of Birth: Cairo, Egypt.
Date of Election: 06/07/1970.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate, Chemistry, 1963
Fellow Type: HF
HOLMES, DORIS LIVESAY. SEE REYNOLDS, DORIS
LIVESAY.
WILLIAM RICHARD HODGKINSON ?-08/04/1935
Place of Birth: Sheffield, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 02/02/1885.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Born 1851
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM HENRY HOLMS ?-13/03/2002
Date of Election: 01/03/1971.
Profession: Biochemist.
Fellow Type: OF
OLAF HOLTEDAHL 24/06/1885- 26/08/1975
Place of Birth: Oslo, Norway.
Date of Election: 01/07/1957.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: HF
JAMES S HODSON
Date of Election: 19/02/1855.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Notes: Born 1816, died 1890
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER FREDERICK DOUGLAS- HOME, BARON
HOME OF THE HIRSEL 02/07/1903- 09/10/1995
Date of Election: 02/03/1953.
Profession: Landowner, Statesman.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES MAITLAND HOG OF NEWLISTON AND KELLIE
07/08/1799- 01/08/1858
Date of Election: 21/02/1853.
Profession: Advocate, Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID MILNE HOME OF MILNE GRADEN, UNTIL
1832 MILNE 22/01/1805- 19/09/1890
Date of Election: 07/04/1828.
Profession: Advocate, Geologist,Agriculturalist.
Notes: Founder of Scottish Meteorological Society
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE HOGARTH
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
LANCELOT THOMAS HOGBEN 09/12/189522/08/1975
Place of Birth: Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCIS HOME 17/11/1719- 15/02/1813
Place of Birth: Eccles, Berwickshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Introduced immunisation against measles
1758
Fellow Type: OF
HARRY HOGGAN ?-17/08/1982
Date of Election: 05/03/1951.
Profession: Educational Broadcaster.
Notes: Born c1920
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE HOME OF WEDDERBURN & PAXTON ?10/02/1820
Place of Birth: Berwickshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Writer to The Signet.
Notes: Born c.1738
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY SMITH HOLDEN 30/11/1887- 16/05/1963
Place of Birth: Castleton, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 14/03/1927.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES HOME ?-05/12/1844
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 22/01/1787.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1760
Fellow Type: OF
SIR THOMAS HENRY HOLLAND 22/11/186815/05/1947
Place of Birth: Helston, Cornwall.
Date of Election: 03/03/1930.
Profession: Geologist, Educational Administrator.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN HOME 22/09/1722- 05/09/1808
Place of Birth: Ancrum, Roxburghshire, (Rogers).
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Dramatist.
Notes: Author of "Douglas"
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM JACOB HOLLAND 16/08/1848- 13/12/1932
Place of Birth: Jamaica, West Indies.
Date of Election: 15/05/1911.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Entomologist,
Naturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
84/1
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THOMAS H. COCKBURN HOOD
Date of Election: 03/03/1879.
Profession: Geologist.
Notes: Died 1888-9
Fellow Type: OF
HOPETOUN, EARL OF. SEE HOPE, JOHN.
SIR FREDERICK GOWLAND HOPKINS 20/06/186116/05/1947
Place of Birth: Eastbourne, Sussex.
Date of Election: 04/07/1927.
Profession: Chemist, Biochemist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate,Physiology & Medicine
1929
Fellow Type: HF
SIR JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER 30/06/181710/12/1911
Place of Birth: Halesworth, Suffolk.
Date of Election: 19/02/1883.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: HF
SUNDER LAL HORA ?-08/12/1955
Place of Birth: Hafiazabad, Punjab, India.
Date of Election: 04/03/1929.
Profession: Zoologist.
Notes: Born 1896
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER 06/07/178512/08/1865
Place of Birth: Norwich.
Date of Election: 17/03/1845.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: HF
DAVID BOWES HORN ?-29/04/2001
Date of Election: 06/03/1978.
Profession: Clinical Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES HOPE, LORD GRANTON 29/06/176330/10/1851
Date of Election: 23/06/1788.
Profession: Advocate, Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER ROBERT HORNE ?-17/05/1953
Place of Birth: Leven, Fife.
Date of Election: 01/03/1920.
Profession: Mechanical Engineer.
Notes: Born 1881
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES HOPE, FROM 1792 HOPE JOHNSTONE, EARL
OF HOPETOUN 23/08/1741- 29/05/1816
Place of Birth: West Lothian.
Date of Election: 23/01/1786.
Profession: Landowner,Soldier.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN HORNE 01/01/1848- 30/05/1928
Place of Birth: Campsie, Stirlingshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1881.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN HOPE, LORD HOPE 26/05/1794- 15/06/1858
Date of Election: 26/01/1818.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN FLETCHER HORNE ?-17/01/1941
Date of Election: 01/06/1896.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN HOPE 10/05/1725- 10/11/1786
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Botanist, Physician.
Notes: The genus Hopea is named after him
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCIS HORNER 12/08/1778- 08/02/1817
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 22/06/1807.
Profession: Advocate, Barrister, Political Economist,
Politician.
Notes: Proposed by John Playfair, Lord Webb
Seymour, James Russell (Minute 4/11/1805 NLS
Acc10,000/4). Appears in RSE Roll Book in 1806
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN HOPE, EARL OF HOPETOUN 17/08/176627/08/1823
Place of Birth: Hopetoun House, Abercorn,
Linlithgowshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1821.
Profession: Landowner, Soldier, Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
LEONARD HORNER 17/01/1785- 05/03/1864
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 22/01/1816.
Profession: Merchant, Geologist and Educational
Reformer.
Notes: Founder of the School of Arts of Edinburgh,
now Heriot- Watt University. One of the Founders of
the Edinburgh Academy
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS CHARLES HOPE 21/07/1766- 13/06/1844
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 28/01/1788.
Profession: Chemist, Physician.
Notes: Discovered the element Strontium
Fellow Type: OF
VICTOR ALEXANDER JOHN HOPE, MARQUESS OF
LINLITHGOW 24/09/1887- 05/01/1952
Place of Birth: Hopetoun House, West Lothian.
Date of Election: 15/07/1912.
Profession: Statesman, Agriculturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
ELLICE MARTIN HORSBURGH ?-28/12/1935
Place of Birth: Kelso, Roxburghshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1904.
Profession: Mathematician, Engineer.
Notes: Born 1870
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID HOSACK 31/08/1769- 22/12/1835
Place of Birth: New York, USA.
Date of Election: 27/01/1817.
Profession: Surgeon, Botanist.
Notes: Seconded also by John Murray on ms proposal
Fellow Type: OF
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THEOPHILUS HOULBROOKE
Place of Birth: Lichfield, Staffordshire.
Date of Election: 26/06/1792.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Born 1746
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR ST GEORGE JOSEPH MCCARTHY HUGGETT
23/04/1897- 21/07/1968
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 01/03/1965.
Profession: Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
BERNADO ALBERTO HOUSSAY 10/04/188721/09/1971
Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Date of Election: 02/07/1934.
Profession: Physiologist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate Physiology 1947
Fellow Type: HF
HUGGETT, HELEN KEMP. SEE PORTER, HELEN
KEMP.
CHARLES B. HUGGINS
Date of Election: 07/03/1983.
Profession: Cancer Surgeon.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate,Physiology & Medicine
1966. Died January 1997
Fellow Type: HF
SIR ALEXANDER CRUIKSHANK HOUSTON
18/09/1865- 29/10/1933
Place of Birth: Mysore, India.
Date of Election: 01/03/1897.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Photograph NLS Acc10000/380
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM HUGGINS 07/02/1824- 12/05/1910
Place of Birth: Stoke Newington, London.
Date of Election: 07/07/1884.
Profession: Astronomer, Astrophysicist.
Fellow Type: HF
FRIEDRICH HEINRICH ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT
14/09/1769- 06/05/1859
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany.
Date of Election: 19/01/1815.
Profession: Geologist, Naturalist, Traveller.
Fellow Type: HF
ROBERT ALEXANDER HOUSTOUN 23/05/188304/05/1975
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 20/11/1911.
Profession: Physicist, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID HUME OF NINEWELLS 27/02/175730/08/1838
Place of Birth: Berwickshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES HENRY GEORGE HOWARD, EARL OF
SUFFOLK 02/03/1906- 12/05/1941
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Soldier, Sheep Farmer.
Notes: Interested in the promotion of science
Fellow Type: OF
EDGAR ERSKINE HUME 26/12/1889- 24/01/1952
Place of Birth: Frankfort, Kentucky, USA.
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT HOWDEN 04/10/1856- 07/12/1940
Place of Birth: Braco, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1893.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM FRASER HUME 01/10/1867- 23/02/1949
Place of Birth: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
Date of Election: 16/05/1910.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER HOWE 26/04/1820- 24/05/1907
Date of Election: 04/01/1869.
Profession: Writer to The Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN HOWELL
Place of Birth: probably Scotland.
Date of Election: 27/01/1817.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: RSE Records state "associated with America".
Devlin-Thorp's entry refers to John Howell of Bristol
but see Shapin 258
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY GEORGE BONAVIA- HUNT ?-27/09/1917
Place of Birth: Malta.
Date of Election: 05/07/1886.
Profession: Musicologist, Educationalist, Journalist.
Fellow Type: OF
OWEN DUKE HUNT 22/10/1896- 12/12/1983
Date of Election: 14/03/1927.
Profession: Marine Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM LAMOND HOWIE ?-17/12/1918
Date of Election: 01/05/1899.
Profession: Pharmaceutical Chemist, Photographer.
Notes: Born 1846
Fellow Type: OF
ADAM HUNTER 20/06/1791- 24/06/1870
Place of Birth: Greenock, Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 21/01/1839.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM EVANS HOYLE 28/01/1855- 07/02/1926
Date of Election: 05/03/1883.
Profession: Zoologist.
Notes: Photograph NLS Acc 10,000/380
Fellow Type: OF
ADAM MITCHELL HUNTER
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Mathematician,
Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR EDMUND PEDER HUDSON 01/05/190315/08/1978
Date of Election: 01/03/1948.
Profession: Agricultural Chemist, Company Director.
Fellow Type: OF
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ALEXANDER HUNTER 19/05/1816- ?
Date of Election: 02/03/1874.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Died 1890
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN HUNTER ?-29/01/1809
Place of Birth: Perthshire.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born February 1754, date of election not
traced
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER HUNTER ?-18/05/1809
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 23/01/1792.
Profession: Physician, Naturalist.
Notes: Born 1729
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN HUNTER 23/03/1843- 13/09/1872
Place of Birth: Belfast, Ireland.
Date of Election: 02/05/1870.
Profession: Mathematician, Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW HUNTER OF BARJARG ?-22/04/1809
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Born 1743
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT BROCKIE HUNTER, BARON HUNTER
14/07/1915- 24/03/1994
Date of Election: 02/03/1964.
Profession: Physician, Therapeutician, University
Administrator.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW HUNTER
Date of Election: 07/03/1932.
Profession: Chemist, Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM HUNTER 01/06/1861- 13/01/1937
Place of Birth: Ballantrae, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 07/02/1887.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR HUNTER
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Actuary.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS HUTCHINS ?-07/07/1790
Date of Election: 26/01/1784.
Profession: Administrator.
Notes: Born 1730
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES HUGHES HUNTER ?-02/02/1907
Date of Election: 18/03/1872.
Profession: Soldier.
Notes: Elected as Captain Charles Hunter
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR CYRIL WILLIAM HUTCHINSON 26/07/188916/12/1969
Date of Election: 04/03/1935.
Profession: Dental Surgeon.
Fellow Type: HF
CHARLES STEWART HUNTER ?-27/08/1952
Date of Election: 06/12/1915.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1878
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER COPLAND HUTCHISON ?-03/01/1840
Date of Election: 07/05/1827.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Born c1786.
Fellow Type: OF
GILBERT MACINTYRE HUNTER ?-07/12/1939
Date of Election: 19/12/1910.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES HOLMES HUTCHISON 16/04/191227/12/1987
Date of Election: 01/03/1965.
Profession: Physician, Paediatrician.
Fellow Type: OF
HUNTER, JAMES. SEE BLAIR, JAMES HUNTER.
JAMES HUNTER ?-15/02/1921
Date of Election: 04/04/1887.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT HUTCHISON OF CARLOWRIE ?-25/02/1894
Date of Election: 01/02/1864.
Profession: Landscape Photographer,
Arboriculturalist.
Notes: Of Carlowrie Castle. Information from W T
Johnston, librarian, Royal Highland & Agricultural
Society.Letter 8/4/2003
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES HUNTER
Date of Election: 04/01/1841.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Died 1840-4
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS OLIVER HUTCHISON 03/01/193106/06/1998
Place of Birth: Hawick, Roxburghshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1991.
Profession: Company Director.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES WILLIAM HUNTER OF THURSTON ?03/12/1844
Place of Birth: East Lothian.
Date of Election: 24/01/1820.
Profession: Landowner, Agricultural Inventor &
Improver.
Notes: Born May 1783
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS SHERRET HUTCHISON 12/08/192122/02/1996
Place of Birth: Arbroath, Angus.
Date of Election: 02/03/1964.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN HUNTER 07/09/1746- 18/01/1837
Place of Birth: Abernithsdale, Closeburn,
Dumfriesshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Classicist, Horticulturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
87/1
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SIR JOHN DUNLOP IMRIE 16/10/1891- 18/06/1981
Place of Birth: Kinross.
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Chartered Accountant.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM MCPHEE HUTCHISON
Date of Election: 06/03/1972.
Profession: Parasitologist.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
FREDERICK BRUCE HUTT 20/08/1897- 06/09/1991
Place of Birth: Guelph, Canada.
Date of Election: 03/03/1975.
Profession: Zoologist, Geneticist.
Fellow Type: HF
NINIAN IMRIE ?-13/11/1820
Date of Election: 29/01/1798.
Profession: Landowner, Soldier, Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES HUTTON 14/08/1737- 27/01/1823
Place of Birth: Percy Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Date of Election: 23/01/1786.
Profession: Mathematician, Surveyor.
Notes: Campbell gives date of death as 10/2/1823
Fellow Type: OF
EDWARD LINDSAY INCE 30/11/1891- 16/03/1941
Place of Birth: Amblecote,Worcestershire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES GALL INGLIS ?-06/04/1939
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/03/1920.
Profession: Publisher, Astronomer.
Notes: Born 1865
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES HUTTON 03/06/1726- 26/03/1797
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician, Geologist, Chemical
Manufacturer, Agriculturalist.
Notes: "Father of Modern Geology"
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES SINGLIE SCOTT INGLIS ?-19/10/1967
Date of Election: 06/03/1961.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM HUTTON 02/02/1902- 30/03/1983
Date of Election: 07/03/1960.
Profession: Lawyer.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN INGLIS OF GLENCORSE, LORD GLENCORSE
21/08/1810- 20/08/1891
Place of Birth: George Square, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 19/02/1855.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY 04/05/1825- 29/06/1895
Place of Birth: Ealing, London.
Date of Election: 03/04/1876.
Profession: Zoologist, Physician.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN ALEXANDER INGLIS OF AUCHINDINNY AND
REDHALL 03/02/1873- 13/08/1941
Place of Birth: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
Date of Election: 14/03/1927.
Profession: Advocate, Historian.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES HYSLOP
Date of Election: 14/03/1927.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES MORTON HYSLOP 12/09/1908- 18/05/1984
Place of Birth: Dumbarton.
Date of Election: 03/03/1947.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN W INGLIS ?-17/03/1914
Date of Election: 01/05/1882.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Born 1838
Fellow Type: OF
THEOPHILUS BULKELEY HYSLOP ?-12/02/1933
Date of Election: 03/02/1908.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ROBERT JOHN MATHIESON INGLIS 05/05/188123/06/1962
Place of Birth: Peebles.
Date of Election: 03/06/1912.
Profession: Railway Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN IBALL 01/02/1907- 21/01/1993
Place of Birth: Hasland, nr Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1950.
Profession: Physicist, Crystallographer.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER TAYLOR INNES 18/12/183327/01/1912
Date of Election: 19/03/1906.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES FREDERICK WILLIAM ILLINGWORTH
08/05/1899- 23/02/1991
Date of Election: 04/03/1940.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
COSMO NELSON INNES 09/09/1798- 31/07/1874
Place of Birth: Durris, Deeside, Kincardineshire.
Date of Election: 01/02/1858.
Profession: Advocate, Antiquary, Historian.
Notes: Cosmo Innes "was the foremost record
scholar of his generation and his editions of sources
are still the everyday tools of the historians of
Scotland" D B Horn, A Short History of the University
of Edinburgh 1556-1889, EUP 1967, 194
Fellow Type: OF
RONALD ERLE ILLINGWORTH
Date of Election: 05/03/1945.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN IMRIE
Date of Election: 09/03/1987.
Profession: Lawyer.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
88/1
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DONALD ESME INNES
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER IRVING, LORD NEWTON 12/10/176623/03/1832
Date of Election: 25/06/1804.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
GILBERT INNES OF STOW ?-26/02/1832
Date of Election: 23/06/1800.
Profession: Banker, Antiquary.
Notes: Born 1751
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS ISHERWOOD
Date of Election: 09/01/1899.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died 1903-4
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ROBERT MAITLAND INNES 25/10/1903- ?
Date of Election: 02/03/1942.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon, Pathologist.
Notes: Died 1974-5
Fellow Type: OF
ITTERBURG, COUNT. SEE VASA, GUSTAVUS.
JAMES IVORY, LORD IVORY 29/02/179217/10/1866
Place of Birth: Dundee, Angus.
Date of Election: 02/01/1849.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT T A INNES 10/11/1861- 13/03/1933
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/05/1904.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES IVORY 17/02/1765- 21/09/1842
Place of Birth: Dundee, Angus.
Date of Election: 20/04/1835.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Author of Ivory's Theorem
Fellow Type: HF
INVERURIE, BARON. SEE KEITH, ALGERNON
HAWKINS THOMOND FALCONER, EARL OF KINTORE.
ALEXANDER SCOTT IRELAND
Date of Election: 04/01/1904.
Profession: Lawyer.
Notes: Died 1916-17?
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN BENJAMIN JACHMAN
Date of Election: 25/01/1790.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES CAMPBELL IRONS
Date of Election: 07/02/1898.
Profession: Lawyer.
Notes: Local historian with an interest in geology
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID JACK 07/08/1896- 25/03/1975
Place of Birth: Scarfskerry, Caithness.
Date of Election: 03/03/1930.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER FORBES IRVINE OF DRUM 18/02/181804/04/1892
Place of Birth: Schivas,Tarves, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 02/02/1874.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY JACK 06/07/1917- 05/01/1978
Place of Birth: nr Dundee, Angus.
Date of Election: 02/03/1970.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES COLQUHOUN IRVINE 09/05/187712/06/1952
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 05/03/1917.
Profession: Organic Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES JACK ?-10/01/1952
Date of Election: 07/03/1949.
Profession: Colliery Manager.
Notes: Born 1871
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN LOUTTIT JACK 03/07/1878- 05/06/1954
Place of Birth: Thurso, Caithness.
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Lawyer,Local Government Administrator.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT IRVINE ?-20/03/1902
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/02/1886.
Profession: Industrial Chemist, Oceanographer.
Notes: Born 1839
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN NOBLE JACK
Date of Election: 16/02/1914.
Profession: Agriculturalist.
Notes: Whereabouts unknown 1926-7
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM IRVINE ?-23/05/1811
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 27/01/1806.
Profession: Physician, Chemist.
Notes: Born 1776. Signed RSE Roll Book in
1806.Campbell gives date of election as 22/6/1807
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM JACK 29/01/1795- 15/09/1822
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 26/01/1795.
Profession: Surgeon, Botanist.
Notes: If the election date is correct this cannot be
the man referred to in DNB who might have been
elected at a later date. We have been unable to
confirm either of these possibilities. The genus
"Jackia" (Rubiaceae) of Wallich is named after him
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM IRVINE ?-09/07/1787
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician, Chemist.
Notes: Born 1743
Fellow Type: OF
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WILLIAM JACK 29/05/1834- 20/03/1924
Place of Birth: Stewarton, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 03/05/1875.
Profession: Mathematician, Journalist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM JAMESON ?-18/03/1882
Place of Birth: Leith, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 19/01/1863.
Profession: Botanist.
Notes: Born 1815. Promoted tea culture in North
India
Fellow Type: OF
EDWARD JAMES JACKSON
Date of Election: 02/03/1840.
Profession: Engineer.
Notes: Died 1878-9
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW JAMIESON ?-04/12/1912
Place of Birth: Grange, Banffshire.
Date of Election: 03/07/1882.
Profession: Consulting Engineer.
Notes: Baptised 7/10/1849, Grange, Banffshire
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN JACKSON 04/02/1851- 14/12/1919
Place of Birth: York.
Date of Election: 07/05/1894.
Profession: Engineer.
Notes: Photograph NLS Acc 10,000/380
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE AULDJO JAMIESON
Date of Election: 02/04/1860.
Profession: Actuary.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MEADOWS JACKSON 08/02/190723/03/1998
Place of Birth: Chorlton-cum-Hardy, nr Manchester.
Date of Election: 03/03/1947.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES JAMIESON ?-04/12/1949
Place of Birth: Thornliebank,Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1941.
Profession: Gas Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES DALGLEISH HAMILTON JAMIESON
10/09/1875- 21/09/1966
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Dental Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
KENNETH HURLSTONE JACKSON 01/11/190920/02/1991
Date of Election: 07/03/1977.
Profession: Celtic Scholar.
Fellow Type: OF
PHILIP JACKSON
Date of Election: 05/03/1951.
Profession: Engineer.
Notes: Died 1992-3
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN JAMIESON 03/05/1759- 12/07/1838
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 31/01/1803.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Lexicographer,
Philologist, Antiquary.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT EDMUND SCORESBY- JACKSON ?01/02/1867
Place of Birth: Whitby, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 07/01/1861.
Profession: Physician, Biographer.
Notes: Born 1833
Fellow Type: OF
PIERRE JULES CESAR JANSSEN 22/02/182423/12/1907
Place of Birth: Paris, France.
Date of Election: 03/03/1879.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
THOMAS JACKSON ?-27/02/1837
Date of Election: 22/01/1816.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Born 1773
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER HAY JAPP 26/12/1837- 29/09/1905
Place of Birth: Dun, near Montrose, Angus.
Date of Election: 02/02/1880.
Profession: Author, publisher.
Notes: Born 1837
Fellow Type: OF
KARL GUSTAV JACOB JACOBI 10/12/180418/02/1851
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany.
Date of Election: 17/02/1845.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
GEORGE JARDINE ?-28/01/1827
Place of Birth: Wandell, Lamington, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Philosopher.
Notes: Born 1742
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER JAMES ?-07/04/1932
Date of Election: 03/12/1888.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born c1851
Fellow Type: OF
SIR HENRY JARDINE OF HARWOOD 30/01/176611/08/1851
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 24/01/1814.
Profession: Writer to The Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES, SHEILA PATRICIA VIOLET. SEE SHERLOCK,
SHEILA PATRICIA VIOLET.
ROBERT JAMESON 11/07/1774- 19/04/1854
Place of Birth: Leith, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 24/06/1799.
Profession: Geologist, Mineralogist.
Fellow Type: OF
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JAMES JARDINE 30/11/1776- 20/06/1858
Place of Birth: Applegarth, Dumfriesshire.
Date of Election: 01/01/1812.
Profession: Civil Engineer, Mathematician, Geologist.
Notes: Previously proposed by Lord Webb Seymour,
Sir James Hall, John Playfair (Literary Section Minute
21/11/1808 Phys. NLS Acc10,000/3 and NLS Acc
10,000/12). First to determine the mean level of the
sea
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS JAMES JEHU ?-18/07/1943
Place of Birth: Llanfair-Caereinion,
Montgomeryshire. Wales.
Date of Election: 18/12/1905.
Profession: Geologist.
Notes: Born 1871
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY CHARLES FLEEMING JENKIN 25/03/183312/06/1885
Place of Birth: Dungeness, Kent.
Date of Election: 21/12/1868.
Profession: Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN JARDINE 13/12/1881- 13/09/1974
Date of Election: 05/03/1945.
Profession: Physician, Civil Servant.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES JENNER
Date of Election: 03/04/1865.
Profession: Merchant.
Notes: Born 1810, died 1893
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT JARDINE 30/01/1862- 17/12/1932
Place of Birth: Jardineville,New Brunswick, Nova
Scotia, Canada.
Date of Election: 03/06/1901.
Profession: Surgeon, Obstetrician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM BRYAN JENNETT
Date of Election: 01/03/1976.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
SIR WILLIAM JARDINE OF APPLEGARTH, bart.
23/02/1800- 21/11/1874
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/12/1825.
Profession: Physician, Ornithologist, Botanist,
Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
HERBERT SPENCER JENNINGS 08/04/186814/04/1947
Place of Birth: Tonica, Illinois, USA.
Date of Election: 05/07/1943.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: HF
RICHARD CLAVERHOUSE JEBB 27/08/184109/12/1905
Place of Birth: Dundee, Angus.
Date of Election: 07/07/1902.
Profession: Classicist.
Fellow Type: HF
DAVID SMILES JERDAN 12/07/1871- 15/12/1951
Place of Birth: Dennyloanhead, Stirlingshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1900.
Profession: Horticuluralist, Timber Merchant.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN JEFFCOT
Date of Election: 26/06/1797.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JERVISWOODE, LORD. SEE BAILLIE, CHARLES.
D EMILIO JIMENO JIMENO, FORMERLY GIL ?11/12/1976
Date of Election: 05/07/1943.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
THOMAS JEFFERSON 13/04/1743- 04/07/1826
Place of Birth: Virginia, USA.
Date of Election: 26/01/1789.
Profession: Statesman.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHANN BAPTISTE JOSEPH FABIEN SEBASTIAN,
JOHN, ARCHDUKE OF AUSTRIA
Date of Election: 24/01/1820.
Profession: Royal Personage.
Notes: Born 1782, died 1859
Fellow Type: HF
GEORGE RUTHERFORD JEFFREY 09/12/187813/10/1954
Place of Birth: Jedburgh, Roxburghshire.
Date of Election: 06/05/1912.
Profession: Physician, Clinical Psychiatrist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER JOHNSON (JOHNSTON)
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 23/01/1792.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1716, died 1799
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN JEFFREY ?-19/06/1947
Place of Birth: Chirnside, Berwickshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1934.
Profession: Civil Servant.
Fellow Type: OF
NORMAN MILLER JOHNSON ?-01/12/1949
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Schoolmaster, Minister of Religion.
Notes: Born 1887
Fellow Type: OF
SIR HAROLD JEFFREYS 22/04/1891- 18/03/1989
Place of Birth: School House, Fatfield, nr
Washington, Co. Durham.
Date of Election: 06/07/1953.
Profession: Astronomer, Mathematician,
Geophysicist.
Fellow Type: HF
RALPH HUDSON JOHNSON 03/12/1933- 01/07/1993
Place of Birth: Sunderland, Co Durham..
Date of Election: 01/03/1976.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
91/1
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THOMAS JOHNSON
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM CAMPBELL JOHNSTON 24/11/186006/10/1938
Date of Election: 05/03/1934.
Profession: Writer to The Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER KEITH JOHNSTON 28/12/180409/07/1871
Place of Birth: Kirkhill, nr Penicuik, Midlothian.
Date of Election: 21/01/1850.
Profession: Geographer, Cartographer.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE J. JOHNSTONE 12/03/1852- 26/12/1913
Place of Birth: Dunnet, Caithness.
Date of Election: 02/12/1901.
Profession: Nautical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR CHRISTOPHER NICHOLSON JOHNSTON, LORD
SANDS 18/10/1857- 26/02/1934
Place of Birth: Mansion House of Sands, Fife.
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT WILLIAM JOHNSTONE 11/08/187927/11/1969
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR DUNCAN A JOHNSTON
Date of Election: 06/03/1916.
Profession: Military Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM JOLLY
Date of Election: 02/04/1877.
Profession: Educationalist, Geologist, Antiquary.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY HALCRO JOHNSTON 13/09/185618/10/1939
Date of Election: 04/02/1895.
Profession: Botanist, Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID THOMAS JONES 10/06/1866- 04/02/1931
Place of Birth: Gilfachgoch, Glamorgan, Wales.
Date of Election: 03/03/1924.
Profession: Administrator.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES FINLAY WEIR JOHNSTON 13/09/179618/09/1855
Place of Birth: Paisley, Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 16/01/1832.
Profession: Chemist, Mineralogist.
Fellow Type: OF
EDWARD TAYLOR JONES 24/12/1872- ?
Date of Election: 14/03/1927.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCIS JONES ?-22/10/1925
Date of Election: 06/04/1874.
Profession: Chemist, Schoolmaster.
Notes: Born c1845. Photograph NLS Acc10000/380
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MCQUEEN JOHNSTON ?-28/07/1987
Place of Birth: Falkirk, Stirlingshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Physician, Pharmacologist.
Notes: Born 1901
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE WILLIAM JONES 17/11/1878- 04/11/1918
Place of Birth: Dundee, Angus.
Date of Election: 15/05/1905.
Profession: Mathematician, Physicist, Meteorologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN WILSON JOHNSTON 31/10/1836- 07/07/1902
Date of Election: 05/04/1869.
Profession: Physician, Soldier.
Fellow Type: OF
SAMUEL M JOHNSTON
Date of Election: 22/01/1906.
Profession: unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR HAROLD SPENCER JONES 29/03/189003/11/1960
Place of Birth: Kensington, London.
Date of Election: 02/07/1951.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
THOMAS JOHNSTON 02/11/1881- 05/09/1965
Place of Birth: Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Politician, Journalist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ALFRED JONES
Date of Election: 05/03/1888.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Died 1923
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS BRUMBY JOHNSTON 28/01/181402/09/1897
Place of Birth: Perth.
Date of Election: 07/01/1867.
Profession: Geographer, Cartographer, Antiquary.
Fellow Type: OF
REGINALD VICTOR JONES 29/09/1911- 17/12/1997
Place of Birth: Dulwich, London.
Date of Election: 07/03/1949.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
SAMUEL GRIFFITHS JONES
Date of Election: 03/03/1930.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS NICOL JOHNSTON ?-06/10/1923
Date of Election: 01/06/1903.
Profession: Physician, Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
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TUDOR JENKYN JONES ?-02/12/1963
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Embryologist, Anatomist.
Notes: Born 1887
Fellow Type: OF
PAUL KARRER 21/04/1889- 18/06/1971
Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia.
Date of Election: 05/07/1943.
Profession: Chemist, Biochemist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate, Chemistry, 1937
Fellow Type: HF
SIR WILLIAM JONES 28/09/1746- 27/04/1794
Place of Birth: Beaufort Buildings, Westminster,
London.
Date of Election: 25/01/1790.
Profession: Orientalist, Jurist.
Fellow Type: OF
FRANZ VON KAUSSLER
Date of Election: 01/06/1820.
Profession: Military Historian.
Notes: Born 1794, died 1848
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM KEDDIE 22/03/1809- 26/07/1877
Place of Birth: Peebles.
Date of Election: 15/04/1867.
Profession: Journalist.
Fellow Type: OF
E F DE JONG
Date of Election: 01/06/1896.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
M JOSEPH JOSEPH
Date of Election: 02/01/1866.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Never admitted to the Fellowship owing to
non-payment of admission fee
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT YOUNG KEERS ?-01/12/1982
Date of Election: 05/03/1951.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1908
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES PRESCOTT JOULE 24/12/1818- 11/10/1889
Place of Birth: New Bailey Street, Salford, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 02/12/1867.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Established the mechanical theory of heat
Fellow Type: HF
ALEXANDER KEILLER 11/11/1811- 26/09/1892
Place of Birth: Arbroath, Angus.
Date of Election: 17/04/1865.
Profession: Physician, Obstetrician.
Notes: See Minute of 4/12/1865. Introduced
gynaecological teaching into the Edinburgh Medical
School
Fellow Type: OF
EMIL CLEMENT JUNGFLEISCH ?-24/04/1916
Place of Birth: Paris, France.
Date of Election: 03/11/1913.
Profession: Organic Chemist, Pharmacist.
Notes: Born 1839
Fellow Type: HF
SIR ALEXANDER KEITH OF RAVELSTON AND
DUNOTTAR, bart.
Date of Election: 04/02/1828.
Profession: Lawyer.
Notes: Died 1832
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR JURAND 30/03/1914- 13/01/2000
Date of Election: 02/03/1970.
Profession: Geneticist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER KEITH OF RAVELSTON AND DUNOTTAR
?-26/02/1819
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Writer to The Signet, Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES FREDERICK JURITZ ?-15/05/1945
Date of Election: 06/03/1922.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Born 1864
Fellow Type: OF
ALGERNON HAWKINS THOMOND KEITH FALCONER
KEITH, LORD INVERURIE, EARL OF KINTORE
12/08/1852- 03/03/1930
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/04/1878.
Profession: Soldier, Courtier, Diplomat.
Notes: Lord Falconer of Halkerton, Lord Keith of
Inverurie & Keith Hall, Baron Kintore of Kintore,
Elected as Lord Inverurie
Fellow Type: OF
HENRIK KACSER 22/09/1918- 13/03/1995
Place of Birth: Campina, Romania.
Date of Election: 05/03/1990.
Profession: Biochemical Genetecist.
Fellow Type: OF
CORNELIUS UBBO ARIENS KAPPERS 09/08/187728/07/1946
Place of Birth: Groningen, Netherlands.
Date of Election: 05/07/1937.
Profession: Anatomist.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR ARTHUR KEITH 05/02/1866- 07/01/1955
Place of Birth: Quarry Farm, Woodside, Old Machar,
Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 07/07/1930.
Profession: Anthropologist.
Notes: Reconstructed the Piltdown Skull after the
alleged discovery in 1912
Fellow Type: HF
JACOBUS CORNELIUS KAPTEYN 19/01/185118/06/1922
Date of Election: 07/11/1910.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
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JAMES KEITH 29/11/1783- 12/05/1863
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 24/01/1820.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Proposers given as Andrew Wardrop, James
Russell, Sir David Brewster, (Minutes of Proceedings
1783-91,NLS Acc 10,000/12)
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER KEMP ?-30/04/1854
Date of Election: 15/04/1850.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Born c1822
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES NORMAN KEMP
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Technical Radiologist.
Notes: Died September 1975, aged 91
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ROBERT MURRAY- KEITH 20/09/173021/06/1795
Place of Birth: Kincardineshire.
Date of Election: 23/01/1786.
Profession: Soldier, Diplomat, Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN KEMP
Date of Election: 20/07/1907.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
AUGUST KEKULE 07/09/1829- 13/07/1896
Place of Birth: Darmstadt, Germany.
Date of Election: 01/03/1875.
Profession: Organic Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN KEMP 10/04/1763- 15/11/1812
Place of Birth: Achlossen, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 23/01/1792.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
MSTISLAV VSEVOLODOVICH KELDYSH 10/02/191124/06/1978
Date of Election: 01/07/1968.
Profession: Mathematician, Physicist, Technologist.
Fellow Type: HF
KEMPSON, ETHEL ELIZABETH. SEE PERCIVAL, ETHEL
ELIZABETH.
JAMES PICKERING KENDALL 30/07/188914/06/1978
Place of Birth: West End, Chobham, Surrey.
Date of Election: 04/03/1929.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
PHILIP KELLAND 17/10/1808- 08/05/1879
Place of Birth: Dunster, Somerset.
Date of Election: 21/01/1839.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Roy Soc list gives date of death as 7/5/1879
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT JAMES KELLAR
Date of Election: 05/03/1951.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
JAMES TYLDESLEY KENDALL 14/12/191631/07/1991
Place of Birth: New York, USA.
Date of Election: 05/03/1951.
Profession: Physical Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE KELLIE ?-28/09/1829
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/12/1823.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born c1781
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT MAXIMILIAN KENEDI 19/03/192107/09/1998
Place of Birth: Hungary.
Date of Election: 01/03/1965.
Profession: Engineer, Bioengineer.
Fellow Type: OF
KELVIN BARON. SEE THOMSON, WILLIAM.
ALEXANDER KENNEDY 22/06/1764- 27/03/1827
Date of Election: 25/01/1819.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES KEMBALL 27/03/1923- 04/09/1998
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/03/1967.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ALEXANDER BLACKIE WILLIAM KENNEDY
17/03/1847- 01/11/1928
Place of Birth: Stepney, London.
Date of Election: 04/11/1907.
Profession: Engineer.
Fellow Type: HF
CHARLES HENRY KEMBALL ?-30/03/1964
Place of Birth: Boxford, Suffolk.
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Dental Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT KENNEDY ?-15/05/1803
Date of Election: 25/06/1798.
Profession: Physician, Chemist, Geologist.
Notes: Born c1774
Fellow Type: OF
NICHOLAS KEMMER 07/12/1911- 21/10/1998
Place of Birth: St Petersburg, Russia.
Date of Election: 01/03/1954.
Profession: Physicist, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT FOSTER KENNEDY 07/02/1884- 07/01/1952
Place of Birth: Belfast, Ireland.
Date of Election: 03/06/1912.
Profession: Physician, Neurologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES HERMANN ROSENTHAL KEMNAL
(FORMERLY ROSENTHAL) ?-08/02/1927
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 21/06/1915.
Profession: Elecrical Engineer.
Notes: Born 1864
Fellow Type: OF
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WALTER PHILLIPS KENNEDY 30/06/189903/01/1983
Place of Birth: Hawick,Roxburghshire.
Date of Election: 14/03/1927.
Profession: Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN GRAHAM KERR 18/09/1869- 21/04/1957
Place of Birth: Rowley Lodge, Arkley, Hertfordshire.
Date of Election: 05/01/1903.
Profession: Zoologist, Member of Parliament.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MARTIN MUNRO KERR
Date of Election: 14/03/1927.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM QUARRIER KENNEDY 30/11/190313/03/1979
Place of Birth: Quarrier Home for Orphans, Bridge of
Weir, Renfrew.
Date of Election: 01/03/1948.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOSHUA LAW KERR ?-07/02/1940
Date of Election: 01/12/1890.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
KENNET, LORD. SEE BRUCE, ROBERT.
ROBERT KERR ?-11/10/1813
Place of Birth: Bughtridge, Roxburghshire.
Date of Election: 28/01/1788.
Profession: Surgeon, Scientific Author, Translator.
Notes: Born 1755
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN HENRY KENNETH ?-05/12/1963
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 04/03/1935.
Profession: Geneticist, Zoologist.
Notes: Born 1886
Fellow Type: OF
SCHOMBERG HENRY KERR, 9TH MARQUESS OF
LOTHIAN 02/12/1833- 17/01/1900
Date of Election: 04/02/1895.
Profession: Diplomat.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ANTHONY JOHN PATRICK KENNY
Date of Election: 05/03/1979.
Profession: Philosopher, Biblical Scholar.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
ANDREW KENT ?-29/02/1976
Place of Birth: Pollokshields, Glasgow.
Date of Election: 02/03/1964.
Profession: Chemist, Historian of Science.
Notes: Born c1899
Fellow Type: OF
WALTER HUME KERR 25/06/1861- 09/08/1936
Place of Birth: Duns, Berwickshire.
Date of Election: 20/01/1913.
Profession: Engineer, Archaeologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM KERR, MARQUESS OF LOTHIAN
04/10/1763- 27/04/1824
Date of Election: 23/01/1786.
Profession: Soldier, landowner.
Notes: Elected as Earl of Ancram. Lord Lieutenant,
Roxburghshire 1812, Midlothian 1819.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY RICHARD KENWOOD 22/12/186207/06/1945
Place of Birth: Bexhill, Surrey.
Date of Election: 18/01/1909.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ROWAN KERR 22/02/1902- 08/04/1987
Date of Election: 04/03/1974.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM OGILVY KERMACK 26/04/189820/07/1970
Place of Birth: Kirriemuir, Angus.
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW WILLIAM KERR ?-01/10/1934
Date of Election: 17/02/1908.
Profession: Banker.
Fellow Type: OF
DOUGLAS KEELY KEVAN 04/02/1895- 15/05/1968
Place of Birth: Chelmsford. Essex.
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Timber Agent, Accountant,
Entomologist, Conchologist.
Fellow Type: OF
DOUGLAS JAMES ACWORTH KERR 21/08/189423/03/1960
Place of Birth: Bradford, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1944.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
DOUGLAS KEITH MCEWAN KEVAN 31/10/192009/07/1991
Place of Birth: Helsinki, Finland.
Date of Election: 03/03/1958.
Profession: Zoologist, Entomologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN KERR ?-08/12/1920
Place of Birth: Dumfries.
Date of Election: 07/03/1892.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Born 1852
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS KEY ?-18/01/1880
Place of Birth: Forfar, Angus.
Date of Election: 20/04/1868.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1803
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN GIBSON KERR 26/04/1905- 27/02/1989
Date of Election: 01/03/1948.
Profession: Writer to The Signet, Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
SATIS RANJAN KHASTGIR
Date of Election: 08/03/1926.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
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WALTER AUBREY KIDD ?-21/02/1929
Date of Election: 16/12/1907.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1853
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER KINNEAR
Date of Election: 03/03/1834.
Profession: Banker.
Notes: Died 1846
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT KIDSTON 29/06/1852- 13/07/1924
Place of Birth: Bishopton House,Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 05/07/1886.
Profession: Botanist, Palaeobotanist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER SMITH KINNEAR, BARON KINNEAR
03/11/1833- 20/12/1917
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/02/1883.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW KING ?-19/02/1919
Date of Election: 05/03/1917.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Born 1863
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES GEORGE HOOD KINNEAR
Date of Election: 06/03/1893.
Profession: Architect.
Notes: Born 1830.Died 1894
Fellow Type: OF
ARCHIBALD KING 23/05/1882- 29/08/1942
Place of Birth: Newbattle, Midlothian.
Date of Election: 15/07/1907.
Profession: Educationalist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES KINNEAR 02/12/1810- 21/06/1849
Date of Election: 06/12/1841.
Profession: Writer to The Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
BASIL CHARLES KING 01/06/1915- 11/09/1985
Date of Election: 06/03/1950.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN GARDINER KINNEAR
Date of Election: 05/02/1827.
Profession: Banker.
Notes: Died 1864-7
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES KING, bart. ?-01/10/1911
Date of Election: 05/03/1877.
Profession: Merchant.
Notes: Born 1830
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS KINNEAR
Date of Election: 01/05/1820.
Profession: Banker, Landowner, Antiquary.
Notes: Died c 1830
Fellow Type: OF
LEONARD AUGUSTUS LUCAS KING
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN KINNIS ?-18/08/1853
Date of Election: 03/03/1851.
Profession: unknown.
Notes: Born 1794
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM KING
Date of Election: 07/01/1878.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died 1881-2
Fellow Type: OF
KINTORE, EARL OF. SEE KEITH, ALGERNON
HAWKINS THOMOND FALCONER.
PERCIVAL ROBSON KIRBY
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Musician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM F. KING ?-06/10/1929
Date of Election: 07/06/1880.
Profession: Engineer.
Notes: Pioneer in submarine cable telegraphy
Fellow Type: OF
GUSTAV ROBERT KIRCHHOFF 12/03/182417/10/1887
Place of Birth: Konigsberg, Germany.
Date of Election: 07/12/1868.
Profession: Physicist, Mathematician.
Notes: With Bunsen established spectral analysis as a
powerful research tool
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN ROBERT LEWIS KINGON ?-30/05/1969
Date of Election: 04/03/1918.
Profession: Missionary.
Fellow Type: OF
KINGSBURGH, LORD. SEE MACDONALD, JOHN HAY
ATHOLE.
ROBERT KIRK 26/01/1905- 16/12/1962
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Physician, Parisitologist.
Fellow Type: OF
MANGALORE GOPAL KINI ?-22/08/1952
Date of Election: 03/03/1941.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR FRANCIS KINLOCH OF GILMERTON, bart. ?16/04/1795
Place of Birth: Midlothian.
Date of Election: 28/06/1790.
Profession: Landowner.
Notes: Born c 1747. Killed by a maniac (fratricide)
Fellow Type: OF
ANDERSON KIRKWOOD
Date of Election: 04/01/1875.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died 1888-9
Fellow Type: OF
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RICHARD KIRWAN 01/08/1733- 01/06/1812
Place of Birth: Galway, Ireland.
Date of Election: 27/06/1796.
Profession: Geologist, Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
PEO (PIUS) CHARLES KOLLER 03/04/190429/06/1979
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Cytologist.
Fellow Type: OF
G A FRANK KNIGHT ?-02/05/1937
Place of Birth: Dollar, Clackmannanshire.
Date of Election: 01/07/1901.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Conchologist.
Notes: Born 1869
Fellow Type: OF
RUDOLF ALBERT VON KOLLIKER 06/07/181703/11/1905
Place of Birth: Zurich, Switzerland.
Date of Election: 05/12/1864.
Profession: Physiologist.
Notes: Roy Soc gives date of death as 2/11/1905
Fellow Type: HF
JAMES KNIGHT ?-01/12/1936
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 15/07/1907.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Notes: Born 1860
Fellow Type: OF
NIKOLAJ KONSTANTINOVIC KOLTZOFF ?-02/12/1940
Date of Election: 03/07/1933.
Profession: Zoologist.
Notes: Born c1870
Fellow Type: HF
SIR WILLIAM KNIGHTON (NEIGHTON), bart. ?11/10/1836
Place of Birth: Beer Ferris, Devon.
Date of Election: 03/02/1823.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1776
Fellow Type: OF
HANS WALTER KOSTERLITZ 27/04/190326/10/1996
Date of Election: 05/03/1951.
Profession: Physician, Pharmacologist.
Fellow Type: OF
HENDRIK ANTHONY KRAMERS 17/12/189424/04/1952
Place of Birth: Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Date of Election: 02/07/1951.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: HF
CARGILL GILSTON KNOTT 30/06/1856- 26/10/1922
Place of Birth: Penicuik, Midlothian.
Date of Election: 01/03/1880.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR HANS ADOLPH KREBS 25/08/1900- 22/11/1981
Place of Birth: Hildesheim, near Hanover, Germany.
Date of Election: 01/03/1976.
Profession: Biochemist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate.Physiology & Medicine
1953
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN KNOX 20/12/1898- 03/08/1982
Place of Birth: Blackpool, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1950.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT KNOX 04/09/1791- 20/12/1862
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/12/1823.
Profession: Anatomist, Ethnologist.
Notes: Associated with Burke and Hare
Fellow Type: OF
KUMARAPURAM VYTHILINGA KRISHNAN
Date of Election: 03/03/1952.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Died 1977-78
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS KNOX ?-04/12/1879
Place of Birth: Greenlaw, Berwickshire.
Date of Election: 01/04/1872.
Profession: Social Reformer, Politician.
Notes: Born 1818
Fellow Type: OF
SCHACK AUGUST STEENBERG KROGH 15/11/187415/09/1949
Place of Birth: Grenaa, Jutland, Denmark.
Date of Election: 01/07/1946.
Profession: Zoologist, Physiologist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate, Physiology & Medicine,1920
Fellow Type: HF
SIR THOMAS MALCOLM KNOX 28/11/190006/04/1980
Place of Birth: Birkenhead, Cheshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1955.
Profession: Philosopher.
Fellow Type: OF
ADAM JOHANN VON KRUSENSTERN
(KRUSTENSTERN) 19/11/1770- 24/08/1846
Place of Birth: Haggud, Esthland..
Date of Election: 01/06/1820.
Profession: Navigator, Hydrographer.
Notes: Campbell gives date of birth 8/11/1770 and
death 12/8/1846
Fellow Type: OF
FRIEDRICH WILHELM GEORG KOHLRAUSCH
14/10/1840- 17/01/1910
Place of Birth: Rinteln-on-the-Weser, Germany.
Date of Election: 04/11/1907.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: HF
J. P. KUENEN
Date of Election: 06/01/1896.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
ADOLPH WILHELM HERMANN KOLBE 27/09/181825/11/1884
Place of Birth: Elliehausen,nr. Gottingen, Germany.
Date of Election: 01/03/1875.
Profession: Organic Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
ERNST EDUARD KUMMER 29/01/1810- 14/05/1893
Place of Birth: Soran, Germany.
Date of Election: 01/03/1875.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
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KASIMIERZ KURATOWSKI 02/02/1896- 18/06/1980
Place of Birth: Warsaw, Poland.
Date of Election: 06/06/1966.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR HORACE LAMB 27/11/1849- 04/12/1934
Place of Birth: Stockport, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 03/11/1913.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
JAMES GRAY KYD 09/08/1882- 25/06/1968
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 04/03/1940.
Profession: Actuary.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ALEXANDER GEORGE LAMB 04/03/186907/02/1930
Place of Birth: Royal Bank House,Granton,
Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/03/1921.
Profession: Banker, Astronomer, Mathematician,
Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES KYLES 02/10/1914- 06/05/1976
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/03/1955.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN LAMB 26/09/1922- 18/12/1991
Place of Birth: Accrington, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1968.
Profession: Electrical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
KYLLACHY, LORD. SEE MACINTOSH, WILLIAM.
GILBERT ELLIOT-MURRAY- KYNYNMOND, 1ST EARL
OF MINTO 23/04/1751- 21/06/1814
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 31/01/1803.
Profession: Barrister, Politician, Diplomat.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES GEORGE LAMBIE 24/07/1891- 28/09/1961
Place of Birth: Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies.
Date of Election: 14/03/1927.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
GILBERT ELLIOT-MURRAY- KYNYNMOND, 2ND EARL
OF MINTO 16/11/1782- 31/07/1859
Date of Election: 02/04/1849.
Profession: Statesman.
Fellow Type: OF
ARCHIBALD LAMONT 21/10/1907- 16/03/1985
Place of Birth: Ardbeg Villa, Rothesay, Bute.
Date of Election: 06/03/1950.
Profession: Geologist, Scottish Nationalist Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES L'AMY OF DUNKENNY 08/07/177215/01/1854
Date of Election: 06/12/1830.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
DANIEL LAMONT ?-24/05/1976
Date of Election: 02/03/1942.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN RAMSAY L'AMY OF DUNKENNY 09/04/181326/03/1892
Date of Election: 01/03/1875.
Profession: Writer to The Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHANN VON LAMONT 13/12/1805- 06/08/1879
Place of Birth: Braemar, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 17/02/1845.
Profession: Astronomer, Magnetician.
Notes: Born John Lamont
Fellow Type: HF
JOSEPH LOUIS LAGRANGE 25/01/1736- 10/04/1813
Place of Birth: Turin, Italy.
Date of Election: 25/01/1790.
Profession: Physicist, Mathematician.
Notes: Elected an Honorary Fellow 25/1/1813,
(Minutes of Proceedings 1783-91,NLS Acc 10,000/12)
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN CHARLES LAMONT ?-19/06/1945
Date of Election: 01/03/1920.
Profession: Surgeon, Anatomist.
Notes: Born c1865
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM FORSTER LANCHESTER
Date of Election: 24/06/1907.
Profession: unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN WATSON LAIDLAY 27/03/1808- 08/03/1885
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 03/02/1868.
Profession: Orientalist, Silk Merchant.
Fellow Type: OF
ROGER BURTON LAND 30/04/1940- 17/04/1988
Place of Birth: Shipley, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1985.
Profession: Animal Geneticist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE LAING ?-26/02/1916
Date of Election: 01/02/1886.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Born 1831
Fellow Type: OF
STENARD ERNEST ANDREW LANDALE ?-01/08/1977
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Engineer, Company Director,
Agriculturalist.
Notes: Born c1905
Fellow Type: OF
SIR PATRICK RAMSAY LAIRD 18/01/188829/06/1967
Date of Election: 04/03/1940.
Profession: Civil Servant.
Fellow Type: OF
98/1
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SIR PETER REDFORD SCOTT LANG 08/10/185005/07/1926
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/01/1878.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
DOMINIQUE JEAN LARREY 08/07/1766- ?
Place of Birth: Beaudean, France.
Date of Election: 03/06/1822.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: died 1842
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM HENRY LANG 12/05/1874- 29/08/1960
Place of Birth: Groombridge, Sussex.
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM LASSELL 18/06/1799- 05/10/1880
Place of Birth: Bolton, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 19/02/1849.
Profession: Astronomer.
Notes: Improved the reflecting telescope. Discovered
satellites of Neptune, Saturn and Uranus. Built
observatory at Starfield, Liverpool and later at
Maidehead
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN NEWPORT LANGLEY 02/11/1852- 05/11/1925
Place of Birth: Newbury, Berkshire.
Date of Election: 03/07/1916.
Profession: Physiologist.
Fellow Type: HF
ALEXANDER LAUDER ?-11/11/1943
Place of Birth: Greenock, Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 24/01/1910.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Born 1870
Fellow Type: OF
SAMUEL PIERPONT LANGLEY 22/08/183427/02/1906
Place of Birth: Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA.
Date of Election: 07/07/1902.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR THOMAS DICK- LAUDER, FORMERLY LAUDERDICK, OF FOUNTAINHALL, bart. ?-29/05/1848
Place of Birth: East Lothian.
Date of Election: 19/01/1815.
Profession: Author.
Notes: Born 1784
Fellow Type: OF
IRVING LANGMUIR 31/01/1881- 16/08/1957
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York,USA.
Date of Election: 04/07/1949.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate, Chemistry, 1932
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM PRESTON LAUDER ?-01/04/1850
Date of Election: 07/03/1825.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born c1788
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN DU PLESSIS LANGRISHE ?-28/02/1947
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born c.1884
Fellow Type: OF
LOUIS F. DE LAURAGUAIS (LAURAGAIS),
03/07/1733- 08/10/1824
Place of Birth: Versailles, France.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR EDWIN RAY LANKESTER 15/05/184715/08/1929
Place of Birth: Burlington Street, London.
Date of Election: 04/11/1907.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: HF
ALBERT ERNEST LAURIE 25/06/1866- 25/04/1937
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/03/1921.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE 23/03/1749- 05/03/1827
Place of Birth: Beaumont-en-Auge, Normandy,
France.
Date of Election: 25/01/1813.
Profession: Mathematician, Astronomer, Physicist.
Notes: Royal Society gives date of birth as 28/3/1749
Fellow Type: HF
ARTHUR PILLANS LAURIE 06/11/1861- 07/10/1949
Date of Election: 06/04/1885.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES LAPWORTH 20/09/1842- 13/03/1920
Place of Birth: Faringdon, Berkshire.
Date of Election: 03/07/1916.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: HF
MALCOLM LAURIE ?-16/07/1932
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/05/1894.
Profession: Zoologist, Palaeontologist.
Notes: Born 1866
Fellow Type: OF
DIONYSIUS LARDNER 03/04/1793- 29/04/1859
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland.
Date of Election: 06/02/1826.
Profession: Physicist, Scientific Writer.
Fellow Type: OF
SIMON SOMERVILLE LAURIE 13/11/182902/03/1909
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 21/03/1870.
Profession: Educationalist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOSEPH LARMOR 11/07/1857- 19/05/1942
Place of Birth: Magheragall, Co. Antrim, Ireland.
Date of Election: 07/11/1910.
Profession: Mathematician, Physicist.
Fellow Type: HF
99/1
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MICHAEL STUART LAVERACK 19/03/193128/07/1993
Place of Birth: Croydon, London.
Date of Election: 06/03/1972.
Profession: Zoologist.
Notes: Killed with his wife in an air crash.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS LAYCOCK 10/08/1812- 21/09/1876
Place of Birth: Wetherby, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 18/02/1856.
Profession: Physician, Mental Physiologist.
Notes: Formulated the theory of the reflex action of
the brain
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES LOUIS ALPHONSE LAVERAN 18/06/184518/05/1922
Place of Birth: Paris, France.
Date of Election: 04/07/1921.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Nobel Laureate, Physiology & Medicine (1907)
Fellow Type: HF
LE CLERC DE SEPT CHENES
Date of Election: 26/01/1784.
Profession: Classicist.
Notes: Died 1791. His large library passed to
Talleyrand
Fellow Type: OF
CATHERWOOD CRAIG LEARMONTH
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Legal Administrator.
Notes: Died 1980-1
Fellow Type: OF
ERNEST ORLANDO LAWRENCE 08/08/190127/08/1958
Date of Election: 01/07/1946.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate,Physics.1939
Fellow Type: HF
THOMAS LAWRIE ?-13/08/1955
Date of Election: 01/03/1954.
Profession: Engineer.
Notes: Born 1901
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES ROGNVALD LEARMONTH 23/03/189527/09/1967
Place of Birth: Gatehouse of Fleet,
Kirkcudbrightshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1944.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS RUSSEL MACLAREN LAWRIE 30/05/191314/07/1993
Place of Birth: Sillyearn,Grange, Banffshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1960.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN LEARMONTH OF DEAN ?-17/12/1858
Date of Election: 16/03/1840.
Profession: Coach Builder, Property Developer.
Notes: Born c.1789. Dean Bridge built largely at his
expense.
Fellow Type: OF
ABERCROMBIE ANSTRUTHER LAWSON ?-26/03/1927
Place of Birth: Fife.
Date of Election: 22/11/1909.
Profession: Botanist.
Notes: Born 1874
Fellow Type: OF
DEREK LEAVER 16/05/1929- 24/10/1990
Date of Election: 03/03/1975.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE BUFFON
07/09/1707- 16/04/1788
Place of Birth: Montbard, Cote d'Or, France.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Naturalist, Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES LAWSON
Date of Election: 17/04/1865.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: See Charles Lawson, elected 5/1/1863 d.1874.
Is this a duplicate entry?
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER H. LEE
Date of Election: 04/12/1871.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Died 1901-2
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES LAWSON OF BORTHWICK HALL
Date of Election: 05/01/1863.
Profession: Seed Merchant.
Notes: Died 1874
Fellow Type: OF
GABRIEL WARTON LEE ?-01/12/1928
Date of Election: 18/07/1910.
Profession: Geologist, Palaeontologist.
Notes: Born 1888
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID LAWSON ?-10/12/1952
Date of Election: 19/12/1904.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Pioneer in the treatment of Pulmonary
Tuberculosis
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN LEE 22/11/1779- 02/05/1859
Place of Birth: Torwoodlee Mains, Stow, Midlothian.
Date of Election: 04/03/1822.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT LAWSON ?-22/02/1896
Place of Birth: Kirriemuir, Angus.
Date of Election: 07/02/1881.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1815
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT LEE 11/11/1804- 14/03/1868
Place of Birth: Tweedmouth, Northumberland.
Date of Election: 07/02/1853.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
100/1
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ROBERT LEE, LORD LEE 01/04/1830- 11/10/1890
Date of Election: 04/12/1871.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
KARL RICHARD LEPSIUS 23/12/1810- 10/07/1884
Place of Birth: Naumburg, Germany.
Date of Election: 05/12/1864.
Profession: Egyptologist, Philologist.
Fellow Type: HF
DAVID LEES ?-25/03/1934
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1881
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER LESLIE 16/09/1844- 07/12/1893
Place of Birth: Dundee, Angus.
Date of Election: 06/02/1882.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
HOWARD LEES 13/05/1917- 12/01/1989
Date of Election: 04/03/1957.
Profession: Microbiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
FRANK MATTHEWS LESLIE 08/03/1935- 15/06/2000
Place of Birth: Dundee, Angus.
Date of Election: 03/03/1980.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT FERGUSON LEGGET 29/09/190417/04/1994
Place of Birth: Liverpool, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1983.
Profession: Engineer,Geologist.
Fellow Type: HF
GEORGE LESLIE
Date of Election: 07/05/1883.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Died c. 1894
Fellow Type: OF
INGE LEHMANN 13/05/1888- 21/02/1993
Date of Election: 06/07/1959.
Profession: Seismologist.
Fellow Type: HF
GEORGE WALDEGRAVE LESLIE, VISCOUNT
CHEWTON (PRIOR TO 1861 WALDEGRAVE)
30/09/1825- 08/07/1904
Date of Election: 06/04/1863.
Profession: Barrister, Politician.
Notes: Campbell gives date of death as 20/01/1894
Fellow Type: OF
GERALD ROWLEY LEIGHTON 12/12/186808/09/1953
Place of Birth: Bispham, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 04/05/1903.
Profession: Pathologist, Zoologist.
Notes: Founded (1902) and later edited "Field
Naturalist's Quarterly"
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES LESLIE ?-29/12/1889
Place of Birth: Largo, Fife.
Date of Election: 01/02/1858.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Born 1801
Fellow Type: OF
DUNCAN LEITCH 20/03/1904- 12/01/1956
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 04/03/1946.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN LESLIE ?-24/05/1790
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Classicist.
Notes: Born 1721
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ORR LEITCH ?-27/01/1948
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN LESLIE 16/04/1766- 03/11/1832
Place of Birth: Largo, Fife.
Date of Election: 01/02/1807.
Profession: Physicist, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
PERCY SAMUEL LELEAN
Date of Election: 03/03/1930.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
FERDINAND MARIE DE LESSEPS 19/11/180507/12/1894
Place of Birth: Versailles, France.
Date of Election: 03/04/1876.
Profession: Engineer, Entrepreneur.
Notes: Planned the Suez Canal
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN MARK ANTHONY LENIHAN 23/06/191827/12/1993
Place of Birth: Carlisle, Cumberland.
Date of Election: 06/03/1967.
Profession: Clinical Physicist, Science Historian.
Fellow Type: OF
EDMUND ALBERT LETTS 27/08/1852- 19/02/1918
Place of Birth: Sydenham, Kent.
Date of Election: 04/05/1874.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ANDREW REGINALD LENMAN ?-03/06/1985
Place of Birth: India.
Date of Election: 05/03/1979.
Profession: Physician, Neurologist.
Notes: Born 1924
Fellow Type: OF
KARL GEORG FRIEDRICH RUDOLPH LEUCKART
07/10/1822- 06/02/1898
Place of Birth: Helmstadt, Germany.
Date of Election: 05/12/1864.
Profession: Zoologist, Comparative Anatomist.
Fellow Type: HF
GEORGES CHRETIEN FREDERIC LEOPOLD, KING OF
THE BELGIANS 16/12/1790- 10/12/1865
Date of Election: 24/01/1820.
Profession: Monarch.
Notes: Roy. Soc. List gives date of birth as ?
18/12/1790
Fellow Type: HF
101/1
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ALEXANDER LEVIE ?-05/12/1955
Place of Birth: Lerwick, Shetland.
Date of Election: 24/01/1910.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1865
Fellow Type: OF
NICHOLAS MORPETH HUTCHINSON LIGHTFOOT
14/10/1902- 20/11/1962
Place of Birth: Jarrow, Co. Durham.
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
WALTER MICHEL LEVINTHAL 12/04/188617/11/1963
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany.
Date of Election: 02/03/1942.
Profession: Bacteriologist.
Fellow Type: OF
FRANK RATTRAY LILLIE 17/06/1870- 05/11/1947
Place of Birth: Toronto, Canada.
Date of Election: 02/07/1934.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: HF
ROBERT KHO-SENG LIM ?-08/07/1969
Place of Birth: Singapore.
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Physician, Physiologist.
Notes: Born 1897
Fellow Type: OF
HYMAN LEVY 28/02/1889- 27/02/1975
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/03/1916.
Profession: Philosopher, Mathematician, Political
activist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES LIND 04/10/1716- 13/07/1794
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Largely responsible for the conquest of scurvy
among seamen
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCIS JOHN LEWIS ?-24/05/1955
Date of Election: 06/07/1914.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOSEPH SLATER LEWIS
Date of Election: 06/02/1899.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Died 1900-01
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES LIND 17/05/1736- 17/10/1812
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician, Astronomer, Meteorologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR THOMAS LEWIS 26/12/1881- 17/03/1945
Place of Birth: Teigil House, Roath, Cardiff, Wales.
Date of Election: 04/07/1938.
Profession: Physician Cardiologist.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN LIND
Date of Election: 24/06/1799.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Campbell gives date of birth as c. 1750 and
death 1810
Fellow Type: OF
ANDERS JOHAN LEXELL 24/12/1740- 30/11/1784
Place of Birth: Abo, Sweden.
Date of Election: 26/01/1784.
Profession: Astronomer, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID ALEXANDER ROBERT LINDSAY, EARL OF
CRAWFORD AND BALCARRES 20/11/190013/12/1975
Place of Birth: 49 Moray Place, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/03/1953.
Profession: Connoisseur of Arts.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ROBERT LANG LICKLEY 19/01/1912- 07/07/1998
Place of Birth: Dundee, Angus.
Date of Election: 07/03/1977.
Profession: Aeronautical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES LINDSAY ?-25/03/1923
Date of Election: 04/03/1889.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Theologian,
Philosopher, Author.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE JAMES LIDSTONE 11/12/1870- ?
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 04/03/1918.
Profession: Actuary.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN LINDSAY ?-18/08/1803
Date of Election: 27/01/1793.
Profession: Surgeon, Botanist.
Notes: Born 1750
Fellow Type: OF
JUSTUS VON LIEBIG 12/05/1803- 18/04/1873
Place of Birth: Darmstadt, Germany.
Date of Election: 17/02/1845.
Profession: Organic Chemist.
Notes: Roy. Soc. List gives date of death as?
10/4/1873
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN GEORGE LINDSAY ?-02/04/1962
Date of Election: 19/02/1912.
Profession: Educationalist.
Notes: Born c1883
Fellow Type: OF
FORREST HAY LIGHTBODY ?-08/07/1940
Date of Election: 19/06/1905.
Profession: Quantity Surveyor.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS A LINDSAY
Date of Election: 01/03/1920.
Profession: Schoolmaster, Mathematician, Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
102/1
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SIR ROBERT LISTON 08/10/1742- 15/07/1836
Place of Birth: Overtoun, Kirkliston, West Lothian.
Date of Election: 28/06/1784.
Profession: Diplomat, Linguist, Agriculturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS MARTIN LINDSAY 18/10/184306/12/1914
Place of Birth: Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 16/01/1871.
Profession: Historian, Educationalist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM GLEN LISTON 30/07/1873- 18/10/1950
Place of Birth: Secunderabad, Madras, India.
Date of Election: 02/02/1903.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM LINDSAY ?-20/02/1884
Place of Birth: Coburg Street, Leith.
Date of Election: 01/02/1864.
Profession: Solicitor, Ship-owner.
Notes: Born 1819
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ROBERT LITTLE ?-16/08/1957
Date of Election: 04/03/1929.
Profession: Accountant.
Notes: Born 1868
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM LAUDER LINDSAY 19/12/182924/11/1880
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/02/1861.
Profession: Physician, Alienist, Botanist.
Notes: Date of death quoted in Proceedings as
28/11/1880
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY HARVEY LITTLEJOHN
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/12/1902.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Born October 1862, Died August 1927
Fellow Type: OF
ERIC ROBERT RUSSELL LINKLATER 08/03/189907/11/1974
Place of Birth: Penarth, Glamorganshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1971.
Profession: Novelist, Man of Letters.
Fellow Type: OF
ARCHIBALD LIVERSIDGE 17/11/1847- 26/09/1927
Place of Birth: Turnham Green,.
Date of Election: 04/06/1900.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
LINLITHGOW, MARQUIS OF. SEE HOPE, VICTOR
ALEXANDER JOHN.
JOSIAH LIVINGSTON (E) ?-13/01/1896
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/04/1882.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
LINTON, BARON. SEE STEWART, CHARLES, 7TH
EARL OF TRAQUAIR.
JOSEPH LIOUVILLE 24/03/1809- 08/09/1882
Place of Birth: St. Omer, France.
Date of Election: 01/03/1875.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN LIZARS ?-21/05/1860
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/03/1821.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1792. First in Scotland to perform
Ovariotomy
Fellow Type: OF
GABRIEL JONAS LIPPMANN 16/08/184513/07/1921
Place of Birth: near Luxenburg,.
Date of Election: 01/03/1897.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate 1908 Physics
Fellow Type: HF
HUMPHREY LLOYD 16/04/1800- 17/01/1881
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland.
Date of Election: 17/03/1845.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Researched optics and magnetism
Fellow Type: HF
JOSEPH LISTER, BARON LISTER 05/04/182710/02/1912
Place of Birth: Upton House, Upton, Essex.
Date of Election: 03/01/1870.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Founder of the Antiseptic Principle
Fellow Type: OF
RICHARD JOHN LLOYD 14/10/1846- ?
Place of Birth: Liverpool, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 07/06/1897.
Profession: Active in the fields of Phonetics and
Esperanto.
Notes: Died August 1906, in a swimming accident
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM LISTER ?-03/02/1830
Place of Birth: Hertfordshire.
Date of Election: 23/06/1788.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born c 1757
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES HENRY LOBBAN
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM LOCHEAD ?-22/03/1815
Place of Birth: Paisley, Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 04/01/1791.
Profession: Surgeon, Botanist.
Notes: Born c. !753
Fellow Type: OF
JOHANN BENEDICT LISTING 25/07/180824/12/1882
Place of Birth: Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
Date of Election: 03/03/1879.
Profession: Physicist, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
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JAMES BALFOUR LOCKHART ?-27/01/1969
Place of Birth: Cambuslang, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1932.
Profession: Mathematician, Schoolmaster.
Notes: Born 1886
Fellow Type: OF
CYRIL LONG 23/03/1915- 22/12/1995
Date of Election: 01/03/1954.
Profession: Biochemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ALEXANDER LORAINE 14/05/192414/11/1988
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/03/1978.
Profession: Physician, Endocrinologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT DOUGLAS LOCKHART 07/01/189426/02/1987
Date of Election: 01/03/1954.
Profession: Physician, Anatomist.
Fellow Type: OF
REGINALD DOUGLAS LORD 31/08/190906/07/1998
Place of Birth: Clapham, London.
Date of Election: 07/03/1960.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Date of Birth in RSE Year Book obituary is
mistakenly given as 31/3/1909
Fellow Type: OF
GEOFFREY ARTHUR LODGE
Date of Election: 03/03/1986.
Profession: Agriculturalist.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
OTTO LOEWI 03/06/1873- 25/12/1961
Place of Birth: Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
Date of Election: 03/07/1939.
Profession: Pharmacologist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate,Physiology & Medicine
1936
Fellow Type: HF
HENDRIK ANTOON LORENTZ 18/07/185304/02/1928
Place of Birth: Arnhem. Holland.
Date of Election: 21/06/1920.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate, Physics 1902
Fellow Type: HF
DAVID DALE LOGAN 20/08/1879- 16/11/1956
Place of Birth: Arbroath, Angus.
Date of Election: 05/03/1945.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES LORIMER OF KELLYFIELD 04/11/181813/02/1890
Place of Birth: Aberdalgie, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 18/02/1861.
Profession: Advocate, Jurist and Political Philosopher.
Notes: Authority on international law
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN LOGAN ?-28/12/1788
Place of Birth: Soutra, Fala, Midlothian.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Poet.
Notes: Born 1748
Fellow Type: OF
NORMAN STANLEY REES LORRAINE ?-31/12/1969
Date of Election: 08/03/1926.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born c 1893
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM EDMOND LOGAN 20/04/179822/06/1875
Place of Birth: Montreal, Canada.
Date of Election: 01/04/1861.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: HF
LOTHIAN, 6TH MARQUIS OF. SEE KERR, WILLIAM.
LOTHIAN, 9TH MARQUIS OF. SEE KERR,
SCHOMBERG HENRY.
COSMO GORDON LOGIE 25/08/1820- 06/04/1886
Date of Election: 06/02/1871.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER VEITCH LOTHIAN ?-30/11/1933
Date of Election: 07/03/1898.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS LOGIN ?-05/06/1874
Place of Birth: Stromness, Orkney.
Date of Election: 06/04/1857.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Born 1823. Specialised in Road & Canal
construction
Fellow Type: OF
MAURICE LOTHIAN ?-15/07/1880
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 31/05/1869.
Profession: Lawyer.
Notes: Born c. 1795
Fellow Type: OF
IWO ROBERT WACLAW LOMINSKI ?-19/10/1968
Place of Birth: Cracow, Poland.
Date of Election: 03/03/1958.
Profession: Physician, Bacteriologist.
Notes: Born 1905
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM LOTHIAN 05/11/1740- 17/12/1783
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Historian.
Fellow Type: OF
PHIL PRINCE LOVE 07/10/1911- 04/03/1996
Date of Election: 04/03/1963.
Profession: Mechanical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
ALBERT GEORGE LONG 28/01/1915- 13/03/1999
Place of Birth: Inskip, nr Preston, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1962.
Profession: Palaeobotanist, Entomologist,
Schoolmaster, Museum Curator.
Fellow Type: OF
104/1
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SVEN LUDWIG LOVEN 06/01/1809- 03/09/1895
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden.
Date of Election: 17/01/1881.
Profession: Marine Zoologist, Physiologist.
Fellow Type: HF
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL 22/02/1819- 12/08/1891
Place of Birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Date of Election: 18/02/1889.
Profession: Poet, Diplomat.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN ARNOLD LOVERN 27/05/1906- ?
Date of Election: 07/03/1960.
Profession: Biochemist.
Fellow Type: OF
OTTO EGON LOWENSTEIN 24/10/1906- 31/01/1999
Place of Birth: Munich, Germany.
Date of Election: 03/03/1947.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID LOW ?-07/01/1859
Place of Birth: Berwickshire.
Date of Election: 03/02/1834.
Profession: Agriculturalist.
Notes: Born 1786
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES STEWART LOWSON 19/02/187409/10/1926
Place of Birth: Lille, France.
Date of Election: 01/04/1904.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
DONALD ALEXANDER LOW ?-15/11/2001
Date of Election: 04/03/1985.
Profession: Scholar of English Language & Literature.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR CYRIL EDWARD LUCAS 30/07/1909- 14/01/2002
Place of Birth: Hull, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Biologist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE MACRITCHIE LOW ?-29/11/1922
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/02/1884.
Profession: Actuary.
Notes: Born 1849
Fellow Type: OF
ERNEST BOWMAN LUDLAM ?-13/08/1959
Place of Birth: Derbyshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Born 1879. Founder of the Friends' Meeting in
Edinburgh
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES WOTHERSPOON LOW ?-13/12/1982
Place of Birth: Granton, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/03/1930.
Profession: Zoologist, Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
CARL FRIEDRICH WILHELM LUDWIG 29/12/181627/04/1895
Place of Birth: Witzenhausen, Hessen, Germany.
Date of Election: 03/04/1876.
Profession: Physiologist, Zoologist.
Notes: Campbell gives date of death as 23/4/1895.
Stressed the importance of blood pressure
Fellow Type: HF
SIR JOHN LOW 13/12/1788- 19/01/1880
Place of Birth: Clatto, Nr. Cupar, Fife.
Date of Election: 05/02/1844.
Profession: Soldier, Political Administrator.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT CRANSTON LOW ?-03/02/1949
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/03/1934.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1879
Fellow Type: OF
MAURICE LUGEON 10/07/1870- 23/10/1953
Place of Birth: Poissy, near Paris, France.
Date of Election: 06/07/1936.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR DAVID LOWE 12/05/1899- 03/11/1980
Place of Birth: Musselburgh, East Lothian.
Date of Election: 06/03/1961.
Profession: Horticulturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW LUMSDEN (LUMISDEN) ?-25/12/1801
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Lawyer.
Notes: Born 1720
Fellow Type: HF
DAVID FOWLER LOWE 11/01/1843- 17/01/1924
Place of Birth: Leslie, Fife.
Date of Election: 16/01/1888.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM HEPBURN RUSSELL LUMSDEN ?13/05/2002
Date of Election: 04/03/1968.
Profession: Medical Biologist.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID NICOLL LOWE 09/09/1909- 10/08/1999
Date of Election: 04/03/1957.
Profession: Botanist, Administrator.
Fellow Type: OF
GRAHAM LUSK 15/02/1866- 18/07/1932
Place of Birth: Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA.
Date of Election: 04/12/1899.
Profession: Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM HENRY LOWE ?-26/08/1900
Date of Election: 19/02/1849.
Profession: Physician, Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
LOUIS JOSEPH GAY- LUSSAC 06/12/177809/05/1850
Place of Birth: St Leonard, Haute Vienne, France.
Date of Election: 19/01/1815.
Profession: Chemist, Physicist.
Fellow Type: HF
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SIR CHARLES LYELL, bart. 14/11/1797- 22/02/1875
Place of Birth: Kinnordy, Angus.
Date of Election: 17/03/1845.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR WILLIAM MACTAGGART 15/05/190309/01/1981
Place of Birth: Loanhead, Midlothian.
Date of Election: 06/03/1967.
Profession: Artist, Painter.
Fellow Type: OF
FEODOR LYNEN 06/04/1911- 06/08/1979
Place of Birth: Munich, Germany.
Date of Election: 01/03/1976.
Profession: Biochemist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate, Physiology & Medicine,
1964
Fellow Type: HF
ALEXANDER MORISON M'ALDOWIE ?-04/09/1926
Date of Election: 04/04/1887.
Profession: Physician, Ornithologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER MACALISTER 09/04/1844- 02/09/1919
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland.
Date of Election: 03/07/1916.
Profession: Anatomist.
Fellow Type: HF
DAVID MURRAY LYON 12/09/1888- 16/11/1956
Place of Birth: Wooler, Northumberland.
Date of Election: 03/03/1924.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR DONALD MACALISTER OF TARBET, bart.
17/05/1854- 15/01/1934
Place of Birth: Perth.
Date of Election: 05/03/1917.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT LYON
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Artist.
Notes: died 1959-60
Fellow Type: OF
DONALD ALEXANDER MACALISTER OF TARBERT
Date of Election: 17/12/1906.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
BERNARD LYOT ?-02/04/1952
Date of Election: 03/07/1939.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN MACALLAN
Date of Election: 06/04/1891.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Died 1913-14
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE FOSBERY LYSTER
Date of Election: 01/02/1886.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Died 1898-9, Associated with Liverpool
Fellow Type: OF
MACANDREW, JOHN. SEE MACGREGOR, JOHN.
WALTER JOHN MABBOTT ?-31/01/1939
Date of Election: 05/03/1894.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Notes: Born c 1866
Fellow Type: OF
DONALD NEIL MCARTHUR 02/08/1892- 23/08/1965
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 04/03/1929.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Born 1892
Fellow Type: OF
SIR IVISON STEVENSON MACADAM 18/07/189422/12/1974
Date of Election: 05/03/1945.
Profession: Mechanical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN M'ARTHUR ?-19/12/1912
Date of Election: 06/02/1888.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT MCADAM 15/03/1906- 05/11/1978
Date of Election: 04/03/1940.
Profession: Mining Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
NEIL M'ARTHUR 13/06/1883- 28/12/1951
Place of Birth: West Loch Tarbert, Argyll.
Date of Election: 07/03/1921.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
STEVENSON MACADAM 27/04/1829- 24/01/1901
Place of Birth: *Glasgow.
Date of Election: 05/02/1855.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: *Date and place of birth added 16/1/06information from John Macadam, relative [VMH]
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN P. MACARTNEY
Date of Election: 03/02/1862.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS JAMES BABINGTON MACAULAY, BARON
MACAULAY 25/10/1800- 28/12/1859
Place of Birth: Rothley Temple, Leicestershire.
Date of Election: 06/04/1840.
Profession: Historian, Statesman.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM IVISON MACADAM 27/01/185624/06/1902
Place of Birth: *Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/07/1888.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: *Date and place of birth added 16/1/06information from John Macadam, relative [VMH]
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES MCBAIN (M'BAIN) ?-21/03/1879
Place of Birth: Logie, Angus.
Date of Election: 07/01/1861.
Profession: Surgeon, Marine Naturalist.
Notes: Born November 1807
Fellow Type: OF
106/1
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ALEXANDER MURRAY MACBEATH
Date of Election: 07/03/1955.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
WILLIAM WITHER MCCLELLAND 10/06/188902/02/1968
Place of Birth: Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Mathematician, Educationalist.
Notes: Executive Officer 1941-59, National
Committee, Teacher Training, Scotland
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES M'BRIDE
Date of Election: 01/12/1884.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Died 1903-4
Fellow Type: OF
JOSEPH MCCORMICK (M'CORMICK) 22/01/173317/06/1799
Place of Birth: St. Andrews, Fife.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ALEXANDER M'BRIDE ?-06/09/1949
Place of Birth: Broughshane, Co. Antrim, Ireland.
Date of Election: 08/03/1926.
Profession: Mathematician, Schoolmaster.
Notes: Born December 1868
Fellow Type: OF
PETER M'BRIDE ?-16/06/1946
Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany.
Date of Election: 02/04/1883.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM SYMINGTON MCCORMICK
(M'CORMICK) 29/04/1859- 23/03/1930
Place of Birth: Dunbar Terrace, Dumfries.
Date of Election: 04/05/1903.
Profession: Scholar of English Literature,
Administrator.
Fellow Type: OF
NORMAN ALEXANDER MACCAIG 14/11/191023/01/1996
Date of Election: 07/03/1983.
Profession: Poet.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM M'CRACKEN
Place of Birth: Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Land Agent.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID MCCALL 10/04/1893- 29/07/1983
Place of Birth: Dundee, Angus.
Date of Election: 05/03/1951.
Profession: Pharmacist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM HUNTER MCCREA 13/12/190425/04/1999
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland.
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Mathematician, Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS SMITH MACCALL
Date of Election: 06/04/1868.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1804, died 1895
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES M'CUBBIN ?-02/09/1913
Date of Election: 06/02/1899.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM JOHN MCCALLIEN ?-19/01/1981
Place of Birth: Tarbert, Argyll.
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Geologist.
Notes: Born 1902
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES DAVID MCCULLOCH 12/07/186621/10/1944
Date of Election: 04/03/1918.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MCCULLOCH ?-13/07/1882
Place of Birth: Galloway.
Date of Election: 02/01/1866.
Profession: Banker.
Notes: Born 1807
Fellow Type: OF
SIR PETER MACCALLUM ?-04/03/1974
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 04/03/1935.
Profession: Physician, Pathologist.
Notes: Born 1885
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER MACDONALD 02/01/1910- 06/02/1998
Date of Election: 02/03/1959.
Profession: Bacteriologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW CORRIE M'CANDLISH
Date of Election: 03/03/1930.
Profession: Agriculturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
ANGUS MACDONALD 18/04/1836- 10/02/1886
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 30/01/1871.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN M'GREGOR M'CANDLISH 12/01/182110/11/1901
Date of Election: 18/02/1867.
Profession: Writer to the Signet, Actuary.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID KEITH CHALMERS MACDONALD
24/07/1920- 28/07/1963
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 01/03/1954.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
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DAVID ROBERTSON MACDONALD OF
KINLOCHMOIDART (UNTIL 1799 ROBERTSON)
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 25/01/1802.
Profession: Soldier.
Notes: Born 1764, died c1847
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN HAY ATHOLE MACDONALD, LORD
KINGSBURGH 28/12/1836- 09/05/1919
Place of Birth: 29 Great King Street, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/02/1886.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Lieutenant Colonel 1861-80, 1882-8, 2nd
Batallion, Queen's Edinburgh Rifle Volunteer Brigade.
1888-1901 Brigadier-General IC, Forth Volunteer
Infantry Brigade
Fellow Type: OF
SIR DUNCAN MCDONALD 20/09/1921- 23/02/1997
Date of Election: 03/03/1969.
Profession: Electrical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
STUART MCDONALD ?-23/10/1946
Date of Election: 04/03/1946.
Profession: Physician, Pathologist.
Notes: Born c1905
Fellow Type: OF
SIR GEORGE MACDONALD 30/01/1862- 09/08/1940
Place of Birth: Elgin, Moray.
Date of Election: 03/07/1933.
Profession: Civil Servant, Numismatist, Classical
Scholar, Archaeologist.
Fellow Type: HF
STUART M'DONALD ?-15/11/1948
Place of Birth: Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1920.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1873
Fellow Type: OF
HECTOR MUNRO MACDONALD 19/01/186516/05/1935
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 23/01/1905.
Profession: Mathematician, Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS LOGIE MACDONALD
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
IAN DAVID MACDONALD
Date of Election: 05/03/1984.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
WILLIAM MACDONALD ?-20/11/1935
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/06/1904.
Profession: Agriculturalist.
Notes: Born 1875
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES MACDONALD 03/08/1898- 28/04/1963
Date of Election: 04/03/1957.
Profession: Forester.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM MACDONALD 21/04/1797- 01/01/1875
Date of Election: 01/05/1820.
Profession: Physician, Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES MACDONALD ?-11/11/1913
Place of Birth: Glen Rinnes, Banffshire.
Date of Election: 04/12/1893.
Profession: Agricultural Journalist.
Notes: Born 1852
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM J MACDONALD ?-29/12/1941
Place of Birth: Huntly, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 01/02/1886.
Profession: School Master, Mathematician.
Notes: Born 1851, Photograph NLS Acc10000/380
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ALEXANDER MACDONALD ?-07/06/1937
Date of Election: 07/06/1897.
Profession: Educationalist, Experimental Physicist.
Notes: Born 1867
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM MACDONALD FARQUHARSON
COLQUHOUN MACDONALD OF ST MARTIN'S ABBEY
& THE CRAIG, MONTROSE 26/05/1822- 16/02/1893
Date of Election: 19/04/1847.
Profession: Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ALEXANDER MACDONALD 17/06/190826/04/1997
Place of Birth: Dingwall, Ross-shire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1940.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALAN MACDOUGALL 22/05/1842- 23/04/1897
Date of Election: 07/01/1878.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES DAVID MACDONALD 03/10/1908- ?
Date of Election: 05/03/1962.
Profession: Zoologist, Ornithologist.
Fellow Type: OF
DUNCAN MACDOUGALL 03/02/1893- 03/01/1973
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 03/03/1952.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ANGUS MACDONALD ?-28/06/1931
Date of Election: 04/07/1904.
Profession: Schoolmaster, Physicist, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN BOWES MCDOUGALL 05/12/189030/09/1967
Place of Birth: Greenock, Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Physician, Phthisiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
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FRANCIS SCOTT MCFADZEAN, BARON MCFADZEAN
26/11/1915- 23/05/1992
Place of Birth: Troon, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1989.
Profession: Company Director.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN DAVID BATHGATE MACDOUGALL
06/01/1918- 30/08/1967
Date of Election: 01/03/1965.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
PATRICK CAMPBELL MACDOUGALL (M'DOUGALL) ?30/12/1867
Date of Election: 06/02/1860.
Profession: Philosopher.
Notes: Born 1806
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ANDERSON MCFADZEAN ?-01/08/2002
Date of Election: 04/03/1985.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MACFARLAN OF BALLANCLEROCH, (UNTIL
1765 WARDEN) 29/05/1740- 24/12/1788
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT STEWART MACDOUGALL 05/06/186228/03/1947
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/01/1901.
Profession: Entomologist, Agriculturalist, Forest
Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER MACFARLANE ?-28/08/1913
Date of Election: 06/05/1878.
Profession: Physicist, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM CROCKET MCDOWALL 16/10/191707/04/1998
Date of Election: 05/03/1979.
Profession: Barrister at Law.
Notes: Proposers cont'd. Sir John Atwell, George R
Tristram, Anthony E Ritchie
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES MACFARLANE 27/04/1808- 06/02/1866
Place of Birth: Waterbeck, Dumfriess-shire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1857.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
MCDOWELL, ETHEL ELIZABETH. SEE PERCIVAL,
ETHEL ELIZABETH.
JAMES MACFARLANE ?-17/05/1975
Date of Election: 02/03/1942.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER MACDUFF OF BONHARD 05/12/181620/03/1866
Place of Birth: Springfield Cottage, nr Perth.
Date of Election: 19/02/1866.
Profession: Writer to The Signet, Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES WRIGHT MACFARLANE
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Electrical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
ALAN DOUGLAS MCEWAN ?-10/03/1985
Date of Election: 06/03/1944.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon, Bacteriologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN M. MACFARLANE 28/09/1855- 16/09/1943
Place of Birth: Kirkcaldy, Fife.
Date of Election: 02/03/1885.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
DOUGLAS MACLEAN CLARK MACEWAN
20/06/1917- 12/03/2000
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/03/1960.
Profession: Physicist, X-Ray Crystallographer.
Fellow Type: OF
PETER NEIL MCFARLANE ?-23/03/1959
Date of Election: 02/03/1942.
Profession: Publisher.
Notes: Born c 1877
Fellow Type: OF
HUGH ALLAN MACEWAN ?-17/04/1955
Date of Election: 20/06/1910.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT MACFARLANE, LORD ORMIDALE
30/07/1802- 03/11/1880
Place of Birth: Glen Douglas, by Loch Lomond,
Dunbartonshire.
Date of Election: 16/03/1863.
Profession: Writer to The Signet, Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
EWEN MCEWEN (M'EWEN) 13/01/1916- 10/07/1993
Place of Birth: Paraguay.
Date of Election: 05/03/1973.
Profession: Mechanical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT ANDREW MACFIE 04/10/1811- 17/02/1893
Place of Birth: Leith, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/05/1877.
Profession: Merchant in Leith.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN M'FADYEAN (MCFADYEAN) 17/06/185301/02/1941
Place of Birth: Barrrachan, Wigtownshire.
Date of Election: 02/04/1888.
Profession: Veterinarian, Pathologist, Bacteriologist.
Notes: Born c1854
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID MACGIBBON
Date of Election: 04/01/1869.
Profession: Architect.
Notes: Born 1832 Died 1902
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER JAMES SMITH MACFADZEAN
Date of Election: 01/03/1971.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
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MACGILL, JOHN DALYRYMPLE HAMILTON. SEE
DALRYMPLE, JOHN.
SIR JAMES MCGRIGOR (MACGREGOR), bart.
09/04/1771- 02/04/1858
Place of Birth: Cromdale, Inverness-shire.
Date of Election: 01/02/1805.
Profession: Military Surgeon, Botanist.
Notes: Elected 1805
Fellow Type: OF
ALLISTER MIDDLETON MACGILLIVRAY ?-30/12/1972
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Physician, Ophthalmologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ANGUS MACGILLIVRAY OF MACGILLIVRAY
13/05/1865- 15/10/1947
Place of Birth: Abriachan, Invernessshire.
Date of Election: 07/06/1897.
Profession: Physician, Ophthalmic Surgeon.
Notes: Celtic student and archaeologist
Fellow Type: OF
IAN MCHARDY ?-08/03/1958
Place of Birth: Lybster, Caithness.
Date of Election: 05/03/1951.
Profession: Educationalist.
Notes: Born 1878
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM MACGILLIVRAY 25/01/1796- 05/09/1852
Place of Birth: Old Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 17/02/1834.
Profession: Zoologist, Ornithologist.
Fellow Type: OF
DONALD CAMERON MCINTOSH 13/01/186801/07/1957
Place of Birth: Kirkmichael, Banffshire.
Date of Election: 02/02/1903.
Profession: Schoolmaster, Mathematician, Marine
Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE M'GOWAN
Date of Election: 06/05/1878.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
DOUGLAS HAIG MCINTOSH 09/09/191713/03/1993
Place of Birth: Leven, Fife.
Date of Election: 07/03/1955.
Profession: Meteorologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MACGOWAN ?-06/01/1803
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Lawyer, Antiquarian.
Fellow Type: OF
DOUGLAS MOUL MCINTOSH 27/09/190921/04/1998
Date of Election: 05/03/1945.
Profession: Educationalist, Psychologist, Statistician.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES MACGREGOR 11/07/1832- 25/11/1910
Place of Birth: Brownhill, Scone, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 05/04/1886.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN WILLIAM M'INTOSH ?-15/04/1946
Place of Birth: Co. Wexford, Ireland.
Date of Election: 19/12/1910.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Notes: Born November 1868
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES GORDON MACGREGOR 31/03/185221/05/1913
Place of Birth: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Date of Election: 07/06/1880.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM CARMICHAEL M'INTOSH 10/10/183801/04/1931
Place of Birth: St. Andrews, Fife.
Date of Election: 18/01/1869.
Profession: Physician, Marine Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN MACGREGOR (UNTIL 1863 MACANDREW)
20/10/1791- 13/01/1866
Date of Election: 22/01/1816.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ARCHIBALD JAMES MACINTYRE 03/07/190804/08/1967
Place of Birth: Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1947.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN IAN GRAHAM MACGREGOR ?-12/03/1953
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Railway Engineer.
Notes: Re-Elected 1/3/1943
Fellow Type: OF
MURRAY MACGREGOR ?-21/01/1966
Date of Election: 06/03/1922.
Profession: Geologist.
Notes: Born 1884
Fellow Type: OF
DONALD M'INTYRE (MCINTYRE) 29/07/189120/10/1954
Place of Birth: Greenock, Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 14/03/1927.
Profession: Physician, Gynaecologist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS NICOL MACGREGOR 14/03/190405/07/1987
Place of Birth: Dingwall, Ross-shire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1948.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MCINTYRE ?-29/10/1928
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 04/03/1895.
Profession: Physician, Laryngologist.
Notes: Born 1857
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER BENNETT M'GRIGOR
Date of Election: 03/03/1879.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
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SHEILA SCOTT MACINTYRE, NEE SCOTT ?21/03/1960
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/03/1958.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Born 1910
Fellow Type: OF
COLIN MACKENZIE OF PORTMORE 11/01/177016/09/1830
Date of Election: 07/01/1822.
Profession: Writer to The Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
DONALD MACKENZIE, LORD MACKENZIE
22/06/1818- 19/05/1875
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 16/05/1870.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER EUGENE MACKAY ?-10/03/1877
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 29/04/1861.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCIS HUMBERSTON MACKENZIE, 1ST BARON
SEAFORTH AND MACKENZIE 09/06/175411/01/1815
Place of Birth: Ross-shire.
Date of Election: 26/01/1795.
Profession: Landowner, Soldier, Politician, Botanist.
Notes: The plant genus Seaforthia is named after him
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER MATTHEW MCKAY
Date of Election: 04/03/1985.
Profession: Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
ANDREW MACKAY ?-03/08/1809
Date of Election: 27/01/1793.
Profession: Astronomer, Mathematician.
Notes: Born 1760
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE MACKENZIE 09/05/1886- 29/12/1957
Place of Birth: Tain, Ross-shire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Banker.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN STURGEON MACKAY 22/10/184326/03/1914
Place of Birth: Auchencairn, Kirkcudbrightshire.
Date of Election: 06/02/1882.
Profession: Mathematician, Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR GEORGE STEUART MACKENZIE OF COUL, bart.
22/06/1780- 26/10/1848
Date of Election: 24/06/1799.
Profession: Geologist, Chemist, Agricultural
Improver.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN M'KEAN 04/05/1794- 03/01/1839
Date of Election: 02/02/1835.
Profession: Writer to the Signet, Statistician.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY MACKENZIE 06/08/1745- 14/01/1831
Place of Birth: Liberton's Wynd, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Lawyer, Novelist, Author.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDERSON GRAY M'KENDRICK ?-30/05/1943
Date of Election: 18/03/1912.
Profession: Medical Statistician, Physiologist,
Physician.
Notes: Born 1876
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES STUART- MACKENZIE ?-06/04/1800
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Landowner, Politician.
Notes: Born c1717
Fellow Type: OF
ARCHIBALD M'KENDRICK 01/06/1876- 02/11/1960
Place of Birth: Kirkcaldy, Fife.
Date of Election: 06/07/1914.
Profession: Dental Surgeon, Physician, Radiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MACKENZIE
Date of Election: 20/04/1840.
Profession: Accountant.
Notes: d.1872
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN GRAY M'KENDRICK 12/08/1841- 02/01/1926
Place of Birth: Old Machar, Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 07/04/1873.
Profession: Physician, Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN EDWIN MACKENZIE 31/08/1868- 05/02/1955
Place of Birth: Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1916.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN SOUTTAR M'KENDRICK ?-31/10/1946
Date of Election: 07/05/1900.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
KENNETH JOHN M'KENZIE (MACKENZIE)
30/01/1869- 27/05/1918
Date of Election: 03/07/1911.
Profession: Chemist, Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ALEXANDER MUIR MACKENZIE OF DELVINE
(FORMERLY MUIR), bart. 02/03/1764- 11/03/1835
Place of Birth: Perthshire.
Date of Election: 27/01/1793.
Profession: Advocate, Land Owner.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT MACKENZIE ?-08/09/1930
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/07/1894.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ALISTER THOMAS MACKENZIE ?-05/01/1954
Place of Birth: Alness, Ross-shire.
Date of Election: 16/05/1910.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
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ROBERT CAMERON MACKENZIE 07/05/192004/07/2000
Place of Birth: Nr Portmahomack, Ross-shire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1961.
Profession: Geologist, Clay Mineralogist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES MACKINNON (MACKINNON) ?-13/07/1945
Place of Birth: Turriff, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 18/07/1910.
Profession: Historian.
Fellow Type: OF
DONALD JAMES MACKINTOSH 13/01/186212/06/1947
Place of Birth: Shotts, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 06/06/1904.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS MACKENZIE OF APPLECROSS ?-19/10/1822
Place of Birth: Ross-shire.
Date of Election: 26/01/1818.
Profession: Politician.
Notes: Born 1789
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH (MCINTOSH) 24/10/176530/05/1832
Place of Birth: Altdowrie, Nr. Inverness.
Date of Election: 24/01/1814.
Profession: Barrister, Politician, Philosopher.
Fellow Type: OF
W COSSAR MACKENZIE
Date of Election: 04/04/1898.
Profession: Agriculturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM COLIN MACKENZIE ?-29/06/1938
Place of Birth: Kilmore, Victoria, Australia.
Date of Election: 20/02/1905.
Profession: Physician, Anatomist.
Notes: Born 1877. Death notice appears in error in
Proc Roy Soc Edinb., 34,1913-14, 7. Until 1926 this
fellow does not appear in the published Lists of
Fellows
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES MACALISTER MACKINTOSH
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Barrister-at-Law(Gray's Inn), Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM MACKINTOSH, LORD KYLLACHY
09/04/1842- 09/12/1918
Date of Election: 02/03/1891.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM LESLIE MACKENZIE ?-28/02/1935
Place of Birth: Ross-shire.
Date of Election: 04/01/1904.
Profession: Physician, Civil Servant.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS MACKNIGHT 15/08/1762- 21/01/1836
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 28/01/1799.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Mathematician,
Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM SCOTT MACKENZIE 15/11/192019/06/2001
Date of Election: 02/03/1959.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ANGUS ELRICK WILLIAM MCLACHLAN ?-15/08/1957
Date of Election: 04/06/1940.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born c.1899
Fellow Type: OF
DOUGLAS MCKIE 15/07/1896- 28/08/1967
Place of Birth: Monmouthshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1958.
Profession: Chemist, Science Historian.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT MCLACHLAN 10/04/1837- 23/05/1904
Place of Birth: 17 Upper East Smithfield, London.
Date of Election: 01/04/1861.
Profession: Entomologist.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID GEMMELL MCKINLAY 23/08/192404/03/1997
Date of Election: 04/03/1985.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ANDREW DOUGLAS MACLAGAN 17/04/181205/04/1900
Place of Birth: Ayr.
Date of Election: 09/01/1843.
Profession: Physician, Toxicologist.
Fellow Type: OF
PETER LAIRD MCKINLAY 11/06/1901- 08/12/1972
Place of Birth: Radnor Park, Dunbartonshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Physician, Medical Statistician.
Fellow Type: OF
DANIEL STEWART MACLAGAN OR MCLAGAN ?03/02/1991
Place of Birth: Crieff, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1946.
Profession: Zoologist, Entomologist.
Notes: Born 1904
Fellow Type: OF
WALTER BOYD MACKINLAY
Date of Election: 03/02/1862.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: d.1868-9
Fellow Type: OF
DONALD MACKENZIE MACKINNON 27/08/191302/03/1994
Place of Birth: Oban,Argyllshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1984.
Profession: Philosopher.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID MACLAGAN 09/10/1824- 30/03/1883
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 15/01/1872.
Profession: Accountant.
Fellow Type: OF
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DAVID MACLAGAN 08/02/1785- 06/06/1865
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/02/1828.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
MAGNUS MACLEAN ?-02/09/1937
Date of Election: 07/05/1888.
Profession: Physicist, Electrical Engineer.
Notes: Born 1858
Fellow Type: OF
PETER MACLAGAN OF PUMPHERSTON ?-31/08/1900
Place of Birth: Demerara, Guyana.
Date of Election: 01/02/1864.
Profession: Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
SORLEY MACLEAN 26/10/1911- 24/11/1996
Place of Birth: Oscaig, Isle of Raasay, Invernesshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1992.
Profession: Poet, Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: HF
PHILIP R.D. MACLAGAN
Date of Election: 02/07/1894.
Profession: Actuary.
Fellow Type: OF
BASIL GORDON MCLELLAN 30/01/188128/08/1971
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 02/03/1953.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ROBERT MACLAGAN 14/12/1820- ?
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/01/1853.
Profession: Soldier, Engineer.
Notes: Died c1893
Fellow Type: OF
DUGALD MCLELLAN
Date of Election: 02/06/1913.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT CRAIG MACLAGAN ?-12/07/1919
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/02/1869.
Profession: Physician, Anthropologist.
Notes: Born 1839
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN FERGUSON MCLENNAN 14/10/182716/06/1881
Place of Birth: Inverness.
Date of Election: 02/12/1867.
Profession: Advocate, Social Anthropologist.
Notes: Appears on the billet of 1/4/1867 as J T
M'Lennan
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES MACLAREN 07/10/1782- 10/09/1866
Place of Birth: Ormiston, East Lothian.
Date of Election: 16/01/1837.
Profession: Journalist, Geologist.
Notes: Editor of the 6th Edition of the Encyclopaedia
Britannica
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER NORMAN MCLEOD
Date of Election: 05/02/1821.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR GEORGE HUSBAND BAIRD MACLEOD
21/09/1828- 31/08/1892
Place of Birth: Manse of Campsie, Stirlingshire.
Date of Election: 17/01/1870.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MCLAREN, LORD MCLAREN (M'LAREN,
MACLAREN) 17/04/1831- 06/04/1910
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 31/05/1869.
Profession: Advocate, Mathematician, Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
HUGH MACLEOD 27/12/1730- 22/05/1809
Place of Birth: Ross-shire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Ecclesiastical
Historian.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MACLAURIN, LORD DREGHORN 15/12/173424/12/1796
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES MACLEOD ?-17/11/1949
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR EWEN JOHN MACLEAN ?-13/10/1953
Date of Election: 05/12/1898.
Profession: Physician, Obstetrician.
Notes: Born 1866
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES WALTER MCLEOD 02/01/1887- 11/03/1978
Place of Birth: Dumbarton.
Date of Election: 04/03/1957.
Profession: Physician, Bacteriologist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE HUNTER GARDNER- MCLEAN
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Architect.
Notes: Does not appear on the Fellows list for 1944
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN JAMES RICKARD MACLEOD 06/09/187616/03/1935
Place of Birth: New Clunie, nr Dunkeld, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1932.
Profession: Physician, Physiologist, Biochemist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate Physiology & Medicine
1923. Discoverer of Insulin
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN HUGH MACLEAN ?-06/02/1826
Date of Election: 07/02/1825.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
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NORMAN MACLEOD 07/06/1838- 11/12/1911
Date of Election: 06/03/1876.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MACNAIR
Place of Birth: Belvedere nr Glasgow.
Date of Election: 05/02/1866.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Born 1801, died 1885
Fellow Type: OF
NORMAN MACLEOD OF MACLEOD 04/03/1754- ?
Place of Birth: Brodie House, Nairn..
Date of Election: 28/06/1790.
Profession: Soldier, Politician.
Notes: Died August 1801
Fellow Type: OF
PETER MACNAIR ?-29/03/1929
Date of Election: 21/01/1907.
Profession: Geologist, Naturalist.
Notes: Born 1868
Fellow Type: OF
RODERICK MACLEOD ?-11/09/1815
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Born 1727
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ARTHUR SALUSBURY MACNALTY 20/10/188017/04/1969
Place of Birth: Glenridding, Westmorland.
Date of Election: 07/07/1947.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: HF
MACLEOD, WILLIAM. SEE BANNATYNE, WILLIAM
MACLEOD.
DUNCAN MACNAUGHTON 02/03/1892- 01/10/1973
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Writer to the Signet, Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES M'LINTOCK
Date of Election: 06/04/1896.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Died 1900-01
Fellow Type: OF
SIR DANIEL MACNEE ?-16/01/1882
Place of Birth: Fintry, Stirlingshire.
Date of Election: 04/06/1877.
Profession: Artist, Portrait Painter.
Notes: Born 1806
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM FRANCIS PORTER M'LINTOCK 02/02/188721/02/1960
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/03/1916.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN WILLIAM MCNEE 17/12/1887- 26/01/1984
Place of Birth: Mount Vernon, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN M'MICHAEL
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES M'NEIL (MCNEIL)
Date of Election: 07/03/1932.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
HUGH MACMILLAN 17/09/1833- 24/05/1903
Place of Birth: Aberfeldy, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 20/05/1872.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Botanist, Author.
Fellow Type: OF
DUNCAN MCNEILL, BARON COLONSAY AND
ORONSAY 20/08/1793- 31/01/1874
Place of Birth: Oronsay, Argyll.
Date of Election: 02/03/1829.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
HUGH PATTISON MACMILLAN, BARON MACMILLAN
OF ABERFELDY 20/02/1873- 05/09/1952
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN MCNEILL (MACNEILL) 12/08/179517/05/1883
Place of Birth: Oronsay House, Argyll.
Date of Election: 03/02/1840.
Profession: Physician, Diplomat.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MACMILLAN ?-07/10/1913
Date of Election: 20/04/1868.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM HUTCHISON MCMILLAN ?-09/06/1947
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Mining Engineer.
Notes: Born 1886
Fellow Type: OF
ANGUS MACNIVEN 14/06/1900- 02/01/1984
Place of Birth: Greenock, Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1940.
Profession: Physician, Psychiatrist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN M'MURTRIE 16/12/1831- 02/04/1912
Place of Birth: Ayr.
Date of Election: 03/07/1893.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Naturalist.
Notes: Editor of "Life and Work" for 19 years
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER MACONOCHIE, AFTER 1854
MACONOCHIE-WELWOOD OF GARVOCK & PITLIVER,
LORD MEADOWBANK 02/03/1777- 30/11/1861
Place of Birth: Midlothian.
Date of Election: 27/01/1817.
Profession: Advocate, Landowner.
Notes: Also ms Proposal 10/09/1816 NLS
Acc10,000/42
Fellow Type: OF
DUNCAN SCOTT MACNAIR
Date of Election: 22/01/1906.
Profession: Educationalist.
Fellow Type: OF
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ALLAN MACONOCHIE OF KIRKNEWTON, LORD
MEADOWBANK 26/01/1748- 14/06/1816
Place of Birth: Midlothian.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate, Agriculturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE M'ROBERTS ?-15/01/1896
Date of Election: 07/05/1883.
Profession: Chemist, Explosives Expert.
Notes: Born 1839
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES MACTEAR ?-19/12/1912
Date of Election: 06/02/1888.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALLAN (ALAN) ALEXANDER MACONOCHIE
(MACONOCHIE-WELWOOD OF MEADOWBANK) ?29/05/1885
Date of Election: 06/01/1840.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Born 1806
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN C. M'VAIL 22/10/1849- ?
Place of Birth: Kilmarnock, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1890.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW FRANCIS MCPHERSON
Date of Election: 07/03/1994.
Profession: Sociologist.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
MACVEY, NAPIER. SEE NAPIER, MACVEY.
GEORGE CUNLIFFE MCVITTIE 05/06/190408/03/1988
Place of Birth: *Smyrna, Turkey.
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Mathematician, Astronomer.
Notes: * = information added 5/1/06 from
'Autobiographical Sketch' [VMH]
Fellow Type: OF
ARCHIBALD IAN STEWART MACPHERSON
10/08/1913- 20/04/1997
Date of Election: 05/03/1962.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
MACPHERSON, GEORGE. SEE GRANT, GEORGE
MACPHERSON.
JOHN M'WHAN ?-14/07/1943
Place of Birth: Cambuslang,Glasgow.
Date of Election: 07/03/1921.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Born 1885
Fellow Type: OF
HECTOR MACPHERSON 16/10/1851- 17/10/1924
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 03/03/1924.
Profession: Journalist, Author.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MACWHIRTER ?-13/12/1854
Date of Election: 01/03/1824.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born c1783
Fellow Type: OF
HECTOR COPLAND MACPHERSON 01/04/188819/05/1955
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/03/1917.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Lecturer in
Astronomy.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT MCWHIRTER 08/11/1904- 24/10/1994
Date of Election: 06/03/1944.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon, Radiologist.
Notes: seconded also by Sir L Stanley P Davidson, Sir
Derrick M Dunlop, David Murray Lyon, James Kendall
Fellow Type: OF
J GORDON MACPHERSON
Date of Election: 04/02/1884.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Died 1909-10
Fellow Type: OF
ARCHIBALD GORDON MACGREGOR ?-19/12/1986
Place of Birth: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Date of Election: 07/03/1932.
Profession: Geologist.
Notes: Born c1894
Fellow Type: OF
DUGALD BLACK M'QUISTAN ?-02/04/1946
Date of Election: 07/03/1921.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Born c1879
Fellow Type: OF
DUGALD MACKICHAN ?-07/04/1932
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 08/03/1926.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Physicist.
Notes: Born 1851
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM MCRAE 26/05/1878- 08/07/1952
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Botanist, Mycologist.
Fellow Type: OF
PATRICK BOYLE MURE MACREDIE OF PIERSTONE
FORMERLY MURE 28/09/1800- 15/04/1868
Date of Election: 17/03/1834.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Elected as Patrick Boyle Mure
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER MACKIE 06/02/1904- 04/10/1987
Place of Birth: Leith, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS MURRAY MACROBERT
Date of Election: 07/03/1921.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW GEORGE MACKIE
Date of Election: 05/03/1962.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Died 2000
Fellow Type: OF
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JOHN MACKIE ?-06/01/1955
Date of Election: 04/03/1929.
Profession: Mathematician, Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM MAIR ?-01/12/1948
Place of Birth: Dundee.
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Pharmacist, Manufacturing Chemist.
Notes: Born 1868
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS JONES MACKIE 05/06/1888- 06/10/1955
Place of Birth: Hamilton, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Bacteriologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM CROSBY MAIR
Date of Election: 04/05/1824.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Died 1831-3
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM MACKIE 28/04/1856- 15/07/1932
Place of Birth: Loanends of Durno,Chapel of
Garioch, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1918.
Profession: Physician, Geologist.
Notes: Discoverer of Plant Bearing Cherts of Rhynie,
Aberdeenshire
Fellow Type: OF
EDWARD FRANCIS MAITLAND, LORD BARCAPLE
16/04/1803- 23/02/1870
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/04/1862.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: F J Grant gives year of birth as 1808
Fellow Type: OF
W BOWMAN MACLEOD
Date of Election: 05/02/1883.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Died 1898-9
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE RAMSAY MAITLAND 19/01/182124/06/1866
Date of Election: 16/02/1863.
Profession: Writer to the Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
EDWARD MADDEN
Date of Election: 04/01/1853.
Profession: Soldier, Botanist.
Notes: Died 1856
Fellow Type: OF
TARAK NATH MAJUMDAR ?-02/02/1939
Date of Election: 20/01/1913.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHAN NICOLAI MADVIG 07/08/1804- 12/12/1886
Place of Birth: Svaneke, Bornholm, Denmark.
Date of Election: 07/01/1878.
Profession: Classicist, Philologist.
Notes: Noted Latin scholar
Fellow Type: HF
GEORGE MAKGILL OF KEMBACK & FINGASK
23/12/1812- 21/09/1878
Date of Election: 04/01/1847.
Profession: Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES ALEXANDER MALCOLM ?-11/04/1961
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Librarian.
Notes: Born c1881
Fellow Type: OF
MOHAMED REDA MADWAR
Date of Election: 14/03/1927.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
SUBODH CHANDRA MAHALANOBIS ?-31/07/1953
Place of Birth: Calcutta, India.
Date of Election: 07/03/1898.
Profession: Physiologist.
Notes: Born 1867
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES FITZGERALD MALCOLM
Date of Election: 02/03/1942.
Profession: Bacteriologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MALCOLM 31/08/1873- 17/06/1954
Place of Birth: Halkirk, Caithness.
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Physician, Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MAIN ?-13/05/1795
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Born 1728
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN LAURENCE MALCOLM ?-09/10/2001
Date of Election: 07/03/1960.
Profession: Physician, Physiologist.
Notes: Proposers also- R C Garry, A T Phillipson, V C
Wynne-Edwards
Fellow Type: OF
DONALD MAINLAND
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
LOUIS WILLIAM GUNTHER (OR GORDON) MALCOLM
Date of Election: 05/03/1917.
Profession: Anthropologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER MAIR 09/09/1912- 06/08/1995
Place of Birth: Portnockie, Banffshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1980.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT BOWES MALCOLM
Date of Election: 07/12/1857.
Profession: Physician, Obstetrician.
Notes: Born 1808, died June 1894
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER MAIR
Date of Election: 04/06/1821.
Profession: Soldier.
Fellow Type: OF
116/1
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DEVENDRA NATH MALLIK ?-08/12/1941
Date of Election: 18/05/1908.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Born c1866
Fellow Type: OF
ARCHIBALD COOK MARSHALL 27/04/189012/12/1959
Date of Election: 03/03/1941.
Profession: Barrister-at-Law, Educationalist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES MALLOCH ?-03/04/1932
Place of Birth: Perth.
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Notes: Born c1861
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES ROBERTSON MARSHALL
Date of Election: 18/01/1909.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID HENRY MARSHALL 09/04/1848- 13/03/1932
Place of Birth: 31 Howe Street,Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/04/1882.
Profession: Physicist,Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM JOSEPH MALONEY ?-03/09/1952
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/12/1911.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCIS HUGH ADAM MARSHALL 11/07/187805/02/1949
Place of Birth: High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1901.
Profession: Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS MANSFIELD OF SCATWELL
Date of Election: 07/05/1838.
Profession: Accountant.
Notes: Died c1868
Fellow Type: OF
GERALD STRUAN MARSHALL ?-25/12/1967
Date of Election: 03/03/1947.
Profession: Dental Surgeon, Physician.
Notes: Born 1889
Fellow Type: HF
ALEXANDER MANSON ?-19/03/1840
Place of Birth: Kirkcudbright.
Date of Election: 07/04/1828.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1774. Authority on treatment of Scrofula
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY MARSHALL ?-05/05/1851
Place of Birth: Kilsyth, Stirlingshire.
Date of Election: 21/01/1839.
Profession: Physician, Statistician.
Notes: "Founder of Military Medical Statistics"
Fellow Type: OF
SIR SAMUEL LAYINKA AYODEJI MANUWA
04/03/1903- 24/09/1975
Date of Election: 06/03/1967.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY MARSHALL ?-24/04/1898
Place of Birth: Clifton, Bristol.
Date of Election: 18/01/1869.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES MARCHANT 18/12/1867- 20/05/1956
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 21/07/1913.
Profession: Author, Editor.
Fellow Type: OF
HUGH MARSHALL 07/01/1868- 06/09/1913
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/05/1888.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Photograph NLS. Acc 10,000/380
Fellow Type: OF
MARK, MRS PETER. SEE MUSGRAVE, THEA.
JOHN EDWARD MARR 14/06/1857- 01/10/1933
Place of Birth: Poulton Le Sands, Morecambe,
Lancashire.
Date of Election: 07/07/1930.
Profession: Geologist.
Notes: Proceedings give date of death as 2/10/1933
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN MARSHALL 27/02/1890- 16/01/1949
Place of Birth: Dundee.
Date of Election: 01/03/1920.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
GUY FREDERIC MARRIAN 03/03/1904- 24/07/1981
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 04/03/1940.
Profession: Biochemist.
Fellow Type: OF
SHEINA MACALISTER MARSHALL 20/04/189607/04/1977
Place of Birth: Rothesay, Bute.
Date of Election: 07/03/1949.
Profession: Marine Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM HENRY MARRIOT
Place of Birth: Reading, Berkshire.
Date of Election: 04/04/1831.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Notes: Born 1800, Died 1831-3
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM THOMAS MARSHALL 14/10/190731/12/1975
Date of Election: 04/03/1963.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
R. SYDNEY MARSDEN ?-09/03/1919
Place of Birth: Sheffield, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 03/05/1880.
Profession: Physician, Chemist.
Notes: Born 1856. First to produce an artificial
diamond
Fellow Type: OF
117/1
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SIR DAVID ORME MASSON 13/01/1858- 10/08/1937
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 02/03/1885.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR DAVID CHRISTIE MARTIN 07/10/191416/12/1976
Place of Birth: Kirkcaldy, Fife.
Date of Election: 05/03/1956.
Profession: Scientist, Administrator.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE HENRY MASSON ?-30/12/1940
Date of Election: 18/11/1912.
Profession: Physician, Specialist on Tuberculosis.
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCIS JOHN MARTIN 19/03/1853- 28/03/1911
Date of Election: 04/07/1892.
Profession: Writer to the Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES IRVINE ORME MASSON 03/09/188722/10/1962
Place of Birth: Toorak, Melbourne, Australia.
Date of Election: 02/03/1953.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
NICHOLAS HENRY MARTIN 02/05/1847- 05/07/1916
Place of Birth: Trebarveth, Cornwall.
Date of Election: 05/01/1903.
Profession: Pharmacist.
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR THOMAS MASTERMAN 09/04/186910/02/1941
Date of Election: 07/02/1898.
Profession: Natural Historian.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR THOMAS CARLAW MARTIN 10/04/185026/10/1920
Place of Birth: Linlithgow, West Lothian.
Date of Election: 08/01/1912.
Profession: Journalist, Political Economist.
Fellow Type: OF
DONALD CAPELL MATHESON ?-08/03/1948
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Veterinarian.
Notes: Born 1860
Fellow Type: OF
CARL FRIEDRICH PHILIPP VON MARTIUS
17/04/1794- 13/12/1868
Place of Birth: Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany.
Date of Election: 19/02/1855.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: HF
GEORGE MATHESON 27/03/1842- 28/08/1906
Place of Birth: 39 Abbotsford Place,Glasgow.
Date of Election: 03/02/1890.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Hymn Writer.
Notes: Blind from his youth
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES DAVID MARWICK 15/07/182624/03/1908
Place of Birth: Leith, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/01/1864.
Profession: Legal and Historical Author.
Fellow Type: OF
GREGORY MACALISTER MATHEWS 10/09/187627/03/1949
Place of Birth: Biamble, New South Wales, Australia.
Date of Election: 19/12/1910.
Profession: Ornithologist, Author.
Fellow Type: OF
ELEUTHERE ELIE NICOLAS MASCART 20/02/183724/08/1908
Place of Birth: Quarouble, Nord France.
Date of Election: 06/05/1895.
Profession: Physicist, Meteorologist.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN MATHIESON ?-14/06/1945
Place of Birth: Durness, Sutherland.
Date of Election: 07/03/1921.
Profession: Surveyor, Cartographer, Explorer, Gaelic
Scholar.
Notes: Born 1855
Fellow Type: OF
NEVIL MASKELYNE 06/10/1732- 09/02/1811
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 26/01/1784.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Astronomer.
Notes: Noted for the Schiechallion determination of
the earth's density
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT MATHIESON ?-21/06/1941
Place of Birth: Newmachar, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 20/11/1905.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Born c1861
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN HUXLEY MASON ?-20/01/1985
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE MATTHAI 13/11/1887- 25/06/1947
Place of Birth: Calicut, India.
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN STANLEY MASON
Date of Election: 03/03/1997.
Profession: Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
DAVID MATHER MASSON 02/12/1822- 06/10/1907
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 15/01/1866.
Profession: Literary Critic, Historian.
Notes: Author of "Life of Milton"
Fellow Type: OF
NORMAN GRAHAM MATTHEW 13/05/190815/08/1982
Date of Election: 07/03/1949.
Profession: Astronomer, Cartographer.
Fellow Type: OF
118/1
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SIR ROBERT HOGG MATTHEW 12/12/190621/06/1975
Date of Election: 02/03/1959.
Profession: Architect.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN HALL MAXWELL OF DARGAVEL 20/02/181225/08/1866
Place of Birth: Queen Street, Glasgow.
Date of Election: 06/03/1848.
Profession: Advocate, Agriculturalist, Landowner.
Notes: Information supplied by W T Johnston,
Librarian, Royal Highland & Agricultural Society. Letter
8/4/2003
Fellow Type: OF
ERNEST ROMNEY MATTHEWS 16/01/187306/11/1930
Date of Election: 04/11/1901.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Photograph NLS Acc10000/380
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN MAXWELL STIRLING MAXWELL OF
POLLOK, bart. ?-30/05/1956
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Administrator, Landowner, Forester.
Notes: Born c1865
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES DUNCAN MATTHEWS ?-24/11/1890
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 05/03/1883.
Profession: Zoologist.
Notes: Born 1850
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM MAXWELL ?-12/10/1957
Place of Birth: Leith, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/03/1932.
Profession: Printer, Publisher.
Notes: Born 1873
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ROBERT MATTHEWS 08/03/188912/04/1978
Place of Birth: Dunning, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1924.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM ALEXANDER MAXWELL OF
CALDERWOOD, bart. 30/04/1793- 04/04/1865
Date of Election: 03/03/1828.
Profession: Soldier.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN PATRICK MAULE ?-26/03/2002
Date of Election: 03/03/1958.
Profession: Agriculturalist, Animal Husbandry
Specialist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM STIRLING- MAXWELL OF POLLOK,
(UNTIL 1865, STIRLING OF KEIR), bart. 08/03/181815/01/1878
Place of Birth: Kenmure, nr. Glasgow.
Date of Election: 02/01/1849.
Profession: Spanish Scholar, Historian, Virtuoso, Man
of Letters.
Notes: Elected as William Stirling
Fellow Type: OF
JOSEPH MAXIMILIAN OF MODENA, ARCHDUKE OF
AUSTRIA 14/01/1782- 01/06/1863
Date of Election: 24/01/1820.
Profession: Royal Personage.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR GEORGE CLERK- MAXWELL OF PENICUIK (UNTIL
HIS MARRIAGE, CLERK), bart. 31/10/171529/01/1784
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
ERNEST MAYLARD ?-27/06/1947
Date of Election: 05/03/1917.
Profession: Surgeon, Bacteriologist, Alpinist.
Notes: Born 1855
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT MAYNE 11/03/1811- 27/04/1864
Place of Birth: Allenstown, Co. Meath, Ireland.
Date of Election: 20/04/1835.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES CLERK- MAXWELL OF GLENLAIR
13/06/1831- 05/11/1879
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 21/04/1856.
Profession: Physicist, Mathematician.
Notes: Author of Electro-magnetic Theory of Light
SIR JOHN MEADE ?-09/04/1842
Place of Birth: Bath,.
Date of Election: 01/05/1820.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born c1773
Fellow Type: OF
* Buried with Father, Mother and Wife
*- added 29/5/06- VMH
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN MAXWELL OF POLLOK, bart. 12/05/179106/06/1865
Date of Election: 03/01/1854.
Profession: Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
MEADOWBANK, LORD. SEE MACONOCHIE,
ALEXANDER.
MEADOWBANK, LORD. SEE MACONOCHIE OF
KIRKNEWTON, ALLAN.
JOHN CLERK- MAXWELL OF MIDDLEBIE ?03/04/1856
Date of Election: 05/02/1821.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Born 1790?
* added 29/5/06 (info from genealogy website
(http://home.att.net/~numericana/arms/maxwell.htm)
VMH
Fellow Type: OF
JONATHAN CAMPBELL MEAKINS 16/05/188212/10/1959
Place of Birth: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Date of Election: 06/03/1922.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
119/1
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ALEXANDER GOW MEARNS ?-06/01/1968
Date of Election: 03/03/1941.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born c 1903
Fellow Type: OF
EDWARD MELDRUM
Date of Election: 05/01/1863.
Profession: unknown.
Notes: Connected with Bathgate. Died 1875-8
Fellow Type: OF
SIR FRANK CHARLES MEARS ?-25/01/1953
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Architect.
Notes: Born 1880
Fellow Type: OF
MACEDONIO MELLONI 11/04/1798- 11/08/1854
Place of Birth: Parma, Italy.
Date of Election: 17/02/1845.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: HF
GILBERT LAING MEASON OF LINDERTIS
Date of Election: 19/01/1815.
Profession: Merchant, Agricultural improver.
Notes: Died 1831-3
Fellow Type: OF
BERNARD MELTZER
Date of Election: 07/03/1966.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
ROBERT MELVILL (MELVILLE) 12/10/172329/08/1809
Place of Birth: Monimail, Fife.
Date of Election: 26/01/1789.
Profession: Soldier, Botanist, Inventor.
Notes: Invented (1759) the Carronade,a cast iron
ordnance. Founder of St. Vincent Botanic Garden.
West Indies
Fellow Type: OF
SIR PETER BRIAN MEDAWAR 28/02/191502/10/1987
Place of Birth: Rio de Janiero, Brazil.
Date of Election: 04/07/1966.
Profession: Medical Zoologist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate, Physiology & Medicine,
1960
Fellow Type: HF
MELVILLE, 1ST VISCOUNT. SEE DUNDAS, HENRY.
ARTHUR JAMES MEE 12/05/1906- 13/12/1995
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 02/03/1964.
Profession: Chemist, Schools Inspector.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR HARRY WORK MELVILLE 27/04/190815/06/2000
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES MEEK ?-21/06/1810
Date of Election: 28/03/1805.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Born 1739
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN MELVILLE ?-05/05/1860
Place of Birth: Kirkcaldy, Fife.
Date of Election: 16/02/1857.
Profession: Writer to the Signet.
Notes: Born 1803, Melville Drive in Edinburgh is
named after him
Fellow Type: OF
BASIL RICHARDSON STANLEY MEGAW ?-22/08/2002
Date of Election: 07/03/1966.
Profession: Archaeologist.
Fellow Type: OF
DMITRI IVANOVICH MENDELEEFF 07/02/183402/02/1907
Place of Birth: Tobolsk, Siberia.
Date of Election: 30/01/1888.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
HANS ANTON MEIDNER ?-11/09/2001
Date of Election: 06/03/1978.
Profession: Biologist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE MEIKLE
Date of Election: 21/01/1833.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Died 1837-8
Fellow Type: OF
CARL MENGER
Date of Election: 06/05/1895.
Profession: Political Economist.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR CHARLES GRANVILLE STEWART (STUART)
MENTEATH OF CLOSEBURN, bart. 15/05/176903/12/1847
Place of Birth: Dumfriesshire.
Date of Election: 19/01/1815.
Profession: Advocate, Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW MEIKLEJOHN ?-27/10/1970
Place of Birth: Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1958.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID CLARK THOMSON MEKIE ?-22/02/1934
Date of Election: 08/03/1926.
Profession: Schoolmaster, Geographer.
Notes: Born 1874
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES STUART MENTEATH OF CLOSEBURN,
bart.
Date of Election: 04/12/1837.
Profession: Geologist.
Notes: Born 1792
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID ERIC CAMERON MEKIE
Date of Election: 05/03/1962.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1902, died November 1989
Fellow Type: OF
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ALAN WILFRID CRANBROOK MENZIES 11/07/187708/09/1966
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/12/1900.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE FOWLIE MERSON ?-20/02/1958
Place of Birth: Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1917.
Profession: Pharmacist.
Notes: Born 1866. Pioneer in the manufacture of
surgical sutures, inventor of the Mersuture
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER CHARLES GEORGE MENZIES
19/11/1897- 25/05/1974
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 04/03/1957.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
ELIE METCHNIKOFF 15/05/1845- 15/07/1916
Place of Birth: Ivanavka, Kharkoff, Russia.
Date of Election: 07/11/1910.
Profession: Zoologist, Bacteriologist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate(1908)
Fellow Type: HF
SIR FREDERICK NORTON KAY MENZIES 02/11/187514/05/1949
Date of Election: 14/03/1927.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
CATHCART W. METHVEN ?-30/08/1925
Date of Election: 06/02/1888.
Profession: Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT CHARLES MENZIES 05/03/188705/09/1972
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/03/1950.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
METHVEN, LORD. SEE SMYTHE OF METHVEN,
DAVID.
METZLER, KARL LUDWIG. SEE GIESEKE, CHARLES
LEWIS.
WILLIAM H. METZLER 18/09/1863- 18/04/1943
Place of Birth: Odessa, Ontario, Canada.
Date of Election: 03/03/1902.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM JOHN MILNE MENZIES 28/07/188915/08/1971
Place of Birth: Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Salmon Fishery Consultant.
Fellow Type: OF
HANS HORST MEYER
Date of Election: 04/07/1927.
Profession: Pharmacologist.
Fellow Type: HF
GRAEME REID MERCER
Date of Election: 05/12/1853.
Profession: Colonial Civil Servant.
Notes: Died 1885-6
Fellow Type: OF
SIDNEY MICHAELSON 05/12/1925- 21/02/1991
Date of Election: 03/03/1969.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WALTER MERCER 19/03/1890- 23/02/1971
Place of Birth: Stow, Midlothian.
Date of Election: 04/03/1929.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
ALBERT ABRAHAM MICHELSON 19/12/185209/05/1931
Place of Birth: Strelno, Poland.
Date of Election: 07/11/1910.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate(Physics) 1907
Fellow Type: HF
REGINALD MEREDITH
Date of Election: 03/03/1958.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
HUGH ROBERT MILL 28/05/1861- 05/04/1950
Place of Birth: Thurso, Caithness.
Date of Election: 02/02/1885.
Profession: Meteorologist.
Fellow Type: OF
EDWARD ROWLAND ALWORTH MEREWETHER
02/03/1892- 13/02/1970
Date of Election: 04/03/1940.
Profession: Barrister-at-Law, Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN STUART MILL 20/05/1806- 09/05/1873
Place of Birth: 13 Rodney Street, Pentonville,
London.
Date of Election: 05/12/1864.
Profession: Philosopher, Political Economist.
Fellow Type: HF
ELMER DREW MERRILL ?-25/02/1956
Place of Birth: Maine, USA.
Date of Election: 01/07/1946.
Profession: Botanist.
Notes: Born c 1877
Fellow Type: HF
ALEXANDER MILLAR OF DALNAIR 20/01/175130/06/1790
Place of Birth: Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 23/01/1786.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR DOUGLAS MERRIMAN ?-04/11/1972
Place of Birth: Manchester, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1953.
Profession: Metallurgist.
Notes: Born 1892
Fellow Type: OF
CHRISTIAN H. MILLAR OF BLAIRCASTLE
Date of Election: 04/01/1875.
Profession: unknown.
Notes: Died 1883-4
Fellow Type: OF
121/1
FORMER RSE FELLOWS 1783- 2002
JAMES MILLAR
Date of Election: 01/01/1812.
Profession: Physician, Botanist, Author.
Notes: Born 1762. Died July 1827. Name omitted
from RSE Roll Book
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN HARRY MILLER 04/11/1869- 03/01/1940
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Theologian.
Fellow Type: OF
NICHOLAS MILLER ?-04/05/1958
Date of Election: 07/03/1955.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Born 1917
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT HANNAY MILLAR ?-01/07/2002
Date of Election: 05/03/1956.
Profession: Marine Biologist.
Fellow Type: OF
AGNES ELEANORA MILLER 07/09/1898- 23/03/1994
Place of Birth: Dunipace, Stirlingshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1954.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
OLIVER G. MILLER
Date of Election: 21/12/1868.
Profession: unknown.
Notes: Born 1824. Died 1892. Associated with Ratho
House (Billet 20/4/1868)
Fellow Type: HF
ALEXANDER CAMERON MILLER ?-31/12/1927
Date of Election: 20/07/1908.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
PATRICK MILLER 21/05/1782- 24/12/1871
Place of Birth: Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 26/01/1818.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
CHRISTINA CRUICKSHANK MILLER 29/08/189916/07/2001
Date of Election: 07/03/1949.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
RONALD MILLER 21/08/1910- 10/08/1990
Place of Birth: Stromness, Orkney.
Date of Election: 05/03/1956.
Profession: Geographer.
Fellow Type: OF
HUGH MILLER 15/07/1850- 09/01/1896
Place of Birth: Cromarty, Ross-shire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1886.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
STEWART CRICHTON MILLER 02/07/193407/08/1999
Place of Birth: Kirkcaldy, Fife.
Date of Election: 04/03/1996.
Profession: Mechanical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES MILLER ?-28/11/1947
Place of Birth: Auchtergaven, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Architect.
Notes: Born 1860
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS MILLER 16/10/1807- 09/09/1891
Place of Birth: Greenbrae, Ardoch, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 19/01/1852.
Profession: Schoolmaster, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES MILLER 02/04/1812- 17/06/1864
Place of Birth: Manse of Essie, Angus.
Date of Election: 21/03/1842.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS MILLER, LORD BARSKIMMING 1766-88,
LORD GLENLEE 1789-, bart. 03/11/1717- 27/09/1789
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate, Politician, Landowner.
Notes: Succeeded to the estate of Barskimming in
1753 and Glenlee in 1780,
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES MILLER 16/03/1905- 20/03/1977
Date of Election: 07/03/1955.
Profession: Civil Engineering Contractor, Local
Politician, Philanthropist.
Fellow Type: OF
TIMOTHY JOHN EASTHAM MILLER
Date of Election: 07/03/1994.
Profession: Electrical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
JAMES DOUGLAS MILLER 20/07/1937- 23/08/1995
Date of Election: 02/03/1992.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM MILLER
Date of Election: 02/02/1885.
Profession: Lawyer.
Notes: Died 1888-9
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MILLER 19/10/1871- 14/07/1956
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 21/02/1910.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM MILLER OF GLENLEE, LORD GLENLEE, bart.
12/08/1755- 09/05/1846
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate, Mathematician,Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MILLER OF LEITHEN 26/07/1805- 08/05/1883
Place of Birth: Ayr.
Date of Election: 18/01/1841.
Profession: Civil & Railway Engineer, Politician.
Notes: Constructed many viaducts, including The
Lugar Viaduct, Cumnock and The Ballochmyle
Viaduct, Mauchline
Fellow Type: OF
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WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER MILLER 19/05/1898- ?
Place of Birth: British Central Africa.
Date of Election: 03/03/1930.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Notes: died 1976-7
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM MILNE ?-15/12/1946
Date of Election: 03/05/1886.
Profession: Schoolmaster,Mathematician.
Notes: Born 1854
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MILROY
Date of Election: 04/01/1875.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Born 1806 Died 1886. Railway Pioneer
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM HALLOWES MILLER 06/04/180120/05/1880
Place of Birth: Velindre, Llandovery,
Caermarthenshire, Wales.
Date of Election: 02/03/1874.
Profession: Mineralogist.
Fellow Type: HF
THOMAS HUGH MILROY ?-20/03/1950
Place of Birth: Kirkcowan, Wigtownshire.
Date of Election: 05/12/1898.
Profession: Physiologist, Organic Chemist.
Notes: Born 1869
Fellow Type: OF
BERNARD LANGLEY MILLS ?-28/12/1925
Date of Election: 15/02/1909.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Specialist in Hygiene
Fellow Type: OF
MINTO, 1ST EARL OF. SEE KYNYNMOND, GILBERT
ELLIOT-MURRAY-.
SIR ALEXANDER MILNE, bart. 10/11/180629/12/1896
Place of Birth: Inveresk, East Lothian.
Date of Election: 03/12/1832.
Profession: Royal Navy.
Notes: Born 1806
Fellow Type: OF
MINTO, 2ND EARL OF. SEE KYNYNMOND, GILBERT
ELLIOT-MURRAY-.
SIR ARTHUR MITCHELL 19/01/1826- 12/10/1909
Place of Birth: Elgin, Morayshire.
Date of Election: 19/02/1866.
Profession: Physician, Antiquary.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER MILNE ?-01/09/1991
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 06/03/1950.
Profession: Zoologist.
Notes: Born June 1910
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR CRICHTON MITCHELL 01/07/186415/04/1952
Place of Birth: Leith, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/12/1888.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
ARCHIBALD MILNE ?-19/09/1958
Date of Election: 23/01/1905.
Profession: Educationalist, Mathematician.
Notes: Born c1870, Photograph NLS Acc10000/380
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR GEORGE SIDNEY MITCHELL
Date of Election: 15/02/1909.
Profession: Architect.
Notes: Born 1856, Died 1930. Name appears in
1908-9 election list but not in any List of Fellows
Fellow Type: OF
CHRISTIAN HOYER MILLAR MILNE 18/09/187027/11/1945
Place of Birth: Montrose, Angus.
Date of Election: 23/01/1905.
Profession: Classicist, Schoolmaster.
Notes: Who Was Who 4.gives date of death as
7/11/1945
Fellow Type: OF
COLIN CAMPBELL MITCHELL 12/03/190421/01/1969
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/03/1962.
Profession: Mechanical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
MILNE, DAVID. SEE HOME, DAVID MILNE.
SIR GEORGE ARTHUR MITCHELL ?-16/02/1948
Date of Election: 07/06/1897.
Profession: Mining Engineer, Colliery Industrialist.
Notes: Born 1860
Fellow Type: OF
SIR DAVID MILNE OF MILNE GRADEN 25/05/176305/05/1845
Date of Election: 04/06/1821.
Profession: Royal Navy.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE FRANCIS MITCHELL 15/10/191225/11/1997
Place of Birth: Ireland.
Date of Election: 04/03/1985.
Profession: Environmental Historian.
Fellow Type: HF
JAMES ROBERT MILNE ?-03/02/1961
Date of Election: 02/05/1904.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MILNE
Date of Election: 04/02/1878.
Profession: Mechanician, Brass Founder.
Notes: Died 1885-6
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE HOOLE MITCHELL 31/12/1902- 11/03/1976
Place of Birth: Liverpool, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1955.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
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JAMES MITCHELL ?-14/09/1959
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/07/1900.
Profession: Mathematician, Schoolmaster.
Notes: Born 1871
Fellow Type: OF
CARL FRIEDRICH CHRISTIAN MOHS 29/01/177329/09/1839
Place of Birth: Gernrode, Saxony, Germany.
Date of Election: 04/03/1822.
Profession: Geologist, Mineralogist.
Notes: Originated Mohs' scale of mineral hardness
Fellow Type: HF
JOSEPH MITCHELL 03/11/1803- 26/11/1883
Place of Birth: Forres, Morayshire.
Date of Election: 20/02/1843.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: First proposed by David Stewart of Garth,
16/11/1826, (ms Proposal, NLS Acc. 10,000/43)
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCIS W. MOINET ?-06/09/1886
Date of Election: 03/02/1879.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE MOIR ?-19/10/1870
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 04/12/1826.
Profession: Advocate, Author.
Notes: Born 1800
Fellow Type: OF
PETER DENNIS MITCHELL 29/09/1920- 10/04/1992
Place of Birth: Mitcham,Surrey.
Date of Election: 05/03/1979.
Profession: Biochemist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate,Chemistry, 1978
Fellow Type: HF
HENRY MOIR ?-08/06/1937
Date of Election: 04/03/1929.
Profession: Actuary.
Notes: Born 1871
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT LYELL MITCHELL 03/06/1910- 07/02/1982
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/03/1955.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MOIR
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Philologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM MCGREGOR MITCHELL ?-13/04/1970
Date of Election: 05/03/1951.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1888
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MOIR 06/04/1808- 14/05/1899
Place of Birth: The Prison, Verdun, France.
Date of Election: 06/03/1865.
Profession: Physician, Obstetrician.
Fellow Type: OF
SAMUEL LATHAM MITCHILL 20/08/176407/09/1831
Date of Election: 27/01/1793.
Profession: Economist.
Fellow Type: OF
GERHARD (GETITT) MOLL 16/01/1785- 17/01/1838
Place of Birth: Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Date of Election: 01/05/1826.
Profession: Physicist, Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
ROSALIND MARY MITCHISON, NEE WRONG ?20/09/2002
Date of Election: 07/03/1994.
Profession: Social Historian.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN BARRE DE WINTON MOLONY 06/06/188610/12/1976
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
EILHARD MITSCHERLICH 07/01/1794- 28/08/1863
Place of Birth: Jever, Oldenburg, Germany.
Date of Election: 07/03/1825.
Profession: Chemist, Mineralogist.
Notes: First to describe Isomorphism
Fellow Type: OF
THEODORE MOMMSEN 30/11/1817- 01/11/1903
Place of Birth: Garding, Schleswig, Germany.
Date of Election: 05/12/1864.
Profession: Lawyer, Historian.
Notes: Nobel Laureate, Literature 1902
Fellow Type: HF
EDALJI MANEKJI MODI ?-13/09/1924
Date of Election: 20/02/1911.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER MOFFAT ?-04/06/1936
Date of Election: 19/02/1906.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID STUART (STEUART) MONCREIFF OF
MOREDUN 08/09/1710- 17/04/1790
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate, Landowner, Agricultural
Improver.
Fellow Type: OF
HUGO VON MOHL 08/04/1805- 01/04/1872
Place of Birth: Stuttgart, Germany.
Date of Election: 17/01/1870.
Profession: Botanist, Physiologist.
Notes: First to use the word Protoplasm
Fellow Type: HF
JAMES MONCREIFF
Date of Election: 07/12/1835.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Does not appear on Fellows Lists 1836
onwards
Fellow Type: OF
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JAMES MONCREIFF, BARON OF TULLIBOLE
29/11/1811- 27/04/1895
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/05/1870.
Profession: Advocate, Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE LIGHTBODY MONTGOMERY 03/11/190505/02/1993
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 06/03/1950.
Profession: Physician, Pathologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM SCOTT MONCREIFF (MONCRIEFF) OF
FOSSAWAY
Date of Election: 06/02/1871.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Died 1900-1
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES FRANCIS MONTGOMERY 10/07/181821/09/1897
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 16/03/1868.
Profession: Advocate, Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER MONCRIEFF, LORD MONCRIEFF
14/08/1870- 05/08/1949
Date of Election: 03/03/1941.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES WILLIAM MONTGOMERY OF STANHOPE,
bart. ?-02/04/1803
Place of Birth: Macbie Hill, Peeblesshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate, Politician, Agriculturalist,
Landowner.
Notes: Born October 1721. Introduced improvements
in agriculture
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ROBERT LUDWIG MOND 09/09/186722/10/1938
Place of Birth: Farnworth, Near Widnes, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 02/06/1890.
Profession: Industrial Chemist, Archaeologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES MONTOGOMERY OF STANHOPE, bart.
09/10/1766- 27/05/1839
Place of Birth: Peeblesshire.
Date of Election: 22/06/1807.
Profession: Advocate, Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
JAQUES LUCIEN MONOD 09/02/1910- 31/05/1976
Place of Birth: Paris, France.
Date of Election: 04/07/1966.
Profession: Molecular Biologist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate Physiology & Medicine
1965
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM MOODIE 02/07/1759- 11/06/1812
Place of Birth: Fife.
Date of Election: 23/06/1788.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Philologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER MONRO OF CRAIGLOCKHART
05/11/1773- 10/03/1859
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 25/06/1798.
Profession: Anatomist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MOORE 10/10/1729- 21/02/1802
Place of Birth: Stirling.
Date of Election: 26/01/1784.
Profession: Physician, Man of Letters.
Notes: Anderson gives date of birth as 10/10/1730,
died 20/2/1802
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER MONRO OF CRAIGLOCKHART AND
COCKBURN 10/03/1733- 02/10/1817
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Anatomist, Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
NANABHAI ARDESHER FRAMJI MOOS ?-12/03/1936
Date of Election: 03/01/1887.
Profession: Engineer, Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
DONALD MONRO 15/01/1728- 09/06/1802
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician,Medical Author.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER GOODMAN MORE
Date of Election: 04/04/1887.
Profession: Naturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCIS MORE
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Chartered Accountant.
Fellow Type: OF
HARRY HENDERSON MONTEATH ?-05/03/1962
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Writer to the Signet.
Notes: Born 1886
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES MORE
Date of Election: 06/05/1901.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER EARLE MONTEITH (MONTEATH) ?12/01/1861
Date of Election: 21/01/1833.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Born 1792
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN SCHANK MORE ?-12/07/1861
Place of Birth: North Shields, Co Durham.
Date of Election: 24/01/1820.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Born 1784
Fellow Type: OF
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CHARLES MOREHEAD 08/02/1807- 24/08/1882
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 15/01/1866.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Authority on Tropical Diseases
Fellow Type: OF
MORRIES, JOHN DAVY. SEE STIRLING OF
BLACKGRANGE, JOHN DAVY MORRIES.
ROBERT MORRIESON (MORRISON) 18/01/178710/11/1864
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/03/1832.
Profession: Surgeon, Administrator.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT MOREHEAD 09/03/1777- 13/12/1842
Place of Birth: Near Stirling.
Date of Election: 27/01/1817.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: An early contributor to the Edinburgh Review
Fellow Type: OF
ERNEST OLIVER MORRIS
Date of Election: 07/03/1966.
Profession: Biologist.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
WILLIAM MOREHEAD OF HERBERTSHIRE ?18/06/1793
Place of Birth: Hamilton, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Landowner.
Notes: Born 1737
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ARCHIBALD MORRIS ?-18/11/1942
Place of Birth: Ayr.
Date of Election: 08/03/1926.
Profession: Architect, Archaeologist.
Notes: Born 1857
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT OWEN MORRIS ?-30/11/1943
Date of Election: 03/03/1919.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER MORGAN 21/08/1860- 17/03/1946
Place of Birth: Leith, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/05/1896.
Profession: Mathematician, Educationalist.
Fellow Type: OF
HUBERT PETER MORRISON ?-30/12/1970
Date of Election: 05/03/1945.
Profession: Publisher.
Notes: Born c1875
Fellow Type: OF
DANIEL OWEN MORGAN 19/08/1893- 17/11/1959
Place of Birth: Wales.
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN TODD MORRISON
Place of Birth: Perthshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1892.
Profession: Physicist, Chemist, Meteorologist.
Notes: Born 1863, died 1944
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS HUNT MORGAN 25/09/1866- 04/12/1945
Place of Birth: Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
Date of Election: 02/07/1934.
Profession: Embryologist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate Physiology & Medicine 1933
Fellow Type: HF
ROBERT MILNER MORRISON
Date of Election: 02/04/1877.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
DUNCAN METCALFE MORISON
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Surgeon, Urologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALBERTO MORROCCO 14/12/1917- 10/03/1998
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 06/03/1995.
Profession: Artist, Painter.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN MORISON 06/11/1879- 21/02/1971
Place of Birth: Bengal, India.
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
SPENCER MORT ?-21/11/1932
Date of Election: 19/01/1914.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN BROWN MORISON OF FINDERLIE AND MURIE
(FROM 1885 BROWN-MORISON) 22/01/1840- ?
Date of Election: 06/01/1879.
Profession: Soldier, Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
CLIFFORD HILEY MORTIMER
Date of Election: 04/03/1957.
Profession: Marine Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
JOHN MILLER WOODBURN MORISON
Date of Election: 03/03/1930.
Profession: Physician, Radiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MORTLAND (MORTHLAND) OF RINDMUIR ?22/03/1807
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Born c.1750
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM MORISON ?-15/05/1851
Date of Election: 04/01/1841.
Profession: Soldier.
Fellow Type: OF
MORTON, EARL OF. SEE DOUGLAS, GEORGE.
THOMAS BAKER MORRELL ?-05/11/1877
Date of Election: 18/12/1865.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Born 1815,
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES MORTON 24/03/1867- 22/08/1943
Place of Birth: Darvel, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1930.
Profession: Pioneer in development of fast dyes.
Fellow Type: OF
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SIR ROBERT MUIR 05/07/1864- 30/03/1959
Place of Birth: Balfron, Stirlingshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1916.
Profession: Physician, Pathologist.
Fellow Type: OF
O ST JOHN MOSES ?-10/06/1941
Date of Election: 01/07/1901.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT COCKBURN MOSSMAN 07/11/187019/07/1940
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/12/1891.
Profession: Meteorologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR THOMAS MUIR 25/08/1844- 21/03/1934
Place of Birth: Stonebyres, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 02/02/1874.
Profession: Mathematician, Schoolmaster,
Educationalist.
Notes: Authority on Theory of Determinants
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY 15/04/1814- 29/05/1877
Place of Birth: Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA.
Date of Election: 01/03/1875.
Profession: Author, Historian.
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM MUIR 11/10/1787- 23/06/1869
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 19/01/1824.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
IAN ROBERT MACKENZIE MOWAT 20/04/194606/09/2002
Date of Election: 02/03/1998.
Profession: Historian, Librarian.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE MUIRHEAD
Place of Birth: Saltoun, East Lothian.
Date of Election: 06/02/1888.
Profession: Naturalist.
Notes: Born 1845. Died 1928
Fellow Type: OF
MAGNUS MOWAT 10/11/1875- 19/01/1953
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 05/03/1934.
Profession: Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES M P MUIRHEAD ?-07/05/1936
Date of Election: 21/01/1907.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
WALTER ALAN MOZLEY
Date of Election: 04/03/1935.
Profession: Zoologist.
Notes: Died 1973-4
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES PATRICK MUIRHEAD 26/07/181315/10/1898
Place of Birth: The Grove, Hamilton, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 04/01/1841.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MUDIE
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ASUTOSH MUKHOPÂDHYAY
Date of Election: 06/12/1886.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Died 1924
Fellow Type: OF
ALAN RAMSAY MUIR ?-14/02/1974
Place of Birth: Ramsay, Isle of Man.
Date of Election: 04/03/1968.
Profession: Physician, Anatomist.
Notes: Born 1925
Fellow Type: OF
HERMANN JOSEPH MULLER 21/12/189005/04/1967
Place of Birth: West 87th Street, Yorkville, New
York, USA.
Date of Election: 06/07/1959.
Profession: Zoologist, Geneticist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate Physiology & Medicine, 1946
Fellow Type: HF
MUIR, ALEXANDER. SEE MACKENZIE OF DELVINE,
ALEXANDER MUIR.
JOHN MUIR 05/02/1810- 07/03/1882
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 04/02/1861.
Profession: Orientalist, Philologist,Sanskrit Scholar.
Notes: Founded the Chair of Sanskrit in Edinburgh
University
Fellow Type: OF
JOHANNES PETER MULLER 14/07/1801- 28/04/1858
Place of Birth: Coblenz, Germany.
Profession: Physiologist.
Notes: Elected c.1847
Fellow Type: HF
MALCOLM STEWART MUIR 23/04/193021/06/1995
Place of Birth: Sorbie, Wigtownshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1994.
Profession: Physician,Epidemiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
KARL OTFRIED MULLER 28/08/1797- 01/08/1840
Date of Election: 05/03/1838.
Profession: Archaeologist.
Fellow Type: HF
DAVID MUNN
Date of Election: 20/12/1869.
Profession: Mathematician, Schoolmaster.
Notes: Died c.1902
Fellow Type: OF
MATTHEW MONCREIFF PATTISON MUIR
01/04/1848- 02/09/1931
Date of Election: 05/05/1873.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
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JOHN GORDON GORDON- MUNN ?-29/11/1949
Date of Election: 07/06/1897.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born c.1863
Fellow Type: OF
MURE, PATRICK BOYLE. SEE MACREDIE OF
PIERSTON, PATRICK BOYLE MURE.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL MURRAY 16/10/189523/05/1957
Place of Birth: Cowdenbeath, Fife.
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Actuary.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES MUNNOCH
Date of Election: 04/03/1935.
Profession: Administrator.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER MURRAY 22/10/1775- 25/04/1813
Place of Birth: Dunkitterick, Minnigaff,
Kirkcudbrightshire.
Date of Election: 25/01/1813.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Philologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER MUNRO
Date of Election: 02/02/1824.
Profession: Architect.
Fellow Type: OF
HAMISH NISBET MUNRO 03/07/1915- 28/10/1994
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/03/1956.
Profession: Physician, Biochemist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALFRED ALEXANDER ARBUTHNOTT MURRAY OF
FIDDES 25/03/1863- 17/06/1929
Date of Election: 06/07/1896.
Profession: Writer to the Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MACINTOSH MACKAY MUNRO ?-29/12/1925
Date of Election: 05/03/1894.
Profession: Electrical Engineer.
Notes: Born 1853
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW MURRAY OF CONLAND 19/02/181211/01/1878
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/03/1857.
Profession: Writer to the Signet, Naturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT MUNRO
Date of Election: 03/06/1889.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES DAVID MURRAY, LORD MURRAY
20/10/1866- 09/06/1936
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT MUNRO 21/07/1835- 18/07/1920
Place of Birth: Assynt,Alness, Ross-shire.
Date of Election: 06/07/1891.
Profession: Archaeologist, Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE MURRAY, 5TH EARL OF DUNMORE
30/04/1762- 11/11/1836
Profession: Landowner.
Notes: Date of Election not traced
Fellow Type: OF
SANFORD STERLING MUNRO
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Zoologist, Geneticist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE ROBERT MILNE MURRAY 11/11/185816/12/1911
Place of Birth: Arbroath, Angus.
Date of Election: 07/12/1891.
Profession: Naturalist, Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS ARTHUR [HORNE] MUNRO 01/10/190518/12/1966
Place of Birth: Calcutta, India.
Date of Election: 02/03/1959.
Profession: Physician, Psychologist.
Notes: Born 1905
Fellow Type: OF
HUGH (HEW) MURRAY ?-04/03/1846
Place of Birth: East Lothian.
Date of Election: 22/01/1816.
Profession: Excise Clerk, Geographer, Author.
Notes: Born 1779
Fellow Type: OF
FRIEDRICH CHRISTIAN KARL HEINRICH MUNTER
14/10/1761- 09/04/1830
Date of Election: 03/02/1823.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Theologian,
Antiquarian.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES MURRAY 21/07/1865- ?
Place of Birth: 50 Charlotte Street, Glasgow.
Date of Election: 15/07/1907.
Profession: Arctic and Antarctic Explorer,
Oceanographer, Biologist.
Notes: Died 1914
Fellow Type: OF
SIR RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON, bart.
10/02/1792- 22/10/1871
Place of Birth: Tarradale, Ross-shire.
Date of Election: 17/03/1845.
Profession: Geologist.
Notes: Defined the Silurian System
Fellow Type: HF
SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY MURRAY
07/02/1837- 26/07/1915
Place of Birth: Denholm, Roxburghshire.
Date of Election: 04/11/1907.
Profession: Lexicographer, Philologist.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN BURN MURDOCH OF GARTENCABER (UNTIL
1820 BURN) 28/08/1793- 24/08/1862
Date of Election: 18/12/1843.
Profession: Advocate, Agriculturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
128/1
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JAMES ROBERT ERSKINE- MURRAY
Date of Election: 01/02/1897.
Profession: Electrical Engineer.
Notes: Died 1926-7, Expert in Wireless Telegraphy
Fellow Type: OF
R.MILNE MURRAY 06/05/1855- 14/02/1904
Place of Birth: Fettercairn, Angus.
Date of Election: 02/04/1888.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MURRAY, 4TH EARL OF DUNMORE ?25/02/1809
Date of Election: 27/06/1796.
Profession: Soldier, Statesman.
Notes: Born 1732, elected as Lord Fincastle
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS DAVID KING MURRAY, LORD BIRNAM
29/03/1884- 05/06/1955
Date of Election: 03/03/1941.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Born 1884
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MURRAY ?-22/07/1820
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/01/1812.
Profession: Physician, Chemist, Physicist, Geologist.
Notes: Born 1778
Fellow Type: OF
WALTER GEORGE ROBERTSON MURRAY
11/02/1871- 13/07/1949
Date of Election: 05/03/1934.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM MURRAY OF MONKLAND
Date of Election: 16/01/1854.
Profession: unknown.
Notes: Died 1858
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MURRAY ?-13/11/1940
Place of Birth: New Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Schoolmaster, Geographer.
Notes: Born 1883
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM MURRAY OF HENDERLAND ?-03/10/1854
Date of Election: 16/02/1846.
Profession: unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN MURRAY 03/03/1841- 16/03/1914
Place of Birth: Coburg, Ontario, Canada.
Date of Election: 15/01/1877.
Profession: Oceanographer, Limnologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM KEITH (UNTIL 1837 PATRICK) MURRAY
OF OCHTERTYRE, bart. 19/07/1801- 16/10/1861
Date of Election: 06/01/1834.
Profession: Soldier, Landowner.
Notes: Appears in Fellows lists as Lt-Col. Patrick
Murray from 1834 to 1836, as Lieut.-Col. Sir Patrick
Murray, Bart. in 1837, and as Lt.-Col. Sir W Keith
Murray, Bart. in 1838
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ARCHIBALD MURRAY OF HENDERLAND,
LORD MURRAY 08/06/1778- 07/03/1859
Date of Election: 02/01/1844.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN IVOR MURRAY ?-24/07/1903
Place of Birth: Lasswade, Midlothian.
Date of Election: 02/02/1857.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1824
Fellow Type: OF
THEA MUSGRAVE, MRS PETER MARK
Date of Election: 05/03/1979.
Profession: Musician, Composer.
Notes: Born 1928
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
JAMES MUSGROVE ?-06/02/1935
Place of Birth: Kendal, Cumberland.
Date of Election: 21/01/1907.
Profession: Surgeon, Anatomist.
Notes: Born 1862
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MURDOCH MURRAY ?-30/09/1939
Date of Election: 07/03/1932.
Profession: Botanist, Forester.
Notes: Born 1887
Fellow Type: OF
MATTHEW MURRAY ?-13/08/1791
Place of Birth: East Lothian.
Date of Election: 28/06/1784.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Born 1735
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES SHERIDAN MUSPRATT 08/03/182103/04/1871
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland.
Date of Election: 21/01/1850.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR PATRICK MURRAY OF OCHTERTYRE, bart.
03/02/1771- 01/06/1837
Place of Birth: Perthshire.
Date of Election: 27/06/1796.
Profession: Advocate, Politician, Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MUTER
Date of Election: 07/02/1887.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Died 1911-12
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES MUTTLEBURY
Date of Election: 25/01/1819.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1775, died c1832
Fellow Type: OF
PATRICK MURRAY OF SIMPRIN
Date of Election: 25/01/1819.
Profession: Antiquarian, Landowner.
Notes: Died 1857-61
Fellow Type: OF
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WALTER MYKURA ?-13/05/1988
Place of Birth: Falkenau, Czechoslovakia.
Date of Election: 02/03/1970.
Profession: Geologist.
Notes: Born January 1926
Fellow Type: OF
MACVEY (FORMERLY NAPIER), NAPIER (FORMERLY
MACVEY) 12/04/1776- 11/02/1847
Place of Birth: Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire.
Date of Election: 01/01/1812.
Profession: Writer to the Signet.
Notes: Originally Napier Macvey, the name being
changed to Macvey Napier at his grandfather's wish.
Elected 1812. Editor 1814-24, Supplement 6th
Edition, c1829 7th Edition, Encyclopaedia Britannica,
Editor 1829- Edinburgh Review
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT SCOTT MYLNE ?-23/11/1920
Date of Election: 03/02/1902.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Born 1854/
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM JOHN NAPIER, BARON NAPIER
13/10/1786- 11/10/1834
Place of Birth: Kinsale, Ireland.
Date of Election: 26/01/1818.
Profession: Royal Navy, Agriculturalist.
Notes: Agriculturalist in Selkirkshire
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT WILLIAM MYLNE 14/06/1817- 02/07/1890
Date of Election: 07/07/1884.
Profession: Civil Engineer, Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
RICHARD CHARLES NAIRN 18/11/1919- 01/08/1995
Date of Election: 01/03/1965.
Profession: Physician, Pathologist.
Fellow Type: OF
BASUDEVA NARAYANA 16/12/1898- 26/10/1967
Place of Birth: Saran District, Behar, India.
Date of Election: 04/03/1935.
Profession: Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES NAIRNE OF CLAREMONT 29/08/178220/10/1847
Place of Birth: Fife.
Date of Election: 24/01/1820.
Profession: Writer to the Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
ALFRED GEORGE NASH ?-23/12/1930
Place of Birth: Mandeville, Jamaica.
Date of Election: 03/05/1897.
Profession: Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM NAIRNE OF DUNSINNAN, LORD
DUNSINNAN, bart. ?-20/03/1811
Place of Birth: Perthshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate, Agricultural Improver.
Notes: Born 1731
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES ROY NASMITH 18/07/1882- 05/12/1954
Place of Birth: Mandeville, New York State, USA.
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Diplomat.
Fellow Type: OF
KASHINATH NANDY 01/12/1927- 18/08/1998
Date of Election: 05/03/1973.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT NASMYTH (NAYSMITH) ?-12/05/1870
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 22/02/1842.
Profession: Surgeon, Dental Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1792
Fellow Type: OF
FRIDTJOF NANSEN 10/10/1861- 13/05/1930
Place of Birth: Christiania, Norway.
Date of Election: 01/03/1897.
Profession: Zoologist, Polar Explorer.
Notes: Nobel Laureate(Peace) 1921-22
Fellow Type: HF
THOMAS GOODALL NASMYTH
Date of Election: 07/02/1887.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER DISNEY LEITH NAPIER ?-13/06/1926
Date of Election: 05/12/1887.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ALFRED GABRIEL NATHORST ?-20/01/1921
Place of Birth: Waderbrunn.
Date of Election: 21/06/1920.
Profession: Geologist,Palaeobotanist.
Notes: Born 1850
Fellow Type: HF
JAMES NAPIER
Date of Election: 01/04/1895.
Profession: unknown.
Notes: Died 1904-5
Fellow Type: OF
JOHANN AUGUST WILHELM NEANDER 17/01/178914/07/1850
Date of Election: 17/02/1845.
Profession: Historian, Theologian.
Fellow Type: HF
JAMES NAPIER ?-01/12/1884
Place of Birth: Partick, Glasgow.
Date of Election: 02/03/1874.
Profession: Chemist, Antiquarian.
Notes: Born June 1810
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES NEAVES, LORD NEAVES 14/10/180023/12/1876
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/02/1856.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN C. NAPIER 18/06/1823- 18/12/1899
Date of Election: 05/03/1877.
Profession: Engineering Manufacturer.
Notes: Of Lancefield House, Glasgow
Fellow Type: OF
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HENRY NEWCOMBE
Date of Election: 04/06/1883.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Died c.1898
Fellow Type: OF
LOUIS ALBERT NECKER DE SAUSSURE 10/04/178620/11/1861
Place of Birth: Geneva, Switzerland.
Profession: Geologist, Mineralogist.
Notes: Elected 1808 (Eyles 1946, p.98) or c.1832
(Campbell)
Fellow Type: HF
FRANK A. NEWINGTON
Date of Election: 04/06/1906.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Died c1918
Fellow Type: OF
PATRICK NEILL 25/10/1776- 03/09/1851
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 24/01/1814.
Profession: Printer, Horticulturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR GEORGE NEWMAN 28/10/1870- 26/05/1948
Place of Birth: Leominster, Herefordshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1898.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT MACFARLANE NEILL 20/07/189430/07/1969
Place of Birth: Sunderland, Co Durham.
Date of Election: 04/03/1940.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SYDNEY THOMAS MAYOW NEWMAN 04/03/190622/09/1971
Place of Birth: North Finchley, London.
Date of Election: 02/03/1942.
Profession: Musician.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER NELSON ?-18/11/1972
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Botanist.
Notes: Born 1898
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS NEWTE
Place of Birth: Devonshire.
Date of Election: 24/06/1793.
Profession: Captain, Shipowner, Landowner.
Notes: Born c. 1752
Fellow Type: OF
PHILIP NELSON ?-17/02/1953
Date of Election: 03/03/1924.
Profession: Physician, Antiquary.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS NELSON 25/12/1822- 20/10/1892
Date of Election: 05/02/1866.
Profession: Printer, Publisher.
Notes: Invented (1850) a rotary printing press
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID RICHMOND NEWTH 19/10/192105/06/1988
Place of Birth: nr Birmingham, Warwickshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1966.
Profession: Zoologist, Embryologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEKSANDR NIKOLAEVICH NESMEYANOV
09/09/1899- 17/01/1980
Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia.
Date of Election: 02/07/1956.
Profession: Organic Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
ALFRED NEWTON 11/06/1829- 07/06/1907
Place of Birth: Geneva, Switzerland.
Date of Election: 09/01/1905.
Profession: Zoologist, Ornithologist.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN STEUART (STEWART) NEWBIGGING
20/01/1809- 25/10/1849
Date of Election: 15/12/1834.
Profession: Writer to the Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
HUBERT ANSON NEWTON 19/03/1830- 12/08/1896
Place of Birth: Sherburne, New York State, USA.
Date of Election: 03/05/1886.
Profession: Mathematician, Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
PATRICK SMALL KEIR NEWBIGGING 02/11/181310/01/1864
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/04/1848.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
NEWTON, LORD. SEE IRVING, ALEXANDER.
JOHN PRINGLE NICHOL 13/01/1804- 19/09/1859
Place of Birth: Huntly Hill, nr. Brechin, Angus.
Date of Election: 02/05/1836.
Profession: Schoolmaster, Astronomer.
Notes: Instrumental in transferring the University
Observatory to Dowanhill in 1840.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM NEWBIGGING ?-23/10/1852
Place of Birth: Lanark.
Date of Election: 01/03/1824.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1772
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES EDWARD NICHOLS 22/11/1902- 28/03/1972
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Genetecist, Agriculuralist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIMON NEWCOMB 12/03/1835- 11/07/1909
Place of Birth: Wallace, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Date of Election: 17/01/1881.
Profession: Astronomer, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
HENRY ALLEYNE NICHOLSON 11/09/184419/01/1899
Place of Birth: Penrith. Cumberland.
Date of Election: 07/02/1870.
Profession: Palaeontologist.
Fellow Type: OF
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JOSEPH SHIELD NICHOLSON 09/11/185012/05/1927
Place of Birth: Wrawby, Lincolnshire.
Date of Election: 05/05/1884.
Profession: Economist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS PATERSON NOBLE 03/03/187716/12/1959
Place of Birth: Galashiels,Selkirkshire.
Date of Election: 14/03/1927.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
HUGH NICOL 05/07/1898- 27/08/1972
Date of Election: 03/03/1952.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS BRENNAN NOLAN ?-02/08/1992
Place of Birth: Greenfield, Massachusetts, USA.
Date of Election: 04/07/1966.
Profession: Geologist.
Notes: Born 1901
Fellow Type: HF
JAMES NICOL 12/08/1810- 08/04/1879
Place of Birth: Traquair Manse, Peeblesshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1847.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM H. NORIE
Date of Election: 17/04/1843.
Profession: Barrister at Law.
Notes: John William Norie, 1772-1843 died at 3
Coates Crescent, Edinburgh (DNB 41, 1895, 111-2).
W H Norie resided at 3 Coates Crescent, Edinburgh in
February 1843 (ms Proposal Form). Was J W Norie the
father of W H Norie who was removed from the Roll
c1848? JWN's business partner in Burr Street, London
was William Heather.Was WHN. William Heather
Norie?
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS NICOL 04/08/1900- 07/02/1983
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM NICOL ?-02/09/1851
Place of Birth: Humbie, East Lothian.
Date of Election: 01/01/1838.
Profession: Geologist.
Notes: Born 1768 (1766 is given on the grave stone).
Inventor of the polarising prism
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER ROBERT NORMAND 04/03/188018/07/1958
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/03/1934.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM WALKER JAMES NICOL ?-18/03/1929
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/03/1880.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Born 1855
Fellow Type: OF
NORRIE
Date of Election: 25/06/1798.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER NIMMO ?-20/01/1832
Place of Birth: Kirkcaldy, Fife.
Date of Election: 01/01/1811.
Profession: Civil Engineer, Geologist.
Notes: Born 1783
Fellow Type: OF
RICHARD HILL NORRIS
Date of Election: 07/01/1878.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Died 1921
Fellow Type: OF
HUGH BRYAN NISBET 31/03/1902- 21/11/1969
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/03/1940.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
FLETCHER NORTON 16/11/1744- 19/06/1820
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Barrister, Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
NOVAR, VISCOUNT. SEE FERGUSON, RONALD
CRAUFORD MUNRO-.
ROBERT NISBET 07/01/1814- 22/11/1874
Place of Birth: Auchterarder, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1863.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER NOVE 24/11/1915- 15/05/1994
Place of Birth: Petrograd, Russia.
Date of Election: 01/03/1982.
Profession: Economist.
Fellow Type: OF
BRINSLEY DE COURCY NIXON
Date of Election: 16/01/1857.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
WITOLD NOWACKI 20/07/1911- 23/08/1986
Place of Birth: Zakrzewo, nr Gniezo, Poland.
Date of Election: 05/03/1979.
Profession: Mathematician, Theoretical Mechanics.
Fellow Type: HF
BENJAMIN NOBLE
Date of Election: 06/03/1961.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
ARTHUR AMOS NOYES ?-03/06/1936
Date of Election: 02/07/1923.
Profession: Physical Chemist.
Notes: Born c 1867
Fellow Type: HF
MARY JESSIE MCDONALD NOBLE ?-20/07/2002
Date of Election: 03/03/1958.
Profession: Botanist, Plant Pathologist.
Fellow Type: OF
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JOSHUA ARTHUR NUNN 10/05/1853- 23/02/1908
Place of Birth: Hill Castle, Co. Wexford, Ireland.
Date of Election: 03/02/1902.
Profession: Veterinarian, Barrister-at-Law (1899).
Fellow Type: OF
OGAWA, HIDEKI. SEE YUKAWA, HIDEKI.
SIR WILLIAM GAMMIE OGG 02/11/189125/09/1979
Place of Birth: Craigbank Farm, Cults, Peterculter,
Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Chemist, Soil Scientist, Farmer.
Fellow Type: OF
CECIL WILFRED NUTT ?-12/02/2001
Date of Election: 01/03/1982.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY O'CONNOR ?-01/12/1915
Date of Election: 22/01/1906.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
ALAN GRANT OGILVIE ?-10/02/1954
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Geographer.
Notes: Born 1887
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW CHARLES O'DELL 04/06/1909- 17/06/1966
Place of Birth: Luipaardsvlei, Transvaal, South Africa.
Date of Election: 05/03/1951.
Profession: Geographer.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR FRANCIS GRANT OGILVIE 08/08/185814/12/1930
Date of Election: 16/01/1888.
Profession: Physicist, Administrator.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES HENRY O'DONOGHUE 23/09/188528/11/1961
Place of Birth: Bedfordshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR FREDERICK WOLFF OGILVIE 07/02/189310/06/1949
Place of Birth: Valparaiso, Chile.
Date of Election: 04/03/1929.
Profession: Political Economist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE FRANCIS O'RIORDAN
Date of Election: 03/03/1930.
Profession: Mechanical Engineer.
Notes: Died 1972-3
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT MAXWELL OGILVIE 05/06/193207/11/1981
Date of Election: 05/03/1979.
Profession: Classicist.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES OCKRENT ?-21/11/1980
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERTSON FOTHERINGHAM OGILVIE ?-17/05/1966
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/03/1944.
Profession: Physician, Pathologist.
Notes: Born c1904
Fellow Type: OF
NOEL EWART ODELL 25/12/1890- 21/02/1987
Date of Election: 06/03/1944.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM OGILVIE ?-14/02/1819
Place of Birth: Nr. Elgin, Morayshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Classicist, Numismatist.
Notes: Born 1736
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT WINSTON KEITH ODONI 14/07/194728/07/2002
Date of Election: 04/03/1996.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN OGILVY (OGILVIE) 18/11/1733- 17/11/1813
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 26/01/1789.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Poet.
Notes: Writer of Paraphrase 62
Fellow Type: OF
HANS CHRISTIAN OERSTED 14/08/177709/03/1851
Place of Birth: Rudkjobing, Denmark.
Date of Election: 05/03/1821.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Discovered the magnetic action of the electric
current
Fellow Type: OF
HEINRICH WILHELM MATTHIAS OLBERS
11/10/1758- 02/03/1840
Place of Birth: Arbergen, nr. Bremen, Germany.
Date of Election: 03/02/1823.
Profession: Physician, Astronomer.
Notes: Discovered the Planets "Pallas" 1802. and
"Vesta" 1807
Fellow Type: OF
ALBERT CYRIL OFFORD 09/06/1906- 04/06/2000
Date of Election: 04/03/1946.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
DUDLEY EDWIN JAMES OFFORD
Date of Election: 06/03/1950.
Profession: Engineer, Naval Architect.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
OLGA OLEINIK ?-14/10/2001
Date of Election: 07/03/1983.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
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JAMES OLIPHANT ?-19/02/1921
Date of Election: 02/07/1888.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Notes: Born 1855
Fellow Type: OF
ORMIDALE, LORD. SEE MACFARLANE, ROBERT.
ANDREW PICKEN ORR 06/08/1898- 19/09/1962
Place of Birth: Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1948.
Profession: Chemist, Marine Scientist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM DOUGLAS OLIPHANT ?-02/06/1990
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Electrical Engineer, Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN BOYD- ORR, BARON BOYD-ORR OF BRECHIN
MEARNS 23/09/1880- 25/06/1971
Place of Birth: Kilmaurs, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1924.
Profession: Nutritional Physiologist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate Peace 1949
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES OLIVER ?-13/01/1941
Date of Election: 07/06/1886.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN STEWART ORR ?-21/10/2001
Date of Election: 01/03/1976.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR THOMAS OLIVER 02/03/1853- 15/05/1942
Place of Birth: St. Quivox, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1895.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM OLIVER ?-19/11/1962
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/03/1930.
Profession: Engineer.
Notes: Born 1885
Fellow Type: OF
LEWIS POTTER ORR ?-16/07/1946
Place of Birth: Balgreen House, Hamilton,
Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 18/01/1915.
Profession: Actuary.
Notes: Born c 1864
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ARTHUR OLVER ?-15/08/1961
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1875
Fellow Type: OF
MATTHEW YOUNG ORR ?-09/09/1953
Date of Election: 07/03/1932.
Profession: Botanist.
Notes: Born c1883
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT TRAILL OMOND ?-27/01/1914
Date of Election: 04/02/1884.
Profession: Physicist, Meteorologist, Geologist.
Notes: Born 1858. Campbell gives date of death as
27/6/1914
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN 08/08/1857- 06/11/1935
Place of Birth: Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.
Date of Election: 04/11/1907.
Profession: Zoologist, Vertebrate Palaeontologist.
Fellow Type: HF
DONALD VERNON OSBORNE
Date of Election: 03/03/1958.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
HEIKE KAMERLINGH ONNES 21/09/185321/02/1926
Place of Birth: Groningen, Netherlands.
Date of Election: 04/07/1921.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate Physics 1913
Fellow Type: HF
ROBERT OSBORNE 23/01/1924- 27/06/1973
Place of Birth: Seaton, Cumberland.
Date of Election: 03/03/1958.
Profession: Geneticist, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
JAN HENDRIK OORT 28/04/1900- 05/11/1992
Place of Birth: Franeker, Netherlands.
Date of Election: 04/07/1949.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
WILHELM OSTWALD
Date of Election: 07/11/1910.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR ALEXANDER OPPENHEIM 04/02/190313/02/1997
Date of Election: 05/03/1956.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER OSWALD ?-12/04/1821
Date of Election: 08/01/1821.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
LEONARD SHAFTO ORDE
Date of Election: 02/04/1860.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
ALFRED OSWALD
Date of Election: 01/12/1913.
Profession: Linguist.
Notes: Ceased to be a Fellow 1924-5
Fellow Type: OF
BARNABA ORIANI 17/07/1752- 12/11/1832
Place of Birth: Garegnano, near Milan, Italy.
Date of Election: 03/02/1823.
Profession: Astronomer, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MICHAEL OTTAWAY ?-20/10/1986
Place of Birth: New Malden, Surrey.
Date of Election: 01/03/1982.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Born 1939
Fellow Type: OF
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SIR WILLIAM OUSELEY
Place of Birth: Monmouthshire.
Date of Election: 25/01/1802.
Profession: Soldier, Orientalist, Diplomat.
Notes: Born 1767 died September 1842
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM ALFRED PALLIN 06/06/1873- 28/09/1956
Place of Birth: The Curragh, Co.Kildare, Ireland.
Date of Election: 20/02/1905.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE A. PANTON
Date of Election: 04/06/1877.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died 1902-3. Associated with Birmingham
Fellow Type: OF
MICHAEL WILLIAM OVENDEN 21/05/192615/03/1987
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 02/03/1964.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN WILLIAM PARE
Date of Election: 01/12/1913.
Profession: Physician, Dental Surgeon.
Notes: Died 1922-3
Fellow Type: OF
ALAN ERNEST OWEN 07/10/1928- 28/01/1999
Place of Birth: Hastings, Sussex.
Date of Election: 02/03/1981.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOSEPH PARKER 28/10/1871- 05/10/1940
Place of Birth: *Coatbridge.
Date of Election: 03/03/1924.
Profession: Mining Engineer.
Notes: *information (and dates of birth and death)
added 12/1/06- provided via archive query by Mary
Searles, Kentucky, USA (granddaughter) [VMH]
Fellow Type: OF
SIR RICHARD OWEN 20/07/1804- 15/12/1892
Place of Birth: Lancaster.
Date of Election: 17/03/1845.
Profession: Anatomist, Naturalist.
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM JOHN OWEN ?-25/07/1937
Date of Election: 14/03/1927.
Profession: Zoologist, Histologist.
Notes: Born May 1887
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS PARKER 22/12/1843- 05/12/1915
Place of Birth: Coalbrookdale, Shropshire.
Date of Election: 01/02/1892.
Profession: Electrical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
ALBERT EDWARD OXFORD
Date of Election: 07/03/1955.
Profession: Biochemist.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
WILLIAM PARKER ?-09/05/1977
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 04/03/1974.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Born 1932
Fellow Type: OF
SAMUEL ALEXANDER PAGAN 22/02/179325/09/1867
Date of Election: 05/01/1846.
Profession: Physician, Obstetrician.
Fellow Type: OF
IVAN PARNELL
Date of Election: 03/03/1941.
Profession: Zologist, Helminthologist.
Notes: Died 1974/5
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID PAGE 24/08/1814- 09/03/1879
Place of Birth: Lochgelly, Fife.
Date of Election: 02/02/1863.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
RICHARD PARNELL ?-28/10/1882
Place of Birth: Bramford Speke, Devon.
Date of Election: 20/02/1837.
Profession: Agrostologist, Physician, Zoologist,
Traveller.
Notes: Born 1810
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM DAVIDGE PAGE ?-05/01/1939
Date of Election: 17/02/1908.
Profession: Chemist, Mining Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES PAGET, bart. 11/01/1814- 00:00:00
Place of Birth: Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
Date of Election: 16/05/1892.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: HF
BARTHOLOMEW PARR ?-20/11/1810
Place of Birth: Exeter, Devon.
Date of Election: 26/01/1789.
Profession: Physician, Medical author.
Notes: Born 1750
Fellow Type: OF
RUDRENDRA KUMAR PAL 25/10/1902- 12/02/1991
Place of Birth: Sylhet, India.
Date of Election: 05/03/1934.
Profession: Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
BASIL BROCKETT PARRISH 25/03/1922- 28/06/1993
Place of Birth: Guilden Morden, nr Cambridge.
Date of Election: 06/03/1961.
Profession: Marine Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
PETER SIMON PALLAS 22/09/1741- 20/09/1811
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany.
Date of Election: 26/01/1784.
Profession: Geographer, Natural Historian.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM EDWARD PARRY 19/12/179008/07/1855
Place of Birth: Bath, Somerset.
Date of Election: 17/03/1845.
Profession: Royal Navy, Arctic Explorer.
Fellow Type: HF
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CHARLES WYNFORD PARSONS 22/07/190126/08/1950
Place of Birth: Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales.
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN SHEDDEN PATRICK OF TREARNE &
HESSILHEAD ?-10/10/1844
Date of Election: 16/03/1840.
Profession: Landowner.
Notes: Born c 1806
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM PARSONS, EARL OF ROSSE 17/06/180031/10/1867
Place of Birth: York.
Date of Election: 17/03/1845.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM DONALD PATRICK, LORD PATRICK
24/12/1889- 17/02/1967
Date of Election: 06/03/1950.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS DIERY PATTEN 01/01/1926- 10/04/1999
Place of Birth: Northumberland.
Date of Election: 06/03/1967.
Profession: Mechanical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
REGINALD PASSMORE 16/03/1910- 28/07/1999
Date of Election: 01/03/1948.
Profession: Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES PATTERSON 03/01/1893- 09/05/1975
Place of Birth: Leith, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 14/03/1927.
Profession: Marine Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
LOUIS PASTEUR 27/12/1822- 28/09/1895
Place of Birth: Dole, France.
Date of Election: 02/03/1874.
Profession: Biochemist.
Notes: Made fundamental contributions on
stereochemistry, fermentation and disease
Fellow Type: HF
EDWIN MERVYN PATTERSON 14/03/192011/04/1997
Place of Birth: Northern Ireland.
Date of Election: 04/03/1957.
Profession: Chemist, Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID PATERSON ?-01/04/1944
Date of Election: 01/07/1901.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS THOMSON PATERSON 29/09/190909/04/1994
Place of Birth: Buckhaven, Fife.
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Geologist, Glaciologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOCELYN PATTERSON 15/09/1900- 06/09/1965
Date of Election: 02/03/1942.
Profession: Biochemist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS STEWART PATTERSON
Date of Election: 03/03/1919.
Profession: Organic Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM GEORGE ROGERSON PATERSON
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Agriculturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID PATTON ?-14/07/1959
Date of Election: 08/03/1926.
Profession: Botanist.
Notes: Born c1885
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM PATERSON PATERSON ?-10/01/1939
Place of Birth: Skirling, Peeblesshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1918.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Born 1860
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN PAUL 24/04/1922- 27/06/1994
Date of Election: 05/03/1962.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
DIARMID NOEL PATON 19/03/1859- 30/09/1928
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/02/1886.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT PAUL 15/05/1788- 16/07/1866
Date of Election: 18/01/1836.
Profession: Banker.
Notes: Campbell gives the dates of birth and death
quoted above. Silences gives date of death as 1864
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES PATON 02/09/1903- 26/08/1973
Place of Birth: Cowdenbeath Fife.
Date of Election: 04/03/1946.
Profession: Physicist, Meteorologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM PAUL
Date of Election: 18/01/1836.
Profession: Accountant.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID PATRICK ?-23/03/1914
Place of Birth: Lochwinnoch, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 03/12/1888.
Profession: Literary Editor, Encyclopaedist.
Notes: Born 1849. Editor, Chambers Encyclopaedia
Fellow Type: OF
SIR DAVID PAULIN 27/10/1847- 20/12/1930
Place of Birth: Irvine, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 04/04/1892.
Profession: Actuary.
Fellow Type: OF
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LINUS CARL PAULING 28/02/1901- 19/08/1994
Date of Election: 04/07/1966.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1954 and Peace
1962
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN RONALD PEDDIE 05/01/1887- 11/11/1979
Date of Election: 02/03/1942.
Profession: English Language & Literature,
Educational Administrator.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM PEDDIE 31/05/1861- 02/06/1946
Place of Birth: Papa Westray, Orkney.
Date of Election: 07/03/1887.
Profession: Physicist, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
IVAN PETROVICH PAVLOV 27/09/1849- 27/02/1936
Place of Birth: Ryazan, Central Russia.
Date of Election: 04/11/1907.
Profession: Physiologist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate Medicine 1904
Fellow Type: HF
D. BRUCE PEEBLES
Date of Election: 05/04/1886.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died 1899-1900
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY CECIL PAWSON 17/05/1897- 19/12/1978
Place of Birth: Bakewell, Derbyshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1949.
Profession: Agriculturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
BENJAMIN PEIRCE 04/04/1809- 06/10/1880
Place of Birth: Salem, Massachusetts, USA.
Date of Election: 02/12/1867.
Profession: Mathematician, Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
BENJAMIN NEEVE PEACH 06/09/1842- 29/01/1926
Place of Birth: Gorran Haven, nr Megavissey,
Cornwall.
Date of Election: 07/03/1881.
Profession: Geologist, Palaeontologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR HENRY CAMPBELL DE LA POER BERESFORDPEIRSE, bart.
Date of Election: 03/03/1952.
Profession: Forester.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
ALEXANDER DAVID PEACOCK 13/06/188602/03/1976
Place of Birth: Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Northumberland.
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALBRECHT PENCK ?-07/03/1945
Date of Election: 03/07/1933.
Profession: Geographer.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR JOHN PENDER 10/09/1816- 07/07/1896
Place of Birth: Vale of Leven, Dunbartonshire.
Date of Election: 21/12/1868.
Profession: Textile Merchant in Glasgow &
Manchester.
Notes: Pioneer of submarine telegraphy
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN THOMSON PEARCE ?-22/06/1936
Date of Election: 15/07/1907.
Profession: Schoolmaster, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOSEPH PEARSON 19/04/1881- 20/06/1971
Date of Election: 19/01/1914.
Profession: Marine Biologist, Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID PENMAN
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Mining Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
KARL PEARSON 27/03/1857- 27/04/1936
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 02/07/1934.
Profession: Barrister, Mathematician, Biologist.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR WILLIAM GEORGE PENNEY, BARON PENNEY
24/06/1909- 03/03/1991
Date of Election: 06/07/1970.
Profession: Physicist, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR JAMES WALLACE PECK 03/05/1875- 03/02/1964
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 01/02/1904.
Profession: Mathematician, Civil Servant.
Fellow Type: OF
FREDERICK PENNY (PENNEY) 10/04/181622/11/1869
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 04/02/1856.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM PECK 03/01/1862- 07/03/1925
Place of Birth: Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire.
Date of Election: 03/06/1889.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN PENNY ?-19/06/1913
Date of Election: 04/12/1899.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER PEDDIE 03/10/1810- 19/01/1907
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/01/1863.
Profession: Physician, Author.
Fellow Type: OF
EDMUND GEORGE VINCENT PERCIVAL 10/11/190727/09/1951
Place of Birth: Hinckley, Leicestershire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1941.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN DICK PEDDIE ?-12/03/1891
Date of Election: 06/04/1868.
Profession: Architect.
Notes: Born 1824
Fellow Type: OF
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ETHEL ELIZABETH PERCIVAL NEE KEMPSON
03/01/1906- 16/04/1997
Place of Birth: Coventry, Warwickshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1952.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
EDUARD FRIEDRICH WILHELM PFLUGER
07/06/1828- 17/03/1910
Place of Birth: Hanau-on-Main, Germany.
Date of Election: 09/01/1905.
Profession: Physiologist.
Notes: Proc Roy Soc gives date of birth as 7/6/1829
Fellow Type: HF
GEORGE HECTOR PERCIVAL ?-03/04/1983
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Physician, Dermatologist.
Notes: Born c1902
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES PHEMISTER 03/04/1893- 18/05/1986
Place of Birth: Govan, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS PERCIVAL 29/09/1740- 30/08/1804
Place of Birth: Warrington,Lancashire.
Date of Election: 22/01/1787.
Profession: Physician, Author.
Notes: Leading advocate in Manchester of public
health reform & factory legislation
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS CRAWFORD PHEMISTER 25/05/190230/12/1982
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER PHILIP ?-21/01/1932
Place of Birth: Portobello, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/06/1913.
Profession: Lawyer.
Notes: Born 1858
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR GEORGE PERKIN 13/12/1861- 30/05/1937
Place of Birth: Sudbury, Middlesex.
Date of Election: 06/02/1893.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM HENRY PERKIN 17/06/1860- 17/09/1929
Place of Birth: Sudbury, Middlesex.
Date of Election: 06/02/1888.
Profession: Organic Chemist.
Notes: Elected Honorary British Fellow 4/7/1921
(Billet 4/7/1921)
Fellow Type: HF
ALEXANDER PHILIP WILSON PHILIP (UNTIL 1811
WILSON) 15/10/1770- ?
Place of Birth: Shieldhall, Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 26/01/1795.
Profession: Physician, Physiologist, Author.
Notes: Died c. 1851. Re- elected 05/04/1824
(Confirmed by Council, Minute 19/04/1824 NLS
Acc10,000/16)
Fellow Type: OF
MAX FERDINAND PERUTZ 19/05/1914- 06/02/2002
Date of Election: 01/03/1976.
Profession: Molecular Biologist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate, Chemistry (1962)
Fellow Type: HF
SIR ROBERT WILLIAM PHILIP 29/12/185725/01/1939
Place of Birth: Govan, Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 01/04/1889.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Opened the first tuberculosis dispensary in the
world at Bank Street, Edinburgh 1887. Established the
Royal Victoria Hospital for Consumption, Edinburgh
1894
Fellow Type: OF
SIR RUDOLPH ALBERT PETERS 13/04/188929/01/1982
Place of Birth: Kensington, London.
Date of Election: 01/07/1957.
Profession: Physician, Biochemist, Toxicologist.
Fellow Type: HF
JAMES COLQUHOUN PETRIE 18/09/194121/08/2001
Date of Election: 06/03/2000.
Profession: Physician, Pharmacologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ROBERT (ROBIN) JAMES PHILIPSON 17/12/191626/05/1992
Place of Birth: Broughton-in-Furness, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1977.
Profession: Artist, Painter.
Fellow Type: OF
MAX VON PETTENKOFER
Date of Election: 06/05/1895.
Profession: Physiological Chemist.
Notes: Born 1818, Died 1901.
Fellow Type: HF
CHARLES D. F. PHILLIPS
Date of Election: 04/12/1882.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1830, died 1905
Fellow Type: OF
HANS PETTERSSON 26/08/1888- 25/01/1966
Date of Election: 07/07/1947.
Profession: Oceanographer.
Fellow Type: HF
CHARLES E S PHILLIPS ?-17/06/1945
Date of Election: 19/11/1906.
Profession: Physicist, Radiologist.
Notes: Born February 1871
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES BELL PETTIGREW 26/05/1834- 30/01/1908
Place of Birth: Roxhill, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1873.
Profession: Physician, Anatomist.
Notes: Authority on flight of birds and insects
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID CHILTON PHILLIPS, BARON PHILLIPS
07/03/1924- 23/02/1999
Place of Birth: Ellesmere, Shropshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1991.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: HF
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PHILLIPS, ELSIE. SEE CONWAY, ELSIE.
JAMES LYFORD- PIKE ?-31/12/1958
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Forester.
Fellow Type: OF
FREDERICK PHILLIPS ?-14/10/1918
Place of Birth: Woolwich, London.
Date of Election: 05/03/1917.
Profession: Mathematician, Chemist.
Notes: Born 1879
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT STUART PILCHER 28/01/1882- 07/08/1961
Place of Birth: Liverpool, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Street Railway Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN FREDERICK VICARS PHILLIPS
Date of Election: 04/03/1929.
Profession: Botanist.
Notes: Died August 1988
Fellow Type: OF
BASIL ALEXANDER PILKINGTON
Date of Election: 25/05/1914.
Profession: Electrical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
RICHARD PHILLIPS ?-11/05/1851
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 25/01/1819.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Born 1778
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES PILLANS
Date of Election: 01/03/1824.
Profession: unknown.
Notes: Died between Nov 1861 and Nov 1864.
Elected 1824. Stated to be of Leith and later
Edinburgh
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW TINDAL PHILLIPSON 19/08/191010/01/1977
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 02/03/1953.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon, Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES PILLANS ?-27/03/1864
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/01/1812.
Profession: Schoolmaster, Classicist, Educationalist.
Notes: Born April 1778. The name given in TRSE
Admission Lists is "James Millar, Professor of
Humanity" which is an error, subsequently corrected
in later TRSE Lists to " James Pillans, Professor of
Humanity.(Shapin 369) The "paltry Pillans" of Byron's
"English Bards & Scotch Reviewers"
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES EMILE PICARD 24/07/1856- 12/12/1941
Place of Birth: Paris, France.
Date of Election: 21/06/1920.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
CHARLES SOLOMON PICHAMUTHU ?-18/08/1990
Date of Election: 04/03/1935.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALFRED WILLIAM NOEL PILLERS ?-02/04/1936
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Parasitologist, Veterinary Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES NICHOL PICKARD ?-16/04/1948
Date of Election: 07/03/1932.
Profession: Geneticist.
Fellow Type: OF
SALVATORE PINCHERLE 11/03/1853- 11/07/1936
Place of Birth: Trieste, Italy.
Date of Election: 04/07/1921.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
EDWARD CHARLES PICKERING 19/07/184603/02/1919
Place of Birth: Boston, USA.
Date of Election: 03/07/1916.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
PETER PINKERTON ?-22/11/1930
Date of Election: 23/01/1905.
Profession: Schoolmaster, Mathematician.
Notes: Born 1870
Fellow Type: OF
LILLIAN MARY PICKFORD 14/08/1902- 14/08/2002
Date of Election: 01/03/1954.
Profession: Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES HUNTER HARVEY PIRIE ?-27/09/1965
Date of Election: 20/07/1908.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ADOLPHE PICTET 11/09/1799- 20/12/1875
Place of Birth: Geneva, Switzerland.
Date of Election: 05/12/1864.
Profession: Author, Philologist, Ethnologist.
Fellow Type: HF
JAMES SIMPSON PIRIE ?-12/04/1943
Place of Birth: Turriff, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 03/07/1911.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Born 1861
Fellow Type: OF
MARC- AUGUSTE PICTET 23/07/1752- 19/04/1825
Place of Birth: Geneva, Switzerland.
Date of Election: 27/06/1796.
Profession: Physicist, Meteorologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM PIRRIE ?-21/11/1882
Place of Birth: Huntly, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 02/04/1849.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1807
Fellow Type: OF
STUART PIGGOTT 28/05/1910- 23/09/1996
Date of Election: 04/03/1957.
Profession: Archaeologist.
Fellow Type: OF
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HERBERT WATKINS- PITCHFORD ?-25/06/1951
Date of Election: 19/02/1906.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT WALDRON PLENDERLEITH 24/11/190122/11/1974
Place of Birth: Coatbridge, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1957.
Profession: Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT PITMAN
Date of Election: 01/02/1830.
Profession: Soldier.
Fellow Type: OF
JULES HENRI POINCARE 29/04/1854- 17/07/1912
Place of Birth: Nancy, France.
Date of Election: 06/05/1895.
Profession: Mathematician, Physicist.
Notes: Noted in the fields of Mathematical Analysis,
Celestial Mechanics, Mathematical Physics and
Scientific Philosophy
Fellow Type: HF
GIOVANNI ANTONIO AMEDEO PLANA 08/11/178120/01/1864
Place of Birth: Voghera,Italy.
Date of Election: 20/04/1835.
Profession: Astronomer, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
SIMEON DENIS POISSON 21/06/1781- 25/04/1840
Place of Birth: Pithiviers, Loiret, France.
Date of Election: 01/06/1820.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Elected Honorary Foreign Fellow 20/4/1835,
(Billet 5/1,19/1,2/2/1835)
Fellow Type: HF
MAX KARL ERNST LUDWIG PLANCK 23/04/185804/10/1947
Place of Birth: Kiel, Germany.
Date of Election: 05/07/1937.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate, Physics, 1919
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM POLE 22/04/1814- 30/12/1900
Place of Birth: Birmingham, Warwickshire.
Date of Election: 04/06/1877.
Profession: Civil Engineer, Astronomer, Musician.
Fellow Type: OF
EMILE PLANTAMOUR 14/05/1815- 07/09/1882
Place of Birth: Geneva, Switzerland.
Date of Election: 17/01/1881.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR GEORGE HERBERT POLLARD
Date of Election: 07/03/1921.
Profession: Barrister-at-Law, Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES PLAYFAIR 19/12/1738- 26/05/1819
Place of Birth: Perthshire.
Date of Election: 22/01/1787.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES FREDERICK POLLOCK ?-24/02/1917
Date of Election: 03/05/1886.
Profession: Surgeon, Ophthalmolologist.
Notes: Born 1856
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN PLAYFAIR 10/03/1748- 20/07/1819
Place of Birth: Benvie, Angus.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Mathematician,
Physicist, Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN DONALD POLLOCK, bart. 23/11/186804/06/1962
Place of Birth: Galashiels,Selkirkshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Physician,Industrialist, Philanthropist.
Fellow Type: OF
LYON PLAYFAIR, BARON PLAYFAIR 21/05/181829/05/1898
Place of Birth: Meerut, Bengal, India.
Date of Election: 03/01/1859.
Profession: Chemist, Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
MARTIN RIVERS POLLOCK 10/12/1914- 21/12/1999
Date of Election: 07/03/1966.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM HENRY PLAYFAIR ?-19/03/1857
Place of Birth: Russell Square,London.
Date of Election: 02/02/1824.
Profession: Architect.
Notes: Born July 1789
Fellow Type: OF
ERIC PONDER
Date of Election: 03/03/1924.
Profession: Physician, Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
GUIDO PONTECORVO 29/11/1907- 25/09/1999
Place of Birth: Pisa, Italy.
Date of Election: 04/03/1946.
Profession: Genetecist.
Fellow Type: OF
AKE PLEIJEL ?-24/09/1989
Date of Election: 03/03/1975.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
HAROLD JAMES PLENDERLEITH 19/09/189802/11/1997
Date of Election: 05/03/1934.
Profession: Chemist, Conservator.
Fellow Type: OF
MUNGO PONTON 23/11/1802- 03/08/1880
Place of Birth: Balgreen, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/01/1834.
Profession: Writer to the Signet, Photographic
Inventor.
Notes: First to describe Bichromate of Potash as a
photographic agent(1839)
Fellow Type: OF
140/1
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BENJAMIN DAWSON PORRITT 26/01/188428/01/1940
Place of Birth: Turtle Mountain, Canada.
Date of Election: 03/03/1919.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
BADRI NARAYAN PRASAD ?-07/03/1964
Place of Birth: Siwan Bihar, India.
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Physician, Pharmacologist.
Notes: Born 1893
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE PORTER, BARON PORTER 06/12/192001/09/2002
Date of Election: 07/03/1983.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate, Chemistry (1967)
Fellow Type: HF
GORAKH PRASAD
Date of Election: 07/03/1932.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
BAINI PRASHAD 13/03/1894- ?
Date of Election: 08/03/1926.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
HELEN KEMP PORTER NEE ARCHBOLD, MRS
HUGGETT 10/11/1899- 07/12/1987
Place of Birth: Place Hale, Farnham, Surrey.
Date of Election: 01/03/1965.
Profession: Botanist, Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ISAAC ARTHUR PREECE 19/03/1907- 12/08/1964
Date of Election: 07/03/1949.
Profession: Biochemist.
Fellow Type: OF
RODNEY ROBERT PORTER 08/10/1917- 06/09/1985
Place of Birth: Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1976.
Profession: Biochemist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate Physiology & Medicine
1972
Fellow Type: HF
CHARLES S DU RICHE PRELLER ?-17/02/1929
Place of Birth: Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 05/05/1902.
Profession: Electrical Engineer, Geologist.
Notes: Born 1844
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES PRENTICE
Date of Election: 01/03/1880.
Profession: Actuary.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM PORTER ?-02/04/1815
Date of Election: 25/01/1802.
Profession: Merchant in Russian trade.
Notes: Born 1764. Had Russian business ties with
Matthew Guthrie FRSE, 1743-1807
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR JOHN PRESSLAND ?-08/10/1934
Date of Election: 16/05/1892.
Profession: Mathematician, Schoomaster.
Notes: Born 1865
Fellow Type: OF
SIR EDWARD BAGNALL POULTON 27/01/185620/11/1943
Place of Birth: Reading, Berkshire.
Date of Election: 02/07/1934.
Profession: Zoologist, Entomologist.
Fellow Type: HF
FRANK ANDERSON BAILLIE PRESTON ?-11/12/1977
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
BADEN HENRY BADEN- POWELL ?-02/01/1901
Date of Election: 04/05/1874.
Profession: Forester.
Notes: Born 1841
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE DAWSON PRESTON 08/08/189622/06/1972
Date of Election: 06/03/1944.
Profession: Physicist, Crystallographer.
Fellow Type: OF
EYRE BADEN POWELL
Date of Election: 19/01/1852.
Profession: Forester.
Notes: Died 1904-5
Fellow Type: OF
EDWARD WILLIAM PREVOST ?-07/10/1920
Place of Birth: Carlisle, Cumberland.
Date of Election: 01/03/1875.
Profession: Philologist, Chemist.
Notes: Born 1851
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ALFRED POWELL 04/11/1923- 31/12/1996
Place of Birth: Islip, nr Oxford.
Date of Election: 06/03/1978.
Profession: Physicist, Company Director.
Fellow Type: OF
PIERRE PREVOST 03/03/1751- 08/04/1839
Place of Birth: Geneva, Switzerland.
Date of Election: 27/06/1796.
Profession: Philosopher, Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES POWRIE OF RESWALLIE ?-25/05/1895
Date of Election: 03/04/1865.
Profession: Geologist, Archaeologist,
Arboriculturalist, Astronomer.
Notes: Born c1814
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES EDWARD PRICE ?-07/07/1934
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Businessman, Philanthropist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR DAVID PRAIN 11/07/1857- 16/03/1944
Place of Birth: Fettercairn, Angus.
Date of Election: 06/02/1888.
Profession: Physician, Botanist, Administrator.
Fellow Type: OF
FREDERICK WILLIAM PRICE ?-19/03/1957
Date of Election: 05/07/1915.
Profession: Physician, Cardiologist.
Notes: Born 1873
Fellow Type: OF
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THOMAS SLATER PRICE 24/08/1875- 29/10/1949
Place of Birth: Wednesbury, South Staffordshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1932.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW PRITCHARD 14/12/1804- 24/11/1882
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 03/03/1873.
Profession: Microscopist.
Notes: Member of the Royal Institution
Fellow Type: OF
ALBERT EDWARD HARRY MAYER ARCHIBALD
PRIMROSE, 6TH EARL OF ROSEBERY 08/01/188230/05/1974
Place of Birth: Dalmeny House, West Lothian.
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Statesman.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM SKIRROW PROCTER 22/04/190005/01/1968
Place of Birth: Halifax, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1944.
Profession: Electrical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
GASPARD CLAIR FRANCOIS MARIE RICHE DE PRONY
11/07/1755- 29/07/1839
Place of Birth: Chamlet, Dept du Rhone, France.
Date of Election: 01/06/1820.
Profession: Engineer, Mathematician.
Notes: Elected Honorary Foreign Fellow,20/4/1835,
(Billet 5/1,19/1,2/2/1835)
Fellow Type: HF
ARCHIBALD PHILIP PRIMROSE, 5TH EARL OF
ROSEBERY 07/05/1847- 21/05/1929
Place of Birth: 20 Charles Street, Berkeley
Square,London.
Date of Election: 06/06/1881.
Profession: Statesman, Author.
Fellow Type: OF
BOUVERIE FRANCIS PRIMROSE 19/09/181320/03/1898
Date of Election: 19/03/1849.
Profession: Administrator.
Fellow Type: OF
PIERRE EUGENE MARIE-JOSEPH PRUVOST
01/08/1890- 05/06/1967
Place of Birth: Raisines, Nord, France.
Date of Election: 01/07/1963.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: HF
ALEXANDER KERR PRINGLE ?-27/01/1985
Date of Election: 01/03/1971.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID PRYDE
Date of Election: 01/05/1882.
Profession: Schoolmaster, Educationalist.
Notes: died 1907. Campbell gives appointment as
"Headmaster, Fettes Ladies College, Edinburgh"
Fellow Type: OF
DEREK HAIR PRINGLE 08/01/1926- 07/07/1995
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/03/1970.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
FREDERICK PATTISON PULLAR 20/12/187515/02/1901
Date of Election: 07/01/1901.
Profession: Meteorologist.
Notes: Date of death as given on monumental
inscription (AMacM S)
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE COSSAR PRINGLE
Date of Election: 17/02/1908.
Profession: Schoomaster.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES PRINGLE ?-11/12/1886
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/04/1885.
Profession: Businessman.
Notes: Born 1822
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES FREDERICK PULLAR ?-19/09/1912
Date of Election: 04/05/1885.
Profession: Industrialist.
Notes: Born 1835
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN PRINGLE 21/10/1877- 02/08/1948
Place of Birth: Selkirk.
Date of Election: 07/03/1932.
Profession: Geologist, Palaeontologist.
Fellow Type: OF
LAURENCE PULLAR 13/09/1838- 22/12/1926
Place of Birth: Perth.
Date of Election: 05/01/1903.
Profession: Industrialist, Engineer, Philanthropist.
Notes: Recipient of 'Challenger' Medal (presented by
Dr (later Sir) John Murray, Director of the 'Challenger'
Expedition)
[Note added 8/12/05- VMH]
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN PRINGLE 25/11/1741- 14/02/1811
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ROBERT PULLAR 18/02/1828- 09/09/1912
Place of Birth: Perth.
Date of Election: 01/03/1880.
Profession: Dyer, Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
MARK PRINGLE OF HAINING AND CLIFTON
10/01/1754- 25/04/1812
Place of Birth: Midlothian.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate, Politician, Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
RICHARD PULTENEY 17/02/1730- 13/10/1801
Place of Birth: Loughborough, Leicestershire.
Date of Election: 27/01/1793.
Profession: Physician, Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT WILLIAM PRINGLE 02/05/1920- 10/06/1996
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/03/1964.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
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JOHN SMITH PURDY 31/01/1872- 26/07/1936
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 15/05/1911.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID RAE OF ESKGROVE, LORD ESKGROVE, bart.
?-23/10/1804
Place of Birth: St Andrews, Fife.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Born 1729
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE LESLIE PURSER 23/12/1891- 20/07/1967
Place of Birth: Moseley, Birmingham, Warwickshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1920.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
KENNETH STEPHENSON MACFARLANE RAE
Date of Election: 02/03/1953.
Profession: Zoologist, Marine Biologist.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
JOHN ARCHIBALD PURVES 08/07/1870- 11/04/1952
Date of Election: 06/12/1897.
Profession: Physicist, Electrification Expert.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM RAE OF ST CATHERINES, bart.
14/04/1769- 18/10/1842
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/02/1823.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
FREDERICK WARD PUTNAM ?-14/08/1915
Place of Birth: Salem, Massachusetts, USA.
Date of Election: 07/11/1910.
Profession: Archaeologist.
Notes: Born 1839
Fellow Type: HF
SIR HENRY RAEBURN 04/03/1756- 08/07/1823
Place of Birth: Stockbridge, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 24/01/1820.
Profession: Artist, Portrait Painter.
Fellow Type: OF
KENNETH ARTHUR PYEFINCH 10/01/191110/07/1979
Place of Birth: Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1955.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
HARRY RAINY ?-04/01/1923
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 01/03/1897.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1864
Fellow Type: OF
MAGNUS ALFRED PYKE 29/12/1908- 19/10/1992
Date of Election: 05/03/1956.
Profession: Agricultural Chemist, Broadcaster.
Fellow Type: OF
DOUGLAS STEWART RAITT ?-04/10/1944
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Zoologist.
Notes: Born 1903
Fellow Type: OF
JUDA HIRSCH QUASTEL 02/10/1899- 16/10/1987
Place of Birth: Ecclesall Road, Sheffield,.
Date of Election: 07/03/1983.
Profession: Biochemist.
Fellow Type: HF
RAMAKRISHNA VENKATA RAJAM 09/01/189329/10/1992
Place of Birth: Kumaralingam, Coimbatore Dist. of
Tamilnadu, India.
Date of Election: 03/03/1958.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
MAURICE HENRI QUENOUILLE 09/10/192412/12/1973
Date of Election: 03/03/1952.
Profession: Statistician.
Fellow Type: OF
SAMUEL RALEIGH ?-26/07/1882
Place of Birth: nr. Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire.
Date of Election: 06/04/1868.
Profession: Accountant, Lawyer.
Fellow Type: OF
LAMBERT ADOLPHE JACQUES QUETELET
22/02/1796- 17/02/1874
Place of Birth: Ghent, Belgium.
Date of Election: 20/04/1835.
Profession: Mathematician, Astronomer.
Notes: Founded the science of Anthropometry
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER GULLILAND RAMAGE ?-21/02/1954
Date of Election: 05/06/1899.
Profession: Shipbuilder.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORG HERMANN QUINCKE 19/11/183413/01/1924
Place of Birth: Frankfort-on-Oder, Germany.
Date of Election: 18/02/1889.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: HF
JOACHIM RAMM 13/10/1763- 26/06/1825
Place of Birth: Riga, Latvia.
Date of Election: 29/06/1789.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
BENNET BIRNIE RAE
Date of Election: 06/03/1961.
Profession: Marine Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
ANDREW MAITLAND RAMSAY ?-20/03/1946
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Physician, Ophthalmologist.
Notes: Born 1859
Fellow Type: OF
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EDWARD BANNERMAN RAMSAY (FORMERLY
BURNETT) 31/01/1793- 27/12/1872
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 02/04/1827.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Author.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN RANKINE OF BASSENDEAN 18/02/184608/08/1922
Place of Birth: Manse of Sorn, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1891.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
EDWARD PEIRSON RAMSAY 03/12/1842- ?
Place of Birth: Australia.
Date of Election: 07/04/1884.
Profession: Zoologist.
Notes: Died 1917
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM JOHN MACQUORN RANKINE 05/07/182024/12/1872
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/01/1850.
Profession: Civil Engineer, Physicist, Mathematician.
Notes: His name is given to the absolute temperature
scale in degrees Fahrenheit
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES RAMSAY OF BAMFF, bart. 26/09/179701/01/1859
Date of Election: 15/12/1851.
Profession: Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
RALPH ALEXANDER RAPHAEL 01/01/192127/04/1998
Place of Birth: Croydon London.
Date of Election: 03/03/1958.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN (SEE NOTES) RAMSAY OF AUCHTERTYRE
(OUGHTERTYRE) 26/08/1736- 02/03/1814
Place of Birth: Perthshire.
Date of Election: 24/01/1785.
Profession: Landowner, Scholar.
Notes: Listed in RSE Roll Book as" James Ramsay Esq.
of Auchtertyre". Friend of Robert Burns and Sir Walter
Scott
Fellow Type: OF
JOSEPH RILEY RATCLIFFE ?-18/01/1946
Date of Election: 01/02/1904.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES CLERK RATTRAY 21/01/1834- 22/02/1896
Place of Birth: Rattray, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 16/01/1882.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
PETER RAMSAY ?-02/07/1926
Date of Election: 25/05/1914.
Profession: Mathematician, Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES CLERK- RATTRAY OF CRAIGHALL, FORMERLY
CLERK 03/12/1763- 29/08/1831
Date of Election: 27/01/1817.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM RAMSAY 02/10/1852- 23/07/1916
Place of Birth: Queen's Crescent, Glasgow.
Date of Election: 09/01/1905.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1904
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN CLERK RATTRAY
Place of Birth: Dundee.
Date of Election: 02/02/1885.
Profession: Zoologist, Microscopist.
Notes: Died 1900-1, Living in Dunkeld and latterly
Perth
Fellow Type: OF
JESSE RAMSDEN 06/10/1735- 05/11/1800
Place of Birth: Salterhebble, nr Halifax, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: see notes.
Profession: Mathematician, Optician and Instrumentmaker.
Notes: Elected probably 1798
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS MELVILLE RAVEN ?-13/06/1896
Date of Election: 04/01/1869.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Photographer.
Notes: Born c.1828. Named Thomas Milville Raven in
Proceedings
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN TURTON RANDALL 23/05/190516/06/1984
Place of Birth: Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1945.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Resigned 1962-3, reinstated 1972
Fellow Type: OF
NATHAN RAW 02/08/1866- 28/08/1940
Date of Election: 02/07/1900.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE RANKEN ?-17/02/1819
Date of Election: 25/01/1819.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCIS IAN GREGORY RAWLINS ?-02/03/1969
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Physicist, Crystallographer.
Notes: Born 1895
Fellow Type: OF
ADAM AIRD RANKIN 01/05/1880- 08/11/1926
Date of Election: 15/05/1911.
Profession: Astronomer, Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
RAYLEIGH, BARON. SEE STRUTT, JOHN WILLIAM.
GUILLAUME THOMAS FRANCOIS RAYNAL
12/04/1713- 06/03/1796
Date of Election: 28/01/1788.
Profession: Historian, Philosopher.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT ALEXANDER RANKIN 27/10/191527/01/2001
Date of Election: 07/03/1955.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
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HERBERT HAROLD READ 17/12/1889- 29/03/1970
Place of Birth: Whitstable, Kent.
Date of Election: 14/03/1927.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRI VICTOR REGNAULT 21/07/1810- 19/01/1878
Place of Birth: Aix-la-Chapelle, France.
Date of Election: 19/02/1855.
Profession: Chemist, Physicist.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN READ 17/02/1884- 21/01/1963
Place of Birth: Maiden Newton, Dorset.
Date of Election: 03/03/1924.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID BOSWELL REID ?-05/04/1863
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/04/1831.
Profession: Chemist, Inventor, Ventilation Expert.
Notes: Born June 1805
Fellow Type: OF
SELWYN READ 30/12/1896- 30/12/1981
Place of Birth: Eastbourne, Sussex.
Date of Election: 04/03/1929.
Profession: Mathematician, Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
DOUGLAS MILLER REID 25/11/1897- 04/09/1959
Place of Birth: Motherwell, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1942.
Profession: Biologist, Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES BURGESS READMAN
Date of Election: 04/06/1883.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Died April 1927
Fellow Type: OF
SIR GEORGE ARCHDALL O'BRIEN REID 07/04/186019/11/1929
Place of Birth: Roorky, India.
Date of Election: 05/03/1900.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE ADAM REAY 31/05/1901- 20/01/1971
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 07/03/1955.
Profession: Biochemist.
Fellow Type: OF
HARRY AVERY REID ?-14/09/1947
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 17/03/1913.
Profession: Bacteriologist, Pathologist, Veterinary
Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1877
Fellow Type: OF
KARL HEINZ RECHINGER ?-30/12/1998
Date of Election: 09/03/1987.
Profession: Naturalist.
Fellow Type: HF
JAMES SCOTT CUMBERLAND REID, RT. HON. BARON
REID 30/07/1890- 29/03/1975
Place of Birth: Drem. East Lothian.
Date of Election: 04/03/1940.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Born 1890
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN REDDIE ?-28/11/1851
Date of Election: 05/03/1827.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
FRIEDRICH WILHELM REDEN
Date of Election: 25/01/1790.
Profession: Statesman.
Notes: Born 1752, died 1813
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MCARTHUR REID ?-09/08/2001
Date of Election: 07/03/1977.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCIS REDFORD ?-20/09/1886
Place of Birth: York.
Date of Election: 03/01/1865.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Meteorologist.
Notes: Born 1813
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT LOVELL REID 11/04/1921- 23/09/1996
Place of Birth: Melbourne, Australia.
Date of Election: 06/03/1967.
Profession: Agricultural Scientist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR BOVERTON REDWOOD, bart. 26/04/184604/06/1919
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 04/03/1889.
Profession: Pharmaceutical Chemist, Chemical
Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS REID 26/04/1710- 07/10/1796
Place of Birth: Manse of Strachan, Kincardineshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion,Mathematician,
Philosopher.
Notes: Founded the school of Scottish "common
sense" philosophy
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES REED ?-26/01/1986
Date of Election: 03/03/1952.
Profession: Civil and Structural Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM REID 20/06/1906- 02/10/1985
Date of Election: 05/03/1956.
Profession: Mining Engineer, Colliery Manager.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES REEKIE 04/02/1914- 15/01/1975
Date of Election: 03/03/1947.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM CARSTAIRS REID ?-29/10/1937
Date of Election: 03/03/1924.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
145/1
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FRANCOISS MARIE CHARLES DE REMUSAT
14/03/1797- 06/06/1875
Place of Birth: Paris, France.
Date of Election: 02/12/1867.
Profession: Politician, Philosopher, Man of Letters.
Fellow Type: HF
DAVID RHIND
Date of Election: 21/03/1836.
Profession: Architect.
Notes: Born 1808, Died 1883
Fellow Type: OF
ALFRED NEWTON RICHARDS 22/03/187624/03/1966
Place of Birth: Stamford, New York, USA.
Date of Election: 07/07/1947.
Profession: Pharmacologist.
Fellow Type: HF
ALPHONSE F RENARD
Date of Election: 03/05/1886.
Profession: Mineralogist.
Fellow Type: HF
JAMES RENNELL 23/11/1742- 29/03/1830
Place of Birth: Devonshire.
Date of Election: 26/06/1797.
Profession: Naval and Military Surveyor, Geographer.
Notes: Roy Soc List gives date of birth as 3/12/1742
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN CHARLES SHENSTONE RICHARDS
12/01/1923- 20/09/2001
Date of Election: 06/03/1978.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN RENNIE 07/06/1761- 04/10/1821
Place of Birth: Phantassie, East Linton, East Lothian.
Date of Election: 28/01/1788.
Profession: Civil and Mechanical Engineer.
Notes: Builder of bridges, canals and docks
Fellow Type: OF
THEODORE WILLIAM RICHARDS 31/01/186802/04/1928
Place of Birth: Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA.
Date of Election: 02/07/1923.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate, Chemistry 1914
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN RENNIE
Date of Election: 15/06/1908.
Profession: Naturalist, Parasitologist.
Fellow Type: OF
HAROLD OWEN WILSON RICHARDSON
Date of Election: 07/03/1949.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM RENNY OF DANEVALE PARK ?-11/02/1846
Date of Election: 06/03/1826.
Profession: Writer to the Signet.
Notes: Born 1788
Fellow Type: OF
HARRY RICHARDSON ?-13/09/1959
Date of Election: 02/12/1912.
Profession: Electrical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
LOUIS PERCY WATT RENOUF 11/12/188720/01/1968
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Biologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES RICHARDSON
Date of Election: 04/03/1867.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died c.1868
Fellow Type: OF
GRAHAM RENSHAW ?-13/01/1952
Date of Election: 25/05/1914.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon, Zoologist.
Notes: Born c1872
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN RICHARDSON 05/11/1787- 05/06/1865
Place of Birth: Nith Place, Dumfries.
Date of Election: 19/02/1855.
Profession: Naval Surgeon, Naturalist, Arctic
Explorer.
Notes: Naturalist on the Franklin Expeditions 181922, 1825-7, Rae's expedition in search of Franklin
1848-9
Fellow Type: HF
RESTON, LORD. SEE DOUGLAS OF RESTON, DAVID.
MAGNUS GUSTAF RETZIUS 17/10/1842- 21/07/1919
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden.
Date of Election: 04/11/1907.
Profession: Anatomist, Anthropologist, Histologist.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN ALAN RICHARDSON 10/11/1918- 03/12/2000
Date of Election: 07/03/1977.
Profession: Botanist, Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
EMIL HEINRICH DU BOIS- REYMOND ?-26/12/1896
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany.
Date of Election: 16/05/1892.
Profession: Physiologist.
Notes: Born 1818
Fellow Type: HF
LINSDALL RICHARDSON ?-01/01/1967
Date of Election: 17/02/1908.
Profession: Geologist.
Notes: Born c1882
Fellow Type: OF
DORIS LIVESAY REYNOLDS, MRS ARTHUR HOLMES
01/07/1899- 10/11/1985
Date of Election: 07/03/1949.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
RALPH RICHARDSON 22/11/1845- 26/06/1933
Date of Election: 01/03/1875.
Profession: Writer to the Signet, Geologist.
Notes: A founder of the Royal Scottish Geographical
Society
Fellow Type: OF
FRANCIS ESMOND REYNOLDS ?-10/04/1967
Date of Election: 03/03/1941.
Profession: Physician, Pathologist.
Fellow Type: OF
146/1
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THOMAS RICHARDSON 08/10/1816- 10/07/1867
Place of Birth: Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Northumberland.
Date of Election: 17/01/1859.
Profession: Industrial Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES FREDERIC RILEY 02/05/1912- 17/01/1985
Place of Birth: Settle, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1968.
Profession: Physician, Radiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
FREDERICK WILLIAM RIMMER 21/02/191403/07/1998
Date of Election: 04/03/1996.
Profession: Musician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM RICHARDSON 01/10/1743- 03/11/1814
Place of Birth: Aberfoyle, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Classicist.
Fellow Type: OF
LEONORA JEFFREY RINTOUL 02/02/187822/05/1953
Place of Birth: Lahill, Largo, Fife.
Date of Election: 05/03/1951.
Profession: Ornithologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM (ROBERT) RICHARDSON ?-05/11/1847
Place of Birth: Stirlingshire.
Date of Election: 26/01/1818.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Appears as Robert Richardson in some RSE
rolls, Born c1779. Shapin states that Richardson was a
physician in Harrogate
Fellow Type: OF
ALFRED RITCHIE 17/01/1894- 24/08/1979
Date of Election: 03/03/1952.
Profession: Marine Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT CHARLES RICHET 26/08/1850- 14/12/1935
Place of Birth: Paris, France.
Date of Election: 21/06/1920.
Profession: Physiologist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate(Medicine), 1913
Fellow Type: HF
ALLAN WATT RITCHIE ?-12/08/1962
Date of Election: 03/03/1930.
Profession: Sanitary Inspector.
Fellow Type: OF
ANTHONY ELLIOT RITCHIE 30/03/1915- 14/09/1997
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/03/1951.
Profession: Physician, Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ERNEST RICHEY 24/04/1886- 19/06/1968
Place of Birth: Desertcreat Rectory, Co Tyrone,
Ireland.
Date of Election: 14/03/1927.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR DAVID RITCHIE 22/06/1891- 12/03/1967
Place of Birth: Oxford.
Date of Election: 04/03/1946.
Profession: Chemist, Philosopher.
Fellow Type: OF
FERDINAND VON RICHTHOFEN 05/05/183306/10/1905
Place of Birth: Carlsruhe, Silesia, Germany.
Date of Election: 01/03/1897.
Profession: Geologist, Geographer.
Fellow Type: HF
DAVID RITCHIE ?-10/01/1844
Place of Birth: Methven, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 01/01/1811.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Born 1763. Previously proposed by George
Dunbar, John Barclay, Thomas Thomson (Draft Minute
06/06/1808 NLS Acc10,000/12)
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES MILLES RIDDELL OF ARDNAMURCHAN &
SUNART, bart. 03/06/1787- 28/09/1861
Date of Election: 05/02/1821.
Profession: Landowner.
Notes: Campbell gives the name as James Milne
Riddell. Owner of the estate on which Strontianite
was mined. and Strontium described by T C Hope in
1791
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES RITCHIE 27/05/1882- 19/10/1958
Place of Birth: Port Elphinstone, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1916.
Profession: Zoologist, Archaeologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM JOHN BROWNLOW RIDDELL ?-18/02/1976
Date of Election: 02/03/1942.
Profession: Ophthalmologist.
Notes: Born 1899
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES BONNYMAN RITCHIE ?-04/04/1945
Place of Birth: Arbroath, Angus.
Date of Election: 25/05/1914.
Profession: Mathematician, Schoolmaster.
Notes: Born 1889
Fellow Type: OF
AUGUSTO RIGHI 27/08/1850- 08/06/1920
Date of Election: 04/11/1907.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR JOHN NEISH RITCHIE 19/01/1904- 28/09/1977
Place of Birth: Turriff, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1957.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
HARRY RILEY
Place of Birth: Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1940.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Notes: Born 1888
Fellow Type: OF
MOWBRAY RITCHIE 05/10/1905- 02/09/1966
Place of Birth: Peebles.
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
147/1
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PATRICK DUNBAR RITCHIE 17/04/1907- 01/11/1981
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 05/03/1951.
Profession: Chemist, Fine Art Conservationist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALFRED HENRY ROBERTS
Date of Election: 03/03/1919.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID LLOYD ROBERTS ?-29/09/1920
Place of Birth: Stockport, Cheshire.
Date of Election: 02/02/1880.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1835
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT PEEL RITCHIE
Date of Election: 15/01/1883.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1835, Died 1902
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM RITCHIE ?-29/01/1830
Date of Election: 26/01/1810.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Born c1748. Previously Proposed by Alexander
Christison, Andrew Brown, George Dunbar, 1809 [no
date], (Minutes of Proceedings 1783-91,NLS Acc
10,000/12)
Fellow Type: OF
EDWARD FREDERICK DENIS ROBERTS 16/06/192714/02/1990
Place of Birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Date of Election: 03/03/1980.
Profession: Librarian, Palaeographer.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ALEXANDER FRASER ROBERTS 08/09/189915/01/1987
Place of Birth: Foxhall, Henllan,Trefnant nr
Denbigh,Clwyd, Wales.
Date of Election: 08/03/1926.
Profession: Geneticist, Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM THOMAS RITCHIE 03/11/187307/02/1945
Date of Election: 18/12/1905.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
AUGUSTE ARTHUR DE LA RIVE 09/10/180127/11/1873
Place of Birth: Geneva, Switzerland.
Date of Election: 19/04/1858.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN VERNON REES- ROBERTS ?-06/03/1959
Date of Election: 07/07/1902.
Profession: Physician, Barrister-at-Law.
Fellow Type: OF
MARTYN JOHN ROBERTS 02/08/1806- 08/09/1878
Date of Election: 06/01/1840.
Profession: Applied Scientist, Explosives Expert.
Notes: Initiated several forms of galvanic battery
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ROBB ?-13/05/1949
Place of Birth: Kirriemuir, Angus.
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Born c1867
Fellow Type: OF
OWEN FINNES TEMPLE ROBERTS
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Astronomer, Meteorologist.
Fellow Type: OF
RICHARD ALEXANDER ROBB 07/09/190122/03/1977
Date of Election: 04/03/1929.
Profession: Mathematician, Statistician.
Notes: Member of the British Sprint Team, Olympic
Games, Amsterdam 1928
Fellow Type: OF
TRISTAN DAVID MARTIN ROBERTS
Date of Election: 03/03/1975.
Profession: Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
A. CUNNNINGHAM ROBERTSON 08/02/181602/12/1884
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/02/1879.
Profession: Soldier.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ROBB 24/06/1885- 18/12/1982
Place of Birth: Rochsolloch Farm, Airdrie,
Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Agriculutralist, Cereal Breeder.
Fellow Type: OF
ALAN ROBERTSON 21/02/1920- 25/04/1989
Place of Birth: Preston, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1966.
Profession: Geneticist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ANDREW ROBBIE ?-19/05/1977
Place of Birth: Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1968.
Profession: Geologist.
Notes: Born 1910
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ALEXANDER ROBERTSON 03/02/190805/09/1990
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 04/03/1946.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES ROBERTON ?-09/08/1889
Date of Election: 04/06/1877.
Profession: Lawyer.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER PROVAN ROBERTSON
Date of Election: 07/03/1966.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
ALEXANDER WILLIAM ROBERTS 04/12/185721/01/1938
Place of Birth: Farr, Sutherland.
Date of Election: 02/05/1898.
Profession: Schoolteacher, Astronomer, Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
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ANNE STRACHAN ROBERTSON ?-04/10/1997
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 03/03/1975.
Profession: Archaeologist, Numismatist.
Notes: Born c 1910
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES DUNCAN ROBERTSON 16/01/191222/12/1993
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 03/03/1952.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ARCHIBALD ROBERTSON 03/12/1789- 19/10/1864
Place of Birth: Cockburnspath, Berwickshire.
Date of Election: 02/05/1836.
Profession: Physician, Medical Author.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES JACKSON ROBERTSON
Date of Election: 03/03/1941.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES PATRICK BANNERMAN ROBERTSON, BARON
ROBERTSON 10/08/1845- 01/02/1909
Place of Birth: Manse of Forteviot, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 05/04/1886.
Profession: Advocate, Barrister.
Fellow Type: OF
ARCHIBALD ENEAS ROBERTSON ?-22/06/1958
Place of Birth: Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1946.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Mountaineer.
Notes: Born 1870, First to climb all the mountains in
Scotland over 3000 ft
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ARGYLL ROBERTSON ?-07/01/1855
Date of Election: 01/03/1824.
Profession: Ophthalmic Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1798
Fellow Type: OF
DOUGLAS MORAY COOPER LAMB ARGYLL
ROBERTSON ?-03/01/1909
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/04/1872.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1837. His name is associated with the
eye condition "Argyll Robertson Symptom"
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN DOUGLAS ROBERTSON ?-14/03/1961
Place of Birth: Arbroath, Angus.
Date of Election: 02/03/1942.
Profession: Biochemist. Physician.
Notes: Born 1903
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE ROBERTSON 23/07/1830- 07/02/1896
Date of Election: 03/01/1859.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MONTEATH ROBERTSON 24/07/190027/12/1989
Place of Birth: Nether Fordun, Auchterarder,
Perthshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Chemist, Crystallographer.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE A. ROBERTSON
Place of Birth: Midlothian.
Date of Election: 26/06/1792.
Profession: Sea Captain.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN STARK ROBERTSON, UNTIL C1783 STARK
Place of Birth: Fife.
Date of Election: 23/01/1792.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
GILES HENRY ROBERTSON ?-22/09/1987
Date of Election: 01/03/1982.
Profession: Art Historian.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ROBERTSON ?-12/01/1812
Date of Election: 30/01/1804.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born c. 1772. See Shapin 392 regarding the
identity of this James Robertson
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Mathematician, Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
JOSEPH M'GREGOR ROBERTSON ?-17/03/1925
Date of Election: 07/05/1900.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ROBERTSON ?-26/11/1795
Place of Birth: Cromarty, Ross-shire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Orientalist.
Notes: Born 1714
Fellow Type: OF
MONTGOMERY ROBERTSON
Date of Election: 02/04/1832.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born c.1806 Died 1878
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ROBERTSON 30/10/1908- 24/05/1986
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 06/03/1978.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
NOEL FARNIE ROBERTSON 24/12/1923- 02/07/1999
Place of Birth: Dundalk, Ireland.
Date of Election: 03/03/1969.
Profession: Botanist, Mycologist, Agriculturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ROBERTSON 02/01/1803- 02/12/1860
Place of Birth: Ardlaw, Old Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 02/02/1846.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT ROBERTSON ?-08/07/1917
Place of Birth: Thornhill, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 06/01/1896.
Profession: Mathematician, Schoolmaster.
Notes: Born 1850
Fellow Type: OF
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ROBERT ALEXANDER ROBERTSON ?-22/01/1935
Place of Birth: Rattray, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 07/07/1902.
Profession: Botanist.
Notes: Born 1873
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ALEXANDER ROBERTSON 08/12/187704/04/1940
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/03/1919.
Profession: Actuary.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT HUGH STANNUS ROBERTSON 17/06/191107/07/1999
Place of Birth: Greenwich, London.
Date of Election: 02/03/1970.
Profession: Mineralogist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERTSON, DAVID. SEE MACDONALD OF
KINLOCHMOIDART, DAVID ROBERTSON.
ROBERTSON, JAMES. SEE BARCLAY, JAMES
ROBERTSON.
ARTHUR ROBINSON 08/04/1862- 03/12/1948
Place of Birth: Manchester, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 24/01/1910.
Profession: Physician, Anatomist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR RUTHERFORD NESS ROBERTSON 29/09/191305/03/2001
Date of Election: 07/03/1983.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: HF
GEORGE CARR ROBINSON
Date of Election: 02/04/1877.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Died c.1907
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS ROBERTSON ?-15/11/1799
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
HAROLD ROPER ROBINSON 26/11/188928/11/1955
Place of Birth: 36 Ainslie Street, Ulverston,
Lancashire.
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS ROBERTSON
Date of Election: 06/03/1944.
Profession: Geologist.
Notes: Died 1980-1
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS GRAHAM ROBERTSON (LORD
ROBERTSON) 23/11/1881- 10/03/1944
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ROBERT ROBINSON 13/09/1886- 08/02/1975
Place of Birth: Rufford Farm, nr. Chesterfield,
Derbyshire.
Date of Election: 07/07/1930.
Profession: Organic Chemist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate Chemistry, 1947
Fellow Type: HF
W.G AITCHISON ROBERTSON ?-18/11/1946
Date of Election: 03/02/1896.
Profession: Physician, Barrister.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS ROMNEY ROBINSON 23/04/179228/02/1882
Place of Birth: St Anne's, Dublin.
Date of Election: 03/04/1876.
Profession: Astronomer, Mathematician, Physicist,
Minister of Religion.
Notes: Campbell gives date of death as 7/3/1882.
Inventor of the Cup Anemometer 1846
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM ROBERTSON ?-04/03/1803
Place of Birth: Fordyce, Banffshire.
Date of Election: 28/01/1799.
Profession: Advocate, Historian.
Notes: Born 1740
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ROBERTSON
Date of Election: 18/03/1907.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon, Bacteriologist.
Notes: Not included in Subsequent RSE Lists
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN ROBISON 11/06/1778- 07/03/1843
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 22/01/1816.
Profession: Scientist, Mechanical Inventor.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ROBERTSON, LORD ROBERTSON
15/12/1753- 20/11/1835
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ROBISON ?-30/01/1805
Place of Birth: Boghall, Baldernock, Stirlingshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physicist, Mathematician.
Notes: born 1739
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ROBERTSON 08/01/1818- 25/08/1882
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 16/01/1860.
Profession: Physician, Statistician.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR HUGH NORWOOD ROBSON 18/10/191711/12/1977
Place of Birth: Langholm, Dumfriesshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1975.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ROBERTSON 19/09/1721- 11/06/1793
Place of Birth: Manse of Borthwick, Midlothian.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Historian.
Fellow Type: OF
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JOHN MICHAEL ROBSON 13/12/1900- 18/02/1982
Place of Birth: Belgium.
Date of Election: 07/03/1932.
Profession: Physician, Pharmacologist.
Notes: Removed from Roll 1968-69, Reinstated 1970
Fellow Type: OF
ALFRED SHERWOOD ROMER 28/12/189405/11/1973
Place of Birth: White Plains, New York, USA.
Date of Election: 06/07/1959.
Profession: Vertebrate Palaeontologist.
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM WALLACE ROBSON 20/06/192331/07/1993
Place of Birth: Plymouth, Devon.
Date of Election: 07/03/1988.
Profession: Literary Critic.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID RONALD ?-07/07/1960
Place of Birth: Stirlingshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1916.
Profession: Sanitary Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
EDMUND RONALDS ?-09/09/1889
Place of Birth: Canonbury Square,London.
Date of Election: 03/02/1862.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: born 1819
Fellow Type: OF
JEAN CASIMIR HENRI HILAIRE ROCHE ?-24/05/1992
Date of Election: 07/03/1983.
Profession: Biochemist.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN FLEMING RODGER
Date of Election: 01/05/1876.
Profession: Lawyer.
Notes: died 1878-9
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ALLAN FYNES ROOK 01/05/1926- 06/01/1987
Place of Birth: nr. Scarborough, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1973.
Profession: Agriculturalist, Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ROEBUCK OF KINNEIL ?-16/07/1794
Place of Birth: Sheffield, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician, Inventor, Entrepreneur,
Landowner.
Notes: born 1718. Invented lead-chamber method of
manufacturing sulphuric acid
Fellow Type: OF
GUSTAVUS ROSE 18/03/1798- 15/07/1873
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany.
Date of Election: 07/03/1825.
Profession: Chemist, Mineralogist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROSEBERY, 5TH EARL OF. SEE PRIMROSE,
ARCHIBALD PHILIP.
HENRY DARWIN ROGERS 01/08/1808- 29/05/1866
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Date of Election: 18/02/1856.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: HF
ROSEBERY, 6TH EARL OF. SEE PRIMROSE, ALBERT
EDWARD HARRY MAYER ARCHIBALD.
ROSENTHAL, JAMES HERMAN. SEE KEMNAL,
JAMES HERMAN ROSENTHAL.
JOHN ROGERSON ?-21/12/1823
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER DAVID ROSS 07/09/1883- 14/12/1966
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 18/01/1909.
Profession: Physicist, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN JOHSTON ROGERSON
Date of Election: 06/06/1881.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Notes: died 1902-3
Fellow Type: OF
ALLAN DAWSON ROSS 22/02/1909- 06/09/1982
Date of Election: 03/03/1941.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
ADAM ROLLAND OF GASK ?-18/08/1819
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: born 1734. According to Campbell, Prototype
of Pleydell in "Guy Mannering", but see notes for
Crosbie
Fellow Type: OF
DONALD ROSS
Date of Election: 02/02/1880.
Profession: Educationalist.
Notes: died 1883
Fellow Type: OF
EDWARD BURNS ROSS 28/09/1881- 11/01/1947
Place of Birth: Maud, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1921.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE ROMANES
Date of Election: 23/01/1905.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Photograph NLS Acc10000/380
Fellow Type: OF
HORATIO ROSS 05/09/1801- 06/12/1886
Place of Birth: Rossie Castle, Angus.
Date of Election: 05/01/1857.
Profession: Soldier, Sportsman,Politician.
Notes: Winner of the first recorded Steeplechase
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM HUGH COWIE ROMANIS
Date of Election: 08/03/1926.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
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JOHN ROSS ?-09/07/1814
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Philologist.
Notes: born 1719
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS WILLIAM RUMBLE 26/12/183221/04/1883
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 07/02/1881.
Profession: Architect, Civil Engineer, Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MUIRHEAD ROSS
Date of Election: 03/03/1947.
Profession: Actuary.
Notes: Died, August 1986
Fellow Type: OF
RUMFORD, COUNT VON. SEE THOMPSON,
BENJAMIN.
HAROLD STANLEY RUSE 12/02/1905- 20/10/1974
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
MARION AMELIA SPENCE ROSS 09/04/190303/01/1994
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/03/1951.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE STANLEY RUSHBROOKE 19/01/191514/12/1995
Date of Election: 01/03/1954.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR RONALD ROSS 13/05/1857- 16/09/1932
Place of Birth: Almora, North West Nepal,.
Date of Election: 04/07/1921.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Nobel Laureate Physiology & Medicine 1902
Fellow Type: HF
FRANCIS ALWYN RUSHWORTH 02/07/192019/08/1997
Place of Birth: Cleckheaton,Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1960.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROSSE, EARL OF. SEE PARSONS, WILLIAM.
ALEXANDER RUSSELL (RUSSEL) 10/12/181418/07/1876
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/01/1870.
Profession: Journalist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ROTHERHAM (ROTHERAM) ?-06/11/1804
Place of Birth: Probably at Hexham,
Northumberland.
Date of Election: 23/01/1792.
Profession: Physicist, Physician.
Notes: born c1750
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER DURIE RUSSELL ?-20/01/1955
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 18/12/1905.
Profession: Schoolmaster, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
NATHANIEL MAYER VICTOR ROTHSCHILD, BARON
ROTHSCHILD 31/10/1910- 19/03/1990
Date of Election: 03/03/1986.
Profession: Investment Banker.
Fellow Type: HF
ALEXANDER JAMES RUSSELL 21/06/181408/01/1887
Date of Election: 06/12/1852.
Profession: Writer to the Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS ROWATT 07/11/1879- 07/04/1950
Place of Birth: Kew, Surrey.
Date of Election: 04/03/1935.
Profession: Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
CLAUDE RUSSELL
Date of Election: 19/01/1824.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Died 1846
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY AUGUSTUS ROWLAND 27/11/184816/04/1901
Place of Birth: Honesdale, Pennsylvania, USA.
Date of Election: 01/03/1897.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: HF
L.L. ROWLAND ?-19/01/1909
Date of Election: 01/03/1880.
Profession: Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR DAVID RUSSELL ?-12/05/1956
Place of Birth: Silverburn, Leven, Fife.
Date of Election: 03/03/1930.
Profession: Paper Manufacturer.
Notes: Born 1872
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ROXBURGH 03/06/1751- 18/02/1815
Place of Birth: Underwood, Craigie, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 04/01/1791.
Profession: Surgeon, Botanist.
Notes: The genus Roxburghia is named after him
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID FRANCIS OLIPHANT RUSSELL ?-03/01/1993
Place of Birth: Rothes House, Fife.
Date of Election: 04/03/1974.
Profession: Paper Maker, Philanthropist.
Notes: Born 1915
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ROY 04/05/1726- 01/07/1790
Place of Birth: Milton Head, Carluke, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 28/01/1788.
Profession: Military Surveyor, Antiquarian.
Notes: One of the founders of the Ordnance Survey.
First to make a general survey of Scotland
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY NORRIS RUSSELL 25/10/1877- 18/02/1957
Place of Birth: Oyster Bay, New York, USA.
Date of Election: 04/07/1938.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
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JAMES RUSSELL ?-14/08/1836
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1754
Fellow Type: OF
ERNEST RUTHERFORD, BARON RUTHERFORD
30/08/1871- 19/10/1937
Place of Birth: Spring Grove (Brightwater), Nelson,
New Zealand.
Date of Election: 04/07/1921.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1908
Fellow Type: HF
JAMES RUSSELL 09/09/1801- 21/11/1862
Date of Election: 05/03/1827.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN RUTHERFORD ?-03/02/1811
Date of Election: 25/06/1804.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES RUSSELL ?-19/03/1947
Date of Election: 06/01/1902.
Profession: Tweed Manufacturer, Physicist.
Notes: Photograph NLS Acc10000/380
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM RUTHERFORD 20/04/1839- 21/02/1899
Place of Birth: Ancrum Craig, Roxburghshire.
Date of Election: 18/01/1869.
Profession: Physician, Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES ALEXANDER RUSSELL 06/04/184622/01/1918
Place of Birth: Glassellan House, Skye.
Date of Election: 01/03/1880.
Profession: Physician, Elected to Public Service.
Notes: Pioneer in Public Health
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW RUTHERFURD OF CROSSHILL, FORMERLY
BERVIE, LORD RUTHERFURD 21/06/179113/12/1854
Date of Election: 02/01/1849.
Profession: Advocate, Politician.
Notes: DNB gives date of birth as 13/12/1791
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN RUSSELL 22/02/1780- 30/01/1862
Place of Birth: Dunkeld, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 03/02/1823.
Profession: Writer to the Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN GEOFFREY RUTHERGLEN 16/08/192026/08/1976
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 02/03/1964.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN RUSSELL 22/01/1753- 02/12/1792
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Writer to the Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES RUTHVEN, BARON RUTHVEN 17/10/177727/07/1853
Place of Birth: Melville House, Fife.
Date of Election: 07/03/1825.
Profession: Soldier.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN SCOTT RUSSELL 08/05/1808- 08/06/1882
Place of Birth: Parkhead, Glasgow.
Date of Election: 16/01/1837.
Profession: Civil Engineer, Naval Architect.
Notes: Built the "Great Eastern". A promoter of the
Great Exhibition of 1851. Discoverer of the wave of
translation and developed the wave-line system of
ship construction
Fellow Type: OF
PAUL SABATIER 05/11/1859- 14/08/1941
Place of Birth: Carcassonne, Aude, France.
Date of Election: 02/07/1934.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate, Chemistry 1912. Year of
birth given as 1859 by Roy. Soc and 1854 in RSE
obituary
Fellow Type: HF
ROBERT RUSSELL
Date of Election: 03/01/1859.
Profession: Agriculturalist, Meteorologist.
Notes: Died 1871
Fellow Type: OF
SIR EDWARD SABINE 14/10/1788- 26/06/1883
Place of Birth: Great Britain Street, Dublin, Ireland.
Date of Election: 04/12/1865.
Profession: Soldier, Geophysicist, Astronomer.
Notes: Pioneer in establishing the science of
terrestrial magnetism
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM RITCHIE RUSSELL
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
DANIEL RUTHERFORD 03/11/1749- 15/12/1819
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician, Chemist, Botanist.
Notes: Recognised nitrogen as a constituent of the
atmosphere
Fellow Type: OF
EDWIN O SACHS 05/04/1870- 09/09/1919
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 04/07/1904.
Profession: Architect, Fire Prevention Expert.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM SADDLER
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
DANIEL EDWIN RUTHERFORD 04/01/190609/11/1966
Date of Election: 05/03/1934.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
PERCY JOHNSTON JOHNSTON- SAINT
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
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CALEB WILLIAM SALEEBY ?-09/12/1940
Date of Election: 19/02/1906.
Profession: Physician, Eugenist.
Notes: Born 1878
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM RUTHERFORD SANDERS 17/02/182818/02/1881
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/01/1870.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE SALMON 25/09/1819- 22/01/1904
Place of Birth: Cork, Ireland.
Date of Election: 17/01/1881.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Mathematician.
Notes: Proc Roy Soc gives place of birth as Dublin
Fellow Type: HF
JAMES SANDERSON 21/05/1812- 28/03/1891
Place of Birth: Dunbar, East Lothian.
Date of Election: 06/04/1863.
Profession: Military Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN SCOTT BURDON- SANDERSON, bart.
21/12/1828- 23/11/1905
Place of Birth: Jesmond, Newcastle-on-Tyne,
Northumberland.
Date of Election: 07/07/1884.
Profession: Physician,Physiologist.
Fellow Type: HF
EDWARD THEODORE SALVESEN, LORD SALVESEN
20/07/1857- 23/02/1942
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/03/1916.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
HAROLD KEITH SALVESEN ?-01/02/1970
Date of Election: 05/03/1934.
Profession: Soldier, Businessman.
Notes: Born c.1898
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM SANDERSON
Date of Election: 07/12/1896.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died 1907-8
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY ADOLPH SALVESEN 05/06/186013/05/1924
Place of Birth: Weedingshall,Polmont,Stirlingshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Mechanical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
DANIEL FOX SANDFORD ?-20/08/1906
Date of Election: 18/01/1864.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Born 1831.
Fellow Type: OF
ERSKINE DOUGLAS SANDFORD 31/07/179304/09/1861
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/02/1828.
Profession: Advocate, Legal author.
Fellow Type: OF
THEODORE EMILE SALVESEN OF CULRAIN ?14/01/1942
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 25/05/1914.
Profession: Soldier, Businessman.
Notes: Born 1863
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES SANDILANDS 29/10/1892- 02/03/1971
Place of Birth: Musselburgh, East Lothian.
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
RALPH ALLAN SAMPSON 25/06/1866- 07/11/1939
Place of Birth: Skull, Co. Cork, Ireland.
Date of Election: 04/12/1911.
Profession: Astronomer, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
SANDS, LORD. SEE JOHNSTON, CHRISTOPHER
NICHOLSON.
SIR JOHN SMITH SAMUEL 02/04/1870- 10/11/1934
Place of Birth: Kippen, Stirlingshire.
Date of Election: 03/11/1902.
Profession: Author.
Fellow Type: OF
EDWARD SANG 30/01/1805- 23/12/1890
Place of Birth: Kirkcaldy, Fife.
Date of Election: 02/05/1836.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Devoted many years to logarithmic
calculations
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID GEORGE SANDEMAN 28/06/175724/05/1835
Place of Birth: Perth.
Date of Election: 19/01/1835.
Profession: Merchant, Banker.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES HENDERSON SANG ?-10/02/2002
Date of Election: 02/03/1959.
Profession: Zoologist, Geneticist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE SANDEMAN
Date of Election: 01/04/1895.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
FREDERICK WHALLEY SANSOME 27/02/190226/03/1981
Date of Election: 03/03/1930.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
IAN SANDEMAN ?-12/05/1980
Date of Election: 14/03/1927.
Profession: Schoolmaster, Physicist.
Notes: Died 1979-80
Fellow Type: OF
W L SARGANT
Date of Election: 05/03/1900.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
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BIJALI BEHARI SARKAR 17/11/1893- 28/02/1972
Place of Birth: Calcutta, India.
Date of Election: 06/03/1922.
Profession: Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
HAROLD SCARBOROUGH 27/03/1909- 22/08/1988
Date of Election: 03/03/1941.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT WILFRED SCARFF ?-19/01/1970
Place of Birth: Dalmuir,Glasgow.
Date of Election: 06/03/1944.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Born c 1900
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES SAROLEA 24/10/1870- 11/03/1953
Place of Birth: Tongres, Belgium.
Date of Election: 06/07/1903.
Profession: Philologist.
Notes: Photograph NLS Acc10000/380
Fellow Type: OF
SIR EDWARD ALBERT SHARPEY- SCHAFER
02/06/1850- 29/03/1935
Place of Birth: Hornsey, London.
Date of Election: 05/03/1900.
Profession: Physician, Physiologist.
Notes: Elected as Edward Albert Schafer. Photograph
NLS Acc 10000/380
Fellow Type: OF
GEORG OSSIAN SARS 20/04/1837- 09/04/1927
Date of Election: 21/06/1920.
Profession: Marine Zoologist.
Fellow Type: HF
GEORGE ALFRED LEON SARTON 31/08/188422/03/1956
Place of Birth: Ghent, Belgium.
Date of Election: 06/07/1936.
Profession: Mathematician, Historian of Science.
Fellow Type: HF
GIOVANNI VIRGINIO SCHIAPARELLI 14/03/183504/07/1910
Place of Birth: Savigliano, Piedmont, Italy.
Date of Election: 01/03/1897.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
RICHARD SAUMAREZ 13/11/1764- 28/01/1835
Place of Birth: Guernsey, Channel Islands.
Date of Election: 04/03/1822.
Profession: Surgeon, Medical author.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT SCHLAPP 18/07/1899- 31/05/1991
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 14/03/1927.
Profession: Mathematician, Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
RICHARD LORRAINE DE CHASTENEY HOLBOURNE
SAUNDERS 29/05/1908- 21/12/1995
Place of Birth: Grahamstown, Cape Province, South
Africa.
Date of Election: 04/03/1946.
Profession: Physician, Anatomist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHANN GOTTFRIED SCHMEISSER 24/06/176705/02/1837
Place of Birth: Osterode, Harz, Germany.
Date of Election: 26/01/1795.
Profession: Apothecary, Mineralogist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM SAUNDERS 01/01/1743- 29/05/1817
Place of Birth: Banff, Banffshire.
Date of Election: 23/01/1792.
Profession: Physician, Chemist, Pharmacist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHANNNES SCHMIDT ?-22/02/1933
Date of Election: 04/07/1927.
Profession: Marine Biologist.
Notes: Born c 1877
Fellow Type: HF
THOMAS SAVAGE
Date of Election: 03/06/1895.
Profession: Obstetrician.
Notes: Died 1907-8
Fellow Type: OF
LEONHARD SCHMITZ 06/03/1807- 28/05/1890
Place of Birth: Eupen, near Aix-la-Chapelle,.
Date of Election: 20/04/1846.
Profession: Educationalist, Historical Writer.
Notes: Schmitz lost his right arm when a child
Fellow Type: OF
ALAN SAVILLE
Date of Election: 01/03/1976.
Profession: Marine Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH SCHONBEIN 18/10/179929/08/1868
Place of Birth: Metzingen, Germany.
Date of Election: 05/12/1864.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR JAMES SAWYER 11/08/1844- 27/01/1919
Place of Birth: Carlisle, Cumberland.
Date of Election: 02/03/1891.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Photograph NLS Acc 10,000/380
Fellow Type: OF
ADOLF PAUL SCHULZE 08/10/1840- 03/01/1891
Place of Birth: Crimmitschau, Saxony.
Date of Election: 06/06/1887.
Profession: Optical Scientist.
Fellow Type: OF
MAURICE GEORGE SAY 08/06/1902- 14/11/1992
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 04/03/1935.
Profession: Electrical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
HEINRICH CHRISTIAN SCHUMACHER 03/09/178028/12/1850
Place of Birth: Bramstedt, Holstein, Germany.
Date of Election: 07/01/1822.
Profession: Astronomer, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN GRAHAM SCAIFE 23/09/1934- 05/06/1991
Place of Birth: Leeds, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1991.
Profession: Molecular Biologist.
Fellow Type: OF
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SIR ARTHUR SCHUSTER 12/09/1851- 14/10/1934
Place of Birth: Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
Date of Election: 03/07/1916.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: HF
HENRY SCOTT, 3RD DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH
13/09/1746- 11/01/1812
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES SCOBIE
Date of Election: 03/03/1980.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
SIR HENRY HAROLD SCOTT
Date of Election: 05/03/1917.
Profession: Bacteriologist, Pathologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM SCORESBY 05/10/1789- 21/03/1857
Place of Birth: Crofton nr. Whitby, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 25/01/1819.
Profession: Master Mariner, Explorer, Minister of
Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
HUGH SCOTT OF GALA ?-19/12/1877
Date of Election: 18/04/1853.
Profession: Soldier.
Notes: Born 1822
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM SCOT (SCOTT)
Date of Election: 07/05/1838.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ROBINSON SCOTT ?-29/08/1821
Date of Election: 24/01/1820.
Profession: Naval Surgeon, Botanist.
Notes: Born 1789
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER SCOTT 28/12/1853- 10/03/1947
Place of Birth: Selkirk.
Date of Election: 01/06/1885.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN SCOTT 05/09/1830- 19/05/1903
Place of Birth: Greenock, Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 07/05/1888.
Profession: Engineer, Shipbuilder.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER SCOTT 04/07/1890- 18/08/1951
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 03/03/1919.
Profession: Geologist.
Notes: Authority on materials for the refractory &
ceramic industries
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN SCOTT 26/01/1797- 03/05/1853
Date of Election: 21/01/1850.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Date of death is also cited as 18/1/1859
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN HALLIDAY SCOTT 28/12/1851- 25/02/1914
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/05/1880.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER RITCHIE SCOTT ?-27/11/1962
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/03/1919.
Profession: Mathematician, Statistician,
Schoolmaster.
Notes: Born 1874
Fellow Type: OF
MICHAEL SCOTT
Date of Election: 03/05/1875.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Born 1818, died 1890
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES SCOTT ?-23/03/1794
Place of Birth: Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 04/01/1791.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born c1763
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WALTER SCOTT OF ABBOTSFORD, bart.
15/08/1771- 21/09/1832
Place of Birth: College Wynd, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 23/06/1800.
Profession: Advocate, Novelist, Poet. Antiquary.
Notes: Also proposed by Sir George S Mackenzie,
Robert Kennedy, William Robertson (Literary Section
Minute 17/02/1800 NLS Acc10,000/3)
Fellow Type: OF
DUKINFIELD HENRY SCOTT 28/11/1854- 29/01/1934
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 07/07/1930.
Profession: Botanist, Palaeobotanist.
Fellow Type: HF
WALTER FRANCIS SCOTT, 5TH DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH
25/11/1806- 16/04/1884
Date of Election: 21/01/1833.
Profession: Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE ALEXANDER SCOTT ?-08/04/1963
Place of Birth: Hawick, Roxburghshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1950.
Profession: Biologist, Schoolmaster.
Notes: Born 1888
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM SCOTT OF ANCRUM, bart. 26/07/180312/10/1871
Date of Election: 17/01/1840.
Profession: Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE IAN SCOTT 15/03/1907- 22/05/1989
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 01/03/1954.
Profession: Surgeon, Ophthalmologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM MORGAN SCOTT ?-11/10/1957
Date of Election: 02/03/1942.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
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SCOTT, SHEILA. SEE MACINTYRE, SHEILA SCOTT.
WILLIAM HIRST SENIOR
Place of Birth: Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1947.
Profession: Civil Servant, Agriculturalist.
Notes: Born c 1904. Died October 1984
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW E. SCOUGAL ?-06/11/1916
Place of Birth: Rothesay, Bute.
Date of Election: 01/07/1889.
Profession: Civil Servant.
Notes: Born April 1846
Fellow Type: OF
NICHOLAS SENN ?-02/01/1908
Place of Birth: Switzerland.
Date of Election: 05/05/1902.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1844
Fellow Type: OF
GLENN THEODORE SEABORG 19/04/191225/02/1999
Date of Election: 06/07/1959.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate, Chemistry 1951
[note added 22/9/05- info from archive query (VMH)]
Fellow Type: HF
SIR BRUCE GORDON SETON, bart. 13/10/186803/07/1932
Date of Election: 08/03/1926.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon, Historian.
Fellow Type: OF
SEAFIELD, EARL OF. SEE GRANT, LEWIS
ALEXANDER.
SEAFORTH, BARON. SEE MACKENZIE, FRANCIS
HUMBERSTON.
GEORGE SETON OF CARESTON 25/06/182214/11/1908
Place of Birth: Perth.
Date of Election: 18/03/1872.
Profession: Advocate, Genealogist.
Fellow Type: OF
F. IGNACIO RICARDE- SEAVER
Date of Election: 15/01/1872.
Profession: Geologist.
Notes: Died 1905-6. Also appears in RSE records as
Major J Ignacio Ricarde-Lever, and Major F Ignacio
Rickard
Fellow Type: OF
A.H. SEXTON
Date of Election: 07/03/1887.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
PIETRO ANGELO SECCHI 29/06/1818- 26/02/1878
Place of Birth: Reggio, Lombardy, Italy.
Date of Election: 04/12/1865.
Profession: Astronomer, Spectroscopist.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN WEBB SEYMOUR, LORD WEBB SEYMOUR
07/02/1777- 15/04/1819
Date of Election: 28/01/1799.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
PRIDEAUX JOHN SELBY 23/07/1788- 27/03/1867
Place of Birth: Bondgate Street, Alnwick,
Northumberland.
Date of Election: 05/03/1827.
Profession: Ornithologist, Entomologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SWARUPCHAND MOHANLAL SHAH 30/12/190521/04/1996
Date of Election: 04/03/1957.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
IRVING JOHN SELIKOFF ?-20/05/1992
Date of Election: 05/03/1979.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN SHAND ?-12/03/1895
Date of Election: 07/05/1894.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1823
Fellow Type: OF
SELKIRK, 4TH EARL OF. SEE DOUGLAS, DUNBAR
HAMILTON.
SAMUEL JAMES SHAND 29/10/1882- 11/04/1957
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/03/1952.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SELKIRK, 5TH EARL OF. SEE DOUGLAS, THOMAS.
WILLIAM YOUNG SELLAR 22/02/1825- 12/10/1890
Place of Birth: Morvich, Sutherland.
Date of Election: 01/02/1864.
Profession: Classicist.
Fellow Type: OF
ERNEST CLAUDE SHANKLAND ?-16/12/1951
Place of Birth: Montrose, Angus.
Date of Election: 03/03/1930.
Profession: Mariner, RNR.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM SELLER ?-11/04/1869
Place of Birth: Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1850.
Profession: Physician. Botanist.
Notes: Born 1798
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN WALKER SHARPE 21/10/1916- 14/08/1997
Place of Birth: Stenhousemuir, Stirlingshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1970.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
NIKOLAI NIKOLAEVICH SEMENOV 16/04/189625/09/1986
Place of Birth: Saratov,Volga City, Russia.
Date of Election: 04/07/1966.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1956
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM SHARPEY 01/04/1802- 11/04/1880
Place of Birth: Arbroath, Angus.
Date of Election: 16/03/1834.
Profession: Surgeon, Physiologist.
Notes: "Father of British Physiology"
Fellow Type: OF
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ALLAN SHARPLES
Date of Election: 03/03/1969.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR CHARLES SCOTT SHERRINGTON 27/11/185704/03/1952
Place of Birth: Islington London.
Date of Election: 04/11/1907.
Profession: Physiologist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate Physiology & Medicine
1932
Fellow Type: HF
FORBES WILMOT SHARPLEY 07/01/189706/10/1965
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland.
Date of Election: 14/03/1927.
Profession: Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES MACKAY SHEWAN 06/12/1909- 23/06/1988
Date of Election: 07/03/1960.
Profession: Chemist, Bacteriologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN JAMES M'INTOSH SHAW
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Born c1887.Died September 1940
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM SHIELD
Date of Election: 02/07/1894.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM NAPIER SHAW 04/03/185423/03/1945
Place of Birth: 84 Vyse Street, Birmingham,.
Date of Election: 03/07/1933.
Profession: Meteorologist.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN SHOOLBRED ?-12/10/1831
Date of Election: 25/01/1819.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS SHORTT 17/06/1788- 05/03/1843
Place of Birth: Nr. Dumfries.
Date of Election: 02/12/1822.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ERNEST SHEARER ?-14/09/1945
Place of Birth: Stromness, Orkney.
Date of Election: 14/03/1927.
Profession: Agriculturalist.
Notes: Born 1879
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN SIBBALD 24/06/1833- 20/04/1905
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 15/01/1872.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES FLEMING SHEARER
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Died 1974-5
Fellow Type: OF
CARL THEODORE ERNST VON SIEBOLD,
16/02/1804- 07/04/1885
Place of Birth: Wurzburg, Germany.
Date of Election: 05/12/1864.
Profession: Physician, Zoologist.
Fellow Type: HF
EDWARD JAMES SHEARMAN ?-02/10/1878
Place of Birth: Wington, Somerset.
Date of Election: 07/02/1870.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Notes: Born1798
Fellow Type: OF
KARL MANNE GEORG SIEGBAHN 03/12/188626/09/1978
Place of Birth: Orebro, Sweden.
Date of Election: 06/07/1953.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate, Physics 1924
Fellow Type: HF
THOMAS SHEEPSHANKS
Date of Election: 02/03/1829.
Profession: Educationalist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN WILLIAM SHEPHERD ?-26/11/1912
Date of Election: 03/05/1897.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT SIMPSON SILVER 13/03/1913- 21/04/1997
Date of Election: 02/03/1964.
Profession: Physicist, Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR SAMUEL SHEPHERD (SHEPPARD) 06/04/176003/11/1840
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 24/01/1820.
Profession: Barrister Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
SILVERTOP, HENRY THOMAS MAIRE. SEE WITHAM,
HENRY THOMAS MAIRE.
SAMUEL DAVID SILVEY
Date of Election: 06/03/1967.
Profession: Statistician.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
WILLIAM FLEETWOOD SHEPPARD 21/11/186312/10/1936
Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Date of Election: 07/03/1932.
Profession: Barrister, Mathematician, Educationalist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES SIME 31/10/1843- 20/03/1895
Date of Election: 02/05/1870.
Profession: Biologist, Historian, Literary Critic,
Journalist.
Fellow Type: OF
DAME SHEILA PATRICIA VIOLET SHERLOCK (MRS
JAMES) 31/03/1918- 30/12/2001
Date of Election: 06/03/1989.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: HF
JULIUS LEONARD SIMKIN ?-19/01/1991
Date of Election: 05/03/1979.
Profession: Biochemist.
Fellow Type: OF
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NORMAN WILLISON SIMMONDS ?-04/01/2002
Date of Election: 02/03/1970.
Profession: Biologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR HENRY HAVENS SINCLAIR 20/02/186830/06/1962
Place of Birth: Kenmore, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Surgeon, Ophthalmologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER RUDOLPH BARBOUR SIMPSON ?21/04/1977
Date of Election: 07/03/1932.
Profession: Geographer.
Fellow Type: OF
D. S. SINCLAIR
Date of Election: 05/12/1887.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ALEXANDER RUSSELL SIMPSON 30/04/183506/04/1916
Place of Birth: Bathgate, West Lothian.
Date of Election: 06/02/1871.
Profession: Physician, Obstetrician.
Notes: Died as result of a motor accident
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN SINCLAIR OF ULBSTER, bart. 10/05/175421/12/1835
Place of Birth: Thurso Castle, Caithness.
Date of Election: 25/06/1798.
Profession: Advocate, Landowner, Agriculturalist,
Statist, Author.
Notes: MP 1780-4 Caithness, 1784-90 Lostwithiel,
1790-6 Caithness, 1797-1802 Petersfield, 18026,1807-11 Caithness
Fellow Type: OF
SIR GEORGE CLARKE SIMPSON 02/09/187801/01/1965
Place of Birth: Derby.
Date of Election: 01/07/1946.
Profession: Meteorologist.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN SINCLAIR 20/08/1797- 22/05/1875
Date of Election: 02/03/1829.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Biologist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE FREELAND BARBOUR SIMPSON ?08/04/1958
Date of Election: 18/05/1908.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon, Gynaecologist.
Notes: Born c1875
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ANGUS SINCLAIR 27/09/1905- 21/12/1954
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Philosopher.
Fellow Type: OF
HUGH CAMERON SIMPSON
Date of Election: 04/03/1968.
Profession: Physicist, Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
HAROLD SIGISMUND SINGTON 31/10/187814/02/1956
Date of Election: 07/03/1949.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon, Anaesthetist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES YOUNG SIMPSON, bart. 07/06/181106/05/1870
Place of Birth: Bathgate, West Lothian.
Date of Election: 18/03/1844.
Profession: Physician, Archaeologist.
Notes: Introduced Chloroform as an Anaesthetic
Fellow Type: OF
BHAGAT (BHAGVAT) SINJEE (SINH JEE OR SINHGEE)
?-11/03/1944
Date of Election: 05/02/1900.
Profession: Physician, Hereditary Autocrat.
Notes: Born 1860, Campbell gives 1867
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES YOUNG SIMPSON ?-20/05/1933
Date of Election: 02/07/1900.
Profession: Zoologist.
Notes: Born 1873
Fellow Type: OF
JEAN CHARLES LEONARD SISMONDE DE SISMONDI
09/05/1773- 25/06/1842
Place of Birth: Geneva,Switzerland.
Date of Election: 01/06/1820.
Profession: Historian, Economist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN BAIRD SIMPSON 14/01/1894- 28/06/1960
Place of Birth: Glenferness, Ardclach, Nairnshire.
Date of Election: 09/03/1932.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS SIVRIGHT OF MEGGETLAND ?-06/11/1835
Place of Birth: Midlothian.
Date of Election: 27/01/1817.
Profession: Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
SUTHERLAND SIMPSON 03/02/1863- 03/03/1926
Place of Birth: Flotta, Orkney.
Date of Election: 20/02/1911.
Profession: Physician, Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW SKENE 28/02/1784- 02/04/1835
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 05/01/1829.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS BLANTYRE SIMPSON 27/07/189218/10/1954
Date of Election: 03/03/1952.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE SKENE ?-25/03/1803
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician, Natural Historian.
Notes: Born 1741
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS HARDY SIMPSON
Date of Election: 02/03/1970.
Profession: Marine Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
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JAMES SKENE OF RUBISLAW 07/03/177527/11/1864
Place of Birth: Rubislaw, Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 27/01/1817.
Profession: Advocate, Landowner, Artist.
Notes: 1791 succeeded to Rubislaw on death of
brother
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES CAMERON SMAIL ?-26/04/1970
Date of Election: 04/03/1929.
Profession: Technical Educationalist.
Notes: Born c.1881
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES SMALL 23/03/1889- 28/11/1955
Place of Birth: Brechin, Angus.
Date of Election: 08/03/1926.
Profession: Botanist, Plant Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM FORBES SKENE 07/06/1809- 29/08/1892
Place of Birth: Inverie, Kincardineshire.
Date of Election: 03/01/1859.
Profession: Writer to the Signet, Historian, Celtic
Scholar.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT SMALL 12/12/1732- 23/08/1808
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Mathematician,
Astronomer.
Notes: Established 1782, with Robert Stewart,
surgeon, a free medical dispensary which 10 years
later became Dundee Infirmary
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT TAYLOR SKINNER 22/05/1867- 31/08/1946
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 02/02/1903.
Profession: Schoolmaster, Mathematician,
Antiquarian.
Fellow Type: OF
EDWARD SMART ?-05/12/1939
Place of Birth: Forfar, Angus.
Date of Election: 03/06/1901.
Profession: Schoolmaster, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM SKINNER OF CORRA 26/07/182304/05/1901
Date of Election: 07/02/1876.
Profession: Writer to the Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN SMART 25/10/1907- 26/09/1986
Date of Election: 07/03/1949.
Profession: Zoologist, Entomologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ARCHIBALD ADAM SCOT- SKIRVING 29/06/186814/06/1930
Place of Birth: Campton, Drem, East Lothian.
Date of Election: 03/03/1924.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
RAYMOND SMART ?-19/03/1974
Place of Birth: Dundee, Angus.
Date of Election: 03/03/1969.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
CARL JOHAN FREDRIK SKOTTSBERG 01/12/188014/06/1963
Place of Birth: Karlshamn, Sweden.
Date of Election: 04/07/1949.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM MARSHALL SMART 09/03/188917/09/1975
Place of Birth: Doune, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
HARRY DAWSON SLACK 29/07/1907- 17/10/1982
Place of Birth: Littleover, Derby.
Date of Election: 03/03/1952.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT MARTIN STUART SMELLIE 01/04/192712/03/1988
Place of Birth: Rothesay, Bute.
Date of Election: 02/03/1964.
Profession: Biochemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES KIRKWOOD SLATER ?-08/10/1965
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Physician, Neurologist.
Notes: Born c 1900
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM SMELLIE ?-24/06/1795
Place of Birth: Pleasance, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Printer, Naturalist, Antiquary.
Notes: Born 1740
Fellow Type: OF
NOEL BRYAN SLATER 29/07/1912- 31/01/1973
Place of Birth: Blackburn, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1954.
Profession: Astronomer, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ROBERT SMELLIE ?-14/03/1973
Date of Election: 01/03/1920.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT HENRY SLATER 08/11/1900- 11/12/1952
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/03/1930.
Profession: Biochemist, Toxicologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ADAM SMITH 05/06/1723- 17/07/1790
Place of Birth: Kirkcaldy, Fife.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Political Economist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN SLIGO OF CARMYLE
Date of Election: 16/01/1832.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died c. 1858
Fellow Type: OF
160/1
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ADAM GILLIES SMITH
Date of Election: 20/04/1868.
Profession: Chartered Accountant.
Notes: Died 1899-1900
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE SMITH ?-19/11/1915
Place of Birth: Woolwich, London.
Date of Election: 06/04/1885.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Born 1851
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER SMITH 11/09/1865- 08/09/1922
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/12/1890.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE SMITH 04/06/1919- 12/09/1994
Date of Election: 03/03/1980.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR GEORGE ADAM SMITH 19/10/1856- 03/03/1942
Place of Birth: Calcutta, India.
Date of Election: 05/03/1917.
Profession: Theologian.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER MARTIN SMITH 16/04/189927/01/1990
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR GRAFTON ELLIOT SMITH 15/08/187101/01/1937
Place of Birth: Grafton, New South Wales, Australia.
Date of Election: 02/07/1934.
Profession: Anatomist, Anthropologist.
Fellow Type: HF
ALICK DRUMMOND BUCHANAN- SMITH, BARON
BALERNO 09/10/1898- 28/07/1984
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Geneticist.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY JOHN STEPHEN SMITH 02/11/182609/02/1883
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland.
Date of Election: 03/04/1876.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
ARCHIBALD SMITH OF JORDANHILL 10/08/181326/12/1872
Place of Birth: Greenhead, Glasgow.
Date of Election: 16/01/1837.
Profession: Barrister-at-Law, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
HORACE GEORGE SMITH ?-19/09/1988
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES SMITH 28/11/1932- 16/06/1997
Place of Birth: Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1990.
Profession: Animal Geneticist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES SMITH OF JORDANHILL 15/08/178217/01/1867
Place of Birth: Jordanhill, Glasgow.
Date of Election: 07/01/1822.
Profession: Merchant, Geologist, Biblical Critic.
Notes: Authority on Ancient Shipbuilding and
Navigation
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES MICHIE SMITH 13/07/1854- 27/09/1922
Place of Birth: Keig, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 03/04/1882.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID SMITH 13/01/1803- 18/12/1880
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/01/1839.
Profession: Writer to the Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES GREIG SMITH ?-29/05/1897
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 05/03/1883.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1854
Fellow Type: OF
DONALD SMITH
Date of Election: 07/02/1831.
Profession: Banker.
Notes: Died 1855
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES LORRAIN SMITH 02/08/1862- 18/04/1931
Place of Birth: Half Morton, Dumfriesshire.
Date of Election: 21/06/1915.
Profession: Physician, Pathologist.
Notes: RSE Proceedings gives date of birth as
21/8/1862
Fellow Type: OF
EDITH PHILIP SMITH
Date of Election: 02/03/1953.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
JAMES PARKER SMITH OF JORDANHILL
30/08/1854- 30/04/1929
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 07/03/1921.
Profession: Barrister-at-Law.
Notes: Parliamentary Private Secretary to Joseph
Chamberlain, 1900-1903
Fellow Type: OF
FREDERICK RANDALL SMITH 04/04/191104/11/1994
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/03/1962.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
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JOHN SMITH ?-15/04/1910
Date of Election: 17/04/1871.
Profession: Dental Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1825. Originated teaching of Dental
Surgery in Scotland
Fellow Type: OF
SIR THOMAS BROUN SMITH 03/12/191515/10/1988
Date of Election: 07/03/1977.
Profession: Barrister, Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM CHARLES SMITH 03/09/1849- 10/05/1915
Date of Election: 04/01/1904.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN (C. DOUGLAS) SMITH ?-04/02/1879
Date of Election: 02/04/1866.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1798
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM HANNEFORD- SMITH ?-14/05/1954
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Engineer, Publisher.
Notes: Born c 1878
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ALEXANDER SMITH ?-17/08/1883
Place of Birth: Hope Street, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 20/04/1863.
Profession: Physician, Archaeologist, Ornithologist.
Notes: Born June 1818
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM RAMSAY SMITH 27/11/1859- 28/09/1937
Place of Birth: King Edward, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 17/12/1906.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
NORMAN KEMP SMITH ?-03/09/1958
Place of Birth: Dundee, Angus.
Date of Election: 07/03/1921.
Profession: Philosopher.
Notes: Born 1872
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM ROBERT SMITH 28/05/185017/03/1932
Place of Birth: Plumstead, Kent.
Date of Election: 07/06/1880.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon, Barrister.
Fellow Type: OF
PERCY JAMES LANCELOT SMITH
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Schoomaster, Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ROBERTSON SMITH 08/11/184631/03/1894
Place of Birth: New Farm, Keig, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 16/01/1871.
Profession: Theologian, Semitic Scholar.
Notes: Co-Editor, 9th. Edition (1881) Encyclopoedia
Britannica
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT ALLAN SMITH 14/05/1909- 16/05/1980
Place of Birth: Kelso, Roxburghshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1969.
Profession: Physicist, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT MACKAY SMITH ?-04/04/1888
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 03/12/1855.
Profession: Philanthropist, Geologist, Meteorologist.
Notes: Born 1802
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM WRIGHT SMITH 02/02/197515/12/1956
Place of Birth: Parkend, Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1919.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ROBERT MURDOCH SMITH 18/08/183503/07/1900
Place of Birth: Bank Street, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1886.
Profession: Military Engineer, Diplomat,
Archaeologist, Expert on Persian Art.
Fellow Type: OF
JAN CHRISTIAAN SMUTS 24/05/1870- 11/09/1950
Place of Birth: Bovenplaats, nr Riebeek
West,Malmesbury, S. Africa.
Date of Election: 05/07/1943.
Profession: Statesman,Philosopher, Barrister-at-Law.
Fellow Type: HF
STEPHEN SMITH ?-15/02/1950
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 20/02/1911.
Profession: Engineer, Goldsmith.
Notes: Born1867
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES PIAZZI SMYTH 03/01/1819- 21/02/1900
Place of Birth: Naples, Italy.
Date of Election: 07/12/1846.
Profession: Astronomer.
Notes: Pioneered investigations in infra-red
astronomy
Fellow Type: OF
SIR SYDNEY ALFRED SMITH 04/08/1883- 08/05/1969
Place of Birth: Roxburgh, Otago, New Zealand.
Date of Election: 04/03/1929.
Profession: Physician, Pharmacist.
Notes: Order of Polonia Restituta for work done in
the foundation of the Polish Medical School in
Edinburgh University
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID SMYTHE OF METHVEN, LORD METHVEN
17/01/1746- 30/01/1806
Place of Birth: Perthshire.
Date of Election: 23/06/1788.
Profession: Advocate, Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE SMYTTAN 17/06/1789- 25/12/1863
Place of Birth: Dunkeld, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 01/02/1841.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
THEOBALD SMITH 31/07/1859- 10/12/1934
Place of Birth: Albany, New York, USA.
Date of Election: 02/07/1934.
Profession: Physician, Veterinarian, Bacteriologist.
Fellow Type: HF
162/1
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DOUGLAS GEORGE SOPWITH 13/11/190622/10/1970
Date of Election: 04/03/1963.
Profession: Mechanical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
IAN NAISMITH SNEDDON 08/12/1919- 04/11/2000
Date of Election: 03/03/1958.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
JEAN-BAPTISTE OCTAVE SNEEDEN 24/06/189302/06/1976
Place of Birth: Mauritius.
Date of Election: 07/03/1932.
Profession: Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES SORLEY ?-05/02/1924
Date of Election: 06/03/1882.
Profession: Actuary.
Fellow Type: OF
ERNEST HUGH SNELL
Date of Election: 03/07/1899.
Profession: Physician, Barrister-at-Law.
Notes: Died through enemy action, October 1940
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES SOUTH ?-19/10/1867
Place of Birth: Southwark, London.
Date of Election: 03/06/1822.
Profession: Astronomer, Surgeon.
Notes: Born October 1785
Fellow Type: OF
SERGEI LVOVICH SOBOLEV 06/10/1908- 03/01/1989
Place of Birth: St Petersburg, Russia.
Date of Election: 01/07/1963.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
THOMAS SOUTHWELL 04/10/1879- 11/06/1962
Place of Birth: Cornholme, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1929.
Profession: Zoologist, Parasitologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM JOHNSON SOLLAS 30/05/184920/10/1936
Place of Birth: Birmingham.
Date of Election: 05/04/1880.
Profession: Geologist, Palaeontologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT CUNNINGHAM GRAHAM SPEIRS ?24/12/1847
Date of Election: 15/02/1841.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID HUGH NEVEN SPENCE 02/05/192523/04/1985
Place of Birth: Sleaford, Lincolnshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1968.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN LIVINGSTON SOMERVILLE ?-31/08/1964
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Chartered Accountant.
Notes: Born 1885
Fellow Type: OF
FRANK SPENCE ?-21/05/1929
Place of Birth: Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Northumberland.
Date of Election: 02/03/1896.
Profession: Educationalist.
Notes: Born 1861
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT SOMERVILLE ?-14/09/1934
Date of Election: 16/05/1910.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Notes: Born 1871
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS SOMERVILLE 15/02/1741- 16/05/1830
Place of Birth: Hawick, Roxburghshire.
Date of Election: 24/06/1793.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Historian.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES SPENCE 31/03/1812- 06/06/1882
Place of Birth: South Bridge, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/02/1866.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM SOMERVILLE (SOMMERVILLE)
22/04/1771- 25/06/1860
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 25/01/1813.
Profession: Military Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES RAMSAY SPENCE
Date of Election: 07/03/1977.
Profession: Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
HARY SPENS ?-27/11/1787
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM SOMERVILLE 30/05/1860- 17/02/1932
Place of Birth: Cormiston, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 03/12/1888.
Profession: Agriculturalist, Forester.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS SPENS ?-27/05/1842
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 23/06/1788.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1764. First to describe Stokes-Adams
syndrome (1793)
Fellow Type: OF
DUNCAN M'LAREN YOUNG SOMMERVILLE
24/11/1879- 31/01/1934
Place of Birth: Beawar,Rajputana, India.
Date of Election: 19/06/1911.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT SPITTAL ?-07/04/1852
Date of Election: 05/04/1841.
Profession: Physician, Botanist.
Notes: Appears as James Spittal in some RSE lists
Fellow Type: OF
163/1
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WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE 11/01/1825- 27/06/1883
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 19/02/1883.
Profession: Mathematician, Physicist, Linguist.
Fellow Type: HF
JAMES STARK OF HUNTFIELD 09/11/181102/07/1890
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 21/03/1842.
Profession: Physician, Statist.
Notes: Pioneer in the development of vital statistics.
Devlin-Thorp states that the place of death was
Underwood, Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS BOND SPRAGUE 29/03/1830- 29/11/1920
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 02/02/1874.
Profession: Barrister-at-Law, Actuary,
Mathematician.
Notes: Photograph NLS Acc10000/380
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN STARK OF HUNTFIELD 14/10/177924/12/1849
Place of Birth: Blyth's Muir, Peeblesshire.
Date of Election: 04/12/1826.
Profession: Printer, Naturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES SPREULL ANDREW SPREULL
Date of Election: 01/03/1965.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
STARK, JOHN. SEE ROBERTSON, JOHN STARK.
FRANK STUART SPRING 05/09/1907- 01/03/1997
Date of Election: 03/03/1958.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
EDWARD PERCY STEBBING 04/01/1872- 21/03/1960
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Forester.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS COKE SQUANCE ?-29/05/1923
Date of Election: 19/03/1906.
Profession: Physician, Pathologist, Antiquarian,
Naturalist.
Notes: Born c1852
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN STEDMAN (STEEDMAN) ?-16/04/1791
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1710
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES MARTIN STAGG 30/06/1900- 23/06/1975
Place of Birth: Dalkeith, Midlothian.
Date of Election: 05/03/1951.
Profession: Meteorologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHANNES IAPETUS SMITH STEENSTRUP
08/03/1813- 20/06/1897
Place of Birth: Aalborg, Denmark.
Date of Election: 17/01/1881.
Profession: Zoologist.
Notes: Celebrated for his work on peat mosses, shellmounds and discovery of alternation of generations
Fellow Type: HF
ROBERT ARNOT STAIG ?-19/03/1963
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Zoologist, Entomologist.
Notes: Born c 1878
Fellow Type: OF
KENNETH ARTHUR STEER
Date of Election: 02/03/1970.
Profession: Antiquary.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
JOHN TREVOR STAMP 03/12/1915- 06/12/1996
Place of Birth: Grimsby, Lincolnshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1953.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN EDWARD ALOYSIUS STEGGALL 19/11/185526/11/1935
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 06/04/1885.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
KENNETH JACK STANDLEY ?-06/06/2002
Date of Election: 06/03/1967.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW G. STENHOUSE ?-12/10/1950
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Businessman, Geologist, Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
RICHARD STANFIELD 23/06/1863- 10/10/1950
Date of Election: 02/03/1891.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN STENHOUSE 21/10/1809- 31/12/1880
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 19/03/1849.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Inventor of the charcoal respirator
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN THOMAS STANLEY, bart. ?-29/11/1827
Place of Birth: Cheshire.
Date of Election: 29/06/1789.
Profession: Landowner in Cheshire.
Notes: Born 1735
Fellow Type: OF
ERIK HELGE OSWALD STENSIO (ANDERSSON UNTIL
1917) 02/10/1891- 11/01/1984
Place of Birth: Stensjo,Kalmar, Sweden.
Date of Election: 07/07/1930.
Profession: Vertebrate Palaeontologist.
Fellow Type: HF
164/1
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ALEXANDER CHARLES STEPHEN 17/12/189303/06/1966
Place of Birth: Garvock Manse, Laurencekirk,
Kincardineshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1929.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY MARSHALL STEVEN 24/06/189315/02/1969
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Forester.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER STEVENS
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Geographer.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY STEPHENS 25/07/1795- 05/07/1874
Place of Birth: Keerpoy, Bengal, India.
Date of Election: 20/03/1843.
Profession: Agriculturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
EDWARD STEVENS ?-26/09/1834
Place of Birth: St. Croix, Virgin Islands, West Indies.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born c.1755
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN STEPHENSON 06/02/1871- 02/02/1933
Place of Birth: Padiham, nr Burnley, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 19/02/1912.
Profession: Physician, Biologist.
Notes: Editor of "The Fauna of British India"
Fellow Type: OF
MOSES STEVENS (STEPHEN) OF BELLAHOUSTON
21/12/1806- 27/06/1871
Date of Election: 20/12/1847.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT STEPHENSON 16/10/1803- 12/10/1859
Place of Birth: Willington Quay, nr Newcastle,
Northumberland.
Date of Election: 19/02/1855.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Pioneer in steam locomotion
Fellow Type: HF
THOMAS STEVENS STEVENS 08/10/190012/11/2000
Date of Election: 02/03/1964.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS STEPHENSON ?-29/10/1938
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 20/06/1910.
Profession: Pharmacist, Chemist.
Notes: Born November 1864
Fellow Type: OF
ALAN STEVENSON 28/04/1807- 23/12/1865
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/05/1838.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Builder of the Skerryvore Lighthouse
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER STEUART 12/09/1884- 11/09/1960
Place of Birth: Broxburn, West Lothian.
Date of Election: 03/03/1941.
Profession: Engineer, Horologist.
Notes: Designer of "The Steuart Clock" (Patent
1921.No.292,139)
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER STEVENSON ?-29/05/1791
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born c.1726
Fellow Type: OF
DANIEL RANKIN STEUART 10/03/1848- 01/08/1925
Place of Birth: Bogside, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1916.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES ALEXANDER STEVENSON ?-09/05/1950
Date of Election: 03/05/1886.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Born 1855
Fellow Type: OF
SIR HENRY M. SETON STEUART (STEWART) OF
ALLANTON AND TOUCH, bart. 20/10/175911/03/1836
Place of Birth: Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 28/01/1799.
Profession: Landowner, Arboriculturalist, Classical
Scholar.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID STEVENSON 11/01/1815- 17/07/1886
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 18/03/1844.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Introduced the use of paraffin oil in
lighthouses
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID MORTON STEVEN
Date of Election: 02/03/1953.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
DAVID ALAN STEVENSON ?-22/12/1971
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/03/1919.
Profession: Lighthouse Engineer, Philatelist.
Notes: Born 1891
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE ALEXANDER STEVEN 13/04/190107/04/1958
Place of Birth: Freswick, Caithness.
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Marine Biologist.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID ALAN STEVENSON 21/07/1854- 11/04/1938
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/07/1884.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
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FORMER RSE FELLOWS 1783- 2002
BALFOUR STEWART 01/11/1828- 19/12/1887
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/12/1859.
Profession: Physicist, Meteorologist.
Notes: Elected to Ordinary Fellowship 5/12/1859 and
to Honorary Fellowship 7/1/1878. Wrote important
papers on heat radiation
Fellow Type: HF
ERIC STEVENSON
Date of Election: 04/03/1935.
Profession: Mechanical Engineer.
Notes: Died 1974-5
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES STEVENSON ?-28/01/1903
Date of Election: 04/06/1877.
Profession: Philanthropist.
Notes: Born 1823. Associated with Glasgow
Fellow Type: OF
BERNARD HALLEY STEWART 06/05/187430/07/1958
Place of Birth: St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex.
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES STEVENSON 28/04/1786- 13/06/1866
Place of Birth: Paisley, Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 16/01/1865.
Profession: Merchant.
Fellow Type: OF
CALEB ANDREW STEWART 16/09/1888- ?
Date of Election: 06/03/1950.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN STEVENSON
Date of Election: 05/03/1888.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Died 1903-4
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES STEWART, LORD LINTON, 7TH EARL OF
TRAQUAIR ?-14/10/1827
Place of Birth: Peeblesshire.
Date of Election: 22/01/1798.
Profession: Landowner.
Notes: Born 1746
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN JAMES STEVENSON 24/08/1831- 05/05/1908
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 16/03/1868.
Profession: Architect.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES HUNTER STEWART (STUART) 29/09/185430/06/1924
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/02/1888.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT STEVENSON 08/06/1772- 12/07/1850
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 19/01/1815.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Builder of the Bell Rock Lighthouse
Fellow Type: OF
CORBET PAGE STEWART
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Biochemist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS STEVENSON 22/07/1818- 08/05/1887
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/03/1848.
Profession: Civil Engineer, Meteorologist.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID STEWART OF GARTH ?-18/12/1829
Place of Birth: Garth, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 25/01/1819.
Profession: Soldier Author, Antiquary.
Notes: Born 1772
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM STEVENSON 26/10/1805- 14/06/1873
Place of Birth: Barford, Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 15/03/1858.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID SMITH STEWART 03/06/1891- 01/05/1978
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER BOYD STEWART 03/11/190427/02/1981
Place of Birth: Tarland, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1955.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
DUGALD STEWART 22/11/1753- 11/06/1828
Place of Birth: In the College buildings of Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Philosopher, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER DRON STEWART 22/06/188316/08/1969
Place of Birth: Blairgowrie, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR FREDERICK HENRY STEWART 16/01/191609/12/2001
Date of Election: 04/03/1957.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW STEWART 09/10/1771- 26/12/1838
Place of Birth: Cleughside, Annan, Dumfriesshire.
Date of Election: 01/01/1811.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Physician.
Notes: Previously Proposed by Dugald Stewart,
Andrew Coventry, James Home, (Minute 01/04/1808,
NLS Acc10,000/4 & Acc 10,000/12)
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE ALEXANDER STEWART 12/10/188501/01/1958
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/03/1956.
Profession: Adminstrator, Librarian.
Fellow Type: OF
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HAROLD CHARLES STEWART 23/11/190607/12/2001
Date of Election: 04/03/1974.
Profession: Pharmacologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN SHAW STEWART 24/07/1793- 29/06/1840
Date of Election: 03/02/1823.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
MATTHEW STEWART ?-29/05/1851
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 24/01/1820.
Profession: Soldier.
Notes: Born c. 1784
Fellow Type: OF
IAN STRUTHERS STEWART ?-11/03/1930
Place of Birth: Langholm, Dumfriesshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1921.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1876
Fellow Type: OF
MATTHEW STEWART 15/01/1717- 23/01/1785
Place of Birth: Rothesay, Isle of Bute.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Mathematician.
Notes: Date of birth was probably 1719, see W P
Anderson 1931, p.375.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES STEWART 17/06/1903- 26/12/1955
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Biochemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES R. STEWART
Date of Election: 01/07/1878.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT STEWART (STEUART) ?-15/07/1843
Date of Election: 18/04/1836.
Profession: Politician.
Notes: Born 1789
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN STEWART (STEUART) 31/07/174324/05/1821
Place of Birth: Perthshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Gaelic Scholar.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS DAVID STEWART (STUART)
Date of Election: 07/04/1823.
Profession: Educationalist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN STEWART OF NATEBY HALL 10/01/181317/03/1867
Place of Birth: Parkhouse, Stranraer.
Date of Election: 03/03/1851.
Profession: Natural Scientist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR THOMAS GRAINGER STEWART 23/09/183703/02/1900
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/01/1866.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ARCHIBALD STEWART OF GRANTULLY
Date of Election: 05/12/1825.
Profession: Landowner.
Notes: Died 1837-40
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS W STEWART
Date of Election: 01/02/1904.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
WALTER STEWART
Date of Election: 03/03/1873.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN H M SHAW STEWART ?-06/07/1908
Date of Election: 02/03/1868.
Profession: Military Engineer.
Notes: Born 1832
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM STEWART 27/08/1748- 16/01/1805
Date of Election: 22/01/1787.
Profession: Writer, Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN INNES MACKINTOSH STEWART 30/09/190612/11/1994
Date of Election: 05/03/1990.
Profession: English Language and Letters.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR HAROLD JALLAND STILES 21/03/186319/04/1946
Place of Birth: Spalding, Lincolnshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1924.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN LEVESON DOUGLAS STEWART OF NATEBY
HALL
Date of Election: 21/12/1868.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES STIRLING ?-15/02/1986
Date of Election: 05/03/1945.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN LINDSAY STEWART 13/12/1831- 07/07/1873
Place of Birth: Fettercairn. Angus.
Date of Election: 05/02/1872.
Profession: Surgeon, Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN DAVY MORRIES STIRLING OF BLACKGRANGE,
FORMERLY MORRIES
Date of Election: 21/04/1834.
Profession: Physician, Chemist.
Notes: Died c.1858. Appears as J D Morris on billet of
17/3/1834 et seq. Discovered Elaterine. Patented Iron
toughened with tin or other metal
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN LIVINGSTONE STEWART ?-06/08/1971
Place of Birth: Hawick, Roxburghshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Veterinarian.
Notes: Born 1894
Fellow Type: OF
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PATRICK JAMES STIRLING ?-23/03/1891
Place of Birth: Dunblane, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 18/12/1848.
Profession: Lawyer.
Notes: Born 1809
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOSEPH STRATON
Date of Election: 08/01/1821.
Profession: Soldier.
Notes: Died 1841
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE LINIUS STREETER ?-27/07/1948
Date of Election: 06/07/1936.
Profession: Anatomist, Embryologist.
Notes: Born c 1873
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM STIRLING 26/01/1851- 01/10/1932
Place of Birth: Grangemouth, Stirlingshire.
Date of Election: 07/05/1877.
Profession: Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
FRIEDRICH STROMEYER 03/08/1776- 18/08/1835
Place of Birth: Gottingen, Germany.
Date of Election: 01/05/1826.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
STIRLING, WILLIAM. SEE MAXWELL, WILLIAM
STIRLING-.
HERBERT FITTON STOCKDALE 13/01/186828/12/1951
Place of Birth: Ravensthorpe, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1902.
Profession: Administrator.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN STRONG 15/01/1868- 07/10/1945
Place of Birth: Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 18/02/1907.
Profession: Educationalist, Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
RALPH STOCKMAN 03/08/1861- 27/02/1946
Place of Birth: Leith, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/12/1888.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN STRUTHERS 21/02/1823- 24/02/1899
Place of Birth: Brucefield, Dunfermline, Fife.
Date of Election: 05/02/1894.
Profession: Surgeon, Anatomist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR GEORGE GABRIEL STOKES, bart. 13/08/181901/02/1903
Place of Birth: Skreen, Co. Sligo, Ireland.
Date of Election: 05/12/1865.
Profession: Mathematician, Physicist.
Notes: Pioneer of Spectrum Analysis and Geodesy
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN WILLIAM STRUTHERS
Date of Election: 03/03/1930.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN WILLIAM STRUTT, BARON RAYLEIGH
12/11/1842- 30/06/1919
Place of Birth: Langford Grove, Maldon, Essex.
Date of Election: 03/05/1886.
Profession: Mathematician, Physicist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate 1904, Chemistry
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM NORMAN STOKOE ?-12/12/1958
Date of Election: 08/03/1926.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Born c1892
Fellow Type: OF
STONEFIELD, LORD. SEE CAMPBELL OF
STONEFIELD, JOHN.
FRIEDRICH GEORG WILHELM STRUVE 15/04/179323/11/1864
Place of Birth: Altona, Germany.
Date of Election: 20/04/1835.
Profession: Astronomer.
Notes: Erected the Pulkova Observatory
Fellow Type: OF
FRASER STORY ?-05/08/1948
Date of Election: 22/01/1906.
Profession: Forester.
Fellow Type: OF
RICHARD HUGH STOY 31/01/1910- 08/11/1994
Place of Birth: Wolverhampton, Staffordshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1970.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
OTTO STRUVE 12/08/1897- 06/04/1963
Place of Birth: Kharkov, Russia.
Date of Election: 06/07/1953.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
CHARLES STRACHAN 07/05/1907- 21/09/1993
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 02/03/1942.
Profession: Mathematician, Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
OTTO WILHELM STRUVE 25/04/1819- 14/04/1905
Place of Birth: Dorpat, Estonia.
Date of Election: 07/01/1878.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
MICHAEL FRANCIS STRACHAN 23/10/191930/11/2000
Date of Election: 05/03/1979.
Profession: Company Director.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER JOHN MACKENZIE- STUART, BARON
MACKENZIE-STUART 18/11/1924- 01/04/2000
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 04/03/1991.
Profession: Advocate, Judge.
Fellow Type: OF
ROY BROWN STRATHDEE 16/07/1897- 19/06/1976
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 01/03/1954.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
168/1
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CHARLES STUART ?-28/05/1826
Place of Birth: Fife.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Physician.
Notes: Born 1746
Fellow Type: OF
CLAUDE WITHERINGTON STUMP ?-23/12/1971
Place of Birth: Adelaide, South Australia.
Date of Election: 03/03/1930.
Profession: Physician, Embryologist.
Notes: Born 1891
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE STUART ?-18/06/1793
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Classicist.
Fellow Type: OF
SUCCOTH, LORD. SEE CAMPBELL, ARCHIBALD.
SUCCOTH, LORD. SEE CAMPBELL, ILAY.
JEAN JOSEPH SUE 20/04/1710- 15/12/1792
Place of Birth: La Colle, France.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Anatomist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE ANDREW STUART
Date of Election: 06/04/1840.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died 1840-44
Fellow Type: OF
PIERRE SUE 28/12/1739- 28/03/1816
Date of Election: 26/01/1784.
Profession: Anatomist.
Notes: Roll Book gives "M. Sue Junr"- is this indeed
Pierre Sue or Jean Joseph Sue Jr. (Query raised by Dr
Warren McDougall, Centre for History of the Book,
University of Edinburgh 27/6/2001)
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES STUART OF ALLANBANK, bart. ?29/01/1849
Date of Election: 03/03/1823.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Known for his pencil sketches and interest in
art
Fellow Type: OF
EDUARD SUESS 20/08/1831- 25/04/1914
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 09/01/1905.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN STUART ?-27/08/1827
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Classicist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN STUART, 3RD EARL OF BUTE 25/05/171310/03/1792
Place of Birth: Parliament Close, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Statesman, Landowner, Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
SUFFOLK, EARL OF. SEE HOWARD, CHARLES HENRY
GEORGE.
AUGUSTUS FREDERICK SUSSEX, DUKE OF SUSSEX
27/01/1773- 21/04/1843
Date of Election: 03/01/1831.
Profession: Royal Prince.
Fellow Type: HF
THOMAS ANDREW STUART 17/06/190730/12/1972
Date of Election: 04/03/1963.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID WATERS SUTHERLAND 18/12/187219/04/1939
Place of Birth: Buninyong, Victoria, Australia.
Date of Election: 05/01/1903.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM JAMES STUART ?-23/02/1959
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Born c.1874
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN DERG SUTHERLAND 23/04/1905- 14/06/1991
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/03/1935.
Profession: Physician, Psychologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN CRICHTON- STUART, 6TH MARQUIS OF BUTE
27/02/1933- 21/07/1993
Date of Election: 02/03/1992.
Profession: Landowner, Company Director.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN DONALD SUTHERLAND
Date of Election: 03/03/1930.
Profession: Forester.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM STUBBS 21/06/1825- 22/04/1901
Place of Birth: High Street, Knaresborough,
Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 16/05/1892.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN FRANCIS SUTHERLAND
Date of Election: 06/01/1896.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Died 1911-12
Fellow Type: OF
BERNHARD STUDER 21/08/1794- 02/05/1887
Place of Birth: Buren, Switzerland.
Date of Election: 19/02/1855.
Profession: Geologist, Mineralogist.
Fellow Type: HF
RICHARD LIGHTBURN SUTTON ?-18/05/1952
Place of Birth: Rock Port, Missouri, USA.
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Physician, Dermatologist.
Notes: Born 1879
Fellow Type: OF
169/1
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RICHARD LIGHTBURN SUTTON 11/05/190830/08/1990
Place of Birth: Kansas, USA.
Date of Election: 03/03/1941.
Profession: Dermatologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ELGIN SWINTON 30/09/1901- 12/06/1994
Date of Election: 07/03/1932.
Profession: Vertebrate Palaeontologist.
Fellow Type: OF
HAROLD WILLIAM SWITHINBANK ?-09/02/1928
Date of Election: 20/02/1905.
Profession: Veterinary Administrator.
Notes: Born 1858
Fellow Type: OF
NILS EBERHARD SVEDELIUS 05/08/187302/08/1960
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden.
Date of Election: 04/07/1955.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: HF
JAMES JOSEPH SYLVESTER 03/09/1814- 15/03/1897
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 02/03/1874.
Profession: Barrister at law, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
RICHARD HENRY AUSTIN SWAIN 06/02/191011/05/1981
Place of Birth: Wimbledon, London.
Date of Election: 07/03/1949.
Profession: Physician, Bacterioloigist, Virologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES SYME
Date of Election: 01/03/1875.
Profession: Banker.
Notes: Born 1821 Died 1897
Fellow Type: OF
PATRICK DON SWAN OF SPRINGFIELD 19/08/180817/12/1889
Place of Birth: Whyte's Causeway, Kirkcaldy, Fife.
Date of Election: 07/02/1870.
Profession: Merchant, Shipowner.
Notes: Inherited the small estate of Springfield from
his uncle Colonel Don
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES SYME 07/11/1799- 26/06/1870
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/04/1830.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: " The Napoleon of Surgery" (A. Miles)
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM SMITH SYME ?-14/08/1928
Place of Birth: Newfoundland, Canada.
Date of Election: 18/03/1912.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1870
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM SWAN 13/03/1818- 01/03/1894
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/04/1848.
Profession: Mathematician, Physicist.
Notes: Showed the spectral D line to be characteristic
of sodium
Fellow Type: OF
JOHNSON SYMINGTON 08/09/1851- 24/02/1924
Place of Birth: Taunton, Somerset.
Date of Election: 04/05/1885.
Profession: Anatomist.
Fellow Type: OF
MICHAEL MEREDITH SWANN, BARON SWANN
01/03/1920- 22/09/1990
Place of Birth: Cambridge.
Date of Election: 02/03/1953.
Profession: Zoologist, Cell Biologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS 10/04/180725/02/1871
Place of Birth: Oxford.
Date of Election: 20/02/1854.
Profession: Physician, Man of Letters.
Fellow Type: OF
PETER ALAN SWEET 15/05/1921- 16/01/2005
Place of Birth: Beckenham.
Date of Election: 07/03/1960.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS ROBERT SWINBURNE ?-29/02/1864
Date of Election: 01/04/1839.
Profession: Military Administrator.
Notes: Born 1784
Fellow Type: OF
RICHARD LAURENCE MILLINGTON SYNGE
28/10/1914- 18/08/1994
Place of Birth: West Kirby, Cheshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1963.
Profession: Biochemist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate, Chemistry, 1952
Fellow Type: OF
JAN HENDRICK VAN SWINDEN 08/06/174619/03/1823
Place of Birth: The Hague, Netherlands.
Date of Election: 07/01/1822.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
WLADYSLAW SZAFER 23/07/1886- 16/11/1970
Place of Birth: Sosnowiec, Silesia.
Date of Election: 01/07/1963.
Profession: Botanist, Palaeobotanist.
Fellow Type: HF
ANDREW TAIT
Date of Election: 15/01/1872.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL SWINTON OF
KIMMERGHAME 15/07/1812- 27/11/1889
Date of Election: 19/02/1844.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE SWINTON 05/11/1780- 17/06/1854
Date of Election: 07/05/1827.
Profession: Administrator.
Fellow Type: OF
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JOHN TAIT
Place of Birth: Orkney.
Date of Election: 05/03/1917.
Profession: Physician, Physiologist.
Notes: Born 1878
Fellow Type: OF
AIKITU TANAKADATE ?-21/05/1952
Place of Birth: Fukuoka, Iwate Prefecture, Japan.
Date of Election: 03/02/1890.
Profession: Physicist, Geophysicist.
Notes: Born 1856
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN BARCLAY TAIT 07/06/1900- 20/03/1973
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Hydrographer.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT RATTRAY TATLOCK 18/05/183722/12/1934
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 20/12/1869.
Profession: Analytical Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN GUTHRIE TAIT ?-04/10/1945
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Barrister-at-law, Scholar of English
Literature.
Notes: Born 1861
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER TAYLOR ?-18/05/1879
Place of Birth: Alton, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 05/01/1846.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1790. During the Franco- Prussian War
1870-1 took charge at Pau of an ambulance for the
wounded of both sides
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN W TAIT ?-17/12/1932
Date of Election: 03/07/1904.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Notes: Born 1862
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER BURT TAYLOR 06/06/190413/03/1972
Place of Birth: Earlston, Berwickshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1961.
Profession: Civil Servant, Scandinavian Philologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOSEPH TAIT ?-25/06/1949
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/03/1942.
Profession: Pharmacist.
Notes: Born 1877
Fellow Type: OF
DUNCAN TAYLOR 10/10/1917- ?
Date of Election: 07/03/1955.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Died September 2001
Fellow Type: OF
PETER GUTHRIE TAIT 28/04/1831- 04/07/1901
Place of Birth: Dalkeith, Midlothian.
Date of Election: 07/01/1861.
Profession: Physicist, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
ERIC OPENSHAW TAYLOR ?-16/10/1987
Date of Election: 06/03/1944.
Profession: Electrical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM TAIT ?-07/01/1800
Date of Election: 25/01/1790.
Profession: Advocate, Politician.
Notes: Born c. 1755
Fellow Type: OF
SIR GEOFFREY INGRAM TAYLOR 07/03/188627/06/1975
Place of Birth: St John's Wood, London.
Date of Election: 04/07/1938.
Profession: Physicist, Mathematician, Engineer.
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM ARCHER PORTER TAIT ?-23/06/1929
Date of Election: 02/05/1898.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Born 1866. Involved in building of Talla
Reservoir
Fellow Type: OF
SIR GEORGE TAYLOR 15/02/1904- 13/11/1993
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT 11/02/180017/09/1877
Place of Birth: Dorset.
Date of Election: 04/01/1858.
Profession: Mathematician, Astronomer, Pioneer in
photography.
Notes: Pioneer of Photography. First to decipher
cuneiform inscriptions on objects found in Nineveh
excavations by Sir A H Layard
Fellow Type: HF
JAMES TAYLOR ?-03/05/1943
Place of Birth: Strathkinness, Fife.
Date of Election: 03/04/1899.
Profession: Mathematician, Schoolmaster.
Notes: Born 1861
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT ALEXANDER TAYLOR 11/12/189815/05/1956
Place of Birth: Strathkinness, Fife.
Date of Election: 05/03/1951.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES EDWARD TALMAGE 21/09/186227/07/1933
Place of Birth: Hungerford, Berkshire.
Date of Election: 03/12/1894.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS JOHNSTON TAYLOR, BARON TAYLOR
27/04/1912- 13/07/2001
Date of Election: 07/03/1977.
Profession: Businessman.
Fellow Type: OF
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SIR THOMAS MURRAY TAYLOR 27/05/189719/07/1962
Place of Birth: Keith, Banffshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1953.
Profession: Advocate, Educationalist.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES HUGHES TERROT 19/01/1790- 02/04/1872
Place of Birth: Cuddalore, India.
Date of Election: 17/02/1840.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN BOLTON THACKWELL ?-09/03/1932
Date of Election: 06/06/1892.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
W A TAYLOR
Date of Election: 16/05/1892.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
TOBIAS ROBERT THALEN
Date of Election: 03/05/1886.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM WHITE TAYLOR
Date of Election: 05/03/1917.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Last appears in List of Fellows 1932
Fellow Type: OF
LOUIS JACQUES THENARD 04/05/1777- 21/06/1857
Place of Birth: Near Nogent-sur-Seine, Champagne,
France.
Date of Election: 01/12/1823.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JETHRO JUSTINIAN HARRIS TEALL 05/01/184902/07/1924
Place of Birth: Northleach, Gloucestershire.
Date of Election: 04/07/1921.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: HF
MEIRION THOMAS 28/12/1894- 05/04/1977
Place of Birth: 2 Menai Terrace,Bangor,
Caernarvonshire, Wales.
Date of Election: 05/03/1945.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES RICHARD TEAPE 07/03/1830- 14/02/1905
Date of Election: 05/02/1872.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Lecturer 1885- of the Institution for the
Complete Training of Lady Nurses.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR BENJAMIN THOMPSON (THOMSON), COUNT
VON RUMFORD 26/03/1753- 25/08/1814
Place of Birth: North Woburn, Massachusetts, USA.
Date of Election: 26/01/1801.
Profession: Administrator, Social Scientist.
Notes: Cambell gives date of death 21/8/1814
Fellow Type: OF
NORMAN TEBBLE 17/08/1924- 23/07/1998
Place of Birth: East Sleekburn, Northumberland.
Date of Election: 01/03/1976.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MICHAEL TEDDER, BARON TEDDER
04/07/1926- 18/02/1994
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 04/03/1968.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Proposers cont'd. Neil Campbell, Manfred
Gordon, ? Ritchie, T S Stevens
Fellow Type: OF
SIR D'ARCY WENTWORTH THOMPSON 02/05/186021/06/1948
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 01/06/1885.
Profession: Zoologist, Mathematician, Classicist.
Fellow Type: OF
HAROLD WILLIAM THOMPSON ?-21/02/1964
Place of Birth: Buffalo, New York, USA.
Date of Election: 07/03/1932.
Profession: Scholar of English Life and Letters.
Notes: Born 1891
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS TELFORD 09/08/1757- 02/09/1834
Place of Birth: Glendinning, Westerkirk, Eskdale,
Dumfriesshire.
Date of Election: 31/01/1803.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
IAN MACLAREN THOMPSON ?-26/12/1981
Place of Birth: Newfoundland, Canada.
Date of Election: 03/03/1952.
Profession: Physician, Anatomist.
Notes: Born 1896
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT TENNENT
Date of Election: 03/03/1873.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
ALFRED TENNYSON, BARON TENNYSON
06/08/1809- 06/10/1892
Place of Birth: Somersby, Lincolnshire.
Date of Election: 05/12/1864.
Profession: Poet.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN HANNAY THOMPSON
Date of Election: 20/05/1907.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MCLEAN THOMPSON 22/07/188817/04/1977
Place of Birth: Rothesay, Bute.
Date of Election: 05/03/1917.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
DIRK TER HAAR ?-03/09/2002
Date of Election: 03/03/1952.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
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ALEXANDER THOMS
Date of Election: 23/01/1905.
Profession: Mineralogist.
Notes: Born 1837, Died 1925
Fellow Type: OF
FRASER THOMSON
Date of Election: 02/01/1866.
Profession: Physician, Microscopist.
Notes: Born 1806, Died October 1871
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE HUNTER MACTHOMAS THOMS OF
ABERLEMNO 03/06/1831- 25/10/1903
Date of Election: 07/07/1884.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR GEORGE PAGET THOMSON 03/05/189210/09/1975
Place of Birth: Cambridge.
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate, Physics 1937
Fellow Type: OF
ADAM SIMPSON TURNBULL THOMSON
10/08/1908- 20/10/2000
Date of Election: 02/03/1964.
Profession: Mechanical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE RITCHIE THOMSON ?-14/03/1946
Date of Election: 04/05/1896.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER THOMSON OF BANCHORY
21/06/1798- 20/05/1868
Date of Election: 02/06/1823.
Profession: Advocate, Agriculturalist, Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE SUTHERLAND THOMSON ?-29/06/1958
Date of Election: 02/02/1903.
Profession: Businessman, Author, Traveller.
Notes: Born c1872. Pioneer in the Grading of Dairy
Products
Fellow Type: OF
ALLEN THOMSON 02/04/1809- 21/03/1884
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/02/1843.
Profession: Biologist, Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
GILBERT THOMSON ?-21/11/1941
Place of Birth: Lanark.
Date of Election: 22/01/1906.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Born c1859
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW THOMSON ?-14/02/1930
Place of Birth: Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 07/02/1887.
Profession: Mathematician, Chemist, Schoolmaster.
Notes: Born 1850. Photograph NLS Acc 10,000/380
Fellow Type: OF
SIR GODFREY HILTON THOMSON 27/03/188109/02/1955
Date of Election: 08/03/1926.
Profession: Mathematician, Physicist, Educationalist.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW THOMSON ?-08/02/1901
Date of Election: 03/01/1870.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Author, Lecturer.
Notes: Born 1814.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES THOMSON
Date of Election: 20/12/1841.
Profession: Civil Engineer, Shipbuilder.
Notes: Died August 1870
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ARTHUR LANDSBOROUGH THOMSON
08/10/1890- 09/06/1977
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Administrator, Ornithologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES THOMSON 16/02/1822- 08/05/1892
Place of Birth: Belfast, Ireland.
Date of Election: 03/05/1875.
Profession: Engineer.
Notes: Invented Vortex Water-Wheel 1850
Fellow Type: OF
SIR CHARLES WYVILLE (TO 1876 WYVILLE THOMAS
CHARLES) THOMSON 05/03/1830- 10/03/1882
Place of Birth: Bonsyde, Linlithgow, West Lothian.
Date of Election: 19/03/1855.
Profession: Marine Zoologist.
Notes: Scientific Director of the "Challenger"
Expedition
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES THOMSON 30/10/1876- 09/07/1961
Place of Birth: Leith, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/03/1940.
Profession: Distiller.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID CLEGHORN THOMSON
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Author.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ALLAN THOMSON 29/08/1875- 24/08/1961
Place of Birth: Dalkeith, Midlothian.
Date of Election: 06/03/1950.
Profession: Actuary.
Fellow Type: OF
FRANK WYVILLE THOMSON
Date of Election: 19/12/1910.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Name last appears on1917 Fellowship List
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES STUART THOMSON 21/07/1868- 28/08/1932
Place of Birth: Pilmuir, East Lothian.
Date of Election: 19/03/1906.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN THOMSON
Date of Election: 20/04/1840.
Profession: Banker.
Fellow Type: OF
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JOHN THOMSON ?-15/02/1956
Date of Election: 08/03/1926.
Profession: Botanist, Plant Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT THOMSON ?-30/10/1981
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Mechanical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN THOMSON 15/03/1765- 11/10/1846
Place of Birth: Paisley, Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 01/01/1812.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT BLACK THOMSON ?-17/12/1937
Date of Election: 15/07/1912.
Profession: Physician, Anatomist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT DUNDAS THOMSON 21/09/181017/08/1864
Place of Birth: Eccles Manse, Berwickshire.
Date of Election: 02/12/1850.
Profession: Physician, Chemist.
Notes: Pioneer of Sanitation
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN THOMSON 01/09/1778- 28/10/1840
Place of Birth: Manse of Dailly, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 24/01/1814.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Landscape Painter.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN ARTHUR THOMSON ?-12/02/1933
Place of Birth: Saltoun, East Lothian.
Date of Election: 07/02/1887.
Profession: Zoologist.
Notes: Born 1861
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT STEVENSON THOMSON
Date of Election: 02/06/1902.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Died 1904-5
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN MACKAY THOMSON 21/03/188715/03/1974
Place of Birth: Dunning, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Classicist, Civil Servant.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT TATLOCK THOMSON ?-20/02/1950
Date of Election: 06/03/1899.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Born 1856
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT WILLIAM THOMSON 29/06/182208/03/1873
Place of Birth: Stonehaven, Kincardineshire.
Date of Election: 21/12/1863.
Profession: Civil Engineer, Inventor.
Notes: Invented the fountain pen (1849)
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MILLAR THOMSON 07/03/1849- 22/03/1933
Place of Birth: Old College, Glasgow.
Date of Election: 01/03/1880.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOSEPH JOHN THOMSON 18/12/185630/08/1940
Place of Birth: Cheetham Hill, Nr. Manchester,
Lancashire.
Date of Election: 09/01/1905.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate Physics 1906
Fellow Type: HF
RONALD HUNTER THOMSON 21/12/191923/04/2000
Date of Election: 05/03/1962.
Profession: Organic Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
SPENCER CAMPBELL THOMSON 16/10/184211/05/1931
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 21/03/1870.
Profession: Actuary.
Fellow Type: OF
LOUIS MELVILLE MILNE- THOMSON
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Born 1891, died 1973-4
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS THOMSON 12/04/1773- 02/08/1852
Place of Birth: Crieff.Perthshire.
Date of Election: 28/03/1805.
Profession: Chemist, Mineralogist.
Notes: Invented the saccharometer. Monument in the
Necropolis, Glasgow
Fellow Type: OF
MATTHEW SYDNEY THOMSON 07/11/189426/04/1969
Date of Election: 05/03/1934.
Profession: Physician, Dermatologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR MITCHELL MITCHELL- THOMSON, bart. ?15/11/1918
Place of Birth: Alloa, Clackmannanshire.
Date of Election: 01/05/1899.
Profession: Timber Merchant, Landowner in
Kincardineshire and Peeblesshire.
Notes: Born 1846
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS THOMSON 10/11/1768- 02/10/1852
Place of Birth: Manse of Dailly, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 22/06/1807.
Profession: Advocate, Antiquary, Archivist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM THOMSON, BARON KELVIN 26/06/182417/12/1907
Place of Birth: College Square East, Belfast, Ireland.
Date of Election: 01/02/1847.
Profession: Physicist, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
MURRAY THOMSON ?-16/01/1895
Date of Election: 19/01/1863.
Profession: Physician, Chemist.
Notes: Born 1830
Fellow Type: OF
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SIR WILLIAM THOMSON 31/12/1856- 06/08/1947
Place of Birth: Kirkton of Mailler, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1882.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
GEOFFREY TIMMS ?-02/12/1982
Place of Birth: Bradford, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Mathematician.
Notes: Born February 1903
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM THOMSON ?-04/10/1923
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 01/05/1876.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Born 1851
Fellow Type: OF
MAURICE ARTHUR HOLDEN TINCKER 10/10/1898- ?
Date of Election: 02/03/1959.
Profession: Agriculturalist.
Notes: Resigned 1968-9
Fellow Type: OF
JOY TIVY 24/08/1924- 10/07/1995
Date of Election: 05/03/1984.
Profession: Geographer.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM BURNS THOMSON ?-23/04/1893
Place of Birth: Kirriemuir, Angus.
Date of Election: 03/01/1870.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1821
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY TOD 20/05/1908- 16/05/1974
Place of Birth: Carnethy, Roslin, Midlothian.
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Biochemist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM THOMAS THOMSON
Date of Election: 02/01/1849.
Profession: Actuary.
Notes: Died c1883
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES TOD OF DEANSTON AND HOPE PARK ?26/03/1858
Date of Election: 17/01/1848.
Profession: Writer to the Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT MACFIE THORBURN
Date of Election: 04/02/1878.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died c1895. Associated with Sweden
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER ROBERTUS TODD, BARON TODD
02/10/1907- 10/01/1997
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 04/07/1966.
Profession: Organic Chemist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate, Chemistry, 1957
Fellow Type: OF
WALLACE THORNEYCROFT 24/02/1864- 26/04/1954
Date of Election: 05/03/1917.
Profession: Coal and Iron Master, Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR THOMAS EDWARD THORPE 08/12/184523/02/1925
Place of Birth: Barnes Green,Harpurhey, Manchester,
Lancashire.
Date of Election: 03/04/1871.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Proposed by James Young (Billet 6/3,
20/3/1871), Elected 1871. Elected Honorary British
Fellow 4/6/1900
Fellow Type: HF
SIR CHARLES TODD 07/07/1826- 29/01/1910
Place of Birth: Islington, London.
Date of Election: 06/05/1895.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN BARBER TODD 29/05/1883- 18/09/1954
Place of Birth: Wiltshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1920.
Profession: Mechanical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
FRIEDRICH TIEDEMANN 23/08/1781- 22/01/1861
Place of Birth: Cassel, Prussia, Germany.
Date of Election: 05/03/1838.
Profession: Anatomist, Physiologist.
Fellow Type: HF
SERGEI IVANOVICH TOMKEIEFF 21/10/189227/10/1968
Place of Birth: Vilna, Lithuania.
Date of Election: 01/03/1948.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
CECIL EDGAR TILLEY 14/05/1894- 24/01/1973
Place of Birth: Adelaide, South Australia.
Date of Election: 01/07/1957.
Profession: Geologist, Petrologist, Mineralogist.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR JOHN NORMAN TOOTHILL
Date of Election: 03/03/1958.
Profession: Electrical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
JOSEPH TILLIE 20/01/1859- 28/11/1898
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 03/04/1893.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1859,
* Marital status, place of death and full date of birth
added 26/5/06 (information from archive queryhusband of Tillie's great grand-daughter) VMH
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW TOPPING 20/12/1890- 28/08/1955
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
OTTO TORELL 05/06/1828- 11/09/1900
Place of Birth: Warberg, Sweden.
Date of Election: 02/03/1874.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: HF
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THOMAS JAMESON TORRIE ?-07/08/1858
Date of Election: 15/12/1834.
Profession: Advocate, Geologist, Mineralogist,
Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
RAMSAY HEATLEY TRAQUAIR 30/07/184024/11/1912
Place of Birth: Manse of Rhynd, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 06/04/1874.
Profession: Vertebrate Palaeontologist.
Notes: Photograph NLS Acc10000/380
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES RAMSAY TOSH 02/11/1872- ?
Place of Birth: Dundee.
Date of Election: 15/05/1911.
Profession: Zoologist.
Notes: Died 1917
Fellow Type: OF
TRAQUAIR, 7TH EARL. SEE STEWART, CHARLES.
ALFRED FRANK TREDGOLD ?-17/09/1952
Date of Election: 06/07/1914.
Profession: Physician, Neurologist.
Notes: Born c 1871
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN EDWARD TOUCHE ?-09/06/1938
Date of Election: 04/03/1935.
Profession: Mechanical Engineer.
Notes: Born 1855
Fellow Type: OF
ANTHONY CHENEVIX- TRENCH 10/05/191921/06/1979
Place of Birth: India.
Date of Election: 06/03/1978.
Profession: Schoolmaster, Classicist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR DONALD FRANCIS TOVEY 17/07/187510/07/1940
Place of Birth: Eton, Buckinghamshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1917.
Profession: Musician, Composer.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WALTER CALVERLEY TREVELYAN, bart.
31/03/1797- 23/03/1879
Date of Election: 03/06/1822.
Profession: Botanist, Geologist, Antiquary,
Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT TOWNSON ?-27/07/1827
Place of Birth: Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 27/06/1791.
Profession: Traveller, Mineralogist.
Notes: Born 1763
Fellow Type: OF
RONALD PEARSON TRIPP ?-01/09/2002
Date of Election: 01/03/1965.
Profession: Mill Manager, Palaeontologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT TRAIL
Date of Election: 02/03/1840.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Died 1847
Fellow Type: OF
ASHWIN KUMAR MADHAULEL TRIVEDI
25/01/1913- 11/08/1971
Place of Birth: Patan, Gujarat, India.
Date of Election: 03/03/1947.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID TRAILL 11/04/1900- 18/02/1973
Place of Birth: Dunfermline, Fife.
Date of Election: 02/03/1959.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
LOUIS JOSEPH TROOST
Date of Election: 04/11/1907.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
THOMAS STEWART TRAILL 29/10/1781- 30/07/1862
Place of Birth: Kirkwall, Orkney.
Date of Election: 25/01/1819.
Profession: Physician, Chemist, Mineralogist,
Meteorologist.
Notes: Nominally Editor, 8th Edition of the
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE CLARK TROTTER 28/02/1876- 21/06/1957
Place of Birth: Partick, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 03/05/1915.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM TRAILL (TRAIL) ?-03/02/1831
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Mathematician.
Notes: Born 1746
Fellow Type: OF
EDWARD TROUGHTON ?-12/06/1835
Place of Birth: Corney, Cumberland.
Date of Election: 07/01/1822.
Profession: Scientific Instrument Maker, Inventor,
Mathematician.
Notes: Born October 1753
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE TRAPP 30/12/1906- 15/05/1996
Place of Birth: Falkirk, Stirlingshire.
Date of Election: 03/03/1941.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
OSWALD ARTHUR TROWELL
Date of Election: 06/03/1944.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
WALTER JOHN TROWER 05/04/1804- 24/10/1877
Date of Election: 07/02/1853.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Incumbent 1848-53, St Mary's, Glasgow;
Sub-Dean 1859 Exeter Cathedral translated to See of
Gibralter, 1863.
Fellow Type: OF
HARRY MOSS TRAQUAIR
Date of Election: 04/03/1940.
Profession: Ophthalmic Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
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SIR ARTHUR ELIJAH TRUEMAN 26/04/189405/01/1956
Place of Birth: Nottingham.
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Geologist, Palaeontologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM TURNBULL
Date of Election: 21/01/1867.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died 1885-6
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR LOGAN TURNER 04/05/1865- 06/06/1939
Date of Election: 20/02/1905.
Profession: Surgeon, Laryngologist.
Fellow Type: OF
KARL FREIHERR VON TUBEUF 20/01/186208/02/1941
Date of Election: 04/07/1938.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: HF
DAWSON FYERS DUCKWORTH TURNER ?25/12/1928
Place of Birth: Liverpool, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 22/01/1906.
Profession: Physician, Radiologist.
Notes: Born 1857
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE RANKEN TUDHOPE 07/07/189312/12/1955
Place of Birth: Newport on Tay, Fife.
Date of Election: 03/03/1947.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
EDWARD TURNER 18/05/1798- 12/02/1837
Place of Birth: Jamaica. West Indies.
Date of Election: 07/03/1825.
Profession: Physician, Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JOHN BATTY TUKE 09/01/1835- 13/10/1913
Place of Birth: Beverley, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 02/02/1874.
Profession: Physician, Alienist, Medical Author.
Fellow Type: OF
HARRY MORETON STANLEY TURNER ?-05/02/1951
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
TULLIBOLE, BARON. SEE MONCREIFF, JAMES.
WILLIAM JOHN TULLOCH ?-20/08/1966
Place of Birth: Dundee, Angus.
Date of Election: 07/03/1960.
Profession: Physician, Bacteriologist.
Notes: Born 1887
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN WILLIAM TURNER ?-19/11/1835
Place of Birth: England.
Date of Election: 06/05/1833.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1790
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW H. TURNBULL
Date of Election: 05/03/1888.
Profession: Actuary.
Fellow Type: OF
RICHARD TURNER ?-09/04/1940
Date of Election: 03/03/1924.
Profession: Physician, Geologist.
Notes: Born 1856
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE TURNBULL OF ABBEY ST BATHANS ?26/02/1855
Date of Election: 16/03/1846.
Profession: Writer to the Signet.
Notes: Born c1793
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM TURNER 07/01/1832- 15/02/1916
Place of Birth: Lancaster.
Date of Election: 04/02/1861.
Profession: Anatomist.
Fellow Type: OF
HERBERT WESTREN TURNBULL 31/08/188504/05/1961
Place of Birth: Tettenhall, Wolverhampton,
Staffordshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1922.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
ALBERT H. TURTON ?-03/12/1935
Date of Election: 07/01/1895.
Profession: Metallurgist.
Fellow Type: OF
TWEEDALE, 8TH MARQUIS OF. SEE HAY, GEORGE.
JOHN TURNBULL OF ABBEY ST BATHANS
03/03/1820- 21/06/1891
Place of Birth: Abbey St Bathans, Berwickshire.
Date of Election: 05/05/1879.
Profession: Writer to the Signet, Archaeologist,
Naturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
TWEEDALE, 9TH MARQUIS OF. SEE HAY, ARTHUR.
CHARLES TWEEDIE ?-14/09/1925
Place of Birth: Swinton Berwickshire.
Date of Election: 06/12/1897.
Profession: Mathematician, Mathematical Historian.
Notes: Born 1868
Fellow Type: OF
MATTHEW MCKERROW TURNBULL
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Banker.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS HARDIE TURNBULL ?-22/05/1894
Date of Election: 04/12/1893.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Born c 1848
Fellow Type: OF
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TWEEDSMUIR, BARON. SEE BUCHAN, JOHN
NORMAN STEWART.
GEORGE MACDONALD URQUHART 29/05/192511/01/1997
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 05/03/1990.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
TYNDALL, ONESIPHORUS. SEE BRUCE,
ONESIPHORUS TYNDALL.
GEORGE WALTER TYRRELL 30/05/1883- 20/07/1961
Place of Birth: Watford, Hertfordshire.
Date of Election: 04/03/1918.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
RAMASWAMY S VAIDYANATHASWAMI
24/10/1894- ?
Date of Election: 03/03/1924.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER FRASER TYTLER OF
WOODHOUSELEE(1792), LORD WOODHOUSELEE
15/10/1747- 05/01/1813
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM J VANDENBERGH
Date of Election: 04/06/1906.
Profession: Barrister-at-Law.
Notes: Died 1911-12
Fellow Type: OF
GUSTAVUS VASA, COUNT ITTERBURG ?-04/08/1877
Date of Election: 01/05/1820.
Profession: Soldier.
Notes: Born 1800
Fellow Type: HF
JAMES TYTLER OF WOODHOUSELEE 09/10/178010/10/1862
Date of Election: 01/12/1821.
Profession: Writer to the Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
BENJAMIN VAUGHAN 19/04/1751- 08/12/1835
Place of Birth: Jamaica, West Indies.
Date of Election: 24/01/1785.
Profession: Merchant, Political Economist, Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
PATRICK TYTLER
Date of Election: 24/01/1814.
Profession: Soldier.
Fellow Type: OF
PATRICK FRASER TYTLER 30/08/1791- 24/12/1849
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 25/01/1819.
Profession: Advocate, Historian.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID THOMAS GWYNNE- VAUGHAN 12/03/187104/09/1915
Place of Birth: Royston House, Llandovery,
Caernarvonshire,Wales.
Date of Election: 21/02/1910.
Profession: Botanist, Palaeobotanist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM TYTLER OF WOODHOUSELEE 12/10/171112/09/1792
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Writer to the Signet, Historian, Musician,
Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
LOUIS NICHOLAS VAUQUELIN 16/05/176314/11/1829
Place of Birth: St Andre d'Hebertot, Normandy,
France.
Date of Election: 01/06/1820.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Professor 1804-29,Applied Chemistry,
Museum d'Histoire Naturelle; 1811-22, Chemistry,
Faculty of Medicine: Parliamentary Deputy 1828 for
Calvados. Discoverer of Chromium and Beryllium
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM FRASER TYTLER OF BALNAIN 10/09/177704/09/1853
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 22/06/1807.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
NIKOLAI IVANOVICH VAVILOV 26/11/188726/01/1943
Date of Election: 06/07/1936.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHANNES HERMAN FREDERIK UMBGROVE ?14/06/1954
Date of Election: 01/07/1946.
Profession: Geologist.
Notes: Born c 1899
Fellow Type: HF
OSWALD VEBLEN 24/06/1880- 10/08/1960
Place of Birth: Decorah, Iowa, USA.
Date of Election: 05/07/1943.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
CHARLES EDWARD UNDERHILL 08/03/184524/04/1908
Place of Birth: Tipton, Staffordshire.
Date of Election: 02/04/1877.
Profession: Surgeon, Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES VEITCH OF ELLIOCK, LORD ELLIOCK
25/09/1712- 01/07/1793
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate, Politician, Landowner.
Fellow Type: OF
T EDGAR UNDERHILL ?-08/05/1917
Date of Election: 01/04/1889.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1856
Fellow Type: OF
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JOHN VEITCH (VETCH) ?-19/04/1828
Place of Birth: Caponflat, East Lothian.
Date of Election: 25/01/1819.
Profession: Physician, Ophthalmologist.
Notes: born 1783. date of death also cited as
28/4/1835
Fellow Type: OF
CECIL INNES BOTHWELL VOGE ?-19/06/1978
Date of Election: 03/03/1930.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Born ? 1898
Fellow Type: OF
CASPAR VON VOGHT 17/11/1752- 20/03/1839
Place of Birth: Hamm, near Hamburg, Germany.
Date of Election: 26/01/1795.
Profession: Merchant, Philanthropist and Social
Reformer.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES JOSEPH HOPE- VERE OF BLACKWOOD &
CRAIGIEHALL 03/06/1785- ?
Date of Election: 02/03/1829.
Profession: Landowner.
Notes: Died 1840-1844
Fellow Type: OF
ALESSANDRO GUISEPPE ANTONIO ANASTASIO
VOLTA 18/02/1745- 05/03/1827
Place of Birth: Como, Duchy of Milan, Italy.
Date of Election: 01/06/1820.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Inventor of the Electrophorus, the condensing
electroscope and the Voltaic cell (1800)
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY HANNOTTE VERNON
Date of Election: 01/12/1890.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Died c1900
Fellow Type: OF
URBAIN JEAN JOSEPH LE VERRIER 11/03/181123/09/1877
Place of Birth: St. Lo, Normandy, France.
Date of Election: 18/01/1847.
Profession: Astronomer, Mathematician.
Notes: Discovered the planet Neptune
Fellow Type: HF
SIR VITO VOLTERRA 03/05/1860- 11/10/1940
Place of Birth: Ancona, Italy.
Date of Election: 03/11/1913.
Profession: Mathematician, Physicist.
Notes: Deposed through refusal to take oath of
allegiance to fascist regime
Fellow Type: HF
VINCENT DU VIGNEAUD ?-11/12/1978
Date of Election: 02/07/1951.
Profession: Biochemist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate, Chemistry 1955
Fellow Type: HF
HUGO DE VRIES 10/02/1848- 21/05/1935
Date of Election: 07/11/1910.
Profession: Botanist, Physiologist.
Fellow Type: HF
RICHARD VYSE (VISE) 11/07/1746- 30/05/1825
Place of Birth: Lichfield,Staffordshire.
Date of Election: 25/06/1804.
Profession: Soldier, Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
NICHOLAS VILANT ?-25/05/1807
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES WILSON VINCENT 11/05/1837- ?
Place of Birth: Islington, London.
Date of Election: 01/03/1875.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Died 1905
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER WADDELL ?-30/03/1827
Date of Election: 03/03/1823.
Profession: unknown.
Notes: Stated to be connected with Hermitage Hill,
Leith. May be Alexander Waddell recorded in
Mitchell's Catalogue of officers of the Scottish Excise
(ms Scottish National Archives), Edinburgh & Leith
Directory 1819-20, 405, Edinburgh & Leith PO
Directory 1828-9, 231 Born 23/2/1789. Customs
officer 1812-, Inspector of Cutters and Boats,1819
Leith, Commission restored 1825 as an Officer of
Customs, Leith
Fellow Type: OF
SWALE VINCENT 24/05/1868- 31/12/1933
Place of Birth: Birmingham. Warwickshire.
Date of Election: 21/02/1910.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
RUDOLPH LUDWIG KARL VIRCHOW (VIRCHOV)
13/10/1821- 05/09/1902
Place of Birth: Schivelbein, Pomerania, Germany.
Date of Election: 07/12/1868.
Profession: Pathologist, Anatomist.
Notes: " Father of Scientific Pathology"
Fellow Type: HF
ANDREW WADDELL
Date of Election: 25/01/1819.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died c. 1828. Associated with Leith.Is this
"Andrew Waddell, Esq., Hermitage hill", Edinburgh &
Leith PO directory, 1828-9, 231 ?
Fellow Type: OF
VIRLY
Date of Election: 22/01/1787.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
PETER WADDELL
Date of Election: 07/01/1867.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
ARTTURI ILMARI VIRTANEN 15/01/189511/11/1973
Place of Birth: Helsinki, Finland.
Date of Election: 06/07/1959.
Profession: Biochemist,Agriculturalist, Nutritionist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate, Chemistry 1945
Fellow Type: HF
CONRAD HAL WADDINGTON 08/11/190526/09/1975
Place of Birth: Evesham, Worcestershire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1948.
Profession: Zoologist, Geneticist.
Fellow Type: OF
179/1
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SIR HENRY WADE ?-21/02/1955
Place of Birth: West Manse, Falkirk, Stirlingshire.
Date of Election: 07/03/1932.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1877
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES WALKER ?-27/07/1922
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/03/1922.
Profession: Chartered Accountant, Economist.
Notes: Born March 1864
Fellow Type: OF
SIR CECIL PEMBREY GREY WAKELEY, bart.
05/05/1892- 07/06/1979
Place of Birth: Rainham, Kent.
Date of Election: 08/03/1926.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES WALKER 06/04/1863- 06/05/1935
Place of Birth: Dundee, Angus.
Date of Election: 01/12/1890.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES WALKER 24/01/1770- 05/03/1841
Place of Birth: Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.
Date of Election: 02/04/1827.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Bishop of Edinburgh 1830-41; Primus 183741. Pioneered chaplaincy work in Rome, celebrating
the first regular Anglican Service in Rome on St
Andrew's Day 1819.
Fellow Type: OF
WALDEGRAVE, GEORGE. SEE LESLIE, GEORGE
WALDEGRAVE.
WALDEN, VISCOUNT. SEE HAY, ARTHUR, 9TH
MARQUIS OF TWEEDALE.
WILHELM WALDEYR
Date of Election: 09/01/1905.
Profession: Anatomist, Cell Biologist.
Notes: First to name "Chromosomes", developed
haematoxylin staining technique
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN WALKER ?-31/12/1803
Place of Birth: Canongate, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Mineralogist,
Natural Historian.
Notes: Born 1731. First in an English-speaking
university to lecture on agricultural topics
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR ABNEY WALKER
Date of Election: 02/05/1864.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR GEOFFREY WALKER 17/07/190931/03/2001
Date of Election: 04/03/1946.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
OSWALD JAMES WALKER 27/12/1899- 24/05/1981
Place of Birth: Madrid, Spain.
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID ARNOLD WALKER ?-19/10/2002
Date of Election: 03/03/1941.
Profession: Educationalist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT WALKER 18/02/1842- 26/10/1920
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 03/03/1873.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
FREDERICK WALKER 18/08/1898- 03/03/1968
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Geologist, Petrologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT WALKER ?-30/06/1808
Place of Birth: Monkton, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 28/06/1784.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Born 1746, The subject of Henry Raeburn's "
The Skating Minister"
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY WALKER
Date of Election: 19/12/1910.
Profession: Physicist, Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES WALKER
Date of Election: 07/05/1888.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Died 1909-10
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM JAMES STIRLING WALKER 08/03/189720/11/1958
Place of Birth: North Berwick, East Lothian.
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES WALKER 14/09/1781- 08/10/1862
Place of Birth: Falkirk, Stirlingshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1824.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Constructed the Bishop Rock Lighthouse
Fellow Type: OF
WALKER, FRANCIS. SEE DRUMMOND OF
HAWTHORNDEN, FRANCIS WALKER.
ALEXANDER BURNS WALLACE ?-14/12/1974
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/03/1972.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1906
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES WALKER ?-20/05/1881
Date of Election: 07/12/1829.
Profession: Writer to the Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER G WALLACE ?-27/12/1938
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 03/03/1902.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
180/1
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ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE 08/01/1823- 07/11/1913
Place of Birth: Usk, Monmouthshire.
Date of Election: 07/11/1910.
Profession: Biologist, Evolutionist, Naturalist.
Fellow Type: HF
THOMAS WALMSLEY ?-12/11/1951
Date of Election: 01/03/1920.
Profession: Physician, Anatomist.
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR DONALD WALSH 08/08/1916- 23/04/1977
Place of Birth: Loughborough, Leicestershire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1959.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE WALLACE ?-13/03/1805
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Born 1727
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM HENRY WALSH 10/12/1913- 07/04/1986
Place of Birth: Leeds, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1979.
Profession: Classicist, Philosopher.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES WALLACE ?-07/12/1964
Date of Election: 01/03/1954.
Profession: Schoolmaster, Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN WALTON 14/05/1895- ?
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Botanist, Palaeobotanist.
Notes: Died 1970-1
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT WALLACE 24/06/1853- 17/01/1939
Place of Birth: Wallace Hall, Glencairn,
Dumfriesshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1886.
Profession: Agriculturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
KENNETH WALTON
Place of Birth: Cheshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1970.
Profession: Geographer.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS WALLACE, BARON WALLACE OF
KNARESDALE ?-23/02/1844
Place of Birth: Brampton, Cumberland.
Date of Election: 27/01/1793.
Profession: Politician.
Notes: Born 1768
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES ALFRED WANKLYN 18/02/1834- 19/07/1906
Place of Birth: Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 16/01/1860.
Profession: Analytical Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM WALLACE 23/09/1768- 28/04/1843
Place of Birth: Dysart, Fife.
Date of Election: 30/01/1804.
Profession: Mathematician, Astronomer.
Notes: Invented the pantograph and eidograph
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR ROBSON WANNOP ?-11/09/1972
Date of Election: 03/03/1952.
Profession: Agriculturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
WARDEN, JOHN. SEE MACFARLAN OF
BALLANCLEROCH, JOHN.
WILLIAM WALLACE 09/03/1832- 05/11/1888
Date of Election: 15/02/1864.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
CLAUDE WILSON WARDLAW 04/02/190116/12/1985
Date of Election: 14/03/1927.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM WALLACE 25/08/1881- 27/05/1963
Place of Birth: Leicester.
Date of Election: 04/03/1946.
Profession: Marine Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW WARDROP
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Born c 1755, Died 1823
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM WALLACE ?-02/06/1942
Date of Election: 17/01/1898.
Profession: Educationalist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES WARDROP 14/08/1782- 13/02/1869
Place of Birth: Torbane Hill, West Lothian.
Date of Election: 25/06/1808.
Profession: Surgeon, Ophthalmologist.
Fellow Type: OF
NATHANIEL WALLICH 28/01/1786- 28/04/1854
Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Denmark.
Date of Election: 02/12/1822.
Profession: Botanist, Author.
Fellow Type: OF
WARE, SAMUEL HIBBERT. SEE HIBBERT, SAMUEL.
ROBERT WALMSLEY 24/08/1906- 24/08/1998
Place of Birth: Greenock, Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1945.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
ERNEST WARHURST
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
EUGENIUS WARMING ?-02/04/1924
Date of Election: 03/07/1916.
Profession: Botanist, Ecologist.
Notes: Born c 1841
Fellow Type: HF
ROBERT MULLINEUX WALMSLEY ?-14/06/1924
Place of Birth: Near Liverpool, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1891.
Profession: Electrical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
181/1
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HUGH FERGUSON WATSON ?-16/06/1946
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR CHARLES LAING WARR 20/05/1892- 14/06/1969
Place of Birth: Rosneath, Dunbartonshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES WATSON 11/09/1792- 27/09/1877
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 04/01/1853.
Profession: Surgeon, Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN ALEXANDER WARREN 25/04/186028/03/1961
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Civil Engineer, Waterworks Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES WATSON
Date of Election: 16/05/1870.
Profession: Accountant.
Notes: Born 1801
Fellow Type: OF
SIR GEORGE WARRENDER OF LOCHEND, bart.
05/12/1782- 21/02/1849
Date of Election: 03/02/1823.
Profession: Politician.
Fellow Type: OF
E WINSTON WATERS 03/02/1884- ?
Date of Election: 21/01/1907.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Died 1918
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES ANDERSON SCOTT WATSON
16/11/1889- ?
Place of Birth: Forfar, Angus.
Date of Election: 15/05/1911.
Profession: Agriculturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW RODGER WATERSTON 30/03/191212/07/1996
Place of Birth: Ollaberry, Shetland.
Date of Election: 04/03/1946.
Profession: Zoologist, Entomologist, Conchologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES WREFORD WATSON 08/02/191518/09/1990
Place of Birth: Shensi, China.
Date of Election: 05/03/1956.
Profession: Geographer.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID WATERSTON ?-04/09/1942
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 06/05/1901.
Profession: Surgeon, Anatomist.
Notes: Born 1871
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN K. WATSON ?-17/11/1891
Date of Election: 16/04/1866.
Profession: Businessman.
Notes: Born 1818
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN STEVEN WATSON 20/03/1916- 12/06/1986
Place of Birth: Hebburn-on-Tyne, Co. Durham.
Date of Election: 04/03/1968.
Profession: Historian.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE WATERSTON 10/04/1911- 30/09/1980
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 07/03/1949.
Profession: Stationer, Ornithologist.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES WATSON
Date of Election: 04/06/1883.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN WILLIAM WATSON ?-30/08/1858
Date of Election: 26/01/1818.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1792
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES BRODIE BOOG WATSON 07/11/185816/01/1947
Place of Birth: Bombay, India.
Date of Election: 04/01/1904.
Profession: Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
MORRISON WATSON ?-25/03/1885
Place of Birth: Montrose, Angus.
Date of Election: 03/03/1873.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born 1845
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID MEREDITH SEARES WATSON 18/06/188623/07/1973
Place of Birth: Higher Broughton, Salford,
Lancashire.
Date of Election: 04/07/1949.
Profession: Zoologist, Vertebrate Palaeontologist.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR PATRICK HERON WATSON 05/01/183221/12/1907
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/03/1866.
Profession: Surgeon, Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT BOOG WATSON ?-23/06/1910
Place of Birth: Burntisland, Fife.
Date of Election: 07/04/1862.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Associated with Cardross
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE NEVILLE WATSON 31/01/188602/02/1965
Place of Birth: Westward Ho!, Devon.
Date of Election: 04/07/1949.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: HF
182/1
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SIR STEPHEN JOHN WATSON 24/03/189825/06/1976
Place of Birth: Chanchamayo, Peru.
Date of Election: 05/03/1945.
Profession: Agriculturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
PAUL EGERTON WEATHERLEY 06/05/191701/08/2001
Date of Election: 07/03/1960.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILHELM EDUARD WEBER 24/10/1804- 23/06/1891
Place of Birth: Wittenberg, Germany.
Date of Election: 02/03/1874.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Famous for work on thermodynamics
Fellow Type: HF
THOMAS P WATSON ?-25/09/1930
Date of Election: 05/02/1900.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM WATSON ?-28/06/1952
Place of Birth: Musselburgh, East Lothian.
Date of Election: 05/03/1923.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Born 1884
Fellow Type: OF
DONALD MARTIN WEBLEY 24/01/1916- 25/08/1990
Place of Birth: Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales.
Date of Election: 04/03/1968.
Profession: Microbiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM JOHN WATSON
Date of Election: 24/01/1910.
Profession: Philologist.
Notes: Born 1865, Died 1948. Name does not appear
in Fellows Lists after 1915
Fellow Type: OF
H. A. WEBSTER
Date of Election: 02/05/1887.
Profession: Librarian.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN CLARENCE WEBSTER 21/10/1863- 17/03/1950
Place of Birth: Shediac, New Brunswick, Canada.
Date of Election: 06/01/1896.
Profession: Physician, Obstetrician.
Notes: Authority on the history of Canadian maritime
provinces
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW WATT ?-09/01/1929
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 18/02/1907.
Profession: Meteorolgist.
Notes: Born 1869
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES WEDDELL 24/08/1787- 09/09/1834
Place of Birth: Ostend, Belgium.
Date of Election: 05/02/1827.
Profession: Navigator, Merchant Seaman, Author.
Notes: Explored the Weddell Sea 1823
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES WATT 19/01/1736- 25/08/1819
Place of Birth: Greenock, Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 26/01/1784.
Profession: Engineer, Inventor.
Notes: Pioneered the development of the steam
engine
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ERNEST MACLAGAN WEDDERBURN 03/02/188403/06/1958
Date of Election: 21/01/1907.
Profession: Writer to the Signet, Mathematician,
Meteorologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES WATT 21/03/1863- 03/12/1945
Date of Election: 20/02/1911.
Profession: Writer to the Signet, Actuary.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES WEDDERBURN 12/11/1782- 07/11/1822
Date of Election: 08/01/1821.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MITCHELL WATT 01/12/1892- 23/04/1980
Place of Birth: Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Physician, Pharmacologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOSEPH HENRY MACLAGAN WEDDERBURN
26/02/1882- 09/10/1948
Place of Birth: Forfar, Angus.
Date of Election: 01/06/1903.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
LAUCHLAN MACLEAN WATT ?-11/09/1957
Place of Birth: Skye.
Date of Election: 20/02/1911.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Born 1867
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER MARSHALL WATTERS
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Geologist, Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM GIBSON WEDDERSPOON
Date of Election: 04/01/1904.
Profession: Indian Educational Service.
Notes: Died 1939-40
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM WHITEHEAD WATTS 07/06/186030/07/1947
Place of Birth: Broseley, Shropshire.
Date of Election: 02/07/1934.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: HF
SIR WILLIAM LEE WEIPERS ?-15/12/1990
Place of Birth: Kilbirnie, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1953.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Notes: Born c1904
Fellow Type: OF
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JAMES KENNETH WEIR, VISCOUNT WEIR
10/09/1905- 16/08/1975
Date of Election: 02/03/1970.
Profession: Mechanical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT MARK WENLEY 19/07/1861- 29/03/1929
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/07/1896.
Profession: Philosopher.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN WEIR ?-29/01/1978
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 05/03/1934.
Profession: Geologist, Palaeontologist.
Notes: Born 1896
Fellow Type: OF
ABRAHAM GOTTLIEB WERNER 25/09/174930/06/1817
Place of Birth: Wehrau, Prussian Silesia, Germany.
Date of Election: 22/06/1807.
Profession: Geologist, Mineralogist.
Fellow Type: HF
AUGUST FREIDRICH LEOPOLD WEISMANN
17/01/1834- 05/11/1914
Place of Birth: Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
Date of Election: 07/11/1910.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: HF
REGINALD LUDWIG ANDREAS EMIL WESTERGAARD
?-19/06/1920
Place of Birth: Denmark.
Date of Election: 15/02/1909.
Profession: Botanist, Mycologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WALTER WELDON 31/10/1832- 20/09/1885
Place of Birth: Loughborough, Leicestershire.
Date of Election: 15/01/1877.
Profession: Journalist, Industrial Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS STANLEY WESTOLL 03/07/191219/09/1995
Place of Birth: West Hartlepool, Co Durham.
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Geologist, Vertebrate Palaeontologist.
Fellow Type: OF
LAWRENCE HERBERT WELLS
Date of Election: 02/03/1953.
Profession: Physician, Anatomist.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
ROBERT WESTWATER 07/09/1908- 02/10/1982
Place of Birth: Lochgelly, Fife.
Date of Election: 07/03/1960.
Profession: Mining Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM CHARLES WELLS 24/05/1757- 18/09/1817
Place of Birth: Charlestown, South Carolina, USA.
Date of Election: 19/01/1815.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
LAWSON WHALLEY
Date of Election: 19/01/1824.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died 1850. Associated with Lancaster
Fellow Type: OF
SIR HENRY MONCREIFF- WELLWOOD OF TULLIBOLE,
bart. 06/02/1750- 09/08/1827
Place of Birth: Blackford Manse, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 27/06/1796.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR CHARLES WHEATSTONE ?-19/10/1875
Place of Birth: Gloucester.
Date of Election: 02/12/1867.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Born February 1802. Pioneer in the
development of Electric Telegraphy
Fellow Type: HF
WELLWOOD, ALEXANDER MACONOCHIE-. SEE
MACONOCHIE, ALEXANDER.
WELLWOOD, ALLAN ALEXANDER MACONOCHIE.
SEE MACONOCHIE, ALLAN ALEXANDER.
WILLIAM MORTON WHEELER 19/03/186519/04/1937
Place of Birth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
Date of Election: 06/07/1936.
Profession: Entomologist.
Fellow Type: HF
DAVID WELSH 11/12/1793- 24/04/1845
Place of Birth: Braefoot, Moffat, Dumfriesshire.
Date of Election: 15/12/1834.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Author.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT WILLIAM WHELDON 17/01/189315/01/1954
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: Agriculturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID WELSH
Date of Election: 02/06/1873.
Profession: Soldier.
Notes: Died 1889-90
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM WHEWELL 24/05/1794- 06/03/1866
Place of Birth: Brock Street, Lancaster.
Date of Election: 17/03/1845.
Profession: Philosopher, Historian, Mathematician,
Mineralogist.
Fellow Type: HF
WEMYSS AND MARCH, EARL OF. SEE CHARTERIS,
FRANCIS.
JAMES ADAMS WENLEY ?-29/03/1902
Place of Birth: Stornoway, Lewis.
Date of Election: 03/07/1882.
Profession: Banker.
Notes: Born c1842
Fellow Type: OF
LIONEL GORDON WHITBY 18/07/1926- 12/03/2000
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 04/03/1968.
Profession: Physician, Biochemist.
Fellow Type: OF
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ADAM CAIRNS WHITE ?-03/07/1962
Date of Election: 03/03/1930.
Profession: Physician, Pharmacologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM FREDERIC JAMES WHITLEY ?-04/11/1958
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR SILVA WHITE
Date of Election: 07/03/1887.
Profession: Administrator.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM DWIGHT WHITNEY
Date of Election: 16/05/1892.
Profession: Philologist.
Notes: Died 1893-4
Fellow Type: HF
FRANCIS LE GRIX WHITE
Date of Election: 06/03/1876.
Profession: Geologist.
Notes: Died 1886-7
Fellow Type: OF
SIR THOMAS BARNBY WHITSON 10/03/186901/10/1948
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Chartered Accountant.
Notes: Cape Whitson, South Orkneys and Whitson
Bay, Spitzbergen are named after him
Fellow Type: OF
J MARTIN WHITE
Date of Election: 06/03/1916.
Profession: Landed Proprietor.
Notes: Died 1927-8
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES RICHARD WHITTAKER ?-04/12/1967
Place of Birth: Lancashire.
Date of Election: 20/03/1911.
Profession: Surgeon, Anatomist.
Notes: Born 1879
Fellow Type: OF
PHILIP JACOB WHITE ?-26/12/1929
Place of Birth: Purandhar, Bombay, India.
Date of Election: 02/03/1896.
Profession: Zoologist.
Notes: Born 1863
Fellow Type: OF
SIR EDMUND TAYLOR WHITTAKER 24/10/187324/03/1956
Place of Birth: Southport, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 15/07/1912.
Profession: Mathematician, Astronomer,
Philosopher.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT GEORGE WHITE 30/04/1885- ?
Date of Election: 07/03/1949.
Profession: Agriculturalist.
Notes: died 1981/2
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN MACNAGHTEN WHITTAKER 07/03/190529/01/1984
Place of Birth: Cambridge.
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
RONALD SENIOR- WHITE ?-30/10/1954
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Entomologist, Malariologist.
Notes: Born 1891
Fellow Type: OF
T. P. WHITE
Date of Election: 15/03/1869.
Profession: Military Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID WHITTERIDGE 22/06/1912- 15/06/1994
Place of Birth: Croydon, London.
Date of Election: 05/03/1951.
Profession: Physician, Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM HENRY WHITE 02/02/184527/02/1913
Place of Birth: Devonport, Devon.
Date of Election: 06/01/1890.
Profession: Naval Architect.
Notes: Photograph NLS Acc10,000/380
Fellow Type: OF
HERBERT WILLIAM WHITTINGTON 21/09/194511/03/2002
Date of Election: 01/03/1999.
Profession: Electrical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
EDWARD WHYMPER 27/04/1840- 16/09/1911
Place of Birth: Lambeth Terrace, Kennington Road,
London.
Date of Election: 05/03/1894.
Profession: Artist, Mountaineer.
Fellow Type: OF
CALEB WHITEFOORD ?-25/01/1810
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 28/01/1788.
Profession: Merchant, Diplomat, Political Satirist.
Notes: Born 1734
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW WHYTE
Place of Birth: Arbroath, Angus.
Date of Election: 02/03/1936.
Profession: Chartered Accountant.
Fellow Type: OF
TALBOT HAES WHITEHEAD 24/05/189005/04/1966
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 04/03/1946.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES WHYTE
Date of Election: 04/03/1918.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
WALTER WHITEHEAD 12/10/1840- 19/08/1913
Place of Birth: Bury, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 07/02/1881.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
185/1
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MARTIN WHYTE (WHITE)
Date of Election: 03/06/1822.
Profession: Soldier, Interest in Languages &
Literature of Hindustan.
Notes: Died 1855-6
Fellow Type: OF
NORMAN PETER LEETE WILDY 31/03/192010/03/1987
Date of Election: 05/03/1962.
Profession: Physician, Pathologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR DAVID PERCIVAL DALBRECK WILKIE
05/11/1882- 28/08/1938
Place of Birth: Kirriemuir, Angus.
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM WHYTE ?-21/04/1945
Place of Birth: Kinross.
Date of Election: 05/03/1934.
Profession: Banker.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR WILLIAM EDWARD WHYTE ?-01/04/1950
Place of Birth: Dumbarton.
Date of Election: 04/03/1935.
Profession: Lawyer.
Notes: Born c1876
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES WILKIE 01/06/1896- 22/12/1987
Date of Election: 05/03/1945.
Profession: Civil Servant, Administrator.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN CHARLES OGILVIE WILL ?-29/06/1922
Date of Election: 07/07/1879.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
R.H.B. WICKHAM
Date of Election: 05/02/1883.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Notes: Died 1898-9
Fellow Type: OF
CRISPIN ST JOHN ALVAH NASH- WILLIAMS ?01/01/2001
Date of Election: 03/03/1969.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
GUSTAV HEINRICH WIEDEMANN 02/10/182623/03/1899
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany.
Date of Election: 16/05/1892.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Date of death given as 23/3/1898 in Proc Roy
Soc
Fellow Type: HF
HUGH WILLIAM WILLIAMS ?-23/06/1829
Place of Birth: On his father's ship on voyage to
West Indies.
Date of Election: 19/01/1824.
Profession: Artist, landscape painter.
Notes: Born 1773. From 1782 brought up in
Edinburgh by Louis Ruffini, embroiderer. Soubriquet
"Grecian Williams"
Fellow Type: OF
G.B. WIELAND
Date of Election: 07/03/1887.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN WILLIAMS 11/04/1792- 27/12/1858
Place of Birth: Ystrad-Meurig, Cardiganshire, Wales.
Date of Election: 07/02/1825.
Profession: Classicist, Educationalist.
Fellow Type: OF
BERTOLD PAUL WIESNER ?-07/01/1972
Date of Election: 04/03/1929.
Profession: Physiologist.
Notes: Worked in Vienna before coming to
Edinburgh
Fellow Type: OF
SAMUEL WILLIAMS 24/07/1897- 05/04/1965
Date of Election: 08/03/1926.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN THOMAS WIGHT ?-18/03/1942
Place of Birth: Lasswade, Midlothian.
Date of Election: 04/03/1918.
Profession: Mechanical Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM WILLIAMS ?-12/11/1900
Place of Birth: Batenwydd, Wales.
Date of Election: 03/02/1868.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1832
Fellow Type: OF
PETER ALBERT LAING WIGHT 03/07/192411/10/1998
Place of Birth: Leeds, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1976.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ARTHUR WILLIAMS ?-29/12/1932
Date of Election: 03/03/1924.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Born 1879
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM PERSEHOUSE DELISLE WIGHTMAN
04/06/1899- 15/01/1983
Place of Birth: Streatham Hill, London.
Date of Election: 05/03/1934.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM OWEN WILLIAMS ?-07/09/1911
Place of Birth: Bradford, Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 01/03/1897.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1860
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN WILDE (WYLDE) ?-06/02/1840
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 23/06/1788.
Profession: Advocate.
Notes: Born c 1764
Fellow Type: OF
186/1
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ALEXANDER WILLIAM WILLIAMSON 01/05/182406/05/1904
Place of Birth: Wandsworth, London.
Date of Election: 19/02/1883.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
ALEXANDER WILSON ?-16/10/1786
Place of Birth: St Andrews, Fife.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Surgeon,Type-founder, Astronomer,
Mathematician, Meteorologist.
Notes: Born 1714. First to record use of kites in
meteorological investigations
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE WILLIAMSON
Date of Election: 04/06/1888.
Profession: Administrator.
Notes: Died 1898-9
Fellow Type: OF
ALFRED C. WILSON ?-15/07/1935
Date of Election: 04/12/1899.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY CHARLES WILLIAMSON ?-08/12/1949
Date of Election: 17/02/1908.
Profession: Marine Biologist.
Notes: Born 1871
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW WILSON ?-14/08/1942
Date of Election: 19/12/1910.
Profession: Builder, Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW WILSON 30/09/1852- 25/08/1912
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/01/1879.
Profession: Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES WILLIAMSON ?-03/06/1795
Place of Birth: Dumfriesshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Minister of Religion, Mathematician.
Notes: Born c1725
Fellow Type: OF
BERTRAM MARTIN WILSON 14/11/189618/03/1935
Date of Election: 05/03/1934.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN WILLIAMSON
Date of Election: 05/03/1928.
Profession: Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
CECIL CARUS- WILSON ?-24/09/1934
Date of Election: 07/02/1898.
Profession: Unknown.
Fellow Type: OF
KENNETH WILLIAMSON ?-14/06/1977
Place of Birth: Lancashire.
Date of Election: 02/03/1959.
Profession: Zoologist, Ornithologist.
Notes: Born c.1914
Fellow Type: OF
CEDRIC WILLIAM MALCOLM WILSON 23/11/192327/11/1993
Date of Election: 06/03/1972.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS WILLIAMSON ?-30/12/1885
Place of Birth: Greenock, Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 07/12/1857.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1815
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES WILSON
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Philologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM WILLIAMSON ?-19/12/1950
Place of Birth: Leith, Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 16/05/1910.
Profession: Clerk, Naturalist.
Notes: Born June 1869
Fellow Type: OF
CHARLES EDWARD WILSON 31/08/181518/03/1888
Place of Birth: Old Aberdeen.
Date of Election: 02/04/1877.
Profession: Educationalist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM TURNER HORACE WILLIAMSON
12/07/1888- 26/04/1968
Place of Birth: Shetland.
Date of Election: 14/03/1927.
Profession: Chemist, Soil Scientist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR CHARLES HAYNES WILSON 16/05/1909- ?
Date of Election: 07/03/1966.
Profession: Historian.
Notes: Proposers cont'd Sir Samuel C Curran, Hugh B
Nisbet, Tom L Cottrell
Fellow Type: OF
PATRICK LEVER WILLMORE
Date of Election: 07/03/1966.
Profession: Seismologist.
Fellow Type: OF- resigned
CHARLES THOMSON REES WILSON 14/02/186915/11/1959
Place of Birth: Glencorse, Midlothian.
Date of Election: 02/06/1902.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate Physics 1927
Fellow Type: OF
RICHARD WILLSTATTER 13/08/1872- 03/08/1942
Place of Birth: Karlsruhe, Germany.
Date of Election: 04/07/1927.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1915
Fellow Type: HF
187/1
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SIR DANIEL WILSON 03/01/1816- 06/08/1892
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/01/1875.
Profession: Engraver, Archaeologist, Educational
Reformer.
Notes: Proceedings give date of death as 8/8/1892
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN WILSON
Date of Election: 06/03/1922.
Profession: Architect.
Notes: Died.c1947
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN WILSON OF ELLEREY 19/05/1785- 03/04/1854
Place of Birth: Paisley, Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 27/01/1817.
Profession: Advocate, Literary Critic, Author.
Notes: Pseudonym "Christopher North" of
Blackwood's Magazine
Fellow Type: OF
DAVID RICHARDSON WILSON
Date of Election: 02/03/1942.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon, Bacteriologist.
Fellow Type: OF
DONALD CUMMING WILSON 03/01/189804/08/1950
Place of Birth: Tranent, East Lothian.
Date of Election: 05/03/1945.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN WILSON 21/11/1847- 08/12/1896
Place of Birth: Montrose, Angus.
Date of Election: 04/02/1878.
Profession: Schoolmaster, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
EDMUND BEECHER WILSON 19/10/185603/03/1939
Place of Birth: Geneva, Illinois, USA.
Date of Election: 02/07/1923.
Profession: Zoologist, Cytologist.
Fellow Type: HF
JOHN WILSON ?-27/03/1888
Place of Birth: London.
Date of Election: 20/12/1847.
Profession: Agriculturalist.
Notes: Born November 1812
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE WILSON 21/02/1818- 22/11/1859
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/01/1845.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN HARDIE WILSON ?-13/01/1920
Place of Birth: St. Andrews, Fife.
Date of Election: 06/04/1891.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE WILSON ?-11/09/1921
Date of Election: 05/06/1882.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN TUZO WILSON 24/10/1908- 15/04/1993
Place of Birth: Ottawa, Canada.
Date of Election: 03/03/1986.
Profession: Geophysicist.
Fellow Type: HF
GRAHAM MALCOLM WILSON 16/04/191715/04/1977
Date of Election: 03/03/1969.
Profession: Physician, Pharmacologist.
Fellow Type: OF
MALCOLM WILSON ?-08/07/1960
Date of Election: 01/03/1920.
Profession: Botanist, Mycologist.
Fellow Type: OF
HAROLD ALBERT WILSON 01/12/1874- 13/10/1964
Place of Birth: York.
Date of Election: 09/03/1925.
Profession: Physicist.
Fellow Type: OF
PATRICK (PETER) WILSON 16/01/1743- 30/12/1811
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Astronomer, Type-Founder.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT WILSON
Date of Election: 03/06/1889.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Notes: Died 1897-8
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ISAAC WILSON ?-02/12/1844
Date of Election: 20/01/1834.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: Born c1756
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT WILSON ?-28/07/1882
Place of Birth: Dunbar, East Lothian.
Date of Election: 07/04/1873.
Profession: Engineer.
Notes: Born 1803. Pioneer in Screw Propeller
Propulsion. Associated with perfecting the steamhammer at Nasmyth's Bridgewater foundry at
Patricroft, Manchester
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES WILSON OF WOODVILLE ?-18/05/1856
Place of Birth: Paisley, Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1827.
Profession: Ornithologist, Entomologist,
Ichthyologist.
Notes: Born November 1795
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES EBENEZER WILSON ?-07/06/1981
Date of Election: 03/03/1941.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT WILSON ?-15/08/1953
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Printer.
Notes: Born 1876
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES GEORGE WILSON ?-04/03/1881
Date of Election: 16/02/1863.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Notes: Born 1830
Fellow Type: OF
188/1
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ROBERT WILSON ?-30/08/1818
Date of Election: 22/01/1816.
Profession: Accountant.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN HENRY WISHART ?-09/06/1834
Place of Birth: Linlithgow, West Lothian.
Date of Election: 05/03/1821.
Profession: Ophthalmic Surgeon.
Notes: Born c.1784
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS WILSON 10/10/1927- 12/06/2001
Place of Birth: USA.
Date of Election: 07/03/1994.
Profession: Musical Composer.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY THOMAS MAIRE WITHAM OF LARTINGTON
(UNTIL 1800 SILVERTOP) ?-28/11/1844
Date of Election: 05/03/1827.
Profession: Palaeontologist, Mineralogist.
Notes: Born 1779. Pioneer in describing the internal
anatomy of fossil plants
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS WILSON 23/06/1916- 27/07/2001
Place of Birth: Belfast.
Date of Election: 03/03/1980.
Profession: Economist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM WITTE 18/02/1907- 22/09/1992
Place of Birth: Bratislava, (Pressburg),
Czechoslovakia.
Date of Election: 06/03/1978.
Profession: Scholar of German Language &
Literature.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM WILSON 16/02/1884- ?
Date of Election: 03/03/1924.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM ADAM WILSON 28/07/1928- 14/03/1994
Date of Election: 04/03/1991.
Profession: Lawyer.
Fellow Type: OF
FRIEDRICH WOHLER 31/07/1800- 23/09/1882
Place of Birth: Escherheim, nr Frankfurt-am-Main,
Germany.
Date of Election: 02/12/1867.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
WILLIAM WRIGHT WILSON
Date of Election: 03/02/1902.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Died 1918-19
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM HYDE WOLLASTON 06/08/176622/12/1828
Place of Birth: East Dereham, Norfolk.
Date of Election: 19/01/1824.
Profession: Physicist, Chemist, Physiologist.
Notes: Discovered Rhodium and Palladium
Fellow Type: HF
WILSON, ALEXANDER PHILIP. SEE PHILIP,
ALEXANDER PHILIP WILSON.
THOMAS JOSEPH WINNING 03/06/192517/06/2001
Date of Election: 04/03/1996.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: HF
ALEXANDER WOOD OF WOODCOTE, LORD WOOD
12/11/1788- 18/07/1864
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 06/02/1826.
Profession: Advocate.
Fellow Type: OF
ARTHUR WINSTANLEY
Date of Election: 05/03/1934.
Profession: Mining Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN WINZER
Date of Election: 07/03/1870.
Profession: Surveyor.
Notes: Died 1899-1900
Fellow Type: OF
ALEXANDER WOOD 10/12/1817- 26/02/1884
Place of Birth: Cupar, Fife.
Date of Election: 07/12/1863.
Profession: Physician.
Notes: First in Britain to use the Hypodermic Syringe
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS ALEXANDER WISE 13/06/180223/07/1889
Date of Election: 17/04/1854.
Profession: Physician, Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW WOOD 01/09/1810- 25/01/1881
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 21/12/1863.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE MACFEAT WISHART 18/08/189518/07/1958
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Physiologist.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY WOOD ?-15/02/1969
Date of Election: 04/03/1946.
Profession: Marine Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
HENRY HARVEY WOOD
Date of Election: 01/03/1943.
Profession: English Scholar.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN WISHART 28/11/1898- 14/07/1956
Place of Birth: Perth.
Date of Election: 02/03/1931.
Profession: Mathematician, Statistician.
Fellow Type: OF
189/1
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JOHN STEWART WOOD ?-23/04/1839
Date of Election: 07/12/1835.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Born 1760. Cited as James Stewart Wood in
Proceedings of The Royal Society of Edinburgh,
7/12/1835
Fellow Type: OF
EUSTACE CECIL BARTON- WRIGHT 20/09/1902- ?
Date of Election: 07/03/1932.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES WRIGHT 08/07/1878- 28/01/1957
Place of Birth: Kirkcaldy, Fife.
Date of Election: 06/03/1933.
Profession: Furniture Dealer, Amateur
Palaeontologist.
Notes: Expert on Fossil Crinoids.Noted fossil collector
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS WOOD ?-24/01/1923
Place of Birth: Lindores, Fife.
Date of Election: 15/06/1908.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHNSTONE CHRISTIE WRIGHT ?-01/06/1935
Date of Election: 07/07/1890.
Profession: Surveyor.
Notes: Born 1852
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM WOOD
Date of Election: 04/05/1824.
Profession: Surgeon.
Notes: Born c. 1784, Died September 1858, Should
not be confused with William Wood FRS, surgeon and
naturalist 1774-1857
Fellow Type: OF
SIR NORMAN CHARLES WRIGHT 19/02/190016/07/1970
Place of Birth: Reading, Berkshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1945.
Profession: Chemist, Agriculturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR GERMAN SIMS WOODHEAD 29/04/185529/12/1921
Place of Birth: Woodland Mount, Huddersfield,
Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 01/02/1886.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR ROBERT PATRICK WRIGHT 12/02/185719/12/1938
Date of Election: 06/01/1896.
Profession: Agriculturalist.
Fellow Type: OF
WOODHOUSELEE, LORD. SEE TYTLER OF
WOODHOUSELEE, ALEXANDER FRASER.
RONALD WILLIAM VERNON SELBY WRIGHT
12/06/1908- 24/10/1995
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 05/03/1973.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR MICHAEL FRANCIS ADDISON WOODRUFF
03/04/1911- 10/03/2001
Date of Election: 03/03/1958.
Profession: Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE ARTHUR WOODS ?-30/06/1921
Date of Election: 03/03/1884.
Profession: Surgeon, Pathologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SEWALL WRIGHT 21/12/1889- 03/03/1988
Place of Birth: Melrose, Massachusetts, USA.
Date of Election: 02/07/1951.
Profession: Zoologist,Geneticist.
Fellow Type: HF
FOSTER NEVILLE WOODWARD 02/05/190503/05/1985
Date of Election: 07/03/1949.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: OF
THOMAS WRIGHT 09/11/1809- 17/11/1884
Place of Birth: Paisley, Renfrewshire.
Date of Election: 30/04/1855.
Profession: Surgeon, Palaeontologist.
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT BURNS WOODWARD 10/04/191708/07/1979
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Date of Election: 06/03/1978.
Profession: Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
THOMAS GUTHRIE WRIGHT ?-01/09/1849
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 24/01/1820.
Profession: Writer to the Signet.
Notes: Born 1777
Fellow Type: OF
BARNET WOOLF 24/11/1902- 20/03/1983
Place of Birth: Hackney, London.
Date of Election: 03/03/1947.
Profession: Geneticist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM WRIGHT ?-19/09/1819
Place of Birth: Crieff, Perthshire.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Physician, Botanist.
Notes: Born March 1735
Fellow Type: OF
SIR JAMES MANN WORDIE 26/04/1889- 16/01/1962
Place of Birth: Partick, Lanarkshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1922.
Profession: Explorer, Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM WRIGHT 03/12/1918- 08/02/1985
Place of Birth: Stewarton, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1962.
Profession: Civil Engineer.
Fellow Type: OF
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 07/04/1770- 28/04/1850
Place of Birth: Cockermouth, Cumberland.
Date of Election: 17/03/1845.
Profession: Poet.
Fellow Type: HF
190/1
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RURIC WHITEHEAD WRIGLEY 24/02/188329/10/1979
Place of Birth: Rossendale, Lancashire.
Date of Election: 19/12/1910.
Profession: Astronomer.
Fellow Type: OF
ANDREW YOUNG 23/04/1807- 30/11/1889
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 05/12/1881.
Profession: Schoolmaster, Poet, Geologist.
Notes: Author of the hymn "There is a Happy Land"
1838
Fellow Type: OF
WRONG, ROSALIND MARY. SEE MITCHISON,
ROSALIND MARY.
ANDREW WHITE YOUNG 10/10/1891- 20/07/1968
Date of Election: 01/03/1937.
Profession: Writer to the Signet, Mathematician.
Fellow Type: OF
CHIEN-SHIUNG WU, MRS
Date of Election: 01/07/1968.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Died 1998
Fellow Type: HF
FRANCIS (FRANK) WATSON YOUNG ?-10/01/1941
Place of Birth: Dundee.
Date of Election: 01/05/1882.
Profession: Chemist, Physicist.
Notes: Born 1851
Fellow Type: OF
WILHELM WUNDT
Date of Election: 09/01/1905.
Profession: Philosopher.
Fellow Type: HF
GEORGE YOUNG ?-03/04/1925
Date of Election: 16/05/1892.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Born 1869
Fellow Type: OF
KARL ADOLPH WURTZ 26/11/1817- 10/05/1884
Place of Birth: Wolfsheim, near Strasburg, Alsace.
Date of Election: 19/02/1883.
Profession: Physician,Chemist.
Fellow Type: HF
GEORGE MCCREATH WYBURN
Date of Election: 07/03/1938.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
GEORGE YOUNG ?-11/03/1803
Date of Election: 24/01/1785.
Profession: Physician, Geologist.
Notes: Born 1727
Fellow Type: OF
ROBERT STODART WYLD OF GILSTON 16/04/180829/10/1893
Date of Election: 18/01/1864.
Profession: Writer to the Signet.
Fellow Type: OF
J M'LAUCHLAN YOUNG
Date of Election: 04/06/1900.
Profession: Veterinary Surgeon.
Notes: Died 1911-12
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN WYLIE 20/05/1790- 16/06/1852
Date of Election: 02/02/1852.
Profession: Military Surgeon.
Fellow Type: OF
JAMES YOUNG 13/07/1811- 13/05/1883
Place of Birth: Drygate, Glasgow.
Date of Election: 01/04/1861.
Profession: Chemist.
Notes: Soubriquet " Paraffin Young". Originator of
the Scottish Shale Industry
Fellow Type: OF
ALBERT FREY- WYSSLING (FREY UNTIL 1929)
08/11/1900- 30/08/1988
Place of Birth: Kusnacht, Zurich Canton, Switzerland.
Date of Election: 01/07/1963.
Profession: Botanist.
Fellow Type: HF
JAMES BUCHANAN YOUNG ?-17/03/1928
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 04/05/1896.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR HAROLD EDGAR YARROW, bart.
Date of Election: 06/03/1939.
Profession: Shipbuilder.
Notes: Died 1962
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN YOUNG 27/01/1747- 18/11/1820
Place of Birth: Glasgow.
Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
Profession: Classicist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN S. YEO
Date of Election: 02/05/1887.
Profession: Schoolmaster.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN YOUNG 17/11/1835- 13/12/1902
Place of Birth: Edinburgh.
Date of Election: 02/02/1863.
Profession: Physician, Palaeontologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR CHARLES MAURICE YONGE 09/12/189917/03/1986
Place of Birth: Silcoates School, near Wakefield,
Yorkshire.
Date of Election: 05/03/1945.
Profession: Marine Zoologist.
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN STIRLING YOUNG 24/09/1894- 16/09/1971
Place of Birth: Symington, Ayrshire.
Date of Election: 06/03/1944.
Profession: Physician, Pathologist.
Fellow Type: OF
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FORMER RSE FELLOWS 1783- 2002
ROBERT BURNS YOUNG ?-21/04/1949
Place of Birth: Perth.
Date of Election: 07/03/1904.
Profession: Geologist.
Fellow Type: OF
SIR HENRY YULE 01/05/1820- 30/12/1889
Place of Birth: Inveresk, East Lothian.
Date of Election: 19/02/1883.
Profession: Soldier, Geographer.
Fellow Type: HF
THOMAS GRAHAM YOUNG
Date of Election: 06/03/1882.
Profession: Unknown.
Notes: Died 1900-1
Fellow Type: OF
JOHN YULE ?-23/02/1827
Date of Election: 19/01/1815.
Profession: Physician, Botanist.
Notes: Born 1762
Fellow Type: OF
WALTER YOUNG ?-06/08/1814
Place of Birth: East Lothian.
Date of Election: 28/06/1784.
Profession: Minister of Religion.
Notes: Born 1745. Accomplished Musician
Fellow Type: OF
PIETER ZEEMAN 25/05/1865- 09/10/1943
Place of Birth: Zonnemaire, Schouwen, Netherlands.
Date of Election: 03/07/1933.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Joint Nobel Laureate, Physics 1902
Fellow Type: HF
HIDEKI YUKAWA, UNTIL 1932 OGAWA 23/01/190708/09/1981
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan.
Date of Election: 04/07/1955.
Profession: Physicist.
Notes: Nobel Laureate, Physics, 1949
Fellow Type: HF
CHARLES RENE ZEILLER
Date of Election: 03/11/1913.
Profession: Botanist, Palaeobotanist.
Notes: Died December 1915
Fellow Type: HF
FERDINAND ZIRKEL 20/05/1838- 11/06/1912
Date of Election: 01/03/1897.
Profession: Geologist, Mineralogist.
Fellow Type: HF
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