FREEMASONS AND THE ROYAL SOCIETY Alphabetical List of ...

Fellows of the Royal Society who are or were Freemasons, listed alphabetically
High Sheriff of Cornwall, 1781–82; MP: Truro, Feb–Mar 1784; Penrhyn, 1784–90; and Helston, 1807–12. Wellknown
fossil collector, who in addition to his own collection, purchased the large collection possessed by Richard
Greene.
Married, 1 Jul 1822, Juliana Vitcombe, and they had, before their marriage, 2 daughters and 6 sons, of whom the
4 th , Edward St Aubyn, JP (1799–1872), of St Michael’s Mount, Cornwall, who inherited most of his father’s estates,
was created a Bt in his own right, 31 Jul 1866, and was father of John St Aubyn, 2 nd Bt (1828–1908), created 4 Jul
1887, 1 st Baron Saint Levan. When the 5 th Bt died, 10 Aug 1839, aged 81, the 1671 Btcy became extinct.
Member: 1780, Somerset House L. No. 2, now Royal Somerset House and Inverness L. No. 4; and 1781, L. of
Friendship No. 4, now No. 6. Joined, 30 Apr 1781, [G]Stwds’ L. No. 47, now unnumbered, resigning 1822; [G]Stwd,
30 Apr 1781, representing L. of Friendship; SGW, PGL, 1781; ProvGM, Cornwall, 23 Nov 1785–1839.
Exalted into RA Masonry; GSupt, Cornwall, 22 Apr 1796–1839.
Stevens, John, FRS [31 Oct 1734] (?–15 Jul 1737), surgeon.
Member 1723, 1725, 1730, L. No. 24, 490 at Crown Tavern, near Cripplegate, London.
Story-Maskelyne, Mervyn Herbert Nevil, FRS [2 Jun 1870] (1823–1911), mineralogist.
Eldest son of Antony Mervyn Reeve Story, FRS [27 Nov 1823] (8 May 1791–15 May 1879), who acquired the
Maskelyne estates in Wiltshire through his wife, Margaret, only child of The Revd Dr Nevil Maskelyne, FRS [27 Jan
1758] (6 Oct 1732–9 Feb 1811), Astronomer Royal 1765–1811, and then adopted the surname Story-Maskelyne.
Studied mathematics at Wadham Coll, Oxford, and then read for the Bar, but quickly abandoned law for science.
Taught mineralogy and chemistry at the Univ of Oxford from 1851, before becoming Prof of Mineralogy there,
1856–95, which he retained when he moved to London as Keeper of Minerals at the Br Museum, 1857–80. He
rearranged and developed the collection to become the then largest arranged series of minerals and meteorites.
Fellow, Geological Socy, 1854. He was also a pioneer of photography and an associate of Wiliam Henry Fox Talbot,
FRS [17 Mar 1831] (11 Feb 1800–17 Sep 1877). Succeeded to his father’s estates in 1879. MP, Cricklade, 1880–92.
Initiated 5 Jun 1844, passed 7 Nov 1844, raised 4 Dec 1844, Apollo Univ. L. No. 460 (now No. 357), Oxford, but
not active in Freemasonry after graduation.
Stratton, George Frederick, FRS [5 Feb 1807] (1779?–1833), lawyer, son of George Stratton of Tew Park,
Oxfordshire.
Educ at St John’s Coll, Cambridge, and then studied law at Oxford and at Lincoln’s Inn. High Sheriff,
Oxfordshire.
Joined, 9 Apr 1812, L. of Friendship No 6, London.
Stuart, Alexander, FRS [30 Nov 1714], LRCP [25 Jun 1720], MD (Leiden) [22 Jun 1722], MD (Cantab, comitiis
regiae) [1728], FRCP [2 Sep 1728] (c.1673–15 Sep 1742), physician and natural philosopher, and possibly MA, 1691,
Marischal Coll, Aberdeen.
By 1698 practising as a surgeon-apothecary, though where is unknown; became a ship’s surgeon 1701, aboard the
trader London 1701–04 and 1704–07. While at sea, corresponded with Hans Sloane, MD, sending him natural history
specimens; entered medical school at Leiden Univ, matriculating 14 Dec 1709, aged 36. His dissertation ‘De structura
et motu musculari’ gained him his doctorate; the study of muscular motion was still of interest and he researched into
it later.
After a short spell in the Army in Flanders, he returned to London 1712 and Dec 1717 was named first practising
physician for the new Westminster Hospital. An early advocate of inoculation for smallpox, conducted 1725 several
trials among his patients; Physician-in-Ordinary to Queen Caroline 1728, Censor, RCP, 1732 and 1734; a Founder of
St George’s Hospital 1733 where he served until 9 Jul 1736.
Foreign member of the French Academy of Sciences and awarded the Copley Medal by the RCP and he became
the Croonian Lecturer in 1740 and 1741.
Member, 1723, 1725, of L. No. 45, at Rummer Tavern, Charing Cross, London.
Stukeley, William, FRS [13 Mar 1718], FSA [SecSA 1718–26], later MD [1719], FRCP [1720], then [1729] The
Revd (7 Nov 1687–3 Mar 1765); antiquarian and numismatist, rather than a scientist or clergyman; born in Holbeach,
Lincolnshire, the oldest of a family of 5, 4 boys and 1 girl.
Admitted as a pensioner at Bene’t Coll, now Corpus Christi Coll, Cambridge (MB 1708), went to London 1709
and studied medicine at St Thomas’ Hospital, under Dr Richard Mead, FRS. Started 1710 to practise in Boston,
Lincolnshire, of which town he became a Freeman 1713, returning to London in 1717, taking up residence in Great
Ormond Street, near Dr Richard Mead. That year, he helped to revive the Socy of Antiquaries and became its Sec in
1718 for 9 years. In 1720 Stukeley published his first contribution to antiquarian literature; Goulstonian Lecturer
489 Spelt Aubin in one of two references to him in Dyer, in the [unpaginated] list of pre-1815 [G]Stwds, and in the RS’s List of Fellows on its
website, 118; and as Aubyn in various sources, including GEC, Vol. XI, 354–5, BP, 1999, 2524–7, at 2525, and Whitaker’s Concise Almanack,
2011, 63, all under the Barony of Saint Levan, and in Dyer, 95.
490 Warranted 20 Oct 1723, changing its no. twice and its meeting-place 8 times, erased 17 Nov 1760, restored about 1763 and erased finally
28 Apr 1775 [Lane, 45].
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