Fellows <strong>of</strong> the Royal Society who are or were Freemasons, listed alphabetically The appeal was forwarded ‘with esteem, consideration and affectionate regards’ but it fell on deaf ears and there is no record <strong>of</strong> Norfolk ever having replied and no reference was made to this approach at the first Grand Festival <strong>of</strong> the new UGLE. 288 Howard, William Augustus FRS [14 May 1778] (Died 20 Oct 1800). Gentleman Studied in Rheims for a medical qualification Recorded as a member <strong>of</strong> Grand Masters Lodge (now No 1) in 1792. Junior Grand Warden AGL 1793 Hunt, Thomas, FRS [13 Nov 1740], FSA [1757] (1696–31 Oct 1774), tutor from 1726 in the family <strong>of</strong> George Parker, styled Viscount Parker, later 2 nd Earl <strong>of</strong> Macclesfield, FRS [qv, below]; 289 successively Pr<strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong> Arabic and <strong>of</strong> Hebrew, Univ <strong>of</strong> Oxford. Member, 1725, L. at Cock 290 and Bottle, Little Britain, London. Hunter, John, MD (Edin) [1775], FRS [12 Jan 1786], LRCP [22 Mar 1777], FRCP [1793, speciali gratia] (Feb 1754–29 Jan 1809), physician to the army. Supt <strong>of</strong> Military Hospitals in Jamaica 1781–83. Returned to England and practised as a physician at 9 Charles Street, 291 London, from 1783 and at 14 Hill Street, Berkeley Square from 1804. Sole author in the first volume <strong>of</strong> the Transactions <strong>of</strong> the Socy for Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge, founded 1783, <strong>of</strong> a paper which for the first time recommended the rational experiments to determine the path <strong>of</strong> transmission <strong>of</strong> rabies, or ‘canine madness’ which were later carried out in Germany. Contributed three papers to the Medical Transactions published by the RCP. His principal work, Observations on the Diseases <strong>of</strong> the Army in Jamaica was published in 1788 and included a copy <strong>of</strong> Benjamin Franklin’s letter <strong>of</strong> 1786 on the subject <strong>of</strong> lead poisoning. Contributed to Volume 78 <strong>of</strong> the Philosophical Transactions in 1788. Censor, RCP, 1793, Goulstonian Lecturer 1796, Croonian Lecturer 1799–1801. As Physician Extraordinary to The Prince <strong>of</strong> Wales [qv, above], he bequeathed £50 to the Brighton Chapel Royal. Initiated 1794, St Alban’s L. No. 22, now No. 29, London, WM 1797. Joined 3 London Ls.: 1796, Somerset House L. No. 2, now Royal Somerset and Inverness L. No. 4; GStwds’ L., 1796, resigning 1807; and 17 Jan 1800, Prince <strong>of</strong> Wales’s L. No. 412, now No. 259; GStwd 1796, representing St Alban’s L.; JGW, PGL, 1797. Hunter, William, FRS [30 Apr 1767] (23 May 1718–30 Mar 1783), anatomist, successful exponent <strong>of</strong> Newtonian principles as a lecturer and demonstrator, deriving a substantial income <strong>of</strong> several hundred pounds therefrom. WM, unnamed and unnumbered L. at Swan, Ludgate Street, London. 288 The quotations come from Sir Alfred Robbins, Pres, BGP, 1913–31, in his paper English-Speaking Freemasonry (1930), quoted in Will Read’s paper, ‘Let a Man’s Religion . . . be what it may . . .’, delivered, 9 May 1985, to Quatuor Coronati L. No. 2076, London, and printed in their Transactions in AQC 98 (1985), 69–89, at 71. 289 As recorded in Clarke (1), 110. 290 Given as Gin and Bottle, Little Britain, in Clarke (1), 117 & 118 (although correctly as Cock and Bottle on 110), and Stewart, op. cit., 162. According to Lane there was no tavern or meeting-place in London with that name and the nearest seems to be the Cock and Bottle, <strong>of</strong> which there were two, one in Cannon Street (where met a L. formed on 4 Jul 1767, originally No. 399 and in 1771–4 No. 334), and the other in Upper Brook Street, Grosvenor Square (where the Corinthian L. No. 339, formed on 16 Apr 1765 and in 1792–5 as No. 188A), though clearly neither was extant when Hunt started his membership, ostensibly in 1725. Neither version <strong>of</strong> the name is included in either <strong>of</strong> the two lists <strong>of</strong> Regular Ls. as Constituted ’till Mar 25 th 1725 set out in Lane, 30. 291 He was recorded in the <strong>List</strong> <strong>of</strong> Members <strong>of</strong> The Prince <strong>of</strong> Wales’s L. No. 259 (1910, rev 1938), 26, as being <strong>of</strong> Clarges Street. 64
Fellows <strong>of</strong> the Royal Society who are or were Freemasons, listed alphabetically I Inglefield, Cdr Edward Augustus, DCL, FRS [2 Jun 1853], FRCS, later [13 Aug 1877] V-Adml Sir Edward Inglefield, then Adml, afterwards [21 Aug 1887] KCB (27 Mar 1820–5 Sep 1894), naval <strong>of</strong>ficer and arctic explorer, eldest son <strong>of</strong> R-Adml Samuel Hood Inglefield (1783–1848) and grandson <strong>of</strong> Capt John Nicholson Inglefield. Entered Royal Naval Coll, Portsmouth, Oct 1832, passing out, Oct 1834 and followed an active naval career. In Mar 1845 joined Eagle as Flag-Lt to his father, then C-in-C on the S American station and soon after commanded the Comus (16), taking part in operations in the River Parana and in forcing the passage at Obligado, 20 Nov 1845. In 1853 published A Summer Search for Sir John Franklin and was awarded the Gold Medal <strong>of</strong> the RGS, the silver medal <strong>of</strong> the Paris Geographical Socy and was presented with a diamond snuff-box by Napoleon III. Knighted 13 Aug 1877, placed on retired list 27 Mar 1885 and nominated KCB on 21 Jun 1887, Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee year. A man <strong>of</strong> cultivated taste and mechanical ingenuity, collecting Venetian glass and was an exceptional amateur painter; some <strong>of</strong> his pictures, including portraits <strong>of</strong> The Queen and Princess Royal, were exhibited at The Royal Academy. He was the inventor <strong>of</strong> the highly thought <strong>of</strong> hydraulic steering gear, until superseded by steam, and the Inglefield anchor. Initiated, SC L., yet to be ascertained; Founder, Drury Lane L. No. 2127, warranted 10 Nov 1885, consecrated 25 Jan 1886, meeting initially at FMH, 60 Great Queen Street, but from 1886, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 292 where it still meets, WM 1889; JGW, UGLE, 1891. 292 Lane, 432. 65
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