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Fellows of the Royal Society who are or were Freemasons, listed alphabetically Succeeded father, 30 Dec 1794, in Scottish Ldship of Kennedy and Earldom of Cassillis; Rep Peer, Scot, 30 Jun 1796–24 Oct 1806. Created: by George III, 12 Nov 1806, Baron Ailsa, giving him seat in HL; and by his longstanding friend, William IV, 10 Sep 1831, Marquess of Ailsa (both UK). Married, 1 Jun 1793, Margaret Erskine (c.1772–1848), 2 nd dau of John Erskine of Dun (†1812) and his wife, Mary Baird. Their 2nd son, John Kennedy Erskine (1802–1831), 305 married, 5 Jul 1827, Augusta FitzClarence, later [23 May 1831] Lady Augusta Erskine (1803–1865), 306 4 th natural dau of HRH Prince William Henry, Duke of Clarence and St Andrews, KG, later [1830] William IV, PGM, PGL, by the actress Dora or Dorothy Jordan, known as Mrs Bland. Died aged 76 at his home at St Margaret’s, Isleworth, Middlesex and was bur at Dun, Forfarshire, being succeeded, as his 2 sons had predeceased him, by his grandson, Archibald Kennedy (1816–1870), as 2 nd Marquess of Ailsa, later [7 Mar 1859] KT. Scottish Freemason. Kinski, Philip Joseph, Count Kinski, FRS [18 Nov 1731] (1700–1749), of Chinitz and Tettau, Austrian Emperor’s Ambassador to Great Britain. Had houses in Hanover Square and his country seat at Isleworth, near Hampton Ct. Elected FRS the same day as HSH Francis, Duke of Lorraine [qv, above]. Initiated, early Nov 1731, at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, the seat of Sir Robert Walpole, by GM, PGL, Thomas, Coke, 1 st and last Baron Lovel of Minster Lovel, KB [qv above], probably at same meeting that Thomas Pelham- Holles, Duke of Newcastle, was raised. Knight, Gowin FRS [25 Apr 1745] (1713-1772). Physician and inventor of geomagnetic instruments Born in Lincolnshire and educated at Leeds grammar school. Studied natural philosophy and medicine at Oxford until 1741. Thereafter lived in London. Developed artificial magnets by stroking steel bars with other magnets and made compasses more precise. Awarded the Copley medal in 1747. Developed commercial applications for his inventions and his compasses were official issue for all Royal Navy ships for many years although they were criticized for their performance in stormy weather. Active in the RS. Became principal librarian at the British Museum in 1756 and lived there until his death. His membership of Lodge No 181(later No 114) (PGL) meeting at the White Lion at Banbury (formed 1740) is recorded in a copy of the 1738 Book of Constitutions held at the Library and Museum of Freemasonry. The lodge was erased in 1768. 305 Some 8 months before his death of tuberculosis, 6 Mar 1831 at Pisa, William IV had appointed him one of his Equerries. 306 She married, 2ndly, 24 Aug 1836, The Hon, later [1836] Lord, John Frederick Gordon, later Hallyburton, MP (1799–1878) [3 rd son of George (Gordon), 5th Earl of Aboyne, later [1836] 9 th Marquess of Huntly, KT (1761–1853), 44th GMM, Scot, 1802–04], afterwards a V-Adml, GCH, who was the last-named (of thirty, headed by HRH The Duke of Sussex, KG, Grand Master and Master) on the Roll of Members of Royal Alpha L. No. 16 in 1818; rejoining member, 22 May 1841. 70
Fellows of the Royal Society who are or were Freemasons, listed alphabetically L Lalande, Joseph Jérôme le François de, FRS [24 Nov 1763] (11 Jul 1732–4 Apr 1807), French astronomer. Born in Bourg-en-Bresse, France and sent by his parents to Paris to study law. However, he was drawn to astronomy as the result of L.ing in the Hôtel Cluny, where Delisle had his observatory, and became his pupil and of Pierre Charles Le Monnier. After completing his legal studies, he was about to return to Bourg, 1751, to practise as an advocate, when Le Monnier obtained permission from the French Academy to send him to Berlin, to make observations on the lunar parallax in concert with those of Lacaille at the Cape of Good Hope. Having successfully carried out this assignment and before his 21 st birthday, he was admitted the Berlin Academy, as well as being elected as an adjunct astronomer to the French Academy of Sciences. Devoted himself to the improvement of the planetary theory, publishing in 1759 corrected edition of Edmond Halley’s tables, with a history of his comet whose return in that year he had helped Alexis Clairant to calculate. In 1762 Delisle resigned the Chair of Astronomy in the Collège de France in Lalande's favour. The duties were discharged by Lalande for 46 years, his house becoming an astronomical seminary, and amongst his pupils were Delambre (1749–1822), Guiseppe Piazzi (1746–1826), Pierre Méchain (1744–1804) and his own nephew Michel Lalande. By his publications in connection with the transit of Venus of 1769 he won great fame, though his personaliity was not encouraging. His investigations were conducted with more diligence rather than genius, but nevertheless his career was an eminent one. As a lecturer and writer he helped popularize astronomy. His planetary tables, into which he introduced corrections for mutual perturbations, were the best available up to the end of the 18 th century and the Lalande Prize instituted by him, 1802, for the chief astronomical performance of each year still testifies to his enthusiasm for his favourite pursuit. From 1768 he directed the Paris Observatoty. 308 His main work: Traité d’astronomie, 1764. Produced the most comprehensive star catalogue of his time, 1801, listing nearly 50,000 stars, being described as ‘The great astronomer, member of the Academies of Paris, London, St Petersburg, Stockholm, Rome and Florence.’ First WM, L. Les Neuf Sœurs [Nine Muses], Paris. 310 Langford, The Revd Canon William, DD, FRS [17 Mar 1796] (fl.1796). Lower Master at Eton Coll 1762–1802, Canon of Windsor and Chaplain to the King, George III. Joint surviving Trustee, with Jacob Bryant of Cypenham, Berkshire, and The Revd Jonathan Davies, DD, Provost of Eton, under an Indenture dated 6 Feb 1776 concerning a Presentation of a Living in the Diocese of Lincoln. 311 Joined, 9 Jan 1799, Prince of Wales’s L. No. 412, now No. 259, London. Leeson, Henry Beaumont, MD (Oxon), FRCP (Lond), FRS [7 Jun 1849], FChemSoc, MRInst (17 Jul 1803 312 –8 Nov 1872), was the son of a solicitor and born at Shirland Hall, Nottinghamshire. 313 Educ at King’s Cliffe, Northamptonshire, Hammersmith, Repton and Gonville and Caius Coll, Cambridge, 1822– 26 (BA, 1826; MA 1829) and helped Prof Cuming with his chemical lectures. Entered Trinity Hall, Oxford (BM and MD, 1840) and practised medicine in London, joining the staff at St Thomas’ Hospital, where he was Senior Physician, Govr, and Lecturer in Forensic Medicine for many years, becoming Managing Dir. OBtained his FRCP, 1847 and gave great attention both to technical chemistry and to the higher branches of natural philosophy and was one of the Founders of the Chemical Socy, and Treas, Cavendish Socy. Retired, 1853, to live at Bonchurch, near Ventnor, in the Isle of Wight, where he was a JP and landowner. He lived at The Maples but owned and developed Pulpit Rock, Rosemount, Orchardleigh, Mountfield, and other properties in Bonchurch as a speculative builder. He held Cts in the Justice Room over the Maples Stables at the corner of Madeira Road and Trinity Road. He held a Masonic L. in a cave in his garden (now in Pulpit Rock). Manysided in his pursuits, which included Freemasonry, metaphysical questions, theological studies and landscape gardening and late in life he took up astronomy and the deciphering of the Moabite Stone, but had a great disinclination to sit down and write out his discoveries and theories, especially that of crystallography. Even his ‘System of Crystallography’, announced in 1854, has never been published. 308 Crystal, 541. 310 Lennhoff, 76. 311 History of Eton Coll. 312 1800 in the RS’s List of Fellows on its website, but 1803 in at least two other websites. 313 Later, one of the 3 seats of Sir Philip Houghton Clarke, 11 th and last Bt (1819–1898), who had succeeded to the Btcy when his brother, Sir Simon Houghton Clarke, 10 th Bt, died on 23 Apr 1849, but when he died on 8 Feb 1898, the title became either extinct or dormant {Internet website: http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:tPcfLmhtTr8J:thepeerage.com/p22690.htm+Sir+Philip+Houghton+Clarke,+11th+Bt& cd=1&hl=en &ct=clnk&gl=uk]. 315 ‘Early Ventnor Doctors’ [Alan Champion, Ventnor Doctors. Caring in a Seaside Town, 1830–1995 (1996 & 1999], taken from Internet websites: http://www.iwhistory.com/earlyventnordoctors.doc; and: http://www.rsc.org/delivery/_ArticleLinking/DisplayArticleForFree.cfm?doi =JS8732600769&JournalCode=JS, the latter of which gives a comprehensive overview of his life and achievements, from the Proceedings of the Chemical Socy at their Anniversary meeting held on 31 Mar 1873, 778–80, in which the Pres outlined the lives of all 10 Fellows who had died since their previous Anniversary meeting.. 71
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