FREEMASONS AND THE ROYAL SOCIETY Alphabetical List of ...

Fellows of the Royal Society who are or were Freemasons, listed alphabetically
Earl Waldegrave, His Majesty’s Ambassador to the French King, Montesquieu, Baron Dursley, 332 son to the Earl of
Berkeley; 333 and several other distinguished brethren, both French and English, of Evelyn Pierrepont, 2 nd and last
Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, KG, when 7 other brethren, including Viscount Chewton, Earl Waldegrave’s son, later
KG, 334 were admitted into the Order. 335
Established a L. No. 133, at Château d’Aubigny, Cher, Berry, in France, warranted or constituted 12 Aug 1735.
Leopold George Frederick Christian, HSH, Prince of Saxe-Saalfeld and Coburg, Duke of Saxony, Duke of
Kendal, KG, GCB, GCH, RFRS [30 Nov 1816], later [1831] HM Léopold I, King of The Belgians, 1831–65 (16 Dec
1790–10 Dec 1865), born at Coburg, 3 rd son of Francis (Frederick Antony), Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1750–
1806), and his wife Countess Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf (1757–1831), and brother-in-law of HRH Edward, Duke of
Kent, KG [qv, above], who had married his sister Victoria in 1818, their only child being Queen Victoria (1819–
1901). Died at Laeken, and succeeded as King of the Belgians by his 2 nd , but eldest surviving, son, Louis Philippe
Marie Victor (1835–1909), as Léopold II.
Not initiated, but his sister’s friend Dr De Schifferli who was a mason and member of L. Der Hoffnung [Hope],
Berne, Switzerland, proceeded by delegation of the L. to receive him, 6 Aug 1813, and later to pass and raise him
privately, 1813, while Gen under Czar Alexander of Russia.
Never attended any masonic meeting anywhere and despite claims to the contrary, never joined an English L. In
1833, gave handsome gift to newly founded GO, Belgium, tried to use Freemasonry for political purposes but without
any success.
Lindsay, James Ludovic, styled [1869–80] Lord Lindsay, FRS [6 Jun 1878], PRAS [1878–80], FSA [16 Apr 1885],
later [13 Dec 1880] 26 th Earl of Crawford and 9 th Earl of Balcarres, then [7 Dec 1891] KT, VD (28 Jul 1847–31
Jan 1913), only son of Alexander (William Crawford) Lindsay, 25 th Earl of Crawford and 8 th Earl of Balcarres
(1812–1880). born at St Germain-en-Laye, France, and baptized at the Episcopal Church there,
Educ Eton and Trinity Coll, Cambridge. Lt, Grenadier Gds; MP, Wigan, 1874–80. Hon LLD (Edin) 1882,
Trustee, Br Museum, 1885; Pres, Camden Socy, 1888. JP, Lancashire and Aberdeenshire.
Succeeded to titles on father’s death in 1880. Hon Col, 5 th Bn The Manchester Regiment, VD, KGStJ, Cdr,
Légion d’Honneur; DepGStwd, Scot, at Coronations of Edward VII, 1902, and George V, 1911.
Married, 22 Jul 1869, Emily Florence Bootle-Wilbraham (†1934), 3 rd dau of Colonel The Hon Edward Bootle-
Wilbraham (1807–1897). 336
When he died his titles 337 passed to his eldest son, David (Alexander Edward) Lindsay, styled Lord Lindsay
(1871–1940), as 27 th Earl of Crawford and 10 th Earl of Balcarres, later KT, FRS [6 Nov 1924]. An earlier Earl of
Crawford was a FRS: John Lindsay, 338 17 th Earl of Crawford and 1 st Earl of Lindsay, PC, FRS [20 May 1663;
Original] (1596–1678).
As The Hon James Lindsay, initiated, aged 19½, 26 Feb 1866, Isaac Newton Univ. L. No. 859, Cambridge.
Joined 2 Ls.: as The Hon James Lindsay (though styled, only from 23 Dec 1869, when his grandfather died, Lord
Lindsay), 339 28 Jan 1868, Prince of Wales’s L. No. 259; affiliated, as Lord Lindsay, 1870, The L. of Edinburgh
(Mary’s Chapel) No. 1, Edinburgh (SC). SGW, UGLE, 1871, DepProvGM, West Lancashire; donated, 1880, his
masonic collection to Wigan Public Library.
Exalted into Royal Arch Masonry; GScN, SGCE, 1871.
Lindsay, John, 20 th Earl of Crawford and 4 th Earl of Lindsay, FRS [15 Jun 1732] (4 Oct 1702–24 Dec 1749), Lt-
Gen 1747.
Born 4 Oct 1702 and educ at Univ of Glasgow and at military academy at Vaudeuil, Paris. Entering Army 1726,
becoming Cap, Scots Guards, 1734. Married, 3 Mar 1747, Jean Murray (†10 Oct 1747), elder dau of James Murray,
2 nd Duke of Atholl, KT, PC (1690–1764), and first cousin of James Murray, 3 rd Duke of Atholl, KT (1729–1774),
GM, AGL, 1771–74, and GMM, Scot, 1773–74, father of James Murray, 4 th Duke of Atholl, KT (1755–1830), GM,
AGL, 1775–81 and 1791–1813 and GMM, Scot, 1778–80.
332 th nd
Augustus Berkeley, 4 Earl of Berkeley, KT (1716–1755), who inherited the title on his father’s death on 17 Aug 1736 at the 2 Duke of
Richmond’s Castle of Aubigny, France. The details of his Initiation have not yet been ascertained.
333 rd
V-Adml James Berkeley, 3 Earl of Berkeley, KG, PC (after 1679–1736).
334 nd
Who succeeded his father as 2 Earl in 1741 and was nominated as a Knight of the Garter in 1757.
335
Reported in The Whitehall Evening Post for 18–20 Sep 1735, recorded by Shackleton, 174, as mentioned both by Gould, Vol. IV, 353, and
Tunbridge, 97.
336 st
2nd son of Edward Wilbraham-Bootle, later [1814] Bootle-Wilbraham, 1 Lord Skelmersdale (1771–1853), whose grandson, Edward
Bootle-Wilbraham, 2 nd Lord Skelmersdale, later [1880] 1 st Earl of Lathom, GCB (1837–1898), was successively ProvGM, West Lancashire, 1872–
98, DepGM, UGLE, 1874–91 and ProGM, UGLE, 1891–98, and his son, Edward George Bootle-Wilbraham, 3 rd Lord Skelmersdale and 2 nd Earl of
Lathom (1864–1910), succeeded him as ProvGM, West Lancashire, 1898–1910.
337
He was Lord Lindsay (created 1443 and allowed in 1848), Lord Lindsay of Balcarres (1633), Lord Lindsay and Balneil (1651), all in the
Peerage of Scot, and Baron Wigan of Haigh Hall (1826), in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
338
As given in BP, 1999, 1716, under LINDSAY, Earl, but as Crawford-Lindsay in the RS’s List of Fellows on its website, perhaps because he
referred to himself as Crawford-Lindsay, as did also his successors, linking the two Earldoms together, as indicated in GEC, Vol. III, 519.
339
So it would seem that the authors of The Prince of Wales’s L. No. 259, List of Members (1910), rather anticipated the change of style when
recording the date when he joined the L.
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