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unusual facts about President of the Royal Society



James Jurin

He had studied under Roger Cotes and William Whiston at Cambridge but only came to know Newton at the Royal Society, where Jurin was Secretary towards the end of Newton's Presidency.


see also

Bickell

Frederick Bickell Guthrie (1861–1927), Australian agricultural chemist and a president of the Royal Society of New South Wales

John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley

In 1853 he called the attention of the House of Lords to Lieutenant Maury's valuable scheme of meteorological observations and discoveries; and on Nov. 30, 1855, succeeded the Earl of Rosse as President of the Royal Society.

Martin Taylor

Sir Martin J. Taylor (born 1952), British mathematician and past Vice-President of the Royal Society

Thomas Herbert

Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke (c. 1656–1733), statesman and President of the Royal Society, MP for Wilton 1679–1683