This is a list of the original fellows of the

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, defined as those fellows, excepting the founder fellows, who were elected prior to July 1663. Most were appointed on 20 May or 22 June 1663.Fellows of the Royal Society
, Royal Society.
Fellowship from 1660 onwards
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Fellows

* John Alleyn * James Annesley, 2nd Earl of Anglesey * Elias Ashmole * John Aubrey * John Austen * Sir

Thomas Baines (John) Thomas Baines (27 November 1820 – 8 May 1875) was an English artist and explorer of British colonial southern Africa and Australia. Life and work Born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, on 27 November 1820, Baines was apprenticed to a coach ...

Peter Ball Peter Ball may refer to: *Peter Ball (bishop) (1932–2019), former Bishop of Lewes and of Gloucester and convicted sex offender * Peter Ball (physician) (died 1675), English physician *Peter Eugene Ball (born 1943), English sculptor *Peter Ball ( ...

Isaac Barrow Isaac Barrow (October 1630 – 4 May 1677) was an English Christian theologian and mathematician who is generally given credit for his early role in the development of infinitesimal calculus; in particular, for proof of the fundamental theorem ...

George Bate George Bate (1608–1668) was an English court physician. Bate graduated with an M.D. from St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1637. Three years later he treated Charles I in Oxford. He was physician to Oliver Cromwell and his family, physician to Charles ...

George Berkeley George Berkeley (; 12 March 168514 January 1753) – known as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne of the Anglican Church of Ireland) – was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immate ...

, 1st Earl of Berkeley and Viscount Dursley * Sir John Birkenhead * Richard Boyle * William Brereton, 3rd Baron Brereton * Sir John Brooke * David Bruce * Sir Edward Bysshe * William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire * Walter Charlton *

Timothy Clarke Timothy Clarke (died 1672) was an English physician, a founding Fellow of the Royal Society. Life He was a member of Balliol College, Oxford at the time of the Parliamentary visitation of the University of Oxford, parliamentary visitation in Ma ...

* Sir John Clayton * Daniel Colwall *

James Compton James Washington Compton (born April 7, 1939), also known as Jim Compton, is an American businessman and civil rights activist who served as president and CEO of the Chicago Urban League from 1978 until 2006. During his tenure, the Chicago Urban ...

, 3rd Earl of Northampton * Edward Cotton *

Thomas Coxe Thomas Coxe (1615–1685) was an English physician. He studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, graduating with a BA in 1635 and an MA in 1638. He was among the initial fellows of the Royal Society, but ran into money difficulties in old age. L ...

* John Crawford-Lindsay, 17th Earl of Crawford * William Croone * Sir

John Denham John Denham may refer to: * John Denham (died 1556 or later), English MP for Shaftesbury * John Denham (judge), (1559–1639), father of the poet below, and one of the Ship Money judges * John Denham (poet) (1615–1669), English poet * John Denham ...

* Sir Kenelm Digby *

John Dryden '' John Dryden (; – ) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who in 1668 was appointed England's first Poet Laureate. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the per ...

* Andrew Ellis * Sir

George Ent George Ent (6 November 1604 – 13 October 1689) was an English scientist in the seventeenth century. Biography Ent was born on 6 November 1604 in Sandwich, Kent. He was the son of a Belgian immigrant, Josias Ent (sometimes called John Ent) ...

* William Erskine *

John Evelyn John Evelyn (31 October 162027 February 1706) was an English writer, landowner, gardener, courtier and minor government official, who is now best known as a diarist. He was a founding Fellow of the Royal Society. John Evelyn's diary, or memo ...

* Sir Francis Fane * Nicasius le Febure * Sir John Finch *

John Gauden John Gauden (died 20 September 1662) was an English cleric. He was Bishop of Exeter then Bishop of Worcester. He was also a writer, and the reputed author of the important Royalist work ''Eikon Basilike''. Life He was born at Mayland, Essex, w ...

Francis Glisson Francis Glisson (1597 – 14 October 1677Guido Giglioni'Glisson, Francis (1599?–1677)' ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2006, accessed 31 December 2008) was a British physicia ...

Theodore Haak Theodore Haak (1605 in – 1690 in London) was a German Calvinist scholar, resident in England in later life. Haak's communications abilities and interests in the new science provided the backdrop for convening the "1645 Group", a precursor of t ...

* William Hammond * Sir Robert Harley * Christopher Hatton, 1st Baron Hatton * Sir James Hayes *

Nathaniel Henshaw Nathaniel Henshaw M.D. (baptised 1628 – 1673) was an English physician and original Fellow of the Royal Society. Life He was a younger son of Benjamin Henshaw (died 4 December 1631) and his wife Anne, daughter of William Bonham of London; Thoma ...

* Thomas Henshaw * William Hoare * William Holder *

Robert Hooke Robert Hooke FRS (; 18 July 16353 March 1703) was an English polymath active as a scientist, natural philosopher and architect, who is credited to be one of two scientists to discover microorganisms in 1665 using a compound microscope that ...

* Sir John Hoskins * Charles Howard * Christian Huyghens * Richard Jones, 1st Earl of Ranelagh * Sir Andrew King * Sir James Long * Anthony Lowther * John Lucas, 1st Baron Lucas of Shenfield * Christopher Merrett * Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich and Viscount Hinchinbroke * Sir Anthony Morgan * Caspar Needham *

William Neile William Neile (7 December 1637 – 24 August 1670) was an English mathematician and founder member of the Royal Society. His major mathematical work, the rectification of the semicubical parabola, was carried out when he was aged nineteen, and was ...

* Sir

Thomas Nott Sir Thomas Nott (11 December 1606 – 1681) was an English royalist army officer and an original fellow of the Royal Society. In 1640, he acquired the remainder of the crown lease of Twickenham Park, Middlesex which he sold in 1659.Stephen Porter, ...

* Henry Oldenburg *

Philip Packer Philip Packer FRS (24 June 1618 Groombridge, Kent – 24 December 1686) was an English barrister and architect. He was a courtier to Charles II, and friend to Christopher Wren. He was educated at University College, Oxford where he matriculate ...

* Dudley Palmer *

Robert Paston Robert Paston, 1st Earl of Yarmouth, FRS (29 May 1631 – 8 March 1683) was an English scientist and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1660 and 1673 when he was created Viscount Yarmouth. He was created Earl of Yarmouth in 1679 ...

, 1st Earl of Yarmouth * John Pell * Sir William Persall * Peter Pett * Sir Peter Pett * Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester * Thomas Pockley *

Walter Pope Walter Pope (''c.'' 1627 – 1714) was an English astronomer and poet. He was the son of Francis Pope and Jane Dod, daughter of the Puritan minister John Dod. He was born in Northamptonshire and was the half brother of John Wilkins, who would b ...

Thomas Povey Thomas Povey (1613/14 – in or before 1705) FRS, was a London merchant-politician. He was active in colonial affairs from the 1650s, but neutral enough in his politics to be named a member from 1660 of Charles II's Council for Foreign Plantat ...

* Henry Powle * Sir Richard Powle * Henry Proby * William Quatremain * Giles Rawlins * Sir

Charles Scarburgh Sir Charles Scarborough or Scarburgh MP FRS FRCP (29 December 1615 – 26 February 1694) was an English physician and mathematician.Robert L. Martensen, "Scarburgh, Sir Charles (1615–1694)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxfor ...

* William Schroter * Sir James Shaen * Henry Slingsby * George Smyth * Sir Robert Southwell * Thomas Sprat *

Alexander Stanhope Alexander Stanhope (1638 – 20 September 1707) was an English envoy in Madrid between 1690 and 1699. Early life He was the youngest son of Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield by his second wife Anne, daughter of John 'Lusty' Pakington ...

* Thomas Stanley * Sir Gilbert Talbot *

Christopher Terne Christopher Terne M.D. (also Tearne) (1620–1673) was an English physician. Life He was born in Cambridgeshire, entered the University of Leyden on 22 July 1647, and there graduated M.D. In May 1650 he was incorporated first at Cambridge and then ...

* Sir

Samuel Tuke Samuel Tuke may refer to: *Sir Samuel Tuke, 1st Baronet (c.1615–1674), English Royalist officer, playwright and nobleman *Samuel Tuke (reformer) Samuel Tuke (31 July 1784 – 14 October 1857) was a Quaker philanthropist and mental-health ref ...

* Cornelius Vermuyden * George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham * Edmund Waller *

John Wallis John Wallis (; la, Wallisius; ) was an English clergyman and mathematician who is given partial credit for the development of infinitesimal calculus. Between 1643 and 1689 he served as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal ...

* Seth Ward *

Daniel Whistler Daniel Whistler (1619–1684) was an English physician. Life The son of William Whistler of Elvington, Oxfordshire, he was born at Walthamstow in Essex in 1619. He was educated at the school of Thame, Oxfordshire, and entered Merton College, ...

* Sir Joseph Williamson * Francis Willughby * John Winthrop * Matthew Wren * Thomas Wren * Sir

Cyril Wyche Sir Cyril Wyche PRS (c.1632 – 28 December 1707) was an English lawyer and politician. Early life He was born in Constantinople, Turkey, where his father, Sir Peter Wyche, was the English Ambassador. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxfor ...

* Sir Peter Wyche *

Edmund Wylde Edmund Wylde or Edmund Wilde FRS (sometimes Edward Wilde) (10 October 1618 – 1695) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1646 to 1653. Wylde was the son of Sir Edmund Wylde of Kempsey and his wife Dorothy Clarke, ...

* William Wynde

References

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1659 Events January–March * January 14 – In the Battle of the Lines of Elvas, fought near the small city of Elvas in Portugal during the Portuguese Restoration War, the Spanish Army under the command of Luis Méndez de Haro suff ...