of Revesby Abbey, Lincs., MP, High
Sheriff of Lincs. (Uncle to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., Natural
Historian and later member of the Spalding Gentlemen’s Society)
BELL, Beaupre
(1704-1741)
Norfolk, Antiquary, SGS Vice-President
- O.D.N.B.
London, Knight, Lord Mayor,
Banker
Long Sutton, Lincs., Barrister (Middle
Temple)
London, Clerk of the Ordnance, SGS
Vice-President
Moulton, Lincs., Gentleman, SGS
Vice-President
Alford, Lincs.,
Gentleman
Holbeach, Lincs., Cleric,
Schoolmaster
London, Viscount
Falkland
COLLINS, Richard
(d.
1732)
Peterborough, Painter
- O.D.N.B.
Spalding, Surgeon, SGS Operator
(Curator)
Moulton, Lincs., Cleric,
Schoolmaster
ELLYS, Sir Richard (1688?-1742)
Nocton, Lincs., Baronet, MP for Boston
- O.D.N.B.
London, Earl of Westmorland, Lt.-General
- O.D.N.B.
FOLKES, Martin
(1690-1754)
London, Pres. Royal Society/Soc.
Antiquarians - O.D.N.B.
Lincoln, Barrister (Gray’s Inn),
Recorder of Lincoln and Hull
Spalding, Physician, SGS
Secretary
Spalding, Surveyor, Mathematician,
Engineer
Spalding, Surveyor, Mathematician,
Engineer
Melton Mowbray, Leics.,
Cleric
London, third Baron Coleraine, MP
- O.D.N.B.
HARLEY, Edward
(1689-1741)
London, second Earl of Oxford, Book
Collector -
O.D.N.B.
HEIGHINGTON, Musgrave
(1690-1774?)
Yarmouth, Norfolk, Organist, Composer
- O.D.N.B.
New York/Jamaica, Major-General, Gov.
Jamaica - O.D.N.B.
Spalding, Mercer, SGS
Vice-President
JOHNSON, Maurice (Snr)
(1688-1755)
Spalding, Barrister (Inner Temple),
Antiquary, Steward, Founder and Secretary of ‘Gentleman’s Society’ at Spalding,
Hon. Librarian of Society of Antiquarians
- O.D.N.B.
Spalding, eldest son of the Founder,
Colonel, Barrister, SGS Vice-President
LAMOTTE, Charles
(d. 1741/2)
Warkton, Northants.,
Priest
LE BLON, Jacques
(1670-1741)
London, Painter, Engraver, Printer,
Inventor - O.D.N.B.
LYNN, George (Snr) (1676-1742)
Northants., Gentleman, Astronomer,
Antiquary -
O.D.N.B.
MANNINGHAM, Sir Richard
(1690-1759)
London, Knight, Surgeon, Man-midwife
- O.D.N.B.
London, Professor, Mathematician,
Schoolmaster - O.D.N.B.
NEVE, Timothy
(1694-1757)
Spalding, Cleric, Schoolmaster, SGS
Secretary -
O.D.N.B.
Hull and Norway, Merchant,
Translator
RAY, Benjamin (1704-1760)
Cowbit, Lincs., Cleric, Schoolmaster,
Antiquary, Numismatist,
SGS Secretary and later Vice-President
- O.D.N.B.
SCOTT, Francis (1695-1751)
London, second Duke of Buccleuch, SGS
Patron
London, Secretary to the Post
Office
SPARKE(S), Joseph (1682-1740)
Peterborough, Regist. P’boro Cathedral,
Antiquary - O.D.N.B.
London, Merchant, SGS
Vice-President
STUKELEY, William (1687-1765)
Lincs./London, Cleric, Physician,
Secretary to Society of Antiquaries, SGS Vice-President
- O.D.N.B.
VERTUE, George
(1684-1756)
London, Painter, Engraver, Antiquary
- O.D.N.B.
Tupholme, Lincs., Knight of the Shire,
MP
Dunston, Lincs., Gentleman,
Poet
WESLEY, Samuel (Snr)
(1662-1735)
Epworth and Wroot, Lincs., Cleric,
Author, father of John Wesley (Evangelist and leader of Methodism)
-
O.D.N.B.
WESLEY, Samuel (Jnr)
(1691-1739)
London, Cleric, Schoolmaster, Poet
- O.D.N.B.
London, MP, Antiquary, Barrister (Inner
Temple), Recorder of Poole, Pres. Royal Society, Sec. To Treasury
-
O.D.N.B.
Spalding
Gentlemen’s
Society
A Selection of early
Members
N.B. The above selected early
members who appear in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography are denoted by
“O.D.N.B.”.