List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1779

Fellows
  1. Robert Bromfield (d. 1786)
  2. George Buxton (1730–1805), physicist
  3. Tiberius Cavallo (1745–1809), Italian physicist
  4. Henry Dagge (b. c.1715)
  5. Josias Dupre (1721–1780), Governor of Madras
  6. John Duroure (c.1751–1801)
  7. John Eardley-Wilmot (1750–1815), barrister
  8. Samuel Farr (1741–1795), physician
  9. William Fullarton (1754–1808), soldier and diplomat
  10. James Glenie (1750–1817), Scottish businessman
  11. John Grant
  12. Edward Whitaker Gray (1748–1806), librarian
  13. Hugh Hamersley (d. 1790)
  14. John Henniker, 1st Baron Henniker (1724–1803)
  15. John Jebb (1736–1786), physician and reformer
  16. John Jennings
  17. Andrew Kippis (1726–1795), clergyman
  18. James Murray (c.1722–1794), Governor of Quebec
  19. Ralph Payne, 1st Baron Lavington (1738–1807)
  20. Joseph Poli (1746–1825)
  21. John Joshua Proby, 1st Earl of Carysfort (1751–1828)
  22. Charles Rainsford (1728–1809), Army officer
  23. Robert Richardson (1732–1781) prebendary, Lincoln Cathedral
  24. John Robertson (1741–1823), physician
  25. William Seward (1747–1799), anecdotist
  26. Samuel Foart Simmons (1750–1813), physician
  27. James Carmichael Smyth (1741–1821), Scottish physician
  28. Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (1753–1814)
  29. John Topham (1746–1803)
  30. Michael Tyson (1740–1780), clergyman
  31. Thomas Vage (d. 1815)
  32. Thomas Francis Wenman (1745–1796), natural historian
  33. John Whitehurst (1713–1788), clockmaker

References
  1. "Fellows of the Royal Society". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-03-16.
  2. "Fellowship of the Royal Society 1660–2015". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-07-15.
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