List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1778

This is a list of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1778.

Fellows

 * 1) John Alstroemer (1742–1786)
 * 2) Wade Toby Caulfeild (1732–1800)
 * 3) Thomas Cave (1737–1780), naturalist
 * 4) Henry Dawkins (c.1728–1814), MP
 * 5) Matthew Dobson (1732–1784)
 * 6) John Douglas (1721–1807), Bishop of Salisbury
 * 7) Joseph Else (d. 1780), anatomist
 * 8) Henry Charles Englefield (1752–1822), antiquary
 * 9) Anthony Fothergill (1732–1813), physician
 * 10) Archibald Campbell Fraser (1736–1815), consul and MP
 * 11) Thomas de Grey, 2nd Baron Walsingham (1748–1818), politician
 * 12) Alexander Hay, physician
 * 13) Benjamin Heath (d. 1817), Headmaster of Harrow school
 * 14) Robert Banks Hodgkinson (c.1721–1822)
 * 15) William Augustus Howard (d. 1800)
 * 16) Charles Peter Layard (1749–1903), Dean of Bristol
 * 17) John Lockman (c.1721–1807), canon
 * 18) Joseph Nash (d. 1782)
 * 19) Henry Partridge (d. 1803), barrister
 * 20) William Preston (1729–1789), Bishop of Leighlin and Ferns
 * 21) Lancelot Shadwell (d. 1815)
 * 22) Robert Boyle-Walsingham (1736–1780), Naval officer and MP
 * 23) James Watson (1748–1796), lawyer
 * 24) Richard Worsley (1751–1805), MP
 * 25) William Wright (1735–1819), botanist
 * 26) John Wyatt (d. 1797), surgeon