List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1779

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