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His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF YORK attended the ordinary meeting of the Royal Society on November 10, signed the roll, and was formally admitted a fellow by the president, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins. The Duke had been elected on June 16 last. As is generally known, the opening page in the charter book, denoting the Society's inauguration, bears the signatures “Charles-Founder”, “James [Duke of York, afterwards James II.] Fellow”, and “Rupert”; the latter was the cousin of the reigning monarch. But another signature “George”, is there, and posterity may well conjecture how his name comes to be subscribed in alignment with that of “Rupert”, and not beneath it. There was never a George Rupert; the name was that of George of Denmark, who married the Princess Anne. Elected (or brought into) the Society on its anniversary day, in 1704, and not long after Newton became president, it was the latter who waited on the Prince that day (with others), to obtain his signature, and adherence. Queen Anne herself never signed the charter book.
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H.R.H. the Duke of York, F.R.S. Nature 130, 767 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130767c0
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