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‘The Cabals of a Few Designing Members’: The Presidency of Martin Folkes, PRS and the Society's First Charter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2011

David Boyd Haycock
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This short paper examines the presidency of Martin Folkes (1690–1754) and the events surrounding the incorporation of the Society by a Royal Charter from George II in 1751. Folkes was also president of the Royal Society of London, and a small number of Antiquaries feared that incorporation was a plot hatched by ‘a few designing members’ either to line their own pockets or to subsume their society into its older, wealthier rival. Folkes in turn was a controversial figure, renowned f or his irreligious beliefs and satirized for his poor government of the Royal Society.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 80 , Issue 1 , September 2000 , pp. 273 - 284
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 2000

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