sentences:  Its members have included Peter Mark Roget (author of the thesaurus), Ernest Rutherford and Joseph Whitworth.The first formal meeting of the society took place on 14 March 1781.James Thyer, librarian of Chetham's Library, edited the "Remains" of Samuel Butler, the author of "Hudibras" which had until Thyer published them in 1759 been unpublished.