title: List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1817
text: # List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1817
  
  Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1817.
  
  ## Fellows
  
  * John Baillie (1772–1833)
  * Edward Bromhead (1789–1855), mathematician
  * William Burroughs (d. 1829), barrister
  * George Byng, 6th Viscount Torrington (1768–1831)
  * Joseph Constantine Carpue (1764–1846), surgeon
  * Frederick Sylvester North Douglas (1791–1819), MP
  * Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville (1771–1851)
  * Hugh Fortescue, 2nd Earl Fortescue (1783–1861)
  * Augustus Bozzi Granville (1783–1872), physician, writer
  * Edward Hanmer (1758–1821)
  * James Rawlins Johnson (d. 1840)
  * William Lambton (1756–1823), surveyor
  * Thomas Legh (1793–1857), MP
  * John William Mackie (b. c. 1788), Chaplain to Duke of York
  * William Macmichael (1784–1839), physician
  * John Maddy (1766–1853)
  * Macvey Napier (1776–1847), legal scholar
  * Gore Ouseley (1770–1844), diplomat
  * Henry John Peachey, 3rd Baron Selsey (1787–1838)
  * William Henry Francis Petre, 11th Baron Petre (1793–1850)
  * Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (1781–1826), founder of Singapore
  * John Reeves (1774–1856), naturalist
  * William Somerville (1771–1860), physician
  * William Strutt (1756–1830), inventor
  * Peter Evan Turnbull (1786–1852)
  * John Ashley Warre (1787–1860)
  