| Authorised form of name | Royle; John Forbes (? 1798 - 1858) |
| Dates | ? 1798 - 1858 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Cawnpore [Kanpur, India] |
| Date of birth | 20 May 1798, or 1800 |
| Place of death | Heath field Lodge, Acton, Middlesex |
| Date of death | 02 January 1858 |
| Activity | Education:
MD
Memberships:
FLS; FGS
|
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 06/04/1837 |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
VP 1838-1839 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1857-1859 vol 9 pp 547-549
Notes:
BR gives birth date as 20 May 1798; Proc gives 1800. DNB is source for birth place and birth date.
References:
R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 1. 1731-1847' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 307-332 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/47519440 |
| Code | NA6996 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| RR/1/194 | Referee's report by John Forbes Royle, on a paper 'An inquiry into a new theory of earthy bases of vegetable tissues' by Joseph Bancroft Reade | [c.1838] |
| EC/1837/09 | Royle, John Forbes: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MC/3 | Volume 3 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1839-1843 |
| MC/3/167 | Letter from J. Forbes Royle to Dr. [Peter Mark] Roget, Secretary of the Royal Society | 5 June 1841 |
| MC/4/267 | Letter from [John] Forbes Royle, 4 Balsham [?] Street, to the Royal Society | 22 November 1848 |
| MC/4/336 | Letter from Edward Sabine and [John] Forbes Royle, General Secretaries [of the British Association for the Advancement of Science], 6 Queen Street Place, London, to [Samuel Hunter Christie and Thomas Bell] the Secretaries of the Royal Society | 22 March 1850 |
| MC/4/369 | Letter from Edward Sabine and J [John] Forbes Royle, General Secretaries of the British Association [for the Advancement of Science], 6 Queen Street Place, Southwark Bridge, to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 9 December 1850 |
| MC/4 | Volume 4 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1844-1850 |
| RR/1/83 | Referee's reports by Benjamin Travers and John Forbes Royle, on a paper 'Observations on the blood-corpuscles of certain species of the genus cervus' by George Gulliver | [1837] |
| AP/23/32 | Unpublished paper, 'On the solution of silica in steam' by Julius Jeffries | 30 March 1840 |
| MS/257/3/381 | Letter from John Forbes Royle to [John Peter] Gassiot | 8 August 1850 |