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 214 BROUNCKER. produced, to shew that this was a variation in some triling circumstances. He lived about the year 1742. His prints are chiefly portraits; amongst whieh are Hugh Boulter, Archbisbop of Armagh, and William Aldrich, lord mayor of Dublin. There is also a print of the battle of the Boyne by him after Wyck. , er 7 ว2 SIR WILLIAM BROUNCKER ViscoUNT oP CASTLE LYONs, an eminent mathemati- cian, and the first president of the Royal Society, was born about the year 1620,He received no regular apiversity education, but applied himsel with such diligence to the study of the matbematics, as to arrive at great perfection in that useful branch of knowledge. He succeeded to his father's honours in 1645, and in June in the following year he was created M.D. of the university of Oxford. In April 1660, he subscribed with many others, a declara- tion, wherein General Monk was acknowledged the restorer of the laws and privileges of these nations On the incorporation of the Royal Society in 1662, he was appointed president pro, tempore, a situation which was at first continued to him by monthly, and afterwards by yearly elections.. In this capacity he continued about fifteen years, and was of considerable service, as well as a distinguished ornament to that learned body. He also enjoyed the oftices of chancellor to Queen Catherine, and keeper of her great seal; and was one of the commissioners for executiog the office of lord high admiral, and master of St. Catherine's hospital, near the Tower of London This last he obtained in 1681, after a long suit at law with Sir Robert Atkins, one of the judges of the common In this capacity he continued about pleas. He died at his house in St. James's Street, Westminster, April 5, 1684, aged sixty-four years, and was buried on the 14th of the same month, in a yanlt which he had pre