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56 This obscurity did not long continue. The news spread quickly from fashionable Bath to London. On the 6th of December, 1781, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, to which he was formally "admitted" May 30, 1782. He was forty-three years old.

He also received the Copley medal in 1781 for his "discovery of a new and singular star."

... "He was now frequently interrupted by visitors who were introduced by some of his resident scholars, among whom I remember Sir, Dr. , and Dr. . With the latter he