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Westmacott, the sculptor; George Villiers, afterwards
famous as Earl of Clarendon and Foreign Secretary;
Frederick Robinson, better known as Lord Gcderich
and eventually Earl of Ripon; and the Dukes of
Norfolk, Sutherland, and Bedford. It may be noted
that at one time during the period under consideration
there belonged to the Society members representing
three generations of one family—Lord Dundas, for
many years the venerable father of the Society; his
son, Sir Lawrence Dundas; and his grandson,
Mr. Thomas Dundas, afterwards Earl of Zetland.
The limitation of the Society to seventy members was
now adhered to, and a few well-known personages
failed to gain admission. The repeated rejection of
Sir Francis Chantrey, R.A., was due probably to the
desire of the Society to avoid an excess of the pro-
fessional element at their board, their list already
numbering three members from the Royal Academy,
Wilkins, Westmacott, and Shee. A similar reason,
as has been said, apparently helped to cause the
exclusion of Taylor Combe, the Keeper of the
Antiquities at the British Museum; and the question
of nationality was probably fatal to the claims of
the well-known Prince Esterhazy.