Robert Moray ( 1608 - 1673 )

Birth: Scotland, Europe (1608) Death: Whitehall, London, England, Europe (4 July 1673) Burial: Westminster Abbey, London, England, Europe (6 July 1673) Occupation: Courtier Soldier Research Field: Chemistry, metallurgy, mineralogy, natural history Education: possibly St. Andrews or France Career: Served in the French military service under King Louis XIII as member of a Scottish regiment (c. 1633); promoted to Lieutenant Colonel by Cardinal Richelieu (c.1638); quartermaster-general of the Scots army in North England (1641); installed as one of first lay members of Edinburgh's lodge of freemasons (1641); returned to Britain (1643) but went back to France and fought at the battle of Rocroy (18 May 1643); Prisoner of War in Bavaria (1643-1645); Colonel of the Scots Regiment; Envoy to negotiate a treaty between France and Scotland; in Scotland with Charles II (1651); Privy Councillor (1651); Justice clerk (1651); arrested briefly on suspicion of plotting the assassination of Charles (1654); joined the King in exile in France and Cologne (1654-1656); friend of Alexander Bruce, 2nd Earl of Kincardine (FRS 1663); Lived at Maastricht, Holland (1657-1660); Lord of Session and Justice-Clerk (1661); Scottish privy councillor (1661); Lord of Exchequer for Scotland; Deputy Secretary for Scotland (1663-1670) Honours: Kt 1643 Membership: Founder Fellow Election Date: 28/11/1660 Council: VP 1672-1673 Committee appointments include: Committee to consider of Mr Buckland's proposition to plant potatoes through all the parts of England (1662) Committee for Correspondence (1664) Committee for Agriculture (1664-65) Mechanical Committee (1664) Committee to consider a way of determining the measure of a degree on the earth (1669).