The Fellowship of the British Academy consists of world-leading scholars and researchers in the humanities and social sciences. Fellows are elected each year in July at the Academy's annual general meeting. First fellows The following fellows were appointed in the Charter of the Incorporation of the British Academy on 8 August 1902: The Right Honourable The Earl of Rosebery, KG, KT The Right Honourable The Viscount Dillon, President of the Society of Antiquaries The Right Honourable The Lord Reay, GCSI, GCIE, President of the Royal Asiatic Society The Right Honourable Arthur James Balfour, MP The Right Honourable John Morley, MP The Right Honourable James Bryce, MP The Right Honourable William Edward Hartpole Lecky, MP Sir William Reynell Anson, Baronet, MP, Warden of All Souls College, Oxford Sir Frederick Pollock, Baronet, Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence in the University of Oxford Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, KCB., Director and Principal Librarian, British Museum Sir Henry Churchill Maxwell-Lyte, KCB, Deputy-Keeper of the Public Records Sir Courtenay Peregrine Ilbert, KCSI, CIE Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, MP, Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge David Binning Monro, Provost of Oriel College and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford Adolphus William Ward, Master of Peterhouse and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge Edward Caird, Master of Balliol College, Oxford Henry Francis Pelham, President of Trinity College and Camden Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford John Rhys, Principal of Jesus College and Professor of Celtic in the University of Oxford The Reverend George Salmon, DD, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin John Bagnell Bury, Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Dublin Samuel Henry Butcher, Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh Ingram Bywater, Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford Edward Byles Cowell, Professor of Sanskrit in the University of Cambridge The Reverend William Cunningham, DD Thomas William Rhys Davids, Professor of Pali in University College, London Albert Venn Dicey, KC, Vinerian Professor of English Law in the University of Oxford The Reverend Canon Samuel Rolles Driver, DD, Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University of Oxford Robinson Ellis, Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford Arthur John Evans, Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford The Reverend Andrew Martin Fairbairn, DD, Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford The Reverend Robert Flint, DD, Professor of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh James George Frazer Israel Gollancz, University Lecturer in