Royal Academy of Arts to that drawn up by Cheere in 1755. It was Sir William Chambers, a prominent architect and head of the British government's architects' department, the Office of Works, who used his connections with George III to gain royal patronage and financial support for the Academy in 1768. The painter Joshua Reynolds was made its first president, and Francis Milner Newton was elected the first secretary, a post he held for two decades until his resignation in 1788. The instrument of foundation, signed by George III on 10 December 1768, named 34 founder members and allowed for a total membership of
HMS Raisonnable (1768) of the British relief fleet during the Penobscot Expedition. HMS Raisonnable (1768) HMS "Raisonnable" (sometimes spelt "Raisonable") was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, named after the ship of the same name captured from the French in 1758. She was built at Chatham Dockyard, launched on 10 December 1768 and commissioned on 17 November 1770 under the command of Captain Maurice Suckling, Horatio Nelson's uncle. "Raisonnable" was built to the same lines as HMS "Ardent", and was one of the seven ships forming the of 1761. "Raisonnable" was the first ship in which Nelson