Royal Society Government

Following the Great Fire of Westminster, the Assassination of Queen Victoria and the failed military coup the Royal Society formed a Government to rule in the absence of the Royal Family.

This is the Government in 1862 at the time of the events of The Crimson Mask (some of these figures have survived longer than in reality and some were not really fellows of the Royal Society, but in the Starkweather Universe they have been elected Fellows.

President
Sir Edward Sabine

Vice-President
Michael Faraday

Minister of Information
Charles Babbage
 * Ada Lovelace
 * George Boole

Minister of Communication
Charles Wheatstone
 * Rowland Hill - Responsible for the postage system

Minister of Technology
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
 * Joseph Whitworth
 * Robert Stephenson

Minister of Transport
Douglas Strutt Galton
 * John Penn responsible for Marine Transport
 * William Yolland responsible for Railways
 * William Samuel Henson* responsible for Aerial Transport
 * John Stringfellow*

Minister of Health
William Farr
 * Florence Nightingale

Minister for the Environment
Robert Angus Smith

Minister for Nature
Charles Darwin
 * John Hogg

Minister for Foreign Affairs
Lord Stanley