What role did John Dalton hold in the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society?

Soon after moving to Manchester in 1793, John Dalton was elected a member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. He later served as the society's president, an office to which he was elected in 1817 and held for the remainder of his life.1

The society played a significant role in his scientific career, providing him with a laboratory after his previous institution, the New College, relocated to York. It was also before this society that Dalton presented his influential 1803 memoir regarding the relative weights of ultimate particles, which laid the foundation for his atomic theory.1