Thomas Bacon (1700? - 1768)  immigrated to Maryland in 1745 where he was  Rector of St. Peters Church in Talbot County.  Besides being a  gifted clergyman, violinist, and  composer, he was also a prolific writer with works published in Ireland, England, and America.  A noteworthy  humanitarian, he was one of the first Americans to advocate education for slaves.   He featured his own music in the first known philanthropic concerts performed in America.  These concerts were given in order to raise  funds for his  “Talbot County Charity School”, a racially integrated school “for maintaining and teaching poor children to read, write, and account.” 

Alexander Hamilton (1712 - 1756) immigrated to Maryland in 1739.  A graduate of the University of Edinburgh, he was a medical doctor, musician, poet, political philosopher, social critic, dramatist, essayist, and active politician.   He had an apothecary shop in Annapolis and treated the poor as well as the rich.  During the summer of 1744 he departed on a 1624-mile journey for four months through Philadelphia, New York, and New England.  He kept a diary (Ininerarium) observing the manner, morals, and occupations of Americans in the mid-18th century, “one of the happiest combinations of liveliness, wit and instructive information written in colonial America.” 

“Loquacious Scribble” was the founder, secretary, and chief wit of the Tuesday Club.  His masterpiece is his fictional History of the Ancient and Honorable Tuesday Club which he began in 1754.  

In 1747 he married Margaret Dulaney,  daughter of wealthy landowner Daniel Dulaney.

William Thornton (d. 1769), sheriff of Anne Arundel County, he was designated as the composer of the “Grand Club Jig by Signor Proto musicus”.  According to Tuesday Club Records,  “on account of his uncommon talent in singing was appointed ‘Proto-musicus’ or chief musician con voce of the Club, and it is ordained, that as often as he votes in the Club, he is to Sing his vote in a musical manner, else it is to go for nothing. . he is not to perform upon any instrument but his melody is to be confined to the voice only.” 

Alexander Malcolm (1685 - 1763) [not shown]. Before immigrating to America, he published three major works on bookkeeping and arithmetic as well as an internationally known Treatise of Music (Edinburgh, 1721).  A flutist and violinist he was a prominent member of the Tuesday Club.  Late in life he became a clergyman and was was appointed rector of St. Anne’s Church (Annapolis) in 1749.