Search our collection

Clear all filters
Occupation
Place born
Organisation / Person
Date (born / died)
1703-1781, surgeon, French

Côme, Frère

1703 - 1781
1697-1764, painter; engraver, English; British

Hogarth, William

1697 - 1764
1692-1762, astronomer, English; British

Bradley, James

1692 - 1762
Baron Anson, 1697-1762, naval officer; politician, British; English

Anson, George

1697 - 1762
active 1728, d. 1775

Tanner, John Sigismund

1700 - 1775
1695-1766, active 1720-1750, mathematical, philosophical, optical instrument maker, London, England

Cole, Benjamin

1695 - 1766
1704-1764, clock maker (NOT the inventor of the the flying shuttle), English

Kay, John

1704 - 1764
1703-1772, itinerant oculist, English

Taylor, John

1703 - 1772
1700-1772, physician to Empress Maria Theresa, Dutch

Van Swieten, Gerard

1700 - 1772
1702/1705-1762, sculptor, French

Roubiliac, Louis-François

1702 - 1762
Comte de Buffon, 1707-1788, naturalist, French

Leclerc, Georges Louis

1707 - 1788

Hogarth, William

1697 - 1764

Martin, Benjamin

1705 - 1782
1697-1732, shipwright, Portsmouth naval Dockyard, English

Hammond, William

1697 - 1732
c. 1692-1776, active 1742-1770, medallist; coin engraver, Italian-born, British

Pingo, Thomas

1692 - 1712
1694-1757, court jester of August the Strong, Austrian

Fröhlich, Joseph

1694 - 1757
1697-1763, man-midwife, Scottish; British

Smellie, William

1697 - 1763
1693-1768, duke of Newcastle upon Tyne; first duke of Newcastle under Lyme, prime minister, English

Holles, Thomas Pelham-

1693 - 1768
1779-1780, gigantic infant, English; British

Everitt, Thomas Hills

1702 - 1780
active 1724-1747, optical instrument maker, English; British

Loft, Matthew

1697 - 1747
1692-1767, artist; printmaker, Dutch

Folkema, Jacob

1692 - 1767
1697-1751, painter; mezzotint engraver; printmaker, British American

Pelham, Peter

1697 - 1751
1705-1779, portrait artist, Swedish

Brander, Fredrik

1705 - 1779
active 1752-1761, optician, previously a silk weaver, English; British

Dollond, John

1707 - 1761
1761-1807, portrait and history painter, English; British

Opie, John

1705 - 1807
1692-1761, natural philosopher (physicist), Dutch

Musschenbroek, Pieter van

1692 - 1761
1695-1769, physician; botanist; publisher, German?

Trew, Christopher Jacob

1695 - 1769
1701-1779, artist; portrait painter; art collector, English

Hudson, Thomas

1701 - 1779

Franklin, Benjamin

1706 - 1790

Labelye, Charles

1705 - 1781

Anson, George

1697 - 1762

Harrison, John

1693 - 1776
1693-1776, horologist and clock-maker, English

Harrison, John

1693 - 1776
c. 1695-1756, printmaker; engraver, British

Faber, the younger, John

1695 - 1756
1696-1776, illustrator, British

Vandergucht, Gerard

1696 - 1776
1697-1764, medallist; mint master, German

Holtzhey, Martin

1697 - 1764
1703-1791, Church of England clergyman; founder of Methodism, English

Wesley, John

1703 - 1791
1704-1767, artist; engraver, German

Haid, Johann Jakob

1704 - 1767
1707-1778, naturalist; taxonomist, Swedish

Linnaeus, Carl

1707 - 1778
1696-1755, mining engineer; colliery steward, English

Spedding, Carlisle

1696 - 1755
1696-1777, chemist, French

Bourdelin, Louis-Claude

1696 - 1777
1693-1764, postal entrepreneur; philanthropist, English

Allen, Ralph

1693 - 1764
1700?-1771, clockmaker; mechanician, British; English

Hindley, Henry

1701 - 1771
bap.1706-1737, bone-setter, English

Mapp, Mrs. Sarah

1706 - 1737
1706-1775, printer and typefounder, English; British

Baskerville, John

1706 - 1701
1694-c. 1776, astronomer, English

Phelps, Thomas

1694 - 1776
1696-1746, 9th Earl of Huntingdon, English; British

Hastings, Theophilus

1696 - 1746
1705-1781, civil engineer; mathematician, Swiss

Labelye, Charles

1705 - 1781
1700-1770, clergyman; physicist, French

Nollet, Jean Antoine

1700 - 1770
1704-1781/1782, inventor of the flying shuttle, English; British

Kay, John

1704