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Franklin, Benjamin

1706 - 1790

Labelye, Charles

1705 - 1781

Hogarth, William

1697 - 1764

Anson, George

1697 - 1762

Harrison, John

1693 - 1776

Martin, Benjamin

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

Hammond, William

1697 - 1732
1799-1883, architect, English, British

Cubitt, Lewis

1709 - 1883
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
1693-1776, horologist and clock-maker, English

Harrison, John

1693 - 1776
1779-1780, gigantic infant, English; British

Everitt, Thomas Hills

1702 - 1780
1709/10-1783, Pinchbeck the younger, clock-maker; watchmaker, British

Pinchbeck, Christopher

1709 - 1783
active 1724-1747, optical instrument maker, English; British

Loft, Matthew

1697 - 1747
1709-1780, landscape engraver, French-born; British

Vivares, Francis

1709 - 1780
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
1695-1769, physician; botanist; publisher, German?

Trew, Christopher Jacob

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

Hudson, Thomas

1701 - 1779
1703-1781, surgeon, French

Côme, Frère

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

Hogarth, William

1697 - 1764
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
active 1740-1760, optician, optical instrument maker, Italian

Burlini, Biasio

1709 - 1771
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
1705-1781, civil engineer; mathematician, Swiss

Labelye, Charles

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

Nollet, Jean Antoine

1700 - 1770
1708-1772, active 1731-1770, optician, optical instrument & microscope maker and seller, London, England, English

Cuff, John

1708 - 1772
1709-1782, engineer, French

Vaucanson, Jacques de

1709 - 1782
1782-1826, Philological Society magazine, London, England, British

European Magazine

1701 - 1806
1696-1787, philosopher; naturalist, Polish born; German

Hollman, Samuel Christian

1696 - 1787
1706-1790, natural philosopher; writer; revolutionary politican, American

Franklin, Benjamin

1706 - 1790
1698-1843, naval dockyard, Plymouth, Devon, England

Plymouth Dockyard

1698 - 1843
active 1730s-1750s, engraver; portrait miniatturist, French

Cave, Francois Morellon La

1696 - 1769
1866-1883, railway company, United Kingdom

Llynvi & Ogmore Railway

628 - 1883
1704-1782, active 1738-1777, science lecturer, philosophical, mathematical & optical instrument maker, Chichester, Sussex; London, England, British

Martin, Benjamin

1705 - 1782
1701-1770, Italian

Cervi, Joseph

1701 - 1770
1707-1783, mathematician; physicist, Swiss

Euler, Leonhard

1707 - 1783
1706-1775, ceramic modeller, German

Kändler, Johann Joachim

1706 - 1775
1709-1777, poet; dramatist, French

Gresset, Jean-Baptiste-Louis

1709 - 1777
1697-1764, astronomer; politician, England, British

Parker, George

1697 - 1764
1697-1767, surgeon; anatomist, Scottish; British

Monro, Alexander

1697 - 1767