Occupation
Place born
Organisation / Person
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

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

active 1744-1783, scientific instrument maker, German

Brander, Georg Friedrich

1713 - 1783

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

1713-1772, physician; inventor of geomagnetic instruments, English

Knight, Gowin

1713 - 1772

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

Opie, John

1705 - 1807

1711-1756, optical instrument maker, German (Prussian)

Mittsdorfer, Johan Georg

1711 - 1756

1791-1870, physician, Scottish, British

Copland, James

1711 - 1870

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

Trew, Christopher Jacob

1695 - 1769

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

Hudson, Thomas

1701 - 1779

1710-1767, 10th Earl of Buchan; draughtsman; engraver, Scottish

Erskine, Henry David

1710 - 1767

1703-1781, surgeon, French

Côme, Frère

1703 - 1781

1697-1764, painter; engraver, English; British

Hogarth, William

1697 - 1764

Franklin, Benjamin

1706 - 1790

Labelye, Charles

1705 - 1781

Hogarth, William

1697 - 1764

Filley de la Barre, Pierre

1713 - 1779

Anson, George

1697 - 1762

Simpson, Thomas

1710 - 1761

Short, James

1710 - 1768

1697-1732, shipwright, Portsmouth naval Dockyard, English

Hammond, William

1697 - 1732

1711-1778, philosopher and scientist, Italian

Bassi, Laura Maria Caterina

1711 - 1778

Demainbray, Stephen Charles Triboudet

1710 - 1782

Martin, Benjamin

1705 - 1782

Comte de Buffon, 1707-1788, naturalist, French

Leclerc, Georges Louis

1707 - 1788

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

Anson, George

1697 - 1762

active 1760s-1790s, clock and watchmaker, Swiss; British

Vulliamy, Justin

1712 - 1797

1713-1788, horologist; scientist, British

Whitehurst, John

1713 - 1788

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

1711-1770, politician; First Lord of the Admiralty, British; English

Perceval, John

1711 - 1770

1703-1772, itinerant oculist, English

Taylor, John

1703 - 1772

1712-1789, philanthropic educator, French

l'Epee, Charles Michel de

1712 - 1789

1711-1756, physician, anatomist, and physicist, German

Lieberkühn, Johann Nathanael

1711 - 1756

1700-1772, physician to Empress Maria Theresa, Dutch

Van Swieten, Gerard

1700 - 1772

1702/1705-1762, sculptor, French

Roubiliac, Louis-François

1702 - 1762

1712-1780, physician; naturalist, English; British

Fothergill, John

1712 - 1780

1711-1788, active 1748-1776, optician, Edinburgh & London, Scottish; British

Short, Thomas

1711 - 1788

1757-1837, hydraulic engineer, German

Woltman, Reinhard

1712 - 1837

1710-1777, printmaker; engraver, French born; active England

Canot, Pierre-Charles

1710 - 1777

1713-1784, encyclopaedist, French

Diderot, Denis

1713 - 1784