Occupation
Place born
Organisation / Person

Franklin, Benjamin

1706 - 1790

Maskelyne, Nevil

1732 - 1811

Herschel, William

1738 - 1822

Labelye, Charles

1705 - 1781

Hunter, William

1718 - 1783

Arkwright, Richard

1732 - 1792

Wedgwood, Josiah

1730 - 1795

Black, Joseph

1728 - 1799

Hogarth, William

1697 - 1764

Withering, William (MD, FRS)

1741 - 1799

Darwin, Erasmus

1731 - 1802

Filley de la Barre, Pierre

1713 - 1779

Anson, George

1697 - 1762

Simpson, Thomas

1710 - 1761

Short, James

1710 - 1768

Banks, Joseph (Bt)

1743 - 1820

Reynolds, Richard

1735 - 1816

Demainbray, Stephen Charles Triboudet

1710 - 1782

Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de

1740 - 1812

Priestley, Joseph (FRS, LLD)

1733 - 1804

Martin, Benjamin

1705 - 1782

Whitworth, Robert

1732 - 1799

1738-1819, physician, Belgian

Hende, Jean-François-Laurent van

1738 - 1819

1697-1732, shipwright, Portsmouth naval Dockyard, English

Hammond, William

1697 - 1732

1711-1778, philosopher and scientist, Italian

Bassi, Laura Maria Caterina

1711 - 1778

1718-1791, physician, Irish

Quin, Henry

1718 - 1791

1799-1883, architect, English, British

Cubitt, Lewis

1709 - 1883

1736-1818, traveller, author, Scottish, British

Brydone, Patrick

1736 - 1818

1737-1816, politician, chemist, lawyer, French

Guyton de Morveau, Louis Bernard

1737 - 1816

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

Fröhlich, Joseph

1694 - 1757

1697-1763, man-midwife, Scottish; British

Smellie, William

1697 - 1763

1741-1832, physician, French

Portal, Antoine

1741 - 1832

1738-1809, bookseller, British

Johnson, Joseph

1738 - 1809

1724-1793, active 1754-1793, print seller; publisher; map seller, English

Bowles, Carington

1724 - 1793

1739/40-1817, aeronaut; military theorist; army officer, English

Money, John

1739 - 1817

1737-1828, physician; inventor of an aerated water apparatus, British

Nooth, Dr John Mervyn

1737 - 1828

1737-1802

Williams, Thomas

1737 - 1802

1724-1792, civil engineer, English

Smeaton, John

1724 - 1792

1779-1780, gigantic infant, English; British

Everitt, Thomas Hills

1702 - 1780

1743-1820, explorer; naturalist; patron of science, British

Banks, Sir Joseph

1743 - 1820

1715-1795, Moravian minister; bookseller, English; British

Hutton, James

1715 - 1795

1731-1810, natural philosopher, British

Cavendish, Henry

1731 - 1810

1728-1808, ironmaster; industrialist, English; British

Wilkinson, John

1728 - 1808

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

1727-1805, chemist, Irish

Woulfe, Peter

1727 - 1805

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

Vivares, Francis

1709 - 1780

c1716-1788, active 1756-1788, mathematical instrument maker, English; British

Troughton, John

1716 - 1788

1732-1792, inventor of cotton-spinning machinery and cotton manufacturer, English; British

Arkwright, Sir Richard

1732 - 1792

1728-1793, surgeon; anatomist, Scottish

Hunter, John

1728 - 1793