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1799-1883, architect, English, British

Cubitt, Lewis

1709 - 1883
1724-1793, active 1754-1793, print seller; publisher; map seller, English

Bowles, Carington

1724 - 1793
1724-1792, civil engineer, English

Smeaton, John

1724 - 1792
1779-1780, gigantic infant, English; British

Everitt, Thomas Hills

1702 - 1780
1731-1810, natural philosopher, British

Cavendish, Henry

1731 - 1810
1728-1808, ironmaster; industrialist, English; British

Wilkinson, John

1728 - 1808
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
1729-1799, priest; physiologist; biologist, Italian

Spallanzani, Lazzaro

1729 - 1799
1761-1807, portrait and history painter, English; British

Opie, John

1705 - 1807
bap. 1731, d. 1817, engraver, English

Hancock, Robert

1731 - 1817
1730-1774?, physician; French

Le Thieullier, Louis Pierre Felix Rene

1730 - 1774
1720-1778, inventor of the spinning jenny, English

Hargreaves, James

1720 - 1778
1791-1870, physician, Scottish, British

Copland, James

1711 - 1870
1731-1809, painter; engraver; artist, British; English

Sandby, Paul

1731 - 1809
1731-1815, banker; inventor, Scottish; British

Miller, Patrick

1731 - 1815
1728-1800, physician; surgeon; administrator, Italian

Brambilla, Giovanni Alessandro

1728 - 1800
1726-1765, printmaker; artist; draughtsman; engraver, British

Walker, Anthony

1726 - 1765
1720-1789, transfer printer, English

Sadler, John

1720 - 1789
1722-1809, physician, Austrian

Auenbrugger, Josef Leopold

1722 - 1809

Maskelyne, Nevil

1732 - 1811

Arkwright, Richard

1732 - 1792

Wedgwood, Josiah

1730 - 1795

Black, Joseph

1728 - 1799

Darwin, Erasmus

1731 - 1802

Priestley, Joseph (FRS, LLD)

1733 - 1804

Whitworth, Robert

1732 - 1799
1726-1790, engineer; surveyor and founder of the Ordnance Survey, Scottish

Roy, William

1726 - 1790
1724-1792, medallist, Austrian

Wideman, Anton

1724 - 1792
1731-1792, active 1760s-1770s, medallist, German? Polish?

Holzhaeusser, Johann Philip

1731 - 1792
active 1735-1790, chronometer maker; watchmaker, London, England

Kendall, Larcum

1719 - 1790
1729-1808, medallist, Dutch

Holtzhey, Johann Georg

1729 - 1808
active 1766-1804, optician, English; British

Dollond, John

1733 - 1805
1723-1777, architect; interior decorator, English

Pritchard, Thomas Farnolls

1723 - 1777
1729-1798, mathematician; cartographer, English

Donne, Benjamin

1729 - 1798
1721-1788, artist; painter, British

Wilson, Benjamin

1721 - 1788
1722-1765, discoverer of tungsten; mineralogist; chemist, Swedish

Cronstedt, Baron Axel Fredrik

1722 - 1765
1724-1968, book publisher, London

Longman

1724 - 1968
bap. 1730, d. 1802, engraver, British

Basire, James

1730 - 1802
1723-1798, architect; draughtsman, English; British

Sandby, Thomas

1723 - 1798
1723-1781, apothecary; chemist, British

Dalmahoy, Alexander

1723 - 1781
1726-1776, architect, British

Keene, Henry

1726 - 1776
1725-1793, cartographer; hydrographer, French

Roux, Joseph

1725 - 1793
1720-1793, naturalist; philosopher; lawyer, Swiss

Bonnet, Charles

1720 - 1793
1731-1793, natural philosopher (scientist), inventor, English, British

Six, James

1731 - 1793
1727-1817, chemist; botanist, Dutch-born; Austrian

Jacquin, Nicolas Joseph

1727 - 1817
c. 1732-1799, drew and later revised an engineering plan for the River Thames, 1770-1774

Whitworth, Robert

1732 - 1799
active 1757-1809, shipbuilder, Sweden, Swedish

Chapman, Fredrik Henrik

1721 - 1808
1757-1837, hydraulic engineer, German

Woltman, Reinhard

1712 - 1837
1729-1777, [nicknamed the Macaroni Parson] Church of England clergyman; forger, British

Dodd, William

1729 - 1777