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Maskelyne, Nevil

1732 - 1811

Herschel, William

1738 - 1822

Arkwright, Richard

1732 - 1792

Wedgwood, Josiah

1730 - 1795

Jenner, Edward (MD, FRS)

1749 - 1823

Withering, William (MD, FRS)

1741 - 1799

Darwin, Erasmus

1731 - 1802

Banks, Joseph (Bt)

1743 - 1820

Reynolds, Richard

1735 - 1816

Coke, Thomas William (first earl of Leicester of Holkham)

1745 - 1842

Fortin, Nicolas

1750 - 1831

Faden, William

1749 - 1836

Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de

1740 - 1812

Priestley, Joseph (FRS, LLD)

1733 - 1804

Thompson, Benjamin (Count von Rumford)

1753 - 1814

Whitworth, Robert

1732 - 1799

Jackson, Cyril

1746 - 1819
1738-1819, physician, Belgian

Hende, Jean-François-Laurent van

1738 - 1819
1748-1832, philosopher; jurist; reformer, English

Bentham, Jeremy

1748 - 1832
1752-1840, physician; naturalist; physiologist; anthropologist. German

Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich

1752 - 1840
1749-1806, engraver, British

Chesham, Francis

1749 - 1806
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
1747-1825, medal maker, French

Denon, Vivant

1747 - 1825
1753-1814, scientist; natural philosopher; philanthropist, American-born; British?

Thompson, Count von Rumford, Sir Benjamin

1753 - 1814
1741-1832, physician, French

Portal, Antoine

1741 - 1832
1738-1809, bookseller, British

Johnson, Joseph

1738 - 1809
1747-1821, landscape painter; diarist, English; British

Farington, Joseph

1747 - 1821
1747-1823, watchmaker; horologist, Swiss; French

Bréguet, Abraham-Louis

1747 - 1823
1750-1848, astronomer, German

Herschel, Caroline Lucretia

1750 - 1848
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
1749-1799, clergyman; natural philosopher, English; British

Bennet, Abraham

1749 - 1799
1779-1780, gigantic infant, English; British

Everitt, Thomas Hills

1702 - 1780
1743-1820, explorer; naturalist; patron of science, British

Banks, Sir Joseph

1743 - 1820
1731-1810, natural philosopher, British

Cavendish, Henry

1731 - 1810
1750-1813, engineer; inventor of the extinguisher pump/lift pump, German

Löscher, Carl Emanuel

1750 - 1813
1753-1835, active, 1804-1826, optician & mathematical instrument maker, English; British

Troughton, Edward

1753 - 1835
1732-1792, inventor of cotton-spinning machinery and cotton manufacturer, English; British

Arkwright, Sir Richard

1732 - 1792
1752-1817, artist; publisher, Welsh; British

Boydell, Josiah

1752 - 1817
1753-1828, artist; engraver; writer, British; English

Bewick, Thomas

1753 - 1828
1745-1798, portrait painter; artist, German

Hickel, Karl Anton

1745 - 1798
bap. 1753, d. 1828, aeronaut; balloonist; chemist, English

Sadler, James

1753 - 1828
1729-1799, priest; physiologist; biologist, Italian

Spallanzani, Lazzaro

1729 - 1799
1735 or 1736-1799, active 1762-1796, watchmaker; chronometer maker, British, English

Arnold, John

1735 - 1799
1761-1807, portrait and history painter, English; British

Opie, John

1705 - 1807
1736-1806, mechanical engineer; mathematician, French

Coulomb, Charles Augustin

1736 - 1806
1730-1795, potter; manufacturer of ceramics, English; British

Wedgwood, Josiah

1730 - 1795