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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
1738-1809, bookseller, British

Johnson, Joseph

1738 - 1809
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
1779-1780, gigantic infant, English; British

Everitt, Thomas Hills

1702 - 1780
1731-1810, natural philosopher, British

Cavendish, Henry

1731 - 1810
1732-1792, inventor of cotton-spinning machinery and cotton manufacturer, English; British

Arkwright, Sir Richard

1732 - 1792
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
bap. 1731, d. 1817, engraver, English

Hancock, Robert

1731 - 1817
1735-1803, inventor; mechanic; mathematical instrument maker, Dutch

Merlin, John Joseph

1735 - 1803
1730-1774?, physician; French

Le Thieullier, Louis Pierre Felix Rene

1730 - 1774
1734-1815, physician; astrologist, German

Mesmer, Franz Anton

1734 - 1815
1734-1811, artist; painter; politician, English; British

Dance, Nathaniel

1734 - 1811
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
1736-1790, mineralogist, French

Romé de L'Isle, Jean-Baptiste Louis

1736 - 1790

Maskelyne, Nevil

1732 - 1811

Herschel, William

1738 - 1822

Arkwright, Richard

1732 - 1792

Wedgwood, Josiah

1730 - 1795

Darwin, Erasmus

1731 - 1802

Reynolds, Richard

1735 - 1816
1738-1819, physician, Belgian

Hende, Jean-François-Laurent van

1738 - 1819

Priestley, Joseph (FRS, LLD)

1733 - 1804

Whitworth, Robert

1732 - 1799
1731-1792, active 1760s-1770s, medallist, German? Polish?

Holzhaeusser, Johann Philip

1731 - 1792
1738-1822, musician and astronomer, German born; naturalised British

Herschel, William

1738 - 1822
c. 1739-1807, active 1768-1788, mathematical instrument maker, English; British

Troughton, John

1739 - 1807
1734-1802, artist; painter; portraitist, English

Romney, George

1734 - 1802
active 1766-1804, optician, English; British

Dollond, John

1733 - 1805
1739-1812, printer, British

Walter, John

1739 - 1812
1736/7-1805, decorative artist, British; English

Eginton, Francis

1736 - 1805
1738-1820, king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and king of Hanover 1760-1820

George III

1738 - 1820
bap. 1730, d. 1802, engraver, British

Basire, James

1730 - 1802
1736-1812, physician; amateur scientist, Scottish; British

Lind, James

1736 - 1812
1731-1793, natural philosopher (scientist), inventor, English, British

Six, James

1731 - 1793
1735-1784, chemist; naturalist, Swedish

Bergman, Torbern Olof

1735 - 1784
c1739-1790, engraver, Irish, British

Watson, James

1739 - 1790
c. 1732-1799, drew and later revised an engineering plan for the River Thames, 1770-1774

Whitworth, Robert

1732 - 1799
1757-1837, hydraulic engineer, German

Woltman, Reinhard

1712 - 1837
1730-1795, potter; manufacturer of ceramics, English; British

Wedgwood, Josiah

1730 - 1795
1736-1819, mechanical engineer; scientist, Scottish; British

Watt, James

1736 - 1819

Cavendish, Henry

1731 - 1810

Bayly, William

1737 - 1810