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Babbage, Charles

1791 - 1871
Patient of Edward Jenner; First person to received Vaccination

Phipps, James

1788 - 1853
1800-1890, social reformer; civil servant, British

Chadwick, Sir Edwin

1800 - 1890
1749-1823, physician; surgeon; pioneer of smallpox vaccination, British; English

Jenner, Edward

1749 - 1823
1786-1901, brand name used to 1990s, cigarette manufacturer; tobacco company, Bristol, England

W D and H O Wills Limited

1786 - 1901

Walker, John

1781 - 1859

Stephenson, George

1781 - 1848
1749-1978, hospital, English

Liverpool Royal Infirmary

1749 - 1978
1789 - current (2020), soap manufacturers, Isleworth, England

A and F Pears Limited

1789
1800-1970's?, button manufacturer, London

Jennens and Company Limited

1800
1755-1843, homeopathist physician, German

Hahnemann, Samuel

1755 - 1843
1799-1871, botanist; photographic artist, British

Atkins, Anna

1799 - 1871
1791-1871, mathematician; computer pioneer, England, English; British

Babbage, Charles

1791 - 1871
1771-1833, mining engineer, English; British

Trevithick, Richard

1771 - 1833
1736-1819, mechanical engineer; scientist, Scottish; British

Watt, James

1736 - 1819
1771-1831, mechanical engineer, tool maker & inventor; patentee English; British

Maudslay, Henry

1771 - 1831
1754-1814, wax modeller, Italian

Susini, Clemente

1754 - 1814
1799-1865, active 1812-1865, physician; army medical officer, English

Barry, James

1795 - 1865

Hancock, Thomas

1786 - 1865

Cartwright, Edmund

1743 - 1823
1799-1852, engineer; inventor of types of steam carriage, British; English

Hancock, Walter

1799 - 1852

Brunel, Marc Isambard

1769 - 1849
1794-1992, dispensing chemist; druggist, London, England

Savory and Moore Limited

1794 - 1992

Trevithick, Richard

1771 - 1833

Cayley, George

1773 - 1857

Roberts, Richard

1789 - 1864

Hackworth, Timothy

1786 - 1850
1779-1843, designer; steam locomotive maker, British

Hedley, William

1779 - 1843
lender

Royal College of Surgeons of England

1745
1789-1938?, iron smelter; coal miner; manufacturer of coal-based products, England

Newton, Chambers and Company Limited

1789 - 1972

Davy, Humphry

1778 - 1829

Beamish, Richard

1798 - 1873
1750-1803, philosopher; physicist, Swiss

Argand, Ami

1750 - 1803
1798-2000, publisher, Edinburgh, Scotland

Thomas Nelson and Sons Limited

1798 - 2000
1788-1875, print seller; publisher, active London

McLean, Thomas

1788 - 1875
1764-1834, active 1791-1830, publisher, London, England

Ackermann and Company

1764 - 1834
active 1806-1861, scientific instrument maker, British; English

Jones, Thomas

1775 - 1852

Dalton, John

1766 - 1844
1800-current (2010), chemical manufacturer, Glasgow, Scotland

Charles Tennant and Company

1800
1732-1792, inventor of cotton-spinning machinery and cotton manufacturer, English; British

Arkwright, Sir Richard

1732 - 1792

Hudson, George

1800 - 1871
1750 - about 1975, lock manufacturer, brass founder, Wolverhampton, England

Gibbons of Wolverhampton

1750 - 1975
1740-(current 2015), silk weavers, Sudbury, England

Vanners Silk Weavers

1740
1798-1884, chemist; pharmacist, English

Squire, Peter

1798 - 1884

Herschel, John Frederick William

1792 - 1871
1738-1822, musician and astronomer, German born; naturalised British

Herschel, William

1738 - 1822
1793-1830, active 1820s, ironmonger; nail manufacturer; brassfounder, British

Sparrow, Isaac Earlysman

1793 - 1830
1731-1793, natural philosopher (scientist), inventor, English, British

Six, James

1731 - 1793
1766-1844, chemist; natural philosopher, English; British

Dalton, John

1766 - 1844
1743-1794, chemist & chemical pioneer, French

Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent

1743 - 1794