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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
1749-1836, engraver; cartographer, British; English

Faden, William

1749 - 1836
1749-1823, physician; surgeon; pioneer of smallpox vaccination, British; English

Jenner, Edward

1749 - 1823
1731-1815, banker; inventor, Scottish; British

Miller, Patrick

1731 - 1815
1747-1832, physician; surgeon, Italian

Palletta, Giovanni Battista

1747 - 1832
1741-1828, sculptor, French

Houdon, Jean-Antoine

1741 - 1828
1742-1806, man- midwife; surgeon; anatomist, English

Rowley, William

1742 - 1806
1736-1790, mineralogist, French

Romé de L'Isle, Jean-Baptiste Louis

1736 - 1790
1740-1827, physician, English

Haygarth, John

1740 - 1827
1748-1827, engraver, British

Holloway, Thomas

1748 - 1827
1741-1799, physician; inventor of 'Perkins Tractors', American

Perkins, Elisha

1741 - 1799
1749-1806, surgeon; farmer Scottish

Bell, Benjamin

1749 - 1806
active 1748-1859, surgical instrument maker; cutler, Edinburgh, Scotland

Boog

1748 - 1859
1745-1827, physicist, Italian

Volta, Alessandro

1745 - 1827
1748-1808, clock and watchmaker, London, England, British

Margetts, George

1748 - 1808
1731-1792, active 1760s-1770s, medallist, German? Polish?

Holzhaeusser, Johann Philip

1731 - 1792
1744-1818, architect; artist; landscape designer; engineer, French

Belanger, Francois Joseph

1744 - 1818
1749-1834, physician, Scottish

Blane, Sir Gilbert

1749 - 1834
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
1745-1830, mechanician, clock-maker, Swiss

Maillardet, Henri

1745 - 1830
1734-1802, artist; painter; portraitist, English

Romney, George

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

Dollond, John

1733 - 1805
1742-1786, chemist, Swedish

Scheele, Carl Wilhelm

1742 - 1786
1739-1812, printer, British

Walter, John

1739 - 1812
1750-1823, 1st Baron Erskine; lawyer; politician, Scottish; British

Erskine, Thomas

1750 - 1823
1743/4-1789, wife of John Arnold, mother of John Roger Arnold, chronometer makers, English

Arnold, Margaret

1743 - 1789
1750-1831, physicist; instrument maker, French

Fortin, Jean Nicolas

1750 - 1831
1736/7-1805, decorative artist, British; English

Eginton, Francis

1736 - 1805
1741-1801, physiognomist; poet, Swiss

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

1741 - 1801
1738-1820, king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and king of Hanover 1760-1820

George III

1738 - 1820
active 1784-1824, pioneer optical glass maker, Swiss

Guinand, Peter Louis

1748 - 1824
1744-1792, naval officer and politician, peer of Great Britain and Ireland, British

Phipps, Constantine John

1744 - 1792
1740-1814, medallist, German

Reich, Johann Christian

1740 - 1814
1736-1812, physician; amateur scientist, Scottish; British

Lind, James

1736 - 1812
1741-1819, geologist; sponsor, French

Faujas-de-Saint-Fond, Barthélémy

1741 - 1819
1749-1806, politician; Whig statesman, British

Fox, Charles James

1749 - 1806
c. 1745-1814?; active 1778-1814, print seller; publisher, British; English

Humphrey, Hannah

1742 - 1814
1745-1812, aquatint engraver, English

Jukes, Francis

1745 - 1812
1744-1824, physician; naturalist, British; English

Watson, Sir William

1744 - 1825
1742-1826, portrait etcher; miniature painter, Scottish

Kay, John

1742 - 1826
1731-1793, natural philosopher (scientist), inventor, English, British

Six, James

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

Bergman, Torbern Olof

1735 - 1784
1746-1818, priest; educational reformer, French

Gaultier, Aloisius Edouard Camille

1745 - 1818
c1739-1790, engraver, Irish, British

Watson, James

1739 - 1790

Arkwright, Richard

1732 - 1792
1736-1819, mechanical engineer; scientist, Scottish; British

Watt, James

1736 - 1819
active 1770s-1790s, clockmaker; watchmaker, British

Vulliamy, Benjamin

1747 - 1811

Priestley, Joseph (FRS, LLD)

1733 - 1804