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active 1739 - 1949, bell manufacturers, Cripplegate

J. Warner & Sons

1739 - 1949
Mr

Edmund Cartwright

1743 - 1823
1743-1794, chemist & chemical pioneer, French

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

1743 - 1794
1738-1822, musician and astronomer, German born; naturalised British

William Herschel

1738 - 1822
1738-1820, king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and king of Hanover 1760-1820

George

1738 - 1820
1740-1812, artist; painter, French-born, British

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1740 - 1812
1741-1799, physician; inventor of 'Perkins Tractors', American

Elisha Perkins

1741 - 1799
1799-1883, architect, English, British

Lewis Cubitt

1709 - 1883
1779-1780, gigantic infant, English; British

Thomas Hills Everitt

1702 - 1780
1740-1814, medallist, German

Johann Christian Reich

1740 - 1814
1743-1823, cleric; inventor of the power loom, English; British

Edmund Cartwright

1743 - 1823
1743-1820, explorer; naturalist; patron of science, British

Joseph Banks

1743 - 1820
c. 1745-1814?; active 1778-1814, print seller; publisher, British; English

Hannah Humphrey

1742 - 1814
c. 1739-1807, active 1768-1788, mathematical instrument maker, English; British

John Troughton

1739 - 1807
1740-(current 2015), silk weavers, Sudbury, England

Vanners Silk Weavers

1740
1740-1800, ironmaster, British

Henry Cort

1740 - 1800

William Saunders

1743 - 1817
1743-1830, medallist, coin-engraver, British

Lewis Pingo

1743 - 1830
1740-1810, balloon pioneer, French

Joseph-Michel Montgolfier

1740 - 1810
1742-1786, chemist, Swedish

Carl Wilhelm Scheele

1742 - 1786
1742-1821, naturalist; botanist; professor of botany, Swedish

Anders Jahan Retzius

1742 - 1821
1785-1867, surgeon; astronomer, British

James South

1710 - 1867
1741-1799, physician; botanist, English; British

William Withering

1741 - 1799
1739-1939, hospital; orphanage, English; British

Foundling Hospital

1739 - 1939
1741-1832, physician, French

Antoine Portal

1741 - 1832
c 1738-1821, engraver, English

William Pether

1738 - 1821
1742-1806, man- midwife; surgeon; anatomist, English

William Rowley

1742 - 1806
1741-1816, hydrographer; engineer & amateur astronomer, Engliah; British

Joseph Huddart

1741 - 1816
1742-1823, writer, British

William Combe

1742 - 1823
1742-1806, chemist; physician, French

Nicolas Leblanc

1742 - 1806
1866-1883, railway company, United Kingdom

Llynvi & Ogmore Railway

628 - 1883
1761-1807, portrait and history painter, English; British

John Opie

1705 - 1807
1742-1806, naturalist; mineralogist, French

Arnould Carangeot

1742 - 1806
1739/40-1817, aeronaut; military theorist; army officer, English

John Money

1739 - 1817
1741-1828, sculptor, French

Jean-Antoine Houdon

1741 - 1828
1740-1813, typographer; type-designer; printer; publisher, Italian

Giambattista Bodonius

1740 - 1813
1782-1826, Philological Society magazine, London, England, British

European Magazine

1701 - 1806
1739-1806, inventor of the panorama, Irish

Robert Barker

1739 - 1806
1757-1837, hydraulic engineer, German

Reinhard Woltman

1712 - 1837
1743-1798, engineer; inventor, American

John Fitch

1743 - 1798
1741-1980s?, manufacturing chemist, London England

Burgoyne, Burbidges and Company Limited

1741
1743/4-1789, wife of John Arnold, mother of John Roger Arnold, chronometer makers, English

Margaret Arnold

1743 - 1789
Sir

William Herschel

1738 - 1822

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1740 - 1812
1738-1809, bookseller, British

Joseph Johnson

1738 - 1809
c1739-1790, engraver, Irish, British

James Watson

1739 - 1790
1741-1801, physiognomist; poet, Swiss

Johann Kaspar Lavater

1741 - 1801
1742-1821, artist; collector, English; British

Richard Cosway

1742 - 1821
1742-1826, portrait etcher; miniature painter, Scottish

John Kay

1742 - 1826
c. 1741-1793?, portraitist, British

Cunningham, Edward Francis

1741 - 1793