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Patient of Edward Jenner; First person to received Vaccination

Phipps, James

1788 - 1853
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
1755-1843, homeopathist physician, German

Hahnemann, Samuel

1755 - 1843
1771-1833, mining engineer, English; British

Trevithick, Richard

1771 - 1833
1771-1831, mechanical engineer, tool maker & inventor; patentee English; British

Maudslay, Henry

1771 - 1831
1754-1814, wax modeller, Italian

Susini, Clemente

1754 - 1814

Hancock, Thomas

1786 - 1865

Cartwright, Edmund

1743 - 1823

Brunel, Marc Isambard

1769 - 1849

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
1750-1803, philosopher; physicist, Swiss

Argand, Ami

1750 - 1803
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
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
1766-1844, chemist; natural philosopher, English; British

Dalton, John

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

Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent

1743 - 1794
1787-1854, painter; writer; inventor, English; British

Brockedon, William

1787 - 1854
active 1787-current (2009), surgical instrument maker, English?

Weiss, John

1787

Rastrick, John Urpeth

1780 - 1856
1771-1802, physician; anatomist; physiologist, French

Bichat, Marie Francois Xavier

1771 - 1802
active 1789-1825, optician nautical instrument and telescope maker, English; British

Cary, William

1759 - 1825
1741-1980s?, manufacturing chemist, London England

Burgoyne, Burbidges and Company Limited

1741
1772-1864, manufacturing chemist; meteorologist, British

Howard, Luke

1772 - 1864
active 1808-1847, compass maker; optician & mathematical, philosophical instrument maker, London, England, British

Bate, Robert Brettell

1782 - 1847

Farish, William

1759 - 1837

Brunton, William

1777 - 1851

Reynolds, William

1758 - 1803
1781-1873, instrument maker; artist; optical inventor, English; British

Varley, Cornelius

1781 - 1873
1790-1970, textile machinery, ammunition and bomber wing manufacturer, Bolton, England

Dobson and Barlow Limited

1790 - 1970
active about 1750-1970s, brand name, Lambeth, London, England

Singleton

1779
active 1780-current (2009), boiled sweet manufacturer, England

Smith Kendon Ltd.

1780

Wollaston, William Hyde

1766 - 1828
1750-1848, astronomer, German

Herschel, Caroline Lucretia

1750 - 1848
1785-1861, engineer; millwright, English; British

Cubitt, Sir William

1785 - 1861
active 1806-1840, optician, mathematical, drawing & philosophical instrument maker, London, England

Schmalcalder, Charles Augustus

1786 - 1843