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Patient of Edward Jenner; First person to received Vaccination

Phipps, James

1788 - 1853

Babbage, Charles

1791 - 1871
active 1808-1847, compass maker; optician & mathematical, philosophical instrument maker, London, England, British

Bate, Robert Brettell

1782 - 1847

Stephenson, George

1781 - 1848
active 1806-1861, scientific instrument maker, British; English

Jones, Thomas

1775 - 1852
1779-1843, designer; steam locomotive maker, British

Hedley, William

1779 - 1843
1788-1863, cleric; writer; photographer; traveller, British

Bridges, George Wilson

1788 - 1863
1794-1874, civil engineer, England, British

Rennie, Sir John

1794 - 1874
1788-1873, inventor of the electric telegraph; meteorologist, British; English

Ronalds, Sir Francis

1788 - 1873
1794-1873, pharmacist; botanist, French born; American

Durand, Elias

1794 - 1873
1794-1863, civil engineer, British

Lewin, William

1794 - 1863
1765-1821, medical lecturer, British?

Wilson, James

1765 - 1821
1784-1863, naval officer; ship designer; politician, English; British

Elliot, George

1784 - 1863
1778-1823, mechanical engineer, American

Dod, Daniel

1778 - 1823
1772-1844, naturalist, French

Saint-Hilaire, Etienne Geoffroy

1772 - 1844
1793-1850, architect; engineer, Scottish; British

Handyside, William

1793 - 1850
1781-1840, mathematician; geometer; physicist, French

Poisson, Siméon-Denis

1781 - 1840
1773-c1876

British Cast Plate Glass Company

1773 - 1876
1795-1864, sculptor, British

Behnes, William

1795 - 1864
active, 1812-1856, optical, mathematical, philosophical & nautical inst. maker & optician, British

Newman, John Frederick

1783 - 1860
1790-1878, inventor; Church of Scotland minister/clergyman, Scottish; British

Stirling, Robert

1790 - 1878
1785-1851, artist; naturalist; ornithologist, American

Audubon, John James

1785 - 1851
1780-1860, artist; portrait painter; painter; illustrator, Swiss

Chalon, Alfred Edward

1780 - 1860
1781-1856, artist, British

Walker, George

1781 - 1856
1793-1867, marine artist; illustrator; painter, English; British

Stanfield, Clarkson

1793 - 1867
active 1782-1831, map, chart and globe seller, engraver, English; British

Cary, John

1760 - 1831
1784-1851, third Earl of Liverpool; politician, British

Jenkinson, Charles Cecil Cope

1784 - 1851
1769-1821, midwife; obstetrician, French

Lachapelle, Marie-Louise

1769 - 1821
1778-1856, artist, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, English; British

Waite, William Watkin

1778 - 1856
1795-1873, portrait and genre painter, English; British

Parker, Henry Perlee

1795 - 1873
1767-1830, hotelier; engineer, Scottish; British

Bell, Henry

1767 - 1830
1775-1851, physician; chemist; geologist, English; British

Kidd, John

1775 - 1851
1792-1867, medallist; sculptor, French

Depaulis, Alexis Joseph

1792 - 1867
1792-1878, graphic artist; caricaturist, British

Cruikshank, George

1792 - 1878
1782-1853, composer, British

Blewitt, Jonathan

1782 - 1853
1776-1833, manufacturer of ceramics, Stoke-on-Trent, England

Spode

1776 - 1833
1791-1844, artist; painter; antiquary, English

Briggs, Henry Perronet

1791 - 1844
1769-1838, chemist, German

Accum, Friedrich Christian

1769 - 1838
1787-1861, physician and medical journalist, Scottish; British

Forbes, John

1787 - 1861
1793-1864, astronomer, German-born; active Russia

Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm

1793 - 1864
1794-1887, manufacturer of ceramics, Longport, England

Davenport

1794 - 1887
1761-1844, engraver; medallist, French

Galle, André

1761 - 1844
1770-1845, artist; portraitist, English; British

Phillips, Thomas

1770 - 1845
1790-1840, manufacturer of woollen textiles, English; British

Cockerill, John

1790 - 1840
1762-1781, mechanical and manufacturing engineers, Birmingham, Staffordshire, England

Boulton and Fothergill

1762 - 1781
1776-1832, phrenologist; physician, German

Spurzheim, Johann Gaspar

1776 - 1832
1790-1844, statesman; soldier, Swedish

Brahe, Magnus

1790 - 1844
1772-1850, lighthouse engineer; civil engineer, British

Stevenson, Robert

1772 - 1850
1770-1852, watchmaker, English

Prest, Thomas

1770 - 1852
active 1805-1845, optician, nautical instrument maker, Portsmouth, English

Stebbing, George

1775 - 1847