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Wheatstone, Charles

1802 - 1875
Patient of Edward Jenner; First person to received Vaccination

Phipps, James

1788 - 1853

Babbage, Charles

1791 - 1871
1786-1901, brand name used to 1990s, cigarette manufacturer; tobacco company, Bristol, England

W D and H O Wills Limited

1786 - 1901
1799-1852, engineer; inventor of types of steam carriage, British; English

Hancock, Walter

1799 - 1852
1797-1880, physician; modelmaker, French

Auzoux, Louis Thomas Jerome

1797 - 1880
active 1788-1817, mathematical, philosophical (globes) & optical instrument maker, English; British

Adams, Dudley

1760 - 1830
active 1792-1829, body snatcher, Edinburgh / British

Burke, William

1792 - 1829
1785-1870, inventor; mathematician, French

Thomas, Charles Xavier

1785 - 1870
1781-1861, civil engineer, British

Clegg, Samuel

1781 - 1861

Walker, John

1781 - 1859
1789 - current (2020), soap manufacturers, Isleworth, England

A and F Pears Limited

1789
active 1780-current (2009), boiled sweet manufacturer, England

Smith Kendon Ltd.

1780
1800-1970's?, button manufacturer, London

Jennens and Company Limited

1800
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
active 1808-1847, compass maker; optician & mathematical, philosophical instrument maker, London, England, British

Bate, Robert Brettell

1782 - 1847
1788-1863, cleric; writer; photographer; traveller, British

Bridges, George Wilson

1788 - 1863
1797-1867, photographer, French

Claudet, Antoine

1797 - 1867
1794-1874, civil engineer, England, British

Rennie, Sir John

1794 - 1874
1802-1875, pioneer of telegraphy, scientist and contributor to optics, English; British

Wheatstone, Sir Charles

1802 - 1875
1788-1873, inventor of the electric telegraph; meteorologist, British; English

Ronalds, Sir Francis

1788 - 1873
1800-1877, pioneer of photography; photographer, English; British

Talbot, William Henry Fox

1800 - 1877
1794-1873, pharmacist; botanist, French born; American

Durand, Elias

1794 - 1873
1810-1882, photographer, British; Welsh

Llewelyn, John Dillwyn

1810 - 1882
1794-1863, civil engineer, British

Lewin, William

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

Wilson, James

1765 - 1821
1799-1859, mathematician; writer, British

Grant, Horace

1799 - 1859
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
1806-1863, naturalist; geologist; author; teacher, French

Boubee, Neree

1806 - 1863
1793-1850, architect; engineer, Scottish; British

Handyside, William

1793 - 1850
1810-1896, photographer, Scottish; British

Collie, William

1810 - 1896
1805-1883, naval officer; inventor; pantetee; engineer; surveyor, English; British

Peacock, George

1805 - 1883
1808-1881, active 1840s, analysing lead mining in Derbyshire, British

Taylor, John

1808 - 1881
1781-1840, mathematician; geometer; physicist, French

Poisson, Siméon-Denis

1781 - 1840
1809-1879, barrister, photographer, secretary of the Society of Arts, British

Foster, Peter Le Neve

1809 - 1879
1773-c1876

British Cast Plate Glass Company

1773 - 1876
1795-1864, sculptor, British

Behnes, William

1795 - 1864
1798-1827, geographer; draughtsman, French

Hebert, Louis

1798 - 1827
active, 1812-1856, optical, mathematical, philosophical & nautical inst. maker & optician, British

Newman, John Frederick

1783 - 1860

Wallis, George

1811 - 1891

Marenholtz-Bülow, Bertha von

1810 - 1893

Eardley-Wilmot, John Eardley

1810 - 1892
1805-1894, artist and photographer, German

Stelzner, Carl Ferdinand

1805 - 1894
1810-2005, manufacturer of tobacco and cigarettes, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Murray, Sons and Company Limited

1810 - 2005
1768-1852, maker of clocks, watches, and nautical instruments, London, England

Massey, Edward

1768 - 1852

Manby, George William

1765 - 1854

Guizot, Francoise Pierre Guillaume

1787 - 1874