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Babbage, Charles

1791 - 1871
Patient of Edward Jenner; First person to received Vaccination

Phipps, James

1788 - 1853
1800-1890, social reformer; civil servant, British

Chadwick, Sir Edwin

1800 - 1890
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
1789 - current (2020), soap manufacturers, Isleworth, England

A and F Pears Limited

1789
1800-1970's?, button manufacturer, London

Jennens and Company Limited

1800
1799-1871, botanist; photographic artist, British

Atkins, Anna

1799 - 1871
1791-1871, mathematician; computer pioneer, England, English; British

Babbage, Charles

1791 - 1871
1771-1833, mining engineer, English; British

Trevithick, Richard

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

Maudslay, Henry

1771 - 1831
1799-1865, active 1812-1865, physician; army medical officer, English

Barry, James

1795 - 1865

Hancock, Thomas

1786 - 1865
1799-1852, engineer; inventor of types of steam carriage, British; English

Hancock, Walter

1799 - 1852

Brunel, Marc Isambard

1769 - 1849
1794-1992, dispensing chemist; druggist, London, England

Savory and Moore Limited

1794 - 1992

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
1789-1938?, iron smelter; coal miner; manufacturer of coal-based products, England

Newton, Chambers and Company Limited

1789 - 1972

Davy, Humphry

1778 - 1829

Beamish, Richard

1798 - 1873
1798-2000, publisher, Edinburgh, Scotland

Thomas Nelson and Sons Limited

1798 - 2000
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
1800-current (2010), chemical manufacturer, Glasgow, Scotland

Charles Tennant and Company

1800

Hudson, George

1800 - 1871
1798-1884, chemist; pharmacist, English

Squire, Peter

1798 - 1884

Herschel, John Frederick William

1792 - 1871
1793-1830, active 1820s, ironmonger; nail manufacturer; brassfounder, British

Sparrow, Isaac Earlysman

1793 - 1830
1766-1844, chemist; natural philosopher, English; British

Dalton, John

1766 - 1844
1787-1854, painter; writer; inventor, English; British

Brockedon, William

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

Weiss, John

1787
1800-1877, pioneer of photography; photographer, English; British

Talbot, William Henry Fox

1800 - 1877

Rastrick, John Urpeth

1780 - 1856
1791-1867, natural philosopher; scientific adviser, England, British

Faraday, Michael

1791 - 1867
1771-1802, physician; anatomist; physiologist, French

Bichat, Marie Francois Xavier

1771 - 1802
1796-1848, inventor of textile machines, French

Heilmann, Joshua

1796 - 1848
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

Brunton, William

1777 - 1851
1781-1873, instrument maker; artist; optical inventor, English; British

Varley, Cornelius

1781 - 1873

Bury, Priscilla Susan

1799 - 1872
1800-1883, manufacturer of patent medicines; philanthropist, British

Holloway, Thomas

1800 - 1883
1790-1970, textile machinery, ammunition and bomber wing manufacturer, Bolton, England

Dobson and Barlow Limited

1790 - 1970