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Patient of Edward Jenner; First person to received Vaccination

James Phipps

1788 - 1853

John Walker

1781 - 1859
1786-1901, brand name used to 1990s, cigarette manufacturer; tobacco company, Bristol, England

W D and H O Wills Limited

1786 - 1901
Mr

George Stephenson

1781 - 1848
1771-1833, mining engineer, English; British

Richard Trevithick

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

Henry Maudslay

1771 - 1831
Mr

Timothy Hackworth

1786 - 1850

Thomas Hancock

1786 - 1865

Richard Trevithick

1771 - 1833
Sir

George Cayley

1773 - 1857
1779-1843, designer; steam locomotive maker, British

William Hedley

1779 - 1843
Mr

John Urpeth Rastrick

1780 - 1856
1787-1854, painter; writer; inventor, English; British

William Brockedon

1787 - 1854
1785-1861, engineer; millwright, English; British

William Cubitt

1785 - 1861
Sir

Humphry Davy

1778 - 1829
1788-1875, print seller; publisher, active London

McLean, Thomas

1788 - 1875
1771-1802, physician; anatomist; physiologist, French

Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

1771 - 1802
active 1806-1861, scientific instrument maker, British; English

Thomas Jones

1775 - 1852
active, 1812-1856, optical, mathematical, philosophical & nautical inst. maker & optician, British

John Frederick Newman

1783 - 1860
active 1808-1847, compass maker; optician & mathematical, philosophical instrument maker, London, England, British

Robert Brettell Bate

1782 - 1847
Mr

William Brunton

1777 - 1851
1786-1865, manufacturer of rubber; inventor, British

Thomas Hancock

1786 - 1865

Joseph Clement

1779 - 1844

William Henry Smyth

1788 - 1865
1787-1851, inventor; scenographer; daguerreotypist, French

Louis Daguerre

1787 - 1851
1781-1873, instrument maker; artist; optical inventor, English; British

Cornelius Varley

1781 - 1873
1772-1864, manufacturing chemist; meteorologist, British

Luke Howard

1772 - 1864
1788-1872, engineer, Prussian

Augustus Siebe

1788 - 1872
active 1806-1840, optician, mathematical, drawing & philosophical instrument maker, London, England

Charles Augustus Schmalcalder

1786 - 1843
1777-1846, phrenologist, British

James DeVille

1777 - 1846
1785-1870, inventor; mathematician, French

Charles Xavier Thomas

1785 - 1870

Luke Howard

1772 - 1864
1786-1875, engineer and inventor

Marc Seguin

1786 - 1875

Simon Goodrich

1773 - 1847
1777-1804, geologist, mineralogist, British

Gregory Watt

1777 - 1804
1781-1848, colliery engineer; railway engineer, English; British

George Stephenson

1781 - 1848
1780-1872, polymath; science writer; mathematics expositor, British

Mary Fairfax Somerville

1780 - 1872
1788-1871, printer, Stepney, London, British

Augustus Applegath

1788 - 1871
c 1775-1848, toy and camera manufacturer, cabinet maker, Paris, France

Alphonse Giroux

1775 - 1848
active early 1800s, die-engraver; manufacturer of buttons; manufacturer of medals; manufacturer of tokens; medallist, British

Thomas Halliday

1780 - 1855
active 1805-1845, optician, nautical instrument maker, Portsmouth, English

Stebbing, George

1775 - 1847
1786-1850, locomotive engineer, English; British

Timothy Hackworth

1786 - 1850
1823-1834, scientific instrument maker, Edinburgh, Scotland

Alexander Adie

1775 - 1204

Henry Maudslay

1771 - 1831
1780-1860, artist; portrait painter; painter; illustrator, Swiss

Alfred Edward Chalon

1780 - 1860
active 1780-1812 in London, artist, German

Joseph Constantine Stadler

1780 - 1822
1778-1829, chemist; inventor; lecturer, British; English

Humphry Davy

1778 - 1829
active 1820-1852, optician; optical, mathematical, astronomical & philosophical instrument maker

George Dollond

1774 - 1852
Mr

Francis Mewburn

1785 - 1867
1777-1835, geodesist; metrologist, English: British

Henry Kater

1777 - 1827