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Patient of Edward Jenner; First person to received Vaccination

Phipps, James

1788 - 1853
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
1788-1873, inventor of the electric telegraph; meteorologist, British; English

Ronalds, Sir Francis

1788 - 1873
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
1781-1840, mathematician; geometer; physicist, French

Poisson, Siméon-Denis

1781 - 1840
1773-c1876

British Cast Plate Glass Company

1773 - 1876
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
1784-1851, third Earl of Liverpool; politician, British

Jenkinson, Charles Cecil Cope

1784 - 1851
1778-1856, artist, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, English; British

Waite, William Watkin

1778 - 1856
1775-1851, physician; chemist; geologist, English; British

Kidd, John

1775 - 1851
1782-1853, composer, British

Blewitt, Jonathan

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

Spode

1776 - 1833
1787-1861, physician and medical journalist, Scottish; British

Forbes, John

1787 - 1861
1790-1840, manufacturer of woollen textiles, English; British

Cockerill, John

1790 - 1840
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
active 1805-1845, optician, nautical instrument maker, Portsmouth, English

Stebbing, George

1775 - 1847
1772-1864, manufacturing chemist; meteorologist, British

Howard, Luke

1772 - 1864
1783-1796?, chronometer maker, London, England

John Arnold and Son

1783 - 1796
1789-1857, Arctic scientist; divine, British

Scoresby, William

1789 - 1857
1789-1867, medallist; engraver, Italian

Cossa, Luigi

1789 - 1867
1775-1851, artist, watercolourist, printmaker, British

Turner, Joseph Mallord William

1775 - 1851
1780-1872, polymath; science writer; mathematics expositor, British

Somerville, Mary Fairfax

1780 - 1872
1781-1862, civil engineer, British

Walker, James

1781 - 1862
1794-1857, artist, English; British

Pickering, George

1784 - 1857
c. 1778-1863, inventor of typesetting machine and steam carriage, active UK, American

Church, William

1778 - 1863
1782-1869, engineer; papermaker; industrialist; inventor, British

Dickinson, John

1782 - 1869
1790-1870, mathematical instrument maker, English; British

Barrow, Henry

1790 - 1870
1789-1876, astonomer, British; English

Sheepshanks, Anne

1789 - 1876
1776-1852, physician, German

Lohmeyer, Johann Karl Jacob

1776 - 1852
active 1817-1841, optical instrument maker; mathematical instrument maker; scientific instrument maker; manufacturer of waterproof fabrics; manufacturer of chemicals, Italian

Ronchetti, Charles Joshua

1790 - 1850
1790- about 1946, pencil manufacturer, Vienna

L&C Hardtmuth

1790 - 1946
1777-1857, chemist, French

Thénard, Louis Jacques

1777 - 1857
1779-1866, alienist, British; Scottish

Morison, Sir Alexander

1779 - 1866
1785-1830, zoologist; entomologist, Italian

Bonelli, Franco Andrea

1785 - 1830
1774-1816, chemist; sugar refiner, British; English

Howard, Edward Charles

1774 - 1816
1779-1844, engineer, British; English

Clement, Joseph

1779 - 1844
active early 1800s, die-engraver; manufacturer of buttons; manufacturer of medals; manufacturer of tokens; medallist, British

Halliday, Thomas

1780 - 1855
1780-1861, army officer (Royal Engineers), Scottish, British

Pasley, Sir Charles William

1780 - 1860