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Charles Babbage

1791 - 1871
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

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve

1793 - 1864
1791-1871, mathematician; computer pioneer, England, English; British

Charles Babbage

1791 - 1871
Mr

Timothy Hackworth

1786 - 1850

Thomas Hancock

1786 - 1865
1799-1865, active 1812-1865, physician; army medical officer, English

James Barry

1789 - 1865
1789 - current (2020), soap manufacturers, Isleworth, England

A and F Pears Limited

1789

Richard Roberts

1789 - 1864
1792-1851, inventor of ticket-printing machinery, British

Thomas Edmondson

1792 - 1851
1779-1843, designer; steam locomotive maker, British

William Hedley

1779 - 1843
Mr

John Urpeth Rastrick

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

Michael Faraday

1791 - 1867
1789-1938?, iron smelter; coal miner; manufacturer of coal-based products, England

Newton, Chambers and Company Limited

1789 - 1972
1787-1854, painter; writer; inventor, English; British

William Brockedon

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

William Cubitt

1785 - 1861
Sir

John Frederick William Herschel

1792 - 1871
Sir

Humphry Davy

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

McLean, Thomas

1788 - 1875
1793-1830, active 1820s, ironmonger; nail manufacturer; brassfounder, British

Isaac Earlysman Sparrow

1793 - 1830
active 1806-1861, scientific instrument maker, British; English

Thomas Jones

1775 - 1852
active 1808-1847, compass maker; optician & mathematical, philosophical instrument maker, London, England, British

Robert Brettell Bate

1782 - 1847
active, 1812-1856, optical, mathematical, philosophical & nautical inst. maker & optician, British

John Frederick Newman

1783 - 1860
Mr

William Brunton

1777 - 1851

Joseph Clement

1779 - 1844
1786-1865, manufacturer of rubber; inventor, British

Thomas Hancock

1786 - 1865
1787-1851, inventor; scenographer; daguerreotypist, French

Louis Daguerre

1787 - 1851

William Henry Smyth

1788 - 1865
1790-1870, mathematical instrument maker, English; British

Henry Barrow

1790 - 1870
1781-1873, instrument maker; artist; optical inventor, English; British

Cornelius Varley

1781 - 1873
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
1788-1872, engineer, Prussian

Augustus Siebe

1788 - 1872
1793-1875, surgeon; engineer, British; English

Goldsworthy Gurney

1793 - 1875
1790-1970, textile machinery, ammunition and bomber wing manufacturer, Bolton, England

Dobson and Barlow Limited

1790 - 1970
1777-1804, geologist, mineralogist, British

Gregory Watt

1777 - 1804
Scottish physician; pathologist; associated with Burke and Hare

Robert Knox

1791 - 1862
1786-1875, engineer and inventor

Marc Seguin

1786 - 1875
1789-1854, natural philosopher and mathematician, German

Georg Simon Ohm

1789 - 1854
active 1792-1829, body snatcher, Edinburgh / British

William Burke

1792 - 1829
1780-1872, polymath; science writer; mathematics expositor, British

Mary Fairfax Somerville

1780 - 1872
1789-1848; cabinet-maker; British

William Hancock

1789 - 1848
1788-1871, printer, Stepney, London, British

Augustus Applegath

1788 - 1871
active early 1800s, die-engraver; manufacturer of buttons; manufacturer of medals; manufacturer of tokens; medallist, British

Thomas Halliday

1780 - 1855
1781-1848, colliery engineer; railway engineer, English; British

George Stephenson

1781 - 1848
c 1775-1848, toy and camera manufacturer, cabinet maker, Paris, France

Alphonse Giroux

1775 - 1848