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Babbage, Charles

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

Phipps, James

1788 - 1853
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
1791-1871, mathematician; computer pioneer, England, English; British

Babbage, Charles

1791 - 1871

Hancock, Thomas

1786 - 1865

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
1788-1875, print seller; publisher, active London

McLean, Thomas

1788 - 1875

Herschel, John Frederick William

1792 - 1871
1787-1854, painter; writer; inventor, English; British

Brockedon, William

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

Weiss, John

1787

Rastrick, John Urpeth

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

Faraday, Michael

1791 - 1867
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
1790-1970, textile machinery, ammunition and bomber wing manufacturer, Bolton, England

Dobson and Barlow Limited

1790 - 1970
1792-1851, inventor of ticket-printing machinery, British

Edmondson, Thomas

1792 - 1851
active about 1750-1970s, brand name, Lambeth, London, England

Singleton

1779
active 1780-current (2009), boiled sweet manufacturer, England

Smith Kendon Ltd.

1780
1785-1861, engineer; millwright, English; British

Cubitt, Sir William

1785 - 1861
active 1806-1840, optician, mathematical, drawing & philosophical instrument maker, London, England

Schmalcalder, Charles Augustus

1786 - 1843

Clement, Joseph

1779 - 1844
active, 1812-1856, optical, mathematical, philosophical & nautical inst. maker & optician, British

Newman, John Frederick

1783 - 1860
1777-1846, phrenologist, British

DeVille, James

1777 - 1846
1789-1848; cabinet-maker; British

Hancock, William

1789 - 1848
1790-1870, mathematical instrument maker, English; British

Barrow, Henry

1790 - 1870
Scottish physician; pathologist; associated with Burke and Hare

Knox, Robert

1791 - 1862
1790-1869, shipbuilder; engineer, Scottish; British

Napier, David

1790 - 1869
1785-1870, inventor; mathematician, French

Thomas, Charles Xavier

1785 - 1870
1790-? iron founder; lock maker, Willenhall, Staffordshire, England

John Harper and Company

1790
1786-1850, locomotive engineer, English; British

Hackworth, Timothy

1786 - 1850
1786-1865, manufacturer of rubber; inventor, British

Hancock, Thomas

1786 - 1865
1777-1804, geologist, mineralogist, British

Watt, Gregory

1777 - 1804
1788-1872, engineer, Prussian

Siebe, Augustus

1788 - 1872

Smyth, William Henry

1788 - 1865
1778-1829, chemist; inventor; lecturer, British; English

Davy, Sir Humphry

1778 - 1829
active early 1800s, die-engraver; manufacturer of buttons; manufacturer of medals; manufacturer of tokens; medallist, British

Halliday, Thomas

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

Stephenson, George

1781 - 1848
1780-1860, artist; portrait painter; painter; illustrator, Swiss

Chalon, Alfred Edward

1780 - 1860
1780-1872, polymath; science writer; mathematics expositor, British

Somerville, Mary Fairfax

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

Applegath, Augustus

1788 - 1871
active 1792-1829, body snatcher, Edinburgh / British

Burke, William

1792 - 1829
1786-1875, engineer and inventor

Seguin, Marc

1786 - 1875