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Charles Babbage

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

James Phipps

1788 - 1853
1786-1901, brand name used to 1990s, cigarette manufacturer; tobacco company, Bristol, England

W D and H O Wills Limited

1786 - 1901

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

Savory and Moore Limited

1794 - 1992

Richard Roberts

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

Thomas Edmondson

1792 - 1851
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
1785-1861, engineer; millwright, English; British

William Cubitt

1785 - 1861
1787-1854, painter; writer; inventor, English; British

William Brockedon

1787 - 1854
Sir

John Frederick William Herschel

1792 - 1871
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, 1812-1856, optical, mathematical, philosophical & nautical inst. maker & optician, British

John Frederick Newman

1783 - 1860
1796-1848, inventor of textile machines, French

Joshua Heilmann

1796 - 1848

William Henry Smyth

1788 - 1865
1786-1865, manufacturer of rubber; inventor, British

Thomas Hancock

1786 - 1865
1788-1872, engineer, Prussian

Augustus Siebe

1788 - 1872
1787-1851, inventor; scenographer; daguerreotypist, French

Louis Daguerre

1787 - 1851
1796-1829, wax modeller, Italian

Francesco Calenzuoli

1796 - 1829
1790-1870, mathematical instrument maker, English; British

Henry Barrow

1790 - 1870
1796-1855; slave owner, geologist, palaeontologist, caricaturist; British; UK

Henry Thomas De la

1796 - 1855
1789-1854, natural philosopher and mathematician, German

Georg Simon Ohm

1789 - 1854
active 1806-1840, optician, mathematical, drawing & philosophical instrument maker, London, England

Charles Augustus Schmalcalder

1786 - 1843
1785-1870, inventor; mathematician, French

Charles Xavier Thomas

1785 - 1870
1797-1861, active 1826-1840, bookseller; publisher, British

Charles Tilt

1797 - 1861
1786-1875, engineer and inventor

Marc Seguin

1786 - 1875
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
Sir

John Rennie

1794 - 1863

George Pickering

1794 - 1857
Scottish physician; pathologist; associated with Burke and Hare

Robert Knox

1791 - 1862
active 1792-1829, body snatcher, Edinburgh / British

William Burke

1792 - 1829
1796-1848, diver; inventor of diving equipment, British

Charles Anthony Deane

1796 - 1848
1789-1848; cabinet-maker; British

William Hancock

1789 - 1848
1794-1887, manufacturer of ceramics, Longport, England

Davenport

1794 - 1887
1788-1871, printer, Stepney, London, British

Augustus Applegath

1788 - 1871
1797-1870, engineer; inventor, British

John Braithwaite

1797 - 1870
1790-1869, shipbuilder; engineer, Scottish; British

David Napier

1790 - 1869

Stephen Geary

1797 - 1854
Sir

William Fairbairn

1789 - 1874
active 1796-1831, optician, optical & mathematical instrument maker, English; British

Robert Bancks

1796 - 1831
1786-1850, locomotive engineer, English; British

Timothy Hackworth

1786 - 1850
1797-1880, physician; modelmaker, French

Louis Thomas Jerome Auzoux

1797 - 1880