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1799-1883, architect, English, British

Cubitt, Lewis

1709 - 1883
active 1856, sculptor, French

Cavelier, Pierre-Jules

1814 - 1894
1801-1883, physicist, inventor, Belgium

Plateau, Joseph

1801 - 1883
1804-1867, printer; inventor of type of colour printing process, British, English

Baxter, George

1804 - 1867
1794-1854, aritist; historical painter, German

Begas, Carl Joseph

1794 - 1854
1816-1896, textile merchant; telegraph entrepreneur; submarine communications cable pioneer, British; Scottish

Pender, Sir John

1816 - 1896
1807-1868, active 1837-1868, optician, optical instrument maker (telescopes), English; British

Cooke, Thomas

1807 - 1868
1791-1867, natural philosopher; scientific adviser, England, British

Faraday, Michael

1791 - 1867
1886-1923, Met Office employee, RNVR Lieutenant, RAF Flight Lieutenant, British

Gendle, Albert Edgar

1809 - 1923
1798-1873, architect, English, British

Tite, Sir William

1798 - 1873
1815-1889, medallist; sculptor, German

Brehmer, Heinrich Friedrich

1815 - 1889
1798-1862, medallist, Belgian

Pingret, Joseph Arnold

1798 - 1862
1796-1824, aeronaut; balloonist; gas engineer, British

Sadler, Windham

1796 - 1824
1810-1878, chemist & physicist, French

Regnault, Henri Victor

1810 - 1878
1803-1882, artist; engraver; watercolour painter, British

Duncan, Edward

1803 - 1882
1816-1888, railway engineer; civil engineer, British

Crampton, Thomas Russell

1816 - 1888
1811-1875, inventor; entrepreneur, American

Singer, Isaac Merritt

1811 - 1875
1808-1874, inventor; ship's propeller patentee; marine engineer, England, British

Smith, Sir Francis Petit

1808 - 1874
1809-1903, astronomer; meteorologist, British

Glaisher, James

1809 - 1903
1792-1868, shipping broker, Scottish; British

Anderson, Arthur

1792 - 1868
1815-1861, histologist; microscopist, English; British

Quekett, John Thomas

1815 - 1861
1794-1875, engineer, French

Cave, Francois

1794 - 1875
1804-1892, comparative anatomist; palaeontologist, British

Owen, Richard

1804 - 1892
1815-1879, photographer, Indian-born, British

Cameron, Julia Margaret

1815 - 1879
1798-1884, chemist; pharmacist, English

Squire, Peter

1798 - 1884
1811-1899, chemist, German

Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm

1811 - 1899
1814-1874, physicist; spectroscopist, Swedish

Ångström, Anders Jonas

1814 - 1874
1793-1864 artist; draughtsman, British

Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer

1793 - 1864
1809-1882, railway company director, MP, British

Leeman, George

1809 - 1882
1799-1868, botanist, Scottish; British

Arnott, George Arnott Walker

1799 - 1868
1809-1885, pathologist; anatomist, German

Henle, Friedrich Gustav Jacob

1809 - 1885
1810-1900, armaments manufacturer; industrialist, British

Armstrong, Baron Armstrong, William George

1810 - 1900
1807-1873, naturalist; biologist; palaeontologist; glaciologist; geologist, Swiss-born; American

Agassiz, Louis

1807 - 1873
1793-1821, government board, British

The Society of Agriculture

1793 - 1821
1797-1875, geologist, British

Lyell, Sir Charles

1797 - 1875
1801-1858, physiologist; comparative anatomist, German

Müller, Johan Peter

1801 - 1858
1812-1877, locomotive engineer, British

Trevithick, Francis

1812 - 1877
1813-1873, painter; engraver; illustrator, French

Nanteuil, Celestin

1813 - 1873
1816-1899, news agency founder, German; British

Reuter, Paul Julius

1816 - 1899
1810-1894, physician; anatomist, Austrian

Hyrtl, Joseph

1810 - 1894
1792-1871, mathematician and astronomer, English; British

Herschel, Sir John Frederick William

1792 - 1871
1802-1870, artist; photographer, British; Scottish

Hill, David Octavius

1802 - 1870
1812-1896, physician; inventor of a vaccinator, British

Weir, Thomas Graham

1812 - 1896
1810-1892, naturalist, opponent of Darwin, French

Quatrefages de Breau, Jean Louis Armand de

1810 - 1892
1810-1882, plumber; sanitary engineer, British

Jennings, George

1810 - 1882
Lady Franklin, 1792-1875, traveller; British; English

Franklin, Jane

1792 - 1875
1810-1881, civil engineer; scientist, Irish

Mallet, Robert

1810 - 1881
1816-1895, physiologist, German

Ludwig, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm

1816 - 1895
1799-1883, bobbin manufacturer; aeronautical engineer; portrait photographer, English, British

Stringfellow, John

1799 - 1883
active 1846, engraver, British

Carter, James

1798 - 1855