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active 1869, inventor; engineer, American; Northern Irish born;

Rider, Alexander Kirk

1820 - 1893
1823-1914, railway administrator, England, British

Oakley, Sir Henry

1811 - 1914
1803-1874, hydropathy practitioner, English; British

Smedley, John

1803 - 1874
1823-1910, railway company manager, British; English

Tennant, Henry

1823 - 1910
1825-1922, railway company, United Kingdom

Liskeard & Looe Railway

1825 - 1922
1822-1892, mechanical engineer, Scots-Irish

Thomson, James

1822 - 1892
1860-1903, railway company, Northern Ireland

Belfast & Northern Counties Railway

1805 - 1903
1810-1859, railway company, England, United Kingdom

Gloucester & Cheltenham Railway Company

1810 - 1859
1807-1883 , architect; engineer; musician, British

Desvignes, Peter Hubert

1807 - 1883
1811-1838, railway company, Scotland, United Kingdom

Berwick & Kelso Railway

1811 - 1838
1821-1900, colliery engineer; manager, British

Greenwell, George Clementson

1821 - 1900
1878-1924, railway company, United Kingdom

Ballycastle Railway

1812 - 1924
1825-1845, railway company, England, United Kingdom

Bolton & Leigh Railway

1825 - 1845
1817-1889, metallurgist; physician, British

Percy, John

1817 - 1889
1824-1893, brewer, benefactor, Scottish, British

Walker, Sir Andrew Barclay

1824 - 1893
active 1856, sculptor, French

Cavelier, Pierre-Jules

1814 - 1894
active 1850-1869, chartered civil engineer, England, British

Metford, William Ellis

1824 - 1899
1801-1883, physicist, inventor, Belgium

Plateau, Joseph

1801 - 1883
active 1830s-1860s, sculptor; medallist, French

Vauthier-Gallé, Adrien

1818 - 1899
1804-1867, printer; inventor of type of colour printing process, British, English

Baxter, George

1804 - 1867
1816-1896, textile merchant; telegraph entrepreneur; submarine communications cable pioneer, British; Scottish

Pender, Sir John

1816 - 1896
1821?-1897, active 1830-1853, etcher; draughtsman, British

Ashley, Alfred

1821 - 1897
1807-1868, active 1837-1868, optician, optical instrument maker (telescopes), English; British

Cooke, Thomas

1807 - 1868
1886-1923, Met Office employee, RNVR Lieutenant, RAF Flight Lieutenant, British

Gendle, Albert Edgar

1809 - 1923
1815-1889, medallist; sculptor, German

Brehmer, Heinrich Friedrich

1815 - 1889
1823-1895, faience maker, French

J. Vieillard & Cie

1823 - 1895
1819-1901, queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 1837-1901, empress of India

Victoria

1819 - 1901
1819-1857, civil engineer, British?

Wild, Charles Heard

1819 - 1857
1825-1903, photographer, French

Tournachon, Adrien

1825 - 1903
1810-1878, chemist & physicist, French

Regnault, Henri Victor

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

Duncan, Edward

1803 - 1882
1824-1884, scientific instrument maker, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Scottish; British

White, James

1824 - 1884
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
1815-1861, histologist; microscopist, English; British

Quekett, John Thomas

1815 - 1861
1820-1910, photographer; caricaturist; journalist; novelist; balloonist, French

Nadar, Félix

1820 - 1910
1824-1888, inventor, American

Wilson, Allen

1824 - 1888
1821-1902, physician; pathologist; anthropologist, German

Virchow, Rudolf Ludwig Karl

1821 - 1902
1804-1892, comparative anatomist; palaeontologist, British

Owen, Richard

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

Cameron, Julia Margaret

1815 - 1879
1811-1899, chemist, German

Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm

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

Ångström, Anders Jonas

1814 - 1874
1824-1884, geologist, brass-founder, English, British

Tylor, Alfred

1824 - 1884
1819-1890, inventor who developed the typewriter, American

Sholes, Christopher Latham

1819 - 1890
1819-1905, Baron Lambermont, statesman, Belgian

Lambermont, Auguste

1819 - 1905
1809-1882, railway company director, MP, British

Leeman, George

1809 - 1882
1821-1885, astronomer; astrophysicist; optical instrument maker, Polish

Prazmowski, Adam Jozef Ignacy

1821 - 1885
bap. 1817-1876, sculptor, English; British

Noble, Matthew N

1817 - 1876