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Kadoorie, Lawrence (CBE)

1899 - 1993

de Grineau, Bryan

1883 - 1905

Pease, Sir Joseph Whitwell (1828-1903) 1st Baronet Businessman and MP

1828 - 1903

Desvignes, Peter Hubert

1808 - 1883

Rickett, Thomas

1825

Sempill, William Francis Forbes

1893 - 1965

Hosier, Arthur Julius

1877 - 1963

Paxton, Joseph

1803 - 1865

Ayrton, Hertha

1854 - 1923

Bentall, Edward Hammond

1814 - 1898

E R and F Turner Limited

1837

Sarkisov, Semion Alexandrovich

1895 - 1971

Scamp, William

1801 - 1872

Hume, William Fraser

1867 - 1949

Nightingale, Florence

1820 - 1910

Fowler, William Henry

1807 - 1904

Worcester, George Raleigh Gray

1890 - 1969

Gresley, Sir Nigel (1876-1941), engineer

1876 - 1941

Verdon-Roe, (Edwin) Alliott

1877 - 1958

West, Harold Ernest Georges

1895 - 1968

Siemens Brothers and Company Limited

1865 - 2002

Westover, George

1886 - 1911

Cantlie, Kenneth

1899 - 1986
1884-1991, button, badge and medal makers, Birmingham

J R Gaunt and Son Limited

1884 - 1991

Parkes, Alexander

1813 - 1890

Dunham, Jr, Theodore

1897 - 1984

Chapman Jones, Henry

1854 - 1932
1875-1969, meteorological, aviation & surveying instrument manufacturer, London, England

Short and Mason Limited

1875 - 1969
active 1828-1947, marine & aeronautical navigational instrument maker, London, England, British

Henry Hughes and Son Limited

1828 - 1947
active 1887 -1920s?, manufacturer of leather goods, picnic baskets and silver, London, ENgland

Drew and Sons

1887 - 1935
1862-1918, marine engineers, Dunbarton, Scotland, Scottish; British

Denny and Company

1862 - 1918
1879-current (2020), manufacturer of surgical instruments, London, England

Downs Surgical Limited

1879

Buckland, Francis Trevelyan

1826 - 1880

Dancer, John Benjamin

1812 - 1887

Constantinesco, George

1881 - 1965

Brothers, Alfred

1826 - 1912
active 1868-1968, optical instrument maker; clock maker, Manchester, England

Thomas Armstrong and Brother

1868 - 1968
1889-1926, camera and cinema equipment manufacturer, Dresden, Germany

Ernemann Werke

1889 - 1926
1897-1948, optical, mathematical & philosophical instrument maker, London, England

Ross Limited

1897 - 1948
1860-1935, electrical engineer; film-maker, inventor, born Brittany, France

Dickson, William Kennedy Laurie

1860 - 1935
1815-1852, mathematician; computer pioneer, British

Lovelace, Ada

1815 - 1852
1863-1944, chemist; inventor, Belgian; American

Baekeland, Leo Hendrik

1863 - 1944
active c. 1894-1968, optical instrument maker, London, England

R and J Beck Limited

1867 - 1968
1827-1894, active 1854, sewing machine manufacturer, British

Wilson, William Newton

1827 - 1894
1878-1969, mathematical & scientific instrument maker, Manchester & London, England

J Halden and Company Limited

1878 - 1969

Babbage, Benjamin Herschel

1815 - 1878

Baring, Rowland Thomas

1877 - 1953

Price, John

1846 - 1913
1850-1917, inventor, film maker, chronophotographer, physiologist, French

Demeny, Georges

1850 - 1917
1819-1868, dentist who used anaesthetic; physician, American

Morton, William Thomas Green

1819 - 1868