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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

Rickett, Thomas

1825

Sempill, William Francis Forbes

1893 - 1965

Hosier, Arthur Julius

1877 - 1963

Ayrton, Hertha

1854 - 1923

E R and F Turner Limited

1837

Sarkisov, Semion Alexandrovich

1895 - 1971

Hume, William Fraser

1867 - 1949

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

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

Wright, Elsie

1901 - 1903

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
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

Baring, Rowland Thomas

1877 - 1953

Price, John

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

Demeny, Georges

1850 - 1917
1827-1912, surgeon; physician; developer of a system of antiseptic surgery, English; British

Lister, Joseph

1827 - 1912
1825-about 1980s, manufacturer, West Bromwich, Sandwell, West Midlands, England, British

George Salter and Company

1825 - 1990
1847-1908, electrical engineer; physicist, British

Ayrton, William Edward

1847 - 1908
1829-1901, physiologist, German

Fick, Adolf Eugen

1829 - 1901
1895-1980s, manufacturer of medicinal lozenges, England

Iron Jelloids Company Limited

1895
1845-c1955, optical instrument, lens and camera makers, Germany

Emil Busch AG

1845

Whitby, George Stafford

1887

Corbett, Joseph

1842 - 1913

Brewer, Griffith

1867 - 1948