Occupation
Place born
Organisation / Person

Hick, Hargreaves and Company Limited

Simms Motor Units Limited

The Vaughan Crane Company Ltd

Standard Telephones and Cables Limited

Henry Simon Ltd

Crossley Motors Ltd

active mid 19th century -present, tobacco and cigarette manufacturer, Nottingham

John Player and Sons

Unknown - 1901

Kadoorie, Lawrence (CBE)

1899 - 1993

Wright Air Development Center

Standard Engineering Co Ltd

R W Munro Ltd

Smith, Audrey

1915 - 1981

1862-1969, brand 1862-1988, confectionary manufacturer, British

Rowntree

1862 - 1988

British Rail: London Midland Region

1927-current (2007); manufacturer of electrical equipment

Crompton Parkinson Limited

1827

Hosier, Arthur Julius

1877 - 1963

S H Heywood and Co Ltd

Crewe Locomotive Works

Arkwright, Richard

1732 - 1792

1836-1917, physician, British

Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett

1836 - 1917

Institute of Grocery Distribution

North Eastern Railway Co

Aeronautics Magazine

John I Thornycroft and Company Limited

Paxton, Joseph

1803 - 1865

Ayrton, Hertha

1854 - 1923

Babbage, Charles

1791 - 1871

South of Scotland Electricity Board

Great Central Railway Co

Scamp, William

1801 - 1872

Nightingale, Florence

1820 - 1910

Fowler, William Henry

1807 - 1904

Hume, William Fraser

1867 - 1949

1815-1852, mathematician; computer pioneer, British

Lovelace, Ada

1815 - 1852

1843-1923, Railway company, Scotland

Caledonian Railway

1843 - 1923

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

Morton, William Thomas Green

1819 - 1868

Coats Viyella plc

1960-1986, supplier of chemicals, Poole, England

BDH Chemicals Limited

goddess of Health; mythological daughter of Asclepius/Aesculapius, Greek

Hygeia

1941-1977, electronics, solar power, radio and television manufacturer, Los Angeles

Hoffman Electronics Corporation

1977

West, Harold Ernest Georges

1895 - 1968

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

1852-1916, teacher, physicist; photographer, British

Worthington, Arthur Mason

1852 - 1916

1904-1973, supplier of wholesale chemicals & drugs, England, British

British Drug Houses Limited

1904 - 1973

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

Drew and Sons

1887 - 1935

Gutta Percha Company

active, 1900s-1968, optical instrument maker, Ealing, London, England

W Ottway and Company Limited

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

Downs Surgical Limited

1879

Parkes, Alexander

1813 - 1890