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Benedict Arnold
American military officer who betrayed America to the British during the Revolutionary War
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer
Thomas Paine
English and American political activist
David Dale
Scottish merchant
Matthew Boulton
English industrialist; business partner of James Watt
Claude Martin
British and French indian Army general
James Watt
Scottish inventor and engineer
Sir John Taylor, 1st Baronet
British baronet
Peter Williamson
British writer
Lachlan McGillivray
American fur trader
John Wilkinson
English industrialist
Josiah Wedgwood
English potter and founder of the Wedgwood company
Richard Arkwright
English inventor and a leading entrepreneur
William Strahan
British politician and printer
Joseph Wilkes
Entrepreneur
William Brodie
British politician
James Keir
Scottish chemist, geologist, industrialist and inventor
Parsley Peel
British businessman
William Beckford
Lord Mayor of London
Walter Rutherfurd
English businessperson
Richard Hotham
British politician and businessman
John Campbell
Scottish banker and businessman
William Williams
Signer of the US declaration of Independence
Thomas Mullett
English businessman
Alexander Milne
Scottish American entrepreneur and philanthropist
Jedediah Strutt
English hosier and cotton spinner
James Gunter
English confectioner, market gardener and property developer
William Cunninghame
British businessman
John Glassford
British businessman
Thomas Bentley (manufacturer)
English manufacturer of porcelain
Thomas Turner
British porcelain manufacturer
Alexander Aubert
British astronomer
Miles Peter Andrews
English playwright
Philip Rundell
British jeweller and millionaire
Andrew Barclay
Scottish-American merchant (1719-1761)
James Dick
British businessman
William Duesbury
British entrepreneur, founder of the Royal Crown Derby factory
James Lackington
British businessman
Samuel Whitbread
English brewer
Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn
British politician