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English poet and artist

Liverpool ship owner and merchant

Welsh social reformer

Scottish botanist

British businessman

Engineer from Scotland

Italian-born English composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer

Australian politician

Businessperson, chemist, industrialist

British businessman

British politician

British businessman

British engineer

British Quaker businessman

English Quaker, abolitionist and activist

English printer

British businessman

Scottish businessman and early lighthouse engineer

British businessman

British businessman

South African politician

Treasurer of Baghdad

English civil engineer in France and Italy

English-American industrialist

English-American sailor, frontiersman, fur trader, merchant, postmaster, soldier, Indian agent, and city planner

British mason, bricklayer and inventor

English lawyer, surveyor and railway promoter

British builder

British writer and printseller

English bookseller, author, editor and publisher

Colliery proprietor

Unitarian hymn writer

English manufacturer and contractor

English railway executive

Scottish engineer, businessman and activist

Scottish marine engineer

Textile manufacturer and Scottish entrepreneur who is known for his early contributions to the city of Glasgow, including the development of the New Town of Blythswood, covering Blythswood Hill, and pioneering hygienic dairy farming

British businessman

British businessman