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Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
Leading Whig and Liberal politician who served as Prime Minister on two occasions
John Dalton
English chemist and physicist
George Peacock
Scottish mathematician
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
Baden Powell
Mathematician, holder of the Savilian Chair of Geometry at Oxford, priest, father of Robert Baden-Powell
Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon
British politician
John Herschel
English mathematician, astronomer, chemist and photographer
Edward St Maur, 11th Duke of Somerset
Duke of Somerset
Thomas Robert Malthus
British political economist
William Spence
Scottish mathematician
William Henry Sykes
British politician and naturalist
William Playfair
British mathematician, engineer and political economist
Thomas Wright Hill
English mathematician and schoolmaster
Thomas Tooke
British economist
Thomas Chalmers
Scottish mathematician and a leader of the Free Church of Scotland
William Whewell
English philosopher & historian of science
David Brewster
British astronomer and mathematician
Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope
British scientist
Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet
Scottish politician, writer on finance and agriculture
George Green (mathematician)
British mathematical physicist
Sir Frederick Eden, 2nd Baronet
British economist
Thomas Exley
British mathematician
William Wallace
Scottish mathematician and astronomer
John Leslie (physicist)
British mathematician and physicist
Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam
British politician
William Spencer
Mathematical and navigational instrument maker
Thomas James Henderson
Lawyer, astronomer and mathematician
James Inman
British mathematician
James Glenie
Scottish military engineer and mathematician
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne
British politician
George Richardson Porter
British statistician
Edward Bromhead
British mathematician and botanist
James Lockhart
English banker
James Lockhart
English banker
Patrick Kelly
British metrologist
Henry Thomas Colebrooke
English orientalist
John Radford Young
British mathematician
John Goldingham
British astronomer
Edward Wakefield
English statistician