113 people found
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Isaac Newton
British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern classical physics
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath
William Penn
English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania
John Carver (Plymouth Colony governor)
Mayflower passenger and New World colonist
Francis Kirkman
British publisher
James Gregory
Scottish mathematician and astronomer
Sir John Maclean, 1st Baronet
Scottish-Swedish noble
Sir John Maclean, 1st Baronet
Scottish-Swedish noble
Edward Colston
British slave trader, merchant, philanthropist and politician
Joseph Knibb
British clovkmaker
John Playford
London bookseller and publisher
Sir Josiah Child, 1st Baronet
English merchant and politician
Edward Whalley
English merchant, soldier and judge
John Mein
Scottish bookseller and newspaper publisher
Thomas Pilkington
English merchant, politician and Lord Mayor of London
Roger L'Estrange
English pamphleteer and author, and staunch defender of royalist claims
Peter Pett
English master shipwright
John Davie
English merchant
John Ogilby
Scottish academic
Robert Bolling
English-born American planter and merchant
John Gery
Church of england clergyman and land agent
Sir Richard Newdigate, 2nd Baronet
English landowner and mining entrepreneur
William Dugard
English printer
William Mead
English Quaker patron and merchant
David Gregory
Scottish physician and inventor
Thomas Tryon
English hat maker and vegetarian
William Dockwra
English businessman
James Hope of Hopetoun
Scottish politician, businessman and lawyer
John Keigwin
Cornish antiquarian
Thomas Walkley
English publisher
Edward Lloyd
British coffee house owner
Matthias Vincent
Thomas Plume
Archdeacon of Rochester; school, library and professorship founder; English Anglican priest
William Coward (merchant)
London merchant and supporter of nonconformism
George Thomson
English merchant and Parliamentarian soldier, official and politician
Francis Place
British artist
Henry Herringman
English bookseller and publisher
Francis Lodwick
British linguist and writing system inventor
Humphrey Robinson
English publisher and bookseller
Henry Robinson (writer)
English merchant and writer