126 people found
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Daniel Defoe
English trader, writer, and journalist
Jethro Tull
British agricultural pioneer, activist of the British Agricultural Revolution
James Watt
Scottish merchant
Edmund Curll
British publisher and bookseller
John Mortimer
British agriculturalist
Sir John Fryer, 1st Baronet
Prominent Presbyterian layman, London pewterer, merchant and Lord Mayor of London
Sampson Lloyd
English iron manufacturer in Birmingham
Charles Apthorp
British-born merchant
William Oliver
English physician and inventor of the Bath Oliver
Thomas Pitt
English politician
Thomas Newcomen
English inventor
Thomas Savery
British steam engineer
Jonathan Sisson
Instrument maker, inventor of the modern theodolite
John Dunton
British bookseller
Herman Moll
English cartographer in the 18th-century
Joseph Smith
British diplomat and art collector
John Baskett
English printer
William Pepperrell
British Army general
Joseph Smith (art collector)
British diplomat and art collector
Colin Campbell
Scottish merchant, born 1686
John Campbell
Scottish editor in Boston
Awnsham Churchill
English publisher, bookseller, and Whig member of Parliament
Simon Gribelin
French printmaker
John Smith
English mezzotint engraver
Francis Levett
English merchant
George Grierson
Scottish printer and publisher in Dublin
John Savage
English engraver active the 17th century
Edward Lane
Englishman in the Russian service, Captain of Kronstadt
Joseph Wragg
Slave trader
Humphrey Mackworth
British industrialist and politician
William Bradford
Early English-born printer in North America
Abraham Darby I
Ironmaster: first successful use of coke in smelting
John Walsh
Printer and music publisher from England
Thomas Lombe
English merchant and inventor of silk-throwing machinery
Robert Raikes
English printer
James Puckle
British firearm designer
David Barclay of Cheapside
Scottish Quaker merchant in London
Edward Cave
British publisher
John Hadley
English mathematician and astronomer
Thomas Scawen
British politician