page 1 of 3

British cartographer and surveyor

English clockmaker, horologist and inventor of the marine chronometer

British Baron

Irish botanist, doctor, and collector

British agricultural pioneer, activist of the British Agricultural Revolution

British pirate and explorer

Theologian, historian, mathematician

English antiquarian, cartographer and herald

British scientist

English cleric and antiquarian, born 1675

Scottish-Irish immigrant to Colonial America, great grandfather of Sam Houston

Lieutenant governor, acting governor of the Province of New York

British astronomer

English cartographer in the 18th-century

English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist

English naturalist, painter and etcher

English officer of arms and antiquarian

English philosopher and clergyman

English physician and botanist

Apothecary and botanist

English biographer, born 1693

English astronomer; Astronomer Royal

English cartographer

British politician, died 1734

English teacher, supporter of learned societies, and biographer

English botanist

German-English chemist, inventor of the fire extinguisher

British writer

British physicist

British botanist

English botanist

English botanist

English biographer

British botanist

English natural history illustrator

English poet and biographer

English journalist and minister

1694-1773, American colonial botanist

Scottish minister and economist

English academic