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American politician

English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist

English writer and lexicographer

American physician, educator, author

British explorer, cartographer and naval officer

British astronomer and economist

German-born British astronomer and composer

British explorer

Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist

Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India

English physician, botanist; member of the Lunar Society

Welsh nonconformist preacher and radical

Scottish lawyer, diarist and author

Scottish inventor and engineer

Scottish military engineer, surveyor, and antiquarian

Welsh naturalist

English author and botanist

English scientist

Scottish diplomat, antiquarian, archaeologist and vulcanologist (1730-1803)

(1724-1792) English civil engineer

English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences

Prime Minister of Great Britain

British astronomer

English cartographer, surveyor, artist and draughtsman

American physician and judge

British natural philosopher, scientist, and an important experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist

Scottish physician and botanist

British artist

British Virgin Islands born English physician and scientist

18th century merchant and landowner

Fifth Astronomer Royal, 1765 – 1811

Scottish natural historian

British naval officer, navigational expert and colonial governor

English philosopher

British Unitarian minister and biographical writer

English topographer

British physician, naturalist and writer

British Army officer, artist, and naturalist

British writer

Scottish advocate, judge, writer and historian