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Sir John Hill (1714-1775) physician, actor, writer and botanist
Francis Cotes (1726 - 1770)
Giovanni Vendramini (1769 - 1839)
“To my People” [written by King George V from Marlborough House, 22 May 1910, following the death of his father, King Edward VII]
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836 - 1912)
Sir James Burrow (1701-1782) law reporter
Jonathan, Snr Richardson (1665 - 1745)
Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) chemist and inventor
Sir Thomas (after) Lawrence
John Linnell (1792 - 1882)
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1592-1676) writer, patron, and royalist army officer
Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599 - 1641)
George Vertue (1684 - 1756)
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) natural philosopher and mathematician
John Michael Rysbrack (1694 - 1770)
John Somers, Baron Somers (1651-1716) lawyer and politician
Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646 - 1723)
George Vertue (1684 - 1756)
Matthew Prior (1664-1721) poet, politician and diplomat
Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646 - 1723)
John, I Faber (c.1660 - 1721)
Four in America
R B Kitaj (1932 - 2007)
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William Thomson, Baron Kelvin (1824-1907) mathematician and physicist
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Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) natural philosopher and mathematician
Enoch Seeman (1694 - 1744)
James MacArdell (1729 - 1765)
Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-1665) naval commander, diplomat and scientist
Jacobus Houbraken (1698 - 1780)
Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) chemist and inventor
James Lonsdale (1777 - 1839)
William Henry Worthington (c.1790 - )
George Sclater-Booth, 1st Baron Basing (1826-1894) politician
Charles William Walton
John Kay of Bury [Inventor of the Flying Shuttle]
Madeley
Sir William Hamilton (1731-1803) diplomat and art collector
Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1736 - 1808)
Giovanni Morghen (1721 - )
Tim Berners-Lee
Nick Crowe (1968 - )
Great Britain
Justine Smith (1971 - )
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) inventor
Sir William Nicholson (1872 - 1949)
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