Category
page 118th-century English people
Richard Cromwell
English politician and Lord Protector (1626–1712)
Catherine of Braganza
Queen consort of England, Scotland and Ireland (1638–1705)
William Buckland
English clergyman, geologist and palaeontologist (1784-1856)
Mary Read
English pirate
John Franklin
British naval officer and explorer (1786–1847)
John Rackham
English pirate (1682-1720)
Mary of Modena
Queen consort of England (1685-1688)

Josiah Wedgwood
English potter and founder of the Wedgwood company (1730–1795)

George Cayley
British aeronautics engineer (1773-1857)

Leigh Hunt
British critic, essayist, poet and writer (1784-1859)
Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange
British princess (1709-1759); eldest daughter of George II (1709–1759)

Thomas Chippendale
British cabinet-maker (1718–1779)

William Prout
British chemist (1785-1850)

Arthur Young
English writer (1741-1820)

Benjamin Hornygold
English pirate (1680–1719)
Peter Barlow
British mathematician and physicist
Edward Low
English pirate (1690–1724)
John Canton
British physicist
George Edwards
English naturalist and ornithologist (1694 – 1773)
Louisa Maria Stuart
British princess (1692-1712)

Astley Cooper
English surgeon and anatomist
William Hewson
British physiologist

John Stafford Smith
British composer, church organist, and early musicologist (1750–1836)
Ned Ludd
person from whom, it is popularly claimed, the Luddites took their name
William Thomas Brande
British chemist; succeeded Humphry Davy as Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution, 1813.; (1788-1866)
John Belchier
British surgeon
Henry Kater
British astronomer (1777-1835)
Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond
illegitimate son of Charles II of England (1672-1723)
Philip Astley
English equestrian, circus owner, and inventor, regarded as being the "father of the modern circus"
Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
British countess (1707-1791)

Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans
British Duke (1670-1726)
Augusta Leigh
Half-sister of Lord Byron (1783–1851)
Christopher Middleton
Royal Navy officer
Edward Troughton
British telescope maker (1753–1835)
Daniel Mendoza
British boxer
Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Cleveland
Son of Barbara Palmer (1662-1730), Countess of Castlemaine and Charles II of England
John Francis Wade
English hymnist
Thomas Sheraton
British furniture designer (1751–1806)
Susanna Wesley
Mother of Methodism
George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland
British Army general
Gowin Knight
British physicist (1713-1772)

George Hepplewhite
British furniture designer
Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham
British countess (1693–1778)
Henry Jennings
British pirate

Robert Seppings
Surveyor of the Royal Navy; British naval architect
John Cary
English cartographer and engraver (1755–1835)
Maria Branwell
Mother of the Bronte sisters (1783-1821)

John Clipperton
English pirate
James Phipps
English child given cowpox vaccine
William Fly
English pirate
David Collins
British colonial administrator (1756-1810)
Henry FitzJames
1st Duke of Albemarle in the Jacobite peerage
Seymour Fleming
British noblewoman (1758-1818)
Thomas Mudge
British horologist (1715–1794)
Elizabeth Canning
English maidservant who claimed to have been kidnapped
William Cunnington
Antiquary
William Stanley, 9th Earl of Derby
English Earl

Kitty Fisher
British courtesan (1741–1767)
William Faden
British cartographer, engraver, and publisher (1749-1836)
Jane Squire
mathematician and feminist