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Alice Starmore
female - Alice Starmore (nee Alice Matheson) is a professional needleworker and author of books on needlework, born in Stornoway, Western Isles, Scotland....
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John Marshall
male, deceased - John Marshall was a British businessman and politician. John joined the family business when he was seventeen. Five years later his father Jeremiah...
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John Kay
male, deceased - John Kay (June 17, 1704 - 1780) was the inventor of the flying shuttle, which was a key contribution to the Industrial Revolution. He was born in...
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James Hargreaves
male, deceased - James Hargreaves was a weaver, carpenter, and an inventor in Lancashire, England. He is credited with inventing the Spinning Jenny in 1764. Along...
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Samuel Crompton
male, deceased - Samuel Crompton (December 3, 1753 - June 26, 1827), English inventor, was born at Firwood, in Bolton, Lancashire, England. While yet a boy he lost...
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John Kendrew
male - John Kendrew was a Darlington optician who invented the process of the mechanical spinning of flaxen yarn in a flax mill. He had a mill for...
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Mary Dixon Kies
female, deceased - Mary Dixon Kies (March 21, 1752 - 1837) was an early 19th-century American who was the first recipient of a patent granted to a woman by the Patent...
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Samuel Lister 1st Baron Masham
male, deceased - Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 1st Baron Masham, (January 1 1815 - February 2 1906) was a British inventor and industrialist, born in Calverley Hall, near...
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Wentworth Schofield
male, deceased - Wentworth Schofield (17 April 1891 - 16 December 1957) was a British politician, who served as the last Conservative Member of Parliament for...
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Doug Yarn
male - Doug Yarn serves as Executive Director of the Inter-Universit
y Consortium on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution and is a Professor of Law at...
