Category

19th-century British businesspeople

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Richard Trevithick

British inventor and mining engineer (1771-1833)

French artist (1761–1850)

British businessman and shipbuilder (1873–1912)

Moses Montefiore

British financier and Jewish activist (1784–1885)

British artist (1836–1919)

Charles W. Alcock

British cricketer, footballer and football administrator (1842-1907)

British chemist and businessman (1839–1909)

Alexander McDonnell

Irish chess master (1798-1835)

Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

British banker and politician (1840–1915)

Canadian-born British businessman

Anthony Panizzi

Italian librarian (1797-1879) and Principal Librarian of the British Museum

Henry John Stephen Smith

British mathematician (1826-1883)

William Knox D'Arcy

oil entrepreneur magnate, one of the founders of British Oil (1849–1917)

British engineer and naval architect (1810–1879)

Charles Lock Eastlake

English painter, gallery director, collector and writer (1793-1865)

John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland

British statesman (1818–1906)

British medical practitioner and teacher (1791-1868)

Lionel de Rothschild

UK art collector and politician (1808-1879); member of Parliament

Edward James Reed

British politician (1830-1906)

British engineer (1840–1907)

William Colenso

New Zealand printer, botanist, explorer, missionary and politician (1811-1899)

William Henry White

British warship designer; (1845-1913)

Algernon Percy, 6th Duke of Northumberland

British politician (1810-1899)

Frederic William Burton

Artist, Director of National Gallery (1816-1900)

English MP and railway entrepreneur

Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland

British naval commander, explorer and politician (1792-1865)

Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort

British politician (1824–1899)

British politician and colonial governor (1815–1898)

William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire

British landowner, benefactor and politician (1808-1891)

Polish-Jewish entrepreneur, co-founder of Marks & Spencer retailer

William Procter

British co-founder of Procter & Gamble

British plumber

Arthur Lasenby Liberty

British merchant, founder of Liberty & Co. (1843–1917)

Belgian lithographer and watercolour artist (1806-1885)

British tobacconist (1835–1873)

Nathaniel Barnaby

British engineer (1829-1915)

Henry Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland

British politician (1846-1918)

Robert Davidson

British inventor, built first electric locomotive (1804–1894)

Albert Abdullah David Sassoon

British-Indian businessman

George William Gordon

Jamaican politician (1820–1865)

John McClelland

British naturalist (1805-1883)

Master builder in London

Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford

British peer, politician and art collector (1800-1870)

Charles Manners, 6th Duke of Rutland

British nobleman and politician (1815–1888)

President of the Football Association (1835-1886)

Thomas Edmondson

British railway pioneer (1792–1851)

George Murray Smith

British newspaper publisher (1824–1901)

Henry Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey

English Peer (1875–1905)

William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland

British politician (1800-1879)

Edward Augustus Bond

British librarian (1815–1898)

British chemist (1793-1886)

John Winter Jones

Principal Librarian of the British Museum (1805-1881)

19th-century British art historian and art dealer (1781-1855)

first director of the National Portrait Gallery, London (1820-1895)

Henry Vizetelly

British journalist and publisher (1820-1894)

Sir Edward Sassoon, 2nd Baronet, of Kensington Gore

British politician (1856–1912)

British publisher (1784–1855)

English railway engineer (1821–1913)

Robert Edmund Froude

British engineer (1846-1924)

Algernon St Maur, 14th Duke of Somerset

Duke of Somerset (1813-1894)