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Maskelyne, Nevil, 1732 - 1811 (astronomer and mathematician) 20

Earnshaw, Thomas, 1749 - 1829 (maker of watches and chronometers) 13

Maskelyne, Margaret, 1785 - 1858 (daughter of Nevil Maskelyne) 8

Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774 - 1857 (Knight, Rear Admiral and hydrographer) 7

Admiralty 6

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Barrow, John, Sir, 1764 - 1848 (1st Baronet, Secretary of the Admiralty) 6

Mudge, Thomas, c1715 - 1794 (horologist) 6

Croker, John Wilson, 1780 - 1857 (politician and essayist) 4

Emery, Josiah, fl1725 - 1797 (chronometer maker) 4

Airy, George Biddell, Sir, 1801 - 1892 (Knight, astronomer) 3

George, III, 1738 - 1820 (King of Great Britain and Ireland) 3

Montagu, John, 1718 - 1792 (4th Earl of Sandwich, statesman) 3

Royal Greenwich Observatory 3

Arnold, John, c1736 - 1799 (watch and chronometer maker) 2

Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743 - 1820 (Baronet, naturalist) 2

Bliss, Nathaniel, 1700 - 1764 (astronomer) 2

Cumming, Thomas, fl1820 - 1821 (horologist) 2

Dawes, William, 1762 - 1836 (astronomer and colonial administrator) 2

Flinders, Matthew, 1774 - 1814 (naval officer and hydrographer) 2

Kendall, Larcum, 1719 - 1790 (watchmaker) 2

Maunder, Edward Walter, 1851 - 1928 (astronomer) 2

Pond, John, 1767 - 1836 (astronomer) 2

Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope 2

Shepherd, Anthony, c1721 - 1796 (astronomer) 2

Webster, Richard, fl1786 - 1851 (chronometer maker) 2

Airy, Christabel, 1842 - 1917 (daughter of Sir George Biddell Airy) 1

Arnold & Dent, watch and chronometer makers 1

Barraud, Paul Philip, 1752 - 1820 (watch and chronometer maker) 1

Barraud, William, fl1805 (watchmaker) 1

Bayly, William, 1737 - 1810 (astronomer) 1

Becher, Alexander Bridport, 1796 - 1876 (Captain Royal Navy, Hydrographer) 1

Belson, Henry Fage, fl1800 - 1831 (Officer Royal Navy) 1

Bradley, James, 1692 - 1762 (astronomer) 1

Bradley, John, fl1769 - 1787 (astronomer, nephew of James Bradley) 1

Carter, John, fl1825 - 1840 (chronometer maker) 1

Clive, Margaret, 1735 - 1817 (née Maskelyne, Lady Clive of Plassey, society figure) 1

Crosley, John, 1762 - 1817 (astronomer) 1

Daedalus, store ship (fl 1791-1792) 1

Edwards, Mary, c1750 - 1815 (computer) 1

Elmsley, Peter, 1736 - 1802 (bookseller) 1

Flamsteed, John, 1646 - 1719 (astronomer) 1

Frodsham, William, 1778 - 1850 (clockmaker) 1

Gall, Joseph, fl1824 (watchman at the Royal Observatory) 1

Gooch, William, c1770 - 1792 (astronomer) 1

HMS Confiance, paddle steamer (1827-1873) 1

HMS Investigator, survey sloop (1801-1810) 1

HMS Providence, sloop (1791-1797) 1

Halley, Edmond, 1656 - 1742 (astronomer) 1

Hardy, William, 1832 (horologist) 1

Harrison, John, 1693 - 1776 (horologist) 1

Herschel, Caroline Lucretia, 1750 - 1848 (astronomer) 1

Inman, James, 1776 - 1859 (mathematician and writer on navigation) 1

Irwin, Christopher, fl1762 - 1765 (petitioner to the Board of Longitude) 1

Manton, Joseph, 1766 - 1835 (gun maker) 1

Mudge, John, fl1791 (naval officer) 1

Murray, William Bazett, fl1871 - 1890 (artist) 1

Observatoire de Paris 1

Parker, Harold, Sir, 1735 - 1812 (6th Baronet and Secretary of the Board of Longitude) 1

Parkinson and Frodsham, chronometer, clock and watch makers 1

Parramatta Observatory, New South Wales 1

Place, Francis, 1647 - 1728 (artist) 1

Popham, Home Riggs, Sir, 1762 - 1820 (Knight, Rear-Admiral) 1

Richardson, William, fl1766 - 1787 (printer) 1

Richardson, William, fl1829 - 1835 (astronomer) 1

Royal Alfred Observatory, Mauritius 1

Royal Navy 1

Royal Society 1

Taylor, Thomas J, 1772 (assistant at Royal Observatory) 1

Thompson, William, fl1817 (Captain Royal Navy) 1

Vallancey, Charles, 1721 - 1812 (General, engineer and antiquary) 1

Vancouver, George, 1758 - 1798 (explorer) 1

Wales, William, 1734 - 1798 (astronomer and mathematician) 1

Waring, Edward, c1735 - 1798 (mathematician) 1

Young, Thomas, 1773 - 1829 (physician, physicist and egyptologist) 1

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