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Sir Richard Arkwright

1732-1792
Engineer and inventor
Sitter in 2 portraits

Lydia Arnold

circa 1989-
Scientist and inventor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Archibald Barr

1855-1931
Inventor of range-finders
Sitter in 1 portrait

Trevor Baylis

1937-2018
Inventor
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Tim Berners-Lee

1955-
Inventor of the World Wide Web and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium
Sitter in 4 portraits

Edward Lyon Berthon

1813-1899
Inventor; Vicar of Romsey
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Henry Bessemer

1813-1898
Engineer and inventor
Sitter in 6 portraits

Noel Pemberton Billing

1880-1948
Pioneer aviator, inventor, writer and politician
Sitter in 3 portraits

Nathaniel Kevin Billington

1970-2015
Computer entrepreneur; son of Kevin Billington and Lady Rachel Billington
Sitter in 1 portrait

Joseph Bramah

1748-1814
Inventor
Sitter in 3 portraits

William Brockedon

1787-1854
Painter, writer and inventor
Sitter in 2 portraits | Artist associated with 112 portraits

John Broster

Inventor of system for removal of speech impediments
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sydney George Brown

1873-1948
Inventor and electrical engineer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Eamonn Burnell

Analyst Programmer, Ilford Limited
Sitter in 1 portrait

Edmund Cartwright

1743-1823
Inventor
Sitter in 4 portraits

William Castle

1833-1911
Engineer, inventor
Sitter associated with 1 portrait

Tiberius Cavallo

1749-1809
Scientist and inventor
Sitter associated with 4 portraits

Sir Christopher Cockerell

1910-1999
Scientist and inventor of the hovercraft
Sitter in 4 portraits

Sir John Irving Courtenay

1837-1912
Managing Director of the Electrical Power Storage Company
Sitter in 1 portrait

Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton

1845-1940
Engineer
Sitter in 2 portraits

Samuel Crompton

1753-1827
Inventor
Sitter in 4 portraits

Mary Davis

Secretary in Ilford Limited’s Amateur Service department; Personal Secretary in the Accounts department
Sitter in 1 portrait

Peter Koch de Gooreynd

Inventor, music-publisher and song writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Chauncey Mitchell Depew

1834-1928
Politician, attorney, businessman and railway pioneer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Bryan Donkin

1768-1855
Inventor and engineer
Sitter in 3 portraits

Joseph Chessborough Dyer

1780-1871
Inventor
Sitter in 2 portraits

James Dyson

1947-
Designer and inventor
Sitter in 4 portraits

Richard Lovell Edgeworth

1744-1817
Writer and inventor
Sitter in 2 portraits

Thomas Alva Edison

1847-1931
Inventor
Sitter in 6 portraits

Henry Fourdrinier

1766-1854
Inventor
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Charles Ernest Hain Friswell

1871-1926
Motor car distributor and manufacturer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Bt

1816-1889
Railway pioneer and inventor
Sitter in 5 portraits

George Edward Gouraud

1842-1912
Soldier and pioneer of recorded music
Sitter in 1 portrait

Henry Greathead

1757-1816
Lifeboat inventor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Goldsworthy Gurney

1793-1875
Inventor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Stephen Hales

1677-1761
Natural philosopher, chemist and inventor
Sitter in 6 portraits

Gustav Wilhelm Hamel

1889-1914
Aviator
Sitter in 1 portrait

Joseph Aloysius Hansom

1803-1882
Architect and inventor of the safety cab
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Harmar

died 1798
Dissenting minister at Sheffield and inventor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Herbert John Louis ('Bert') Hinkler

1892-1933
Aviator
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Isaac Holden, 1st Bt

1807-1897
Inventor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Herbert Alfred Humphrey

1868-1951
Mechanical and chemical engineer
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Kay

1704-1780 or 1781
Inventor of textile manufacturing machinery
Sitter in 1 portrait

Hedy Lamarr

1914-2000
Actress and inventor
Sitter in 1 portrait

George Leeman

1809-1882
Solicitor, railwayman and Liberal politician; MP for York
Sitter in 1 portrait

Evan Leigh

1810-1876
Inventor and writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Blaine Luard

1897-1979
Naval officer, author and inventor
Sitter in 11 portraits

George William Manby

1765-1854
Inventor of apparatus for saving life from shipwreck
Sitter in 5 portraits

William Martin

1772-1851
Inventor and eccentric
Sitter in 1 portrait

Loris Emerson Mather

1886-1976
Engineer; Chairman of Mather & Platt Ltd, member of the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim

1840-1916
Engineer and inventor
Sitter in 10 portraits

Andrew Meikle

1719-1811
Millwright; inventor of the thrashing-machine
Sitter in 1 portrait

Ben Morris

1970-
Visual Effects Supervisor and Creative Director at Industrial Light & Magic
Sitter in 2 portraits

Samuel Finley Breese Morse

1791-1872
Inventor and painter
Sitter in 1 portrait

Alexander Eric Moulton

1920-2012
Engineer and inventor
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Murdock

1754-1839
Inventor of gas lighting
Sitter in 5 portraits

Avril Nelson

Chief Programmer, Ilford Limited’s Computer department
Sitter in 1 portrait

Louis Napoleon Parker

1852-1944
Musician, playwright and inventor
Sitter in 7 portraits

Brenda Payton

Secretary, Ilford Limited; head of computerisation of the company’s Export department
Sitter in 1 portrait

Edgar Wikner Percival

1898-1984
Aircraft designer and pilot
Sitter in 1 portrait