Occupations

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Architects

Hubert James Austin, Joseph Bintley, John Flavell Curwen, Daniel Gibson, Sarah Losh, Charles John Ferguson, Edward Graham Paley, Anthony Salvin, Robert Smirke Jr., Miles Thompson, Charles Francis Annesley Voysey, Francis Webster

Artists and Sculptors

James Bateman, William James Blacklock, Sam Bough, William Gershom Collingwood, Alfred Heaton Cooper, James Cranke Sr., Sheila Fell, Sawrey Gilpin, Percy Kelly, Beatrix Potter, George Romney, Robert Smirke Sr., Jacob Thompson, Josephina de Vasconcellos, Musgrave Lewthwaite Watson, Francis Derwent Wood 

Clergymen and Monks

Mandell Creighton, Harvey Goodwin, St. Herbert, Edmund Law, Herbert Sidney Pelham, Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley, Edward Rainbowe, William Senhouse, John Stell, William Strickland, Samuel Waldegrave, William Carus Wilson, John Wordsworth, William Wentworth Woodhouse, Thomas West, George Woodley

Engineers

George Frederick Armstrong, Joseph Bell, Joseph Bintley, Thomas Bouch, George Foster Braithwaite, John Brogden, John Cowans, Malcolm Cross, Percy Dalton, John Laing, Leonard Redshaw, Edward Pattison Sheldon

Farmers

John Christian Curwen, Edward Hawell, David Gunson Quayle, William Richardson, Richard Raine Sowerby, John Studholme, Thomas Tyson, John Kendall Vickers, Joseph Walker, Robert Walker

Lawyers and Judges

John Banks, John Forster, Herbert Hills, Joseph Turner Hutchinson, Hugh Lancelot Machell, Daniel Johnson Mason, Alex Milne, Ian Morton, John Postlethwaite Myers, Alex Pearson, Fredrick William Poole, William Lowther

Physicians and Surgeons

John Abercrombie, Albert Ainscow, Anthony Askew, Isaac Bainbridge, Henry Barnes, Peter Barwick, William Brownrigg, Harry Daniels, John Heysham, Henry Lonsdale, Anthony Peat, Arthur Philip Booth Waind

Sportsmen and Sportswomen

Walter Parry Haskett-Smith (Climber), Willie Horne (Rugby League), Emlyn Hughes (Football), James ‘Steeple’ Jackson (Climber), Owen Glyn Jones (Climber), Cecil Leitch (Golf), Thomas Longmire (Wrestler), William Wakefield (Rugby Union)

Writers

Robert Anderson, Susannah Blamire, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robley Duglison, Anthony Fothergill, George McDonald Fraser, William Gilpin, John Woodcock Graves, Eliza Lynn Linton, Margaret Forster, Norman Nicholson, Josiah Relph, John Ruskin, Robert Southey, Hugh Walpole, Thomas West, William Wordsworth

Unusual Occupations

Archie Armstrong (Royal Jester), Sir Hugh Askew (Royal Cellarer), William Cookson (Pewterer), Millican Dalton (Professor of Adventure), Joseph Dalzell (Bonesetter), Edgar Garston (Big Game Hunter), Sarah Nelson (Gingerbread Baker), John Henry Pearson (Bareback Rider), John Robinson (Gunpowder Manufacturer)