1850
- Thomas Hudson (1701–1779), portrait painter
- Francis Hayman (1708–1776), Rococo artist
- John Rowe (1715–1787), merchant and owner of ship involved in Boston Tea Party
- Samuel Stennett (1727–1795), Baptist minister and hymnwriter
- Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet (1740–1810), banker
- Rev Robert Hawker (1753-1827), Anglican clergyman
- David Collins (1756–1810), first Governor of Van Diemens Land (Tasmania)
- John Stockham (1765–1814), naval officer
- Richard Parker (1767–1797), sailor and mutineer
- John Blackall (1771-1860), physician
- George Oliver (1781-1861), Catholic churchman and historian
- James Holman (1786–1857), noted blind traveller
- Charles Babbage (1791–1871), the father of the computer
- Sir John Bowring (1792–1872), political economist and Governor of Hong Kong
- Thomas Shapter (1809–1902), doctor and author of "History of the Cholera in Exeter in 1832"
- Samuel Cousins (1801–1887), engraver
- Mary Carpenter (1807–1877), educational and social reformer
- William Benjamin Carpenter (1813–1885), physiologist and naturalist
- John Carne Bidwill (1815–1853), botanist, first Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
- Lilly Martin Spencer (1822–1902), US painter
- Henry Chadwick (1824–1908), journalist, "the father of baseball"
- Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924), writer, clergyman, antiquary and folklorist
- Sir Harry James Veitch (1840-1924), horticulturist
- William Kingdon Clifford (1845–1879), mathematician
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