1740s
- Henry Jerome de Salis FRS (1740–1810), clergyman and antiquarian
- Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820), naturalist and President of the Royal Society, 1778–1820
- Thomas Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton (1744–1779), politician
- Thomas Fyshe Palmer (1747–1802), Unitarian minister
- William Coxe (1747–1828), historian
- Sir Uvedale Price (1747–1829), author
- Charles James Fox (1749–1806), Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1782, 1783, 1806
- Thomas Lynch, Jr. (1749–1779), signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence
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