WArthur Aikin, FLS, FGS was an English chemist, mineralogist and scientific writer, and was a founding member of the Chemical Society. He first became its Treasurer in 1841, and later became the Society's second President.
WEdward Daniel Clarke was an English clergyman, naturalist, mineralogist, and traveller.
WJohn Mawe was a British mineralogist who became known for his practical approach to the discipline.
WCharles Ottley Groom Napier also known as C. O. G Napier FGS FLS was a natural historian, geologist, mineral collector, as well a writer on vegetarianism, ornithology and an early proponent of British Israelism. He was most well known for his eccentric claims of ancestry.
WWilliam Phillips FGS FRS was an English mineralogist and geologist.
WJames Smithson was an English chemist and mineralogist. He published numerous scientific papers for the Royal Society during the late 1700s as well as assisting in the development of calamine, which would eventually be renamed after him as "smithsonite". He was the founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution, which also bears his name.
WJames Sowerby was an English naturalist, illustrator and mineralogist. Contributions to published works, such as A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland or English Botany, include his detailed and appealing plates. The use of vivid colour and accessible texts were intended to reach a widening audience in works of natural history. The standard author abbreviation Sowerby is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
WJames Tennant was an English mineralogist, the master of the Worshipful Company of Turners and mineralogist to Queen Victoria.