Coxwell, Henry Tracey [pseud. Henry Wells] (1819–1900), balloonist, was born at the parsonage at Wouldham, near Chatham, Kent, on 2 March 1819, the youngest son of Commander Joseph Coxwell of the Royal Navy (1774?–1832) and his wife Ann Godfry (probably née Reeves)...
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Gale, George Burcher (1794–1850), balloonist, is believed to have been born at Fulham in May 1794. Originally an actor in small parts in London minor theatres, he became a great favourite of the theatre proprietor Andrew Ducrow. In 1831 he went to America...
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Green, Charles (1785–1870), balloonist, was born at 92 Goswell Road, London, on 31 January 1785, the son of Thomas Green, hat maker, and his wife, Anne. He was baptized a year later, on 1 February 1786, at St Luke's, Old Street, Finsbury. On leaving school he was taken into his father's business. At some point in or before 1807 he married ...
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Charles Green (1785–1870) by Hilaire Ledru, 1835 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Vincenzo Lunardi (1759–1806) by Francesco Bartolozzi, pubd 1784 (after Richard Cosway) © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Lunardi, Vincenzo (1759–1806), balloonist, was born at Lucca, Tuscany, on 11 January 1759, and passed his early years in the East Indies before becoming, through the patronage of his guardian, Chevalier Gherardo Compagni, secretary to the Neapolitan ambassador to the Court of St James...
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Money, John (1739/40–1817), military theorist and balloonist, of whose parents nothing is known, began his military career in the Norfolk militia in 1760. He served in Germany as a volunteer with the 15th light dragoons in 1761 and was at the battle of ...
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Nott, Julian Richard Prothero (1944–2019), balloonist, was born on 22 June 1944 at St Brenda’s nursing home in Clifton, Bristol, the son of Major Robert Nott (1904–2001), a company director then serving in the Royal Army Pay Corps, and his wife ...
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James Sadler (bap. 1753, d. 1828) by unknown artist, c. 1820 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Sadler, James (bap. 1753, d. 1828), balloonist and chemist, was born in Oxford and baptized there on 27 February 1753. He was the elder son of James Sadler (1718–1791), cook and confectioner of (now 84) High Street, and his wife, Elizabeth (1718–1802), probably ...
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Sadler, (William) Windham (1796–1824), balloonist and gas engineer, was born on 17 October 1796 at 10 Stafford Row, Pimlico, London, the fourth, but second surviving, son of James Sadler (bap. 1753, d. 1828), first English-born aeronaut, and his second wife, Martha Hancock. William...
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James Tytler (1745–1804) by Hannah Crowninshield, 1804 photography courtesy Peabody Essex Museum
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Tytler, James [called Balloon Tytler] (1745–1804), balloonist and radical, was born on 17 December 1745 at the manse at Fern, Forfarshire, the fourth child of George Tytler (1705/6–1785), Church of Scotland minister in the presbytery of Brechin, and his wife, Janet Robertson (...
