, 1849 •
Thomas Hudson (1701–1779), portrait painter •
Benjamin Heath (1704–1766), classical scholar and bibliophile. •
Francis Hayman (1708–1776),
Rococo artist. •
John Rowe (1715–1787), merchant and owner of ship involved in
Boston Tea Party •
Thomas Mudge (1715-1794), horologist who was responsible for the
Lever escapement mechanism. •
Samuel Stennett (1727–1795),
Baptist minister and hymnwriter •
Richard Langdon (1729–1803), organist and composer. •
William Jackson (1730–1803), referred to as
Jackson of Exeter, was an organist and composer. •
Robert Trewman (1738/39–1802), first proprietor of ''
Trewman's Exeter Flying Post'', published 1763–1917 •
Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet (1740–1810), banker •
Richard Eastcott (baptised 1744–1828), Anglican clergyman and writer on music •
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. •
Sir John Bowring (1792–1872), political economist and Governor of
Hong Kong. •
Samuel Cousins (1801–1887), engraver. •
Mary Carpenter (1807–1877), educational and social reformer. •
Thomas Shapter (1809–1902), doctor and author of
History of the Cholera in Exeter in 1832 •
William Benjamin Carpenter (1813–1885), physiologist and naturalist. •
John Carne Bidwill (1815–1853), botanist, first director of the
Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney •
Lilly Martin Spencer (1822–1902), US painter •
Lavington Glyde (1824-1890), South Australian politician and accountant •
Henry Chadwick (1824–1908), journalist, "father of
baseball" •
Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924), writer, clergyman, antiquary and folklorist. •
Sir Harry James Veitch (1840–1924), horticulturist •
William John Seward Webber (1842–1919), sculptor •
William Kingdon Clifford (1845–1879), mathematician ==Born 1851–1950==