The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed The World, Jenny Ulgow -- November 29, 2015

c. 2002

The principal lunar men in order of age, in 1760:

• John Whitehurst (1713- 1788): 47
• Matthew Boulton (1728 - 1809): 32
• Josiah Wedgwood (1730 - 1795): 30
• Erasmus Darsin (1731 - 1802): 29
• Joseph Priestley (1733 - 1804): 27
• William Small (134 - 1775): 26
• James Keir (1735 - 1820): 25 (Scottish)
• James Watt (1736 - 1819): 24 (Scottish)
• William Witherin (1741 - 1799): 19
• Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744 - 1817) 16
• Thomas Day (1748 - 1789): 12
• Samuel Galton (1753 - 1832): 7

Core group:

• Erasmus Darwin
• Matthew Boulton (partner with Watt)
• James Watt
• Josiah Wedgwood
• Joseph Priestley -- preacher; perhaps most radical of the group