* 1786 – John Franklin, English navy officer and explorer ( d. 1847 )

* Sir John Barrow, An Autobiographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow, Bart., Late of the Admiralty ( London, 1847 ).

* John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, 7th Earl of Aberdeen ( 1847 – 1934 ) ( created Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair in 1916 )

* John Campbell Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair ( 1847 – 1934 )

* John Frederick William Herschel, A brief notice of the life, researches, and discoveries of Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, London: Barclay, 1847 ( on-line )

While a board of elders was elected for the enforcement of the Society's rules and regulations, business management passed to its trustees: Baker and Henrici, 1847 – 68 ; Henrici and Jonathan Lenz, 1869 – 90 ; Henrici and Wolfel, 1890 ; Henrici and John S. Duss, 1890 – 1892 ; Duss and Seiber, 1892 – 1893 ; Duss and Reithmuller, 1893 – 1897 ; Duss, 1897 – 1903 ; and finally to Suzanna ( Susie ) C. Duss in 1903.

There have been Irish settlers in New Brunswick since at least the late 18th century, but during the peak of the Great Irish Famine ( 1845 – 1847 ), thousands of Irish emigrated through Partridge Island in the port of Saint John.

William Maccall, another Unitarian preacher, and probably an acquaintance of Smith, came somewhat later, although influenced by John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, and German Romanticism, to the same positive conclusions, in his 1847 work " Elements of Individualism ".

Collodion process | Glass collodion negative copy c. 1860 of a daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams in 1847 or 1848, attributed to Mathew Brady ( retouched )

* 1847 – John C. Frémont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.

* John Brisben Walker ( 1847 – 1931 ), American entrepreneur and magazine publisher

John Sheppard, in his analysis of dreams titled On Dreams ( 1847 ), lamented Coleridge's drug use as getting in the way of his poetry but argued: " It is probable, since he writes of having taken an ' anodyne ,' that the ' vision in a dream ' arose under some excitement of that same narcotic ; but this does not destroy, even as to his particular case, the evidence for a wonderfully inventive action of the mind in sleep ; for, whatever were the exciting cause, the fact remains the same ".

Labatt Brewing Company Ltd. () is a Canadian beer company founded by John Kinder Labatt in 1847 in London, Ontario.

* 1847 – John Lister, English politician ( d. 1933 )

In 1847 Le Fanu supported John Mitchel and Thomas Francis Meagher in their campaign against the indifference of the government to the Irish Famine.

The treaty was drafted in English and Spanish by José Antonio Carrillo, approved by American Lieutenant-Colonel John C. Frémont and Mexican Governor Andrés Pico on January 13, 1847 at Campo de Cahuenga in what is now North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

* October 12 – John Lister, English politician ( b. 1847 )

* September 26 – Johnny Appleseed ( John Chapman ), nurseryman / missionary planted apple-tree nurseries in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois ( d. 1847 )

* December 21 – John Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll, Scottish peer and Whig politician ( d. 1847 )

* Bede, Giles, John Allen, Stevens, John, Gurvey, Anna and Petrie, Henry ( 1847 ).

Clay and his wife had eleven children ( six daughters and five sons ): Henrietta ( 1800 – 1801 ), Theodore ( 1802 – 1870 ), Thomas ( 1803 – 1871 ), Susan ( 1805 – 1825 ), Anne ( 1807 – 1835 ), Lucretia ( 1809 – 1823 ), Henry, Jr .( 1811 – 1847 ), Eliza ( 1813 – 1825 ), Laura ( 1815 – 1817 ), James Brown ( 1817 – 1864 ), and John ( 1821 – 1887 ).

After 1847 the trail bypassed the closed mission and headed almost due west to present day Pendleton, Oregon, crossing the Umatilla River, John Day River, and Deschutes River before arriving at The Dalles.

In 1911 author John Steven McGroarty penned The Mission Play, a three-hour pageant describing the California missions from their founding in 1769 through secularization in 1834, and ending with their " final ruin " in 1847.

This situation led finally to an " inconclusive " duel between Pike and Roane on July 29, 1847 near Fort Smith, Arkansas.

Examples of the latter include the Walhalla temple built by Leo von Klenze for Ludwig I of Bavaria between 1830 – 1847 near Regensburg, Germany, and the Tresco Abbey Gardens Valhalla museum built by August Smith around 1830 to house ship figureheads from shipwrecks that occurred at the Isles of Scilly, England, where the museum is located.

* William H. Smith ( Medal of Honor ) ( 1847 –?

* William Smith ( Canadian politician ) ( 1847 – 1931 ), Canadian politician

In 1847, the Pauls settled on the rich Garvin County bottom land which became known to locals as " Smith Paul ’ s Valley ".

However since Taylor was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve before the Mormons even arrived in Utah, and was the wounded survivor of the mob attack that killed Joseph and Hyrum Smith, and served at various times as speaker of the Utah Territorial Legislature, naming the town after Taylor at any point from 1847 on is quite believable.

John Smith purchased the brewery in 1847.

Smith was born in Edinburgh, the son of dental surgeon John Smith, and educated at the Edinburgh Institution, Edinburgh University ( MD 1847 ) and the Royal College of Surgeons.

Tradition tells of how Thomas J. Smith of London invented crackers in 1847.

Sir Harry Smith became governor of the Cape at the end of 1847.

The first edition of Niebuhr's Roman History was translated into English by F. A. Walter ( 1827 ), but was immediately superseded by the translation of the second edition by Julius Hare and Connop Thirlwall, completed by William Smith and Leonhard Schmitz ( last edition, 1847 – 1851 ).

In December 1847, or what was to be the last month of the War of the Axe, Sir Harry Smith reached Cape Town by boat to become the new governor of the colony.

After Joseph Smith was assassinated, Cowdery's brother Lyman recognized James J. Strang as Smith's successor to the church presidency, and in 1847, Oliver moved to Elkhorn, Wisconsin near Strang's headquarters in Voree and entered law practice with his brother.

In the fall of 1847, Brigham Young had sanctioned his request to conduct the mission work among the Indians to which Joseph Smith had assigned him, and Cutler had commenced his efforts with nearby tribes.

The first stake established in Utah was the Salt Lake Stake, established October 3, 1847 with John Smith as president.

His older brother, Ephraim Kirby Smith, a captain in the regular army, served with him in the 5th U. S. Infantry in both the campaign with Taylor and Scott, until he died from wounds suffered at the Battle of Molino del Rey in 1847.

Sir Harry Smith was the British general governor of Cape Colony and high commissioner in South Africa from 1847 to 1852.

He ran unsuccessfully for U. S. Representative from Michigan's 2nd congressional district in 1846 and 1847, being defeated by John Smith Chipman.

Cooper ( Shakespeare Society, 1847 ), and by Miss Toulmin Smith in Volkmoller's Englische Sprache-und Literatur-denkmale ( 1883 ).

* William H. Smith ( Medal of Honor ) ( born 1847 ), Medal of Honor recipient

* 1847 Savage life and scenes in Australia and New Zealand: being an artist's impressions of countries and people at the antipodes ( Lithographers Day & Haghe, Publishers Smith Elders & Co., Adelaide )

He was the grandson of Richard Bache, Jr., who served in the Republic of Texas Navy and was elected as a Representative to the Second Texas Legislature in 1847 and Sophia, the daughter of Arabella Maria Smith and Alexander J. Dallas an American statesman who served as the U. S. Treasury Secretary under President James Madison.