* 1874 – William B. Bankhead, American politician ( d. 1940 )

In 1874, it was extended by the British physicists James Clerk Maxwell and William Thomson with a set of electromagnetic units.

* 1874 William H. Neilson

William Bagley ( 1874 – 1946 ) was an important historical essentialist.

Hypnos and Thanatos, Sleep and His Half-Brother Death, an 1874 painting by John William Waterhouse

* Ludwig Jacoby, ( 1813 – 1874 ), born in Altstrelitz, an author and Methodist clergyman, commissioned as a missionary to St. Louis, Missouri, by the founder of the German Methodist Church in America, William Nast ( 1807 – 1899 ).

* 1874 – Charles William Miller, Brazilian footballer ( d. 1953 )

Neoclassical economics is frequently dated from William Stanley Jevons's Theory of Political Economy ( 1871 ), Carl Menger's Principles of Economics ( 1871 ), and Léon Walras's Elements of Pure Economics ( 1874 – 1877 ).

In 1874, a book by William Stanley Jevons described the relationship of one-way functions to cryptography, and went on to discuss specifically the factorization problem used to create the trapdoor function in the RSA system.

William Stubbs focused on these constitutional aspects of Stephen's reign in his 1874 volume the Constitutional History of England, beginning an enduring interest in Stephen and his reign.

William Lyon Mackenzie King, PC, OM, CMG ( December 17, 1874 – July 22, 1950 ), also commonly known as Mackenzie King, was the dominant Canadian political leader from the 1920s through the 1940s.

* Granatstein, J. L .. " King, ( William Lyon ) Mackenzie ( 1874 – 1950 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online ed, Jan 2011 accessed 12 Sept 2011

A great-nephew of Jardine who would be taipan from 1874 to 1886, William Keswick ( 1834 – 1912 ), is the ancestor of the Keswick branch ( pronounced Ke-zick ) of the family.

Archaeological investigations were undertaken from 1859 to 1874 by William Boyd Dawkins, who moved to Somerset to study classics with the vicar of Wookey.

Their eldest son William Gilbert junior ( 1874 – 1905 ) was born on 6 July.

* February 23 – William Jardine, Scottish naturalist ( d. 1874 )

* September 13 William Henry Rinehart, American sculptor ( d. 1874 )

This period included a panoply of international ‘ great demographers ’ like Adolphe Quételet ( 1796 – 1874 ), William Farr ( 1807 – 1883 ), Louis-Adolphe Bertillon ( 1821 – 1883 ) and his son Jacques ( 1851 – 1922 ), Joseph Körösi ( 1844 – 1906 ), Anders Nicolas Kaier ( 1838 – 1919 ), Richard Böckh ( 1824 – 1907 ), Émile Durkheim ( 1858-1917 ), Wilhelm Lexis ( 1837 – 1914 ) and Luigi Bodio ( 1840 – 1920 ) contributed to the development of demography and to the toolkit of methods and techniques of demographic analysis.

Born William Hitchcock, he and his brother Henry had followed the lead of their father, Walter Henry Hitchcock, in assuming their mother's maiden name of Degacher in 1874.

In 1874, Disraeli's ambitious foreign policy, aimed at creating a British empire, is voted down by the House of Commons after a speech by his great rival, William Gladstone.

The interior fan vaulting ceiling, originally installed by Robert and William Vertue, was restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott between 1864 and 1874.

* William Lyon Mackenzie King ( 1874 – 1950 ), Prime Minister of Canada

Hypnos and Thanatos: Sleep and His Half-Brother Death, by John William Waterhouse, 1874.

For example, William Somerset Maugham's ( 1874 – 1966 ) novella Up at the Villa ( 1941 ) could very well be classified as crime fiction.

* William Alexander Smith ( politician ) ( 1828 – 1888 ), member of the U. S. House of Representatives from North Carolina ( 1873 – 1874 )

## Charles Astor Bristed ( 1820 – 1874 )

* 1801 – Gail Borden, Jr., American inventor ( d. 1874 )

* May 11 – John D. Rockefeller Jr., American philanthropist ( b. 1874 )

* June 6 – George Grossmith, Jr., British actor ( b. 1874 )

William Procter, Jr., often described as " the father of American pharmacy ," was a PCP professor from 1846 – 1874, as well as serving as an officer of the board.

John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. ( January 29, 1874 – May 11, 1960 ) was a major philanthropist and a pivotal member of the prominent Rockefeller family.

Lyman Wiswell Gilmore, Jr. ( June 11, 1874 Beaver Creek, Thurston County, Washington-February 18, 1951 ) was an aviation pioneer.

Great great nephew Jerome Davis Greene ( 1874 – 1959 ): President, Lee, Higginson & Company from 1917 to 1932 ; Secretary, Harvard University Corporation from 1905 to 1910 & 1934-1943 ; General Manager of the Rockefeller Institute 1910-1012, assistant and secretary to John D. Rockefeller Jr. as Trustee, Rockefeller Institute ; Trustee, Rockefeller Foundation ; Trustee, Rockefeller General Education Board from 1910 to 1939. executive secretary, American Section-Allied Maritime Transport Council, 1918 Joint Secretary of the Reparations, Paris Peace Conference, 1919 ; Chairman, American Council Institute of Pacific Relations, 1929 – 32 ; Trustee, Brookings Institution of Washington from 1928 to 1945 ; and a founding member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

In 1874 Bodley founded Watts and Co. with Thomas Garner and George Gilbert Scott, Jr.

Her cousins included Henry Alexander Baldwin ( 1871 – 1946 ) and Clarence Hyde Cooke ( 1876 – 1944 ) who carried on the family businesses, Charles Montague Cooke, Jr. ( 1874 – 1948 ) who studied snails ( malacology ), and architect Charles William Dickey ( 1871 – 1942 ).

* John Osborne, Jr. – Exact ( 1852 ), Coastguard ( 1863 ), Wild Agnes ( 1864 ), Lord of the Vale ( 1865 ), Bothwell ( 1870 ), Thorn ( 1872 ), Holy Friar ( 1874 ), Constantine ( 1876 ), Simnel ( 1880 )

An early known published reference is in 1874, citing an 1855 letter that credits ghoti to one William Ollier Jr ( born 1824 ).

Arthur Brown, Jr. ( 1874 – 1957 ) was a prominent American architect, based in San Francisco and designer of many of its landmarks.

* Kepple Disney, Jr. ( 1874 )

Clarence Shepard Day, Jr. ( November 18, 1874 – December 28, 1935 ) was an American author.

Webb married Emma Clary on April 23, 1873 and together they produced eight children: William Robert, Jr. ( 1874 – 1960 ), Alla ( 1875 – 1944 ), John Stanford ( 1877 – 1951 ), Adeline ( 1879 – 1968 ), Daniel Clary ( 1881 – 1954 ), Susan ( 1882 – 1980 ), Emma ( 1884 – 1973 ), and Thompson ( 1887 – 1975 ).

* Joseph Harrison, Jr., partner in the American steam locomotive manufacturing firm of Eastwick and Harrison ( d. 1874 ).

On July 26, 1856, Robert Pitcairn married Elizabeth Erb Rigg of Altoona, PA. Their children were: Agnes Laurene Pitcairn ( born in 1857 ), Lillian Pitcairn ( born in 1859 ), Susan Blanche Pitcairn ( born in 1868 ) and Robert Pitcairn, Jr. ( born on October 2, 1874 ).

* John D. Rockefeller, Jr. ( Junior ) ( 1874 – 1960 ), only son of Senior

* Thomas Wharton Phillips, Jr. ( 1874 – 1956 ), Republican member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

* Charles Montague Cooke, Jr. ( 1874 – 1948 ), American malacologist

Milton Bennett Medary, Jr. ( 1874 – 1929 ) was an American architect from Philadelphia, practicing in the firm Zantzinger, Borie and Medary from 1910 until his death.

Beginning in 1828, Simon Willard Jr. ( 1795 – 1874 ) apprenticed in horology at his father's shop ; he subsequently established his own workshop in Boston.

John Cadwalader Jr. ( 1874 – 1934 ) became trustee of the estate of his aunt Sophia Georgiana ( Fisher ) Coxe ( 1841 – 1926 ) which funded the MMI Preparatory School.

* Learotha Williams, Jr .," A Wider Field of Usefulness ": The Life and Times of Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, c. 1828 – 1874.