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"calotype, invented by an Englishman vs. by the(the) Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot" - which article to use?

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by an Englishman vs. by the Englishman

I'm uncertain which article to use in the following examples:

calotype, invented by an/the Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot
paper, written by a/the Scottish professor John Dudgeon
a studio founded by an/the American George R. West
In 1859, a/the Swiss photographer Pierre Joseph Rossier (c.1829-1897) took the first photo....

Seeing as Scottish and Swiss work as adjectives, but Englishman is a noun, is there a preference for using one article over another?