Subject Beryl Burton OBE Birth 1937 Death / Mencap Barbara Anne Castle 1910 2002 British / Britain Music / Philosopher Ira Aldridge 1807 1867 Shakespearean / Philosophy Geoffrey Chaucer 1340 1400 / Watt 1736 1819 / Orphanages / Education Frederick Henry Royce 1863 1933 / /
Country
Myanmar / United Kingdom / United States / Ireland / /
Facility
Canal Builder Thomas Chippendale / Hospice Movement English Ballerina / /
Movie
Battle of Britain / /
MusicGroup
Queen / /
NaturalFeature
English mountain / Domestic Science Octavia Hill / /
Organization
Royal Air Force / British Labour party / save the children / House of Commons English / Women’s Social and Political Union / Naval / British Royal Navy / British Army / BANK OF ENGLAND / /
Person
Maybray King / Christopher Wren / Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie / Adeline Virginia Woolf / Alexander Fleming / Bernard Law Montgomery Sir Barnes / William Blake / William Henry Beveridge / William Wilberforce / Dorothy Mary Hodgkin / Richard Arkwright / Alfred Russel Wallace / Eglantyne Jebb / Frances Mary Buss / Josephine Elizabeth Butler / Diana / Elizabeth Blackwell / Monica Enid Dickens / Mary Fairfax Somerville / Edith Cavell / Thomas Gainsborough / Angela Olive Carter / Ralph Vaughan Williams Bertrand Russell / Helen Charlotte Isabella / Arthur Neville Chamberlain Emily Wilding Davison / Josiah Wedgwood / E. Oscar Wilde / James Cook / Henry Cavendish / Matthew Boulton / Sidney Godolphin / Gilbert Scott / Ethel Smyth / Catherine Gurney / Mary Clarissa Christie Sir Robert / Charlotte Bronte / Poet Charles Parsons / Elisabeth Jean Frink / Anglican / Catherine Cookson / Catharine Macaulay / Caroline Harriet Haslett Reginald Mitchell / Cicely Mary Saunders / Elizabeth Garrett Anderson / George Orwell / Nancy Mitford / Edith Nesbit / Martha Beatrice Webb / William Booth / Cecilia PayneGaposchkin / Barbara (Jocelyn) Hepworth Amy Johnson / Beatrix Potter / Priscilla Wakefield / Stanley Matthews / Christina Georgina Rossetti Isabella Lucy Bird / William Thomson / Kelvin Dadabhai Naoroji / John Smeaton / Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding / Robert Hooke / Robert Watson-Watt / Robert Frederick Chelsea Moore Freddie Mercury / Herbert George Wells / Isabella GwynneVaughan / Dawson Sir Winston Churchill / Robert Throckmorton Queen / Judy Fryd / James Clerk Maxwell / Character / Margot Fonteyn de Arias Doris / Earl Mountbatten / Charles Dickens / Rudyard Kipling / Millicent Garrett Fawcett / Earl Attlee John Maynard Keynes / Frederick Henry Royce / Annie Kenney / William Wordsworth / John Donne / Mathematical Physicist / Byron / Margaret Hilda Thatcher / Charles Dickens English Footballer Dame / Charles Dickens English / Thomas Paine / Anne Williams / William Penney / Isabella Mary Beeton / Thomas Flowers / Alan Turing / Frank Whittle / Constance Fligg Elam Tipper Dame / Audrey Kathleen Hepburn Dame Elisabeth Jean / Robert Baden-Powell / Anne Bronte / Anna Sewell / Benjamin Britten / Josephine Bell / Carolin Joyce / Robert Adam / Linda Smith / Margaret McMillan / Clough Williams-Ellis / Doris Lessing / Christabel Harriette Pankhurst / Scott Charles Rennie Mackintosh Arthur Neville / John Franklin / Marie Stopes / Enid Blyton / Monarch / Henry VIII / Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin John / John Cockcroft / Daphne / James Pitman / Elizabeth David / Clement Richard Attlee / / /
Position
Author and Poet / Profession/Background Racing cyclist / Captain / Author and Banker Psychiatrist / Prime Minister / Composer / serving MP / Architect / Conservative politician / Inventor/Engineer / Campaigner / astronomer / Physician / Architect / Designer / Professional Rower and Boat builder Writer / Botanist / Death Profession/Background photographer / General / Aeronautical Engineer / Novelist and Poet Florence Nightingale / Mathematician / founder / Engineer / writer and natural historian Mathematician / actress / Author / King / First Woman MP / Hillsborough disaster Comedian/President / Constable / Painter / Designer / Labour Politician / crime writer / novelist / journalist and translator / Administrator / science writer and polymath Engineer / Novelist and Poet / Novelist / Marine Chronometer Landscape Architect / Admiral / anaesthesia Engineer / Writer Headmistress / Chemist / Economist / Civil Engineer / geographer / anthropologist and biologist / Queen / Actor / Sculptor / Electrical Engineer / Speaker / Mathematician and writer Novelist and Poet / Politician / first Governor / Poet / MP / female literary politician Scientist / sociologist / economist / Scientist / novelist and journalist / Officer / mountain climber / philanthropic worker / Princess / Scientist / Politician / Mechanical Engineer / Explorer Prime Minister / Feminist Author / Physicist and Engineer MP / fossil collector / dealer / Physicist / Physician & leader / Artist / campaigner for mentally and handicapped children –founder / Physician and Writer / Author / Historian / Footballer / Medicine Air Marshal / Writer / Photographer / cookery writer / Nurse / Commander / novelist and biographer Engineer / Profession/Background Civil Engineer / Musician / Docks General / Statesman / nurse / social worker / physician and writer / novelist and journalist English Footballer / activist / Lyricist / Longest serving MP / Statesman / /
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