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The Magna Carta

Henry V

Francis Drake

Shakespeare

The King James Bible

Sir Isaac Newton

Milton

Wordsworth

Nelson

Wellington

Dickens

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Charles Darwin

Florence Nightingale

Ernest Shackelton

John Logie Baird

Churchill

Sir Frank Whittle

Alan Turing

Alexander Fleming

Thatcher

Ted Max Wrote:

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> DNQ:

>

> Wellington (Tyrant, Irish)

> Ernest Shackelton (Irish)

> John Logie Baird (Scottish)

> Alexander Fleming (Scottish)

> Thatcher (Lizard)


Noted - but I have always described myself as British so as to claim the (reflected) credit of other nations of the UK

Oh you can have them, Marmora Man. I don't hold any brief for the "Wha's like us" brigade. Scots v good at providing missionary and military enforcement of The Empire's commercial rapine.


(N.B. Other simplistic generalisations are also available...your mileage may vary etc.)

red devil Wrote:

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> Gordon Banks

> George Cohen

> Ray Wilson

> Jack Charlton

> Bobby Moore

> Nobby Stiles

> Bobby Charlton

> Martin Peters

> Alan Ball

> Geoff Hurst

> Roger Hunt

> Alf Ramsey


Windass

Ricketts

Dyer

Barton

Cottee

Corrigan

Bardsley

Bowyer

Gray

Birtles

Palmer

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