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Who was the 4th Duke of Norfolk executed 1572 for his part in the Ridolfi Plot to depose Elizabeth I?
Which Admiral won the Battle of Quiberon Bay in 1759 preventing a planned French invasion during the Seven Years' War?
Who was the explorer cast adrift in James Bay Canada and disappeared 1611?
Who was the artist and pictorial satirist 1697-1764 of works such as 'Gin Lane', 'Beer Street' and 'A Rake's Progress'?
Which novelist 1840-1928 wrote 'The Mayor of Casterbridge', 'Tess of the D'urbervilles' and 'Far from the Madding Crowd'?
Which of Henry VIII's wives was executed for adultery in 1542?
Which Field Marshall commanded the British Expeditionary Force from the end of 1915 until the end of WW1?
Who was the CIC RAF Bomber Command during the latter half of the Second World War nicknamed 'Bomber'?
Who was the weaver and carpenter who invented the 'Spinning Jenny' in 1764?
Who was the self-styled 'Witchfinder General' believed to be responsible for the deaths of 300 women 1644-46?
Which Scottish historian and philosopher wrote 'A Treatise of Human Nature' in 1739?
Who became the first Governor–General of India in 1763?
Who was the philosopher 1588-1679 best remembered for his book 'Leviathan' published 1651?
Which Scottish Earl of Bothwell abducted and married Mary Queen of Scots in 1567?
Who married William Shakespeare in 1582?
Who was the biochemist credited with the development of protein crystallography, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964?
Who was the clockmaker 1693-1776 who invented the marine chronometer that enabled longitude to be calculated during ocean voyages?
Which physician was the first to describe and detail the circulation of the blood in 1628?
Which Scot was a major founder of the Labour Party and became the first Labour Member of Parliament in 1900?
Which Admiral, navigator, privateer, slave trader and cousin of Francis Drake was the chief architect of the Elizabethan navy?
