Which priest, university professor and novelist 1819–75 wrote 'Hereward the Wake', 'Westward Ho!' and 'The Water Babies'?
Who was the churchman 1514-72, father of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland?
Which author 1865–1936 wrote 'The Jungle Book', 'Just So Stories' and 'Kim'?
Which Romantic poet 1795–1821 wrote 'Ode on a Grecian Urn', 'Ode to a Nightingale' and and 'Ode on Melancholy'?
Who led a revolt against land enclosure in Norfolk during the reign of Edward VI and was executed 1549?
Who was the model and showgirl whose involvement in the 'Profumo Affair' brought down Macmillan's government in 1963?
Who was the Scottish pirate and privateer hanged at Execution Dock London 1701?
Which Cambridge born economist's ideas had been adopted by almost all capitalist governments by the 1950s and 60s?
Who became the first person to perform a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the globe in 1969?
Which Field Marshal 1850–1916 won the Battle of Omdurman in 1898 and was Secretary of State for War in WWI until his death?
Which Scottish born actress 1921-2007 appeared in the films 'An Affair to Remember', 'From Here to Eternity' and 'The King and I'?
Which leader of the Labour party 1983-1992 lost two general elections in 1987 and 1992?
Which rear-admiral and naval innovator won the Second Battle of Ushant in 1781 during the American Revolution ?
Which English Christian mystic and pilgrim 1373–c1438 wrote 'The Book of ....... .......' considered by some to the first autobiography in the English language?
Who was the inventor 1704–79 of the 'Flying Shuttle' for the hand loom in 1733?
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