The 18th-19th Scottish civil engineer who built the London and East India docks and Southwark, Waterloo and London Bridges was John .......?
The Welsh logician, mathematician, historian and political activist awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1950 was Bertrand .......?
The Anglo-Irish Field Marshall who fought in the Indian Rebellion, the Second Afghan War and was overall Commander during the Second Boer War, given a State Funeral in 1914 was Frederick .......?
The 19th century imperialist and diamond merchant who had a country in Africa named after him was Cecil .......?
The Statesman who founded Singapore in 1819 was Stamford .......?
The portrait painter who became the first President of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1768 was Joshua .......?
In 1615 Pocahontas married John .......?
The Admiral who captured Gibraltar in 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession was George .......?
Queen Elizabeth I died in which London palace in 1603?
The Bishop of London burned at the stake together with Hugh Latimer in 1555 during the Marian Persecutions was Nicholas .......?
Just over 150 British and colonial troops successfully defended which mission station against an assault by 3,000 to 4,000 Zulu warriors during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879?
In which battle fought in the Spanish Netherlands 1706 did John Churchill Duke of Marlborough overwhelm a Franco-Spanish-Bavarian army during the War of the Spanish Succession?
The Royalist cavalry won a crushing victory over the Parliamentarians besieging Devizes Wiltshire in which battle of 1643 during the English Civil War?
The Florentine nobleman and conspirator who plotted to assassinate Elizabeth I in 1571 in favour of Mary Queen of Scots was Roberto di .......?
The English pirate who operated from 1718 until his death in 1720 and designed the Jolly Roger flag was John 'Calico Jack' .......?
The English born Welshman who was a motoring and aviation pioneer killed in an aircrash in 1910 aged 32 was Charles .......?
King Charles I was tried and executed for treason in 1649 by members of the ....... Parliament?
The on-off Parliament that sat 1529-36 and made Henry VIII Supreme Head of the Church in England in 1534 was the ....... Parliament?
The nephew of King Charles I and Royalist military commander during the English Civil War was Prince ....... of the Rhine?
The Act of Parliament that introduced wide-ranging changes to the electoral system of England and Wales in 1832 is known as the Great ....... Act?
The list of parliamentary grievances presented to King Charles I in 1641 was called the Grand .......?
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