Who was the Earl of Derby who eventually and decisively sided with Henry Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth 1485?
Who was the 'Father of the Railways' who built the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, opened 1830?
Who was the author of 'Treasure Island' and 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'?
Which Scot wrote 'An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations' published 1776?
Which Romantic poet drowned in the Gulf of Spezia Italy in 1822?
Who was the author of 'Ivanhoe', 'Rob Roy' and 'The Lady of the Lake'?
Which seaman and castaway was the model for Daniel Defoe's 'Robinson Crusoe'?
Who was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1361 and Chancellor from 1380 beheaded by the rebels during the Peasants' Revolt of 1381?
Who was the Pretender to the throne of Henry VII in 1487?
Which Field Marshal led the 14th Army, the so-called 'forgotten army' in the Burma campaign during WW2?
Who founded what is today a supermarket chain beginning with a dairy shop in Drury Lane, London in 1869?
Which Victorian army officer and explorer discovered and named Lake Victoria in 1858?
Which explorer and his team died in 1912 returning from the South Pole?
Which Scottish army officer founded the Special Air Service (SAS) in 1941 during WWII?
Who invented and patented the reflective road stud or 'cat's eye' in 1934?
Which wool manufacturer, MP and philanthropist 1803-76 built the village of Saltaire in West Yorkshire for his workers?
Which 18th-century Scottish claimant to the throne is known as 'The Old Pretender'?
Who invented the first commercial steam-powered water pump, patented 1698?
Which physician traced the source of a cholera outbreak in London 1854 to a public water pump leading to fundamental changes in the water and waste systems?
Which artist and portraitist 1724-1806 is best known for his paintings of horses?
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