Pioneers / Misc / Interest

Pioneers / Misc / Interest
In 2002 BBC TV commissioned a poll to find out who the British public voted the 50 Greatest Britains ever. The resulting list made interesting reading and finished in this order ; Winston Churchill / Isambard Kingdom Brunel / Diana Princess of Wales / Charles Darwin / William Shakespeare / Sir Isaac Newton / Elizabeth I / John Lennon / Horatio Nelson / Oliver Cromwell / Sir Ernest Shackleton / Captain James Cook / Robert Baden Powell / Alfred The Great / Duke of Wellington / Margaret Thatcher / Michael Crawford / Queen Victoria / Paul McCartney / Alexander Fleming / Alan Turing / Michael Faraday / Owain Glyndwr / Elizabeth II / Stephen Hawkins / William Tyndale / Emmeline Pankhurst / William Wilberforce / David Bowie / Guy Fawkes / Leonard Cheshire / Eric Morecambe / David Beckham / Thomas Paine / Boudica / Steve Redgrave / Thomas More / William Blake / John Harrin / Henry VIII / Charles Dickens / Frank Whittle / John Peel / John Logie Baird / Aneurin Bevan / Boy George / Douglas Bader / William Wallace / Sir Francis Drake and John Wesley

C B Fry

C S Forester

C S Lewis

Captain Scott

Carl Giles

Cartoonists

Cecil Beaton

Cecil Day-Lewis

Chapman Pincher

Charles Darling

Charles Elworthy

Charles Lindbergh

Charles Nicholson

Charles Portal

Charles Upham

Charlie Cairoli

Charlotte Despard

Chay Blyth

Chen-Ning Yang

Chic Jacob

Christine Keeler

Christopher Cockerell

Christopher Ironside

Christopher Robin Milne

Chung Ling Soo

Claude Auchinleck

Claude Grahame-White

Clemence Dane

Clementine Churchill

Clive Sinclair

Colin Wilson

Compton Mackenzie

Cowan Dobson

Cynthia Lennon

Cynthia Payne

Cyril Goulborn