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

E M Forster

Eddie Chapman

Edmund Blunden

Edmund Hillary

Edna Ferber

Edward Dunlop

Edward Evans

Edward Lewis

Edward Tennyson Reed

Edward Victor

Edwin Lutyens

Egon Ronay

Elisabeth Beresford

Elizabeth Arden

Ely Culbertson

Enid Blyton

Eric Ambler

Eric Shipton

Eric Williams

Erle Gardner

Ernest A Simpson

Ernest H Shepard

Ernest Shackleton

Erskine Caldwell

Ethel Snowden

Ethel Tweedie

Eugene Ionesco

Evel Knievel

Everest

Everest

Eyvind Johnson