Politics / Royalty

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