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22 Cards in this Set
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Who was Sir Robert Walpole? |
first PM (1721-1742) as King George I (a German) relied heavily on ministers because of his poor English |
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Who was Oliver Cromwell? |
titled Lord Protector (circa 1640s-1650s) and led Britain whilst it was without a monarch |
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What did King Alfred the Great do? |
united the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and defeated the Vikings. |
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Who was Isambard Kingdom Brunel? |
engineer (bridges, trains, tunnels, ships) |
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Who was Dylan Thomas? |
Welsh poet (“Under Milk Wood” & “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”) |
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Who was Robert Burns? |
Scottish poet (“The Bard”), Auld Lang Syne |
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Who was Richard Arkwright? |
Efficient and profitable factory owner during Industrial Revolution |
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Who was Sake Dean Mahomet? |
set up first curry house in Britain and introduced shampooing |
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What is Florence Nightingale known as? |
founder of modern nursing |
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Who was Emmeline Pankhurst? |
Suffrage leader |
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Who was Rudyard Kipling? |
Indian-born author and poet. Work reflected idea that British empire was a force for good. |
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Who were George and Robert Stevenson? |
famous pioneers of railway engines |
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What did St Columba & St Augustine do? |
led missionaries from Rome |
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Who was Sir Francis Drake? |
Elizabethan sailor who helped defeat Spanish Armada and who later sailed around the world. |
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Who were the Huguenots? |
French Protestants who felt prosecution settled in England pre-1720 |
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What is Henry VIII famous for? |
marrying 6 times and breaking away from Church of Rome so he could get a divorce. Wales was united with England under his rule. Wives (in order): (1) Catherine of Aragon (2) Anne Boleyn (3) Jane Seymour (4) Anne of Cleves (5) Catherine Howard (6) Catherine Parr |
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Who was Margaret Thatcher? |
first female PM and the longest serving PM of the 20th century. |
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Who was Alexander Fleming? |
Scottish doctor who discovered penicillin (1928) |
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Who was Clement Attlee? |
Churchill’s Deputy PM. Became PM in 1945. Nationalised major industries and created NHS. |
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Who was Mary Peters? |
Olympic athlete who promoted sport and tourism in Northern Ireland. |
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Who was Roald Dahl? |
Welsh author (“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” & “George’s Marvellous Medicine”) |
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Who was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? |
Scottish author (“Sherlock Holmes”) |
