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Britain Unlimited’s Full List of Characters

A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P Q R S T V W

A

Robert AdamKing Arthur
Richard ArkwrightW.H. Auden
William ArmstrongJane Austen
Thomas ArneHerbert Austin

B

Charles BabbageMatthew Boulton
Sir Francis BaconRobert Boyle
Francis Bacon (Artist)Benjamin Britten
John Logie BairdAnne Bronte
Sir Charles BarryCharlotte Bronte
John BaskervilleEmily Bronte
Aubrey BeardsleyFord Maddox Brown
Saint Thomas BecketLancelot “Capability” Brown
Venerable BedeRobert Browning
Alexander Graham BellRobert the Bruce
Arnold BennettIsambard K. Brunel
Jeremy BenthamJohn Buchan
George BerkeleyJohn Bunyan
Henry BessemerEdmund Burke
John BetjemanEdward Burne Jones
Richard D. BlackmoreFanny Burney
William BlakeRobert Burns
William BlighEdward Burra
Queen BoadiceaRichard Burton
William BoothGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron

C

George CadburyWinston Churchill
Donald Campbell Jim Clark
Sir Malcolm CampbellRobert Clive
Thomas CarlyleWilliam Cobbett
Lewis Carroll Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 Edith CavellWilkie Collins
William CaxtonJohn Constable
William Cecil (Lord Burghley)Captain James Cook
Bonnie Prince CharlieJohn Sell Cotman
Geoffrey ChaucerGeorge Crabbe
Thomas ChippendaleOliver Cromwell
Fletcher Christian

D

John DaltonCharles Dickens
Abraham DarbyBenjamin Disraeli
Grace DarlingJohn Donne
Charles DarwinArthur Conan Doyle
Sir Humphry DavyFrancis Drake
Daniel DefoeJohn Dryden

E

Edward ElgarT.S. Eliot
George Eliot

F

Michael FaradayE.M. Forster
Henry FieldingCharles James Fox
Edward FitzgeraldElizabeth Fry
Alexander Fleming

G

Thomas GainsboroughWilliam Godwin
John GalsworthyOliver Goldsmith
David GarrickGeorge Gordon
Edward GibbonW.G. Grace
W.S. GilbertThomas Gray
William GladstoneGraham Greene
Owen Glendower

H

Edmond HalleyWilliam Hogarth
Thomas HardyGustav Holst
John HarrisonRobin Hood
William HarveyRobert Hooke
Nicholas HawksmoorDavid Hume
William HazlittWilliam Holman Hunt
Barbara HepworthAldous Huxley
Graham HillThomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Hobbes

J

Edward JennerSamuel Johnson
Jerome K JeromeInigo Jones
Augustus JohnBen Jonson

K

Edmund KeanWilliam Kelvin
John KeatsRudyard Kipling

L

Charles LambJoseph Lister
Walter Savage LandorDavid Livingstone
Edwin LandseerDavid Lloyd George
Hugh LatimerJohn Locke
D.H.LawrenceOliver Lodge
T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia)L.S. Lowry
Edward LearCharles Lyell
John Lennon

M

John Loudon McAdamJames Clerk Maxwell
Charles Rennie MackintoshJohn Stuart Mill
Thomas MaloryJohn Everett Millais
Thomas MalthusA. A. Milne
Duke of MarlboroughJohn Milton
Christopher MarloweBobby Moore
Frederick MarryatHenry Moore
John MasefieldThomas More
Stanley MatthewsWilliam Morris
William Somerset Maugham

N

Paul NashBen Nicholson
Horatio NelsonFlorence Nightingale
Cardinal NewmanIvor Novello
Isaac Newton

O

Laurence OlivierWilfred Owen
George Orwell

P

Tom PaineWilliam Pitt (Younger)
Christabel PankhurstAlexander Pope
Emmeline PankhurstBeatrix Potter
Robert PeelJoseph Priestley
Samuel PepysHenry Purcell
William Pitt (Elder)

Q

Thomas De Quincey

R

Sir Walter RaleighRob Roy MacGregor
Humphry ReptonDante Gabriel Rossetti
Joshua ReynoldsJohn Ruskin
Nicholas RidleyBertrand Russell

S

Siegfried SassoonSir Stanley Spencer
Robert Falcon ScottEdmund Spenser
Sir Walter ScottJosiah Spode
Sir Ernest ShackletonGeorge Stephenson
William ShakespeareLaurence Sterne
George Bernard ShawRobert Louis Stevenson
Mary ShelleyGeorge Stubbs
Percy Bysshe ShelleySir Arthur Sullivan
Richard SheridanGraham Sutherland
Sarah SiddonsJonathan Swift
Adam SmithAlgernon C. Swinburne
Robert Southey

T

Thomas TelfordRichard Trevithick
Alfred Lord TennysonAnthony Trollope
William M. ThackerayJethro Tull
Dylan ThomasJoseph M. W. Turner
J. R. R.TolkienWat Tyler

V

Sir John VanbrughRalph Vaughan Williams

W

William WallaceSir Frank Whittle
Barnes WallisWilliam Wilberforce
James WattOscar Wilde
Evelyn WaughJames Wolfe
Sir Josiah WedgwoodMary Wollstonecraft
Duke of WellingtonCardinal Wolsey
H. G. WellsVirginia Woolf
John WesleyWilliam Wordsworth
Gilbert WhiteChristopher Wren