Famous Britons #2

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Singer who was known as the "forces' sweetheart" during WW2, and in 2009 made No.1 on the British album chart aged 92.	Vera Lynn
Famous codebreaker in WW2 who was later convicted of homsexuality	Alan Turing
19 year old controversially hanged for murder in 1953 after his accomplice shot a police officer	Derek Bentley
2008 F1 World Champion	Lewis Hamilton
Inventor of the bouncing bomb	Sir Barnes Wallis
Nurse during the Crimean War known as the "Lady with the Lamp"	Florence Nightingale
Lord Chancellor of England executed for refusing to accept Henry VIII's rejection of Catholicism	St Thomas More
Jacobite Pretender who failed to gain the British throne at the Battle of Culloden	Bonnie Prince Charlie
"Doctor Death" who murdered at least 218 patients	Harold Shipman
Engineer who built the first steam railway	George Stephenson
Alledgedly invented the game of Rugby	William Webb Ellis

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Wrote the original James Bond novels	Ian Fleming
Co-inventor of the World Wide Web	Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Journalist and TV host who carried out the Nixon interviews	Sir David Frost
Horror Film director who made "Psycho" and "The Birds"	Sir Alfred Hitchcock
Railway engineer who designed the "Mallard" and "Flying Scotsman" (A1 and A4) locomotives	Sir Nigel Gresley
Wrote "A Dictionary of the English language", the first comprehensive English Dictionary	Samuel Johnson
Comedian who partnered with Oliver Hardy to form one half of a famous duo	Stan Laurel
Aristocratic romantic poet who wrote "Don Juan" and "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"	Lord Byron
TV presenter and prolific paedophile'll fix it.	Sir Jimmy Savile
Playwright, director and actor who created "In Which We Serve" and "Brief Encounter"	Sir Noel Coward

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