We are a wonderful country Richard and I am very proud to be British. We have simply forgotten the beauty and the *good* history that lies within this nation, alongside the bad, because for so very long we've let people tell us nothing BUT the bad. It has had a devastating effect on this country and it's way past time to change. Here's a few Brits to remember, to give David Beckham a run for his money. Christopher Wren Isaace Newton Samuel Pepys Bede St. Boniface King Arthur Robert The Bruce Geoffrey Chaucer Owain Glyndawr William Caxton William Shakespeare Thomas Hobbes John Locke John Wesley Dr. Samuel Johnson Lancelot 'Capability' Brown Captain James Cook James Watt Thomas Paine Edward Jenner William Blake Lord Nelson Robert Burns William Wilberforce William Wordsworth Jane Austen Elizabeth Fry Edith Cavell Florence Nightingale George Stephenson Michael Faraday Anthony Ashley Cooper Isambard Kingdom Brunel John Stuart Mill Charles Darwin Alfred, Lord Tennyson Charles Dickens Dr. David Livingstone John Ruskin William Booth William Morris Andrew Carnegie Joseph Rowntree Thomas Hardy Dr. Thomas J. Barnado Alexander Graham Bell Sir Edward Elgar Emmeline Pankhurst Robert Falcon Scott Edwin Lutyens Ernest Shackleton Marie Stopes Winston Churchill Alexander Fleming John Logie Baird T. S. Eliot Charlie Chaplin Agatha Christie Amy Johnson Leonard Cheshire Donald Campbell Stephen Hawking Anita Roddick Beatrix Potter Elizabeth Barrett-Browning Robert Browning The Bronte Sisters The National Trust The RSPCA The NSPCC English Heritage The list is endless....
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