U.K. (&Eire) Historical figures

I started something like this in another thread, as ‘The A-Z Historical figure Thread’.
Nice idea – but not out properly (e.g. V.Q.X.Z)
And so, I thought I’d localise it to the U.K. (Because there doesn't seem a lot of us on here) and,in any order.
The theme is to mention, acknowledge, appreciate and – for those non-UK readers in some way, educate. (I’m sure they could do the same for their natural or nationalised country).
It is not for to promote Political views nor initiate argumentative views on those posted – Everyone has; and a right to, their own opinion. Discussion and debate are one thing, - and should be encouraged, but aggressive and unsubstantiated views along with personal attacks another, so let’s try and keep it civil.
Let’s celebrate the successful, famous (and sometimes infamous) people who have contributed to UK (and sometimes World-wide) history – with a name a short review: -

 

OK - I'll start with:-
PANKHURST: (Emmeline Goulden) (15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928)
An advocate and Political activist from Manchester, England. She led the Suffragette movement to win the right for women to vote. (Her husband Richard Pankhurst, a lawyer and active supporter was the author of the Married Women's Property Acts of 1870 and 1882, which allowed women to keep earnings or property acquired before and after marriage)
Adopting a radical policy of protest that included demonstrations, window smashing, arson and hunger strikes.

Like many others she was arrested on numerous occasions over the next few years and went on hunger strike herself, resulting in violent force-feeding.
In 1918, the Representation of the People Act gave voting rights to women over 30. She died on 14 June 1928, shortly after women were granted equal voting rights with men (at 21).
- Recently she was memorialised in her home town of Manchester with a statue unveiled near to the site which saw the Peterloo massacre of 1819 -

- but that's, another story

 

HAWKING: (Stephen William) CH CBE FRS FRSA (1942 - 2018) Director of Research at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and founder of the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at Cambridge.
In 1963, Hawking contracted motor neurone disease and was given two years to live, but he went on to Cambridge becoming e a brilliant researcher and Professorial Fellow at Gonville and Caius College.
He held a deep sense on concern for humanity and had immersed himself into his work passionately and his theories were essential reading
Hawking began using a wheelchair in the late 1970’s using standard motorised models and his speech deteriorated and only understood by only his family and closest friends who interpreted for him but in 1986 he received a computer program called the "Equalizer" from Walter Woltosz, CEO of Words Plus, which allowed him to press a switch to select phrases, words or letters from a bank of about 2,500–3,000 that were scanned and later attached it to his wheelchair.

From 1979 to 2009 he held the post of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge
(the chair held by Isaac Newton in 1663)
Professor Hawking received over a dozen honorary degrees and was awarded the CBE in 1982.
He was a fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the US National Academy of Science.
Despite all adversity he retained a sense of wry humour, appearing on TV sitcoms in cameo roles
Hawking is regarded as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists since Einstein.
He died at his home in Cambridge at the age of 76
He was eulogised by figures in science, entertainment, politics, and other areas.

 

TURING: (Alan Mathison) OBE FRS (23 June1912 -7 June 1954) (Maida Vale) ( = English Mathematician, pioneer in Computer technology. Regarded as the father of theoretical computer science.
Integral in capacity as cryptanalyst at Bletchley park during the second worldwide conflict as a Code-breaker.
Awarded an OBE (Order British Empire) for his services to the country in 1945. Four years later was made deputy director of the Computing Laboratory at Manchester University
Turing first addressed the issue of Artificial intelligence (AI) in his famous paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950). In it, he devised what he called the 'Imitation Game' (now called the ‘Turing Test’) – a method to determine whether a machine showing behaviour can truly be called ‘intelligent’. The test has significantly influenced research on AI

Prosecuted and persecuted. for homosexuality (acts illegal at the time - 1952) he accepted chemical castration and was stripped of his former high-level clearance.
The extent of his work did not fully come to life until after his death. His impact on computer science is commemorated in the annual ‘Turing Award’ – the highest accolade in the industry.
Following a huge internet campaign. In2009, the then British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for "the appalling way he was treated", and in 2013 was granted a posthumous pardon.
In July 2019, the Bank of England announced that Turing would be depicted on the United Kingdom's new 50 Pound note

 

BOUDICA*: (/Boudicca/Boadicea (Buddig in Welsh)) = Queen of the British Celtic Iceni tribe (30 AD- 61 AD) = Britannia’s Celtic Warrior Queen.
Ruled an area circa Norfolk/East Anglia with husband Prasutagus as an independent ally of Rome.
There was a mutually beneficial working partnership. but changed when Prasutagus died.
Despite assurances from Rome his will was ignored, and worse was to follow.
Under the Roman Governing of Gaius Suetonius Paulines, the Kingdom was broken up, property and wealth stolen, with disregard and disrespect shown to the royal family.
According to Roman historian Tactius, Boudica* was raped in front of her two daughters before they too were raped, Boudica* was then flogged and left to be found by her subjects.
This saw a unity of Celtic tribes (primarily Trinovante and Brigante) rise up in revolt and exact merciless vengeance. Boudicca* led her army from the front, upon Chariot adapted with scythes mounted on the wheels to cut down the troops she charged at pace into.

The towns of Camulodunum (Colchester) Verulamium (St. Albans) and Londinium (London) were raised to the ground with no quarter/mercy given to man, woman nor child.
This saw the Roman incursion against the Druid communities in Anglesey/North Wales stall as their forces were forced to return and defend; what they considered to be their land.
A combination of astute strategy by a professional army over an enraged but disjointed rebel force saw the foreign invaders triumph.
In the aftermath, rather than suffer further indignity, it’s said she took her own life through poison.
The defeat resulted in swift and similar atrocious restoration. Direct Roman military rule was established with many native tribes put to the sword and their lands sacked.
Archaeological remains show the Romans put more focus into military constructions.
Learning from their error in underestimating areas they considered conquered and instability of Britain, Rome changed its policy from one of expansionism to consolidation on this distant island.
Despite her defeat, she is a British folk-lore history legend and standard bearer for rebellion, commemorated with a statue on Westminster Bridge, facing the Palace of Westminster

 

BRUNEL: (Isambard Kingdom) FRS (April 1806 – 15 September 1859) (Portsmouth) A prominent figure during the Industrial Revolution he revolutionised public transport and modern engineering. In 1830, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society


When Britain entered in the Crimean War in 1854, an old Turkish barracks became the British Army Hospital in Scutari. Modern Warfare saw the developments of weapons that inflicted terrible wounding’s and with, it a variety of illnesses—including cholera, dysentery typhoid and Malaria.
His innovative designs incorporated the necessities of hygiene, sanitation, ventilation, drainage, and even rudimentary temperature controls. This helped to reduce deaths and spread of diseases
Considered one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history who changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs and ingenious constructions
He built dockyards, the Great Western Railway, and a series of steamships including the first propeller-driven transatlantic steamship, numerous important bridges and tunnels, along with revolutionization of public transport and modern engineering.
Though Brunel's projects were not always successful, they often contained innovative solutions to long-standing engineering problems.
During his career, he achieved many engineering firsts, including assisting in the building of the first tunnel under a navigable river and development of SS Great Britain -the first propeller-driven, ocean-going, iron ship, which, when built in 1843, was the largest ship ever built
Brunel died of a stroke on 15 September 1859. and was buried, like his father, in Kensal Green Cemetery in London

 

BERNERS-LEE (Sir - Timothy John) OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS (7 June 1954 -) (London) = English Engineer and Computer scientist best known as the inventor of the WORLD-WIDE-WEB.

A Professorial Fellow of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and Professor at M.I.T. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
He made a proposal for an information management system on 12 March 1989, and he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol client and server via the internet in mid-November the same year.
The founder of the WWW Foundation, senior researcher and director of the WWW Consortium (W3C), which oversees the continued development of the Web.
Received a Knighthood In 2004 for his pioneering work
In April 2009, he was elected Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Science and received the 2016 Turing* award for inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale

 

Kitty Wilkinson.. her grave is at the back of the Anglican theatre..
She started the peoples wash houses and hense played a big part in killing diphtheria and other bugs and germs, by getting the people to wash bed clothes and clothes.

Liverpool community launderette honours the Saint of the Slums

 

Harvey lonsdale Elms.. designer of St George's hall in liverpool, and the collegiate boys school amongst others.. he died at the age of 27 in Jamaica.. he devrloped TB..


Harvey Lonsdale Elmes - Wikipedia

 

JAMES CONNOLLY: One of the leaders of the 'Easter Uprising' in Dublin in 1916 seeking independence from the the UK.

James Connolly - Wikipedia

 

Petr Kropotkin: Socialist and Anarchist. Whilst exiled from his home in Russia, lived some of that exile here in the UK in Brighton.

Peter Kropotkin - Wikipedia

 

Annie Besant: Supporter of the Bryant & May 'Match Girls Strike', a Socialist and social reformer.

Annie Besant - Wikipedia

 

Karl Marx: Economist, Philosopher, Writer, Political Revolutionary:

Karl Marx - Wikipedia

 

Karl Marx was English? Well you learn something new every day...
And that kropogcin guy... ?

 

(Sigh !!!) The illiterate again - do you never read the links that Wikipedia gives showing their life histories???

Karl Marx was German by birth - he was born in Trier, however, much of his life he spent in exile here in the UK and wrote his most famous tome 'Das Kapital' in the reading room of the British Museum.

The other person I think you are rweferring to is Prince Petr Kropotkin !!!

 

I will give you a chance to apologise for that..

 

Gonna be a cold day in hell .....

 

= Doesn't Count Vlad - Kropotkin was a Russian.
This thread is to celebrate 'UK' historical figures (Hence why it is the UK Thread*) wherever and what ever they did in the World - otherwise this would be 'World-wide' Historical Thread
* See my other Thread of A-Z Historical figures
The fact that he "lived some of that exile here in the UK " - is little to no contribution to the UK, is it?

 

As above with that Russian bloke, as renowned as Marx was, his nomadic life say him flirt from different countries before his stay in the UK, and as for Das Kapital, - whilst it may well be a significant publication, Marx died before the 'planned' second and third parts/volume were only notes that were collated, completed and published after his death by (Prussian) Fredrich Engels - so a 'UK' historical figure? I hardly think so