Saturday 8 March 2014

Brooke Bond - (BRO-250) Famous People


1969
(BRO-250) Famous People
Brooke Bond
50 (2 Footballers)

UPDATE (16-06-2020 13:23):  Some additional scans provided by Wila75.

BRO-250 / Famous People - blue backs - original issue
BRO-250 / Famous People - black backs - 1973 reprint

1. Lord Shaftesbury (British Nobleman)
2. Sir Edward Landseer (Artist)
3. Alfred Lord Tennyson (Poet)
4. Charles Robert Darwin (Evolutionist)
5. William Gladstone / Benjamin Disraeli
6. Charles Dickens (Novelist)
7. David Livingstone (Explorer)
8. Florence Nightingale (Nurse)
9. Lord Lister (Surgeon)
10. William Booth (Salvation Army Founder)
11. Lewis Carroll (Writer - Alice in Wonderland)
12. General Charles George Gordon
13. Gilbert and Sullivan (Composers)
14. Thomas John Barnardo (Barnardos Homes)
15. W.G. Grace (Cricket Player)
16. Robert Louis Stevenson (Writer)
17. Cecil Rhodes (Politican)
18. George Bernard Shaw (Playwright)
19. James Keir Hardie (Politician)
20. Lord Baden-Powell (Boy Scout Founder)
21. Sir Edward Elgar (Music Composer)
22. Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst (Women's Activist)
23. David Lloyd George (British Prime Minister)
24. Edith Cavell (Nurse)
25. Herbert George Wells (Novelist)
26. Robert Falcon Scott (Arctic Explorer)
27. Sir Harry Lauder (Entertainer)
28. Ralph Vaughan-Williams (Musician)
29. Sir Winston Churchill (British Prime Minister)
30. Lord Nuffield (Auto Manufacturer)
31. Augustus John (Artist)
32. Sir Thomas Beecham (Orchestra Conductor)
33. Sir Alexander Fleming (Biologist)
34. Baron Birkett of Ulverston (Lawyer, Judge)
35. Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
36. John Logie Baird (Inventor - Television)
37. T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) 
38. Charles Spencer Chaplin (Actor)
39. Admiral Louis Mountbatten (Naval Leader)
40. Sir Francis Chichester (Navigator)
41. Amy Johnson (Pilot)
42. Sir Laurence Olivier (Actor)
43. Sir Frank Whittle (Inventor - Jet Engines)
44. Dame Alicia Markova (Ballerina)
45. Kathleen Ferrier (Singer)
46. Benjamin Britten (Music Composer)
47. Sir Stanley Matthews
48. Sir Alfred Ramsey
49. Pat Smythe (Horse Rider)
50. Roger Bannister (Athlete - 4 minute mile)

1 comment:

  1. Gosh! I remember collecting this set, along with the History of Transport, Flags of the World and others! Ah, the fabulous 1960s! :'-)

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