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The three most famous english people of all time.
The three most famous english people of all time.
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Hate to be pedantic, but seeing as it's you.
Arthur is probably Italian.. |
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you`ll be telling me the Queen`s German next.
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Bavarians do not like being called German so maybe that's debatable as well..
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Winston Churchill
Oliver Cromwell Guy Fawkes |
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and the beautiful English name Elizabeth, next you`ll be claiming that is Greek
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I've just thought of another famous Brit known the world over - St. Patrick.
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A good list Aka if ye replace Fawkes (nobheed) with Robert Caseby..
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Elizabeth is a Jewish name actually, although i've no idea where it originated.. Maybe Sparta?
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Everybody knows of Guy Fawkes though G2D.
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the mother of John the Baptist was called Elizabeth, and the mother of Jesus Mary.
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Was Guy Fawkes English, or Italian?
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I wonder if their friends called them Betty lfc.
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Catesby btw.. My Engerlish it terrible..
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we are after English heroes g2d, with names like Arthur, Alfred and Robin
With this in mind I'll go for: Askey Garnett Askwith |
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Arthur Wellesley
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Arthur Scargill
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Arthur Worsley
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Arthur balfour
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Ian Brady
Myra Hindley cilla black |
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Fawkes was a Yorkshireman.
I presume guiness you are suggesting that Arthur was really that Roman general based in Britain who marched on Rome and briefly became Emperor. That became part of the Arthur legend by Malory's time but is almost certainly conflating two different people.Arthur was a bit later. I seem to remember being semi-convinced that Arhur was,or was based on,a Celtic warlord called something like Rhadamantus. |
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Partly; but i think the name doea actually come from the Roman name Arturius..
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Rome had occupied Britain for 400 years. The upper-class natives had certainly become Romanised so you are right about the name. Doesn't make him Italian though.
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Doesn't make him Engerlish either..
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That's what I said. Definitely NOT English.That also applies to St Patrick who was Welsh originally.
Riothamus was the name I was looking for incidentally. |
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Salmon Spray , I was born less than 200yds from were The Duke of Wellington was born , its a little place called DUBLIN ....Have some friends coming from America this weekend and thats one of the surprises on the menu..He was born across the road from what is now our Governments Building were our Dail, or Parliment as ye would call it sits.
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Yes I knew he was born in Ireland workrider but as a member of the aristocracy I would imagine he self-identified as English. I stand to be corrected if someone can find anything suggesting otherwise as I don't know a great deal about the bloke tbh.
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As "Because a man is born in a stable it does not make him a horse". is attributed to the Duke; we can assume he thought of himself as Engerlish..
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So we can safely say anyone who thinks themselves other than their Country of birth is correct , how we identify ourselves is our business , were we are BORN is a fact....
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de Valera was American then.
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And Ted Dexter was Italian.
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Tom Daley
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Of course he was Salmon , spent a lot of his life here though , Bale has spent more time out of Wales than in it ..Is he still Welsh ?
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bet you will not beat these three.
1=William SHAKESPEARE 2=Isaac Newton 3=Henry v111 the majority of people living in london wouldn't have a scooby who these people were |
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So would Wellington be amongst your top 3 Irishmen workrider ?
Would be their most successful general. |
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No Salmon, He classed himself as English and they are welcome to him . I'd settle for St Patrick if you don't mind....
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Winston Churchill
Charles Darwin Isambard Kingdom Brunel |
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I think you might just have outflanked me there workrider.
Congrats.  |
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jack the ripper
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The Yorkshire Ripper + Brady & Hindley
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Simon Cowell NAP
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