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Edward I Sailor 1239 - 1307 |
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The Black Prince Sailor 1330 - 1376 |
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Catherine of Aragon Queen 1485 - 1536 |
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Philip II of Spain Husband of Queen Mary 1527 - 1598 |
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John Hawkins Sailor 1532 - 1595 |
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Martin Frobisher Sailor 1535 - 1594 |
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Humprhey Gilbert Sailor 1539 - 1583 |
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Francis Drake Sailor 1540 - 1596 |
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Walter Raleigh Sailor 1554 - 1618 |
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Richard Hawkins Sailor 1562 - 1622 |
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Ferdinando Gorges Sailor 1568 - 1647 |
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Oliver Cromwell Parliamentarian General and Lord Protector 1599 - 1658 |
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Charles I King 1600 - 1649 |
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William Morice Politician 1602 - 1676 |
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Prince Maurice Royalist General 1620 - 1652 |
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Henry Winstanley Engineer 1644 - 1703 |
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William of Orange King 1650 - 1702 |
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Henry Avery Pirate 1659 - 1696 |
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Alexander Selkirk Sailor 1676 - 1721 |
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Samuel Johnson Writer and Commentator 1709 - 1784 |
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Dr James Lind Naval Surgeon 1716 - 1794 |
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William Cookworthy Porcelain manufacturer 1705 - 1780 |
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Painter 1723 - 1792 |
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John Smeaton Engineer 1724 - 1792 |
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Jacques Tenon French Surgeon 1724 - 1816 |
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Captain James Cook Sailor 1728 - 1779 |
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Tobias Furneaux Naval Officer 1735 - 1781 |
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Sir Thomas Byard Naval Officer 1743 - 1798 |
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Charles-Augustin de Coulomb French Physicist 1736 - 1806 |
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King George III King 1738 - 1820 |
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Olaudah Equiano Ex-Slave and Emancipationist 1745 - 1797 |
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James Aitken (Alias John the Painter) Arsonist 1752 - 1777 |
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William Bligh Sailor 1754 - 1817 |
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Joseph Whidbey Sailor/Engineer 1754 - 1833 |
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Admiral Edward Pellew Sailor 1757 - 1833 |
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Horatio Nelson Sailor 1758 - 1805 |
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John Rennie (Snr) Engineer 1761 - 1821 |
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William Mudge Surveyor 1762 - 1820 |
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John Macarthur Soldier and Settler 1767 - 1834 |
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Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy Sailor 1769 - 1839 |
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Sir Arthur Wellesley - the Duke of Wellington Sailor 1769 - 1852 |
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John Parker, Second Baron Borringdon, First Earl of Morley Politician 1772 - 1840 |
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John Foulston Architect 1772 - 1841 |
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George Arthur Administrator 1784 - 1854 |
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Edmund Lockyer Soldier and Explorer 1784 - 1860 |
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Captain William Henry Allen American Sailor 1784 - 1813 |
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John Rennie (Jnr) Engineer 1794 - 1874 |
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James Barry / Margaret Ann Bulkley First Woman Doctor in Britain 1795 - 1865 |
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Sir James Brooke Rajah of Sarawak 1803 - 1868 |
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel Engineer 1806 - 1859 |
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Charles Darwin Scientist 1809 - 1882 |
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Edmund Parker, Second Earl of Morley Politician 1810 - 1864 |
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Francis Fowke Engineer and Architect 1823 - 1865 |
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Henry Cooper VC Royal Naval Boatswain 1825 - 1893 |
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Sir Edmund Frederick Du Cane Engineer 1830 - 1903 |
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The Right Reverend Bishop Robert Brindle DSO Chaplain 1837 - 1916 |
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Stanley Gibbons Philatelist 1840 - 1913 |
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Edward VII King 1841 - 1910 |
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Colonel William Wheaton Chard Naval Officer 1841 - 1890 |
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William Penn Symons Soldier 1843 - 1899 |
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Albert Edmund Parker, Third Earl of Morley Politician 1843 - 1905 |
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Lieutenant John Rouse Merriott Chard VC Soldier 1847 - 1897 |
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Kaiser Wilhelm II Emperor of Germany 1859 - 1941 |
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Thomas Walker Arnold Orientalist 1864 - 1930 |
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Allen, Edgar Johnson Scientist 1866 - 1942 |
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J H Patterson DSO Soldier / Big Game Hunter 1867 - 1947 |
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Stanley Baldwin Prime Minister 1867 - 1947 |
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Mary Acworth Orr Astronomer 1867 - 1949 |
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Robert Falcon Scott Antarctic Explorer 1868 - 1912 |
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Mark Lambert Bristol United States Naval Officer 1868 - 1939 |
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John McCrae Canadian Poet and Soldier 1872 - 1918 |
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Ernest Henry Shackleton Antarctic Explorer 1874 - 1922 |
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Edmund Parker, 4th Earl of Morley Politician 1877 - 1951 |
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Montagu Brownlow Parker, 5th Earl of Morley Soldier and Archaeologist 1878 - 1962 |
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Ze'ev Jabotinsky Soldier / Zionist 1880 - 1940 |
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Jacob Epstein Soldier / Sculptor 1880 - 1959 |
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Raymond Theodore Pelly Soldier 1881 - 1952 |
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Martin Dunbar-Nasmith Commander-in-Chief of Plymouth and Western Approaches Command 1883 - 1965 |
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Michael Patrick Morley Royal Marine Light Infantry - Plymouth Division 1884 - 1917 |
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David Ben-Gurion Soldier / Prime Minister of Israel 1886 - 1973 |
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Thomas Edward Lawrence Lawrence of Arabia 1888 - 1935 |
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Frank Bickerton Antarctic Explorer 1889 - 1954 |
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Richard Plathen Fascist Organiser in Plymouth |
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Alan Cobham Aviator 1894 - 1973 |
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Robert Menzies Australian Prime Minister 1894 - 1978 |
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Frederick 'Johnnie' Walker Aviator 1896 - 1944 |
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Percy Luscombe Soldier 1900 - 1918 |
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Jack Leslie Footballer 1901 - 1988 |
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William Joyce British Union of Fascists 1906 - 1946 |
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Oswald Mosley Head of the British Union of Fascists 1911 - 1963 |
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Guy Burgess Spy 1911 - 1963 |
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John St Aubyn Parker, 6th Earl of Morley Soldier 1923 - 2015 |
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