Great Britons (last names)

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Across
  1. 2. Inventor of the turbojet plane engine.
  2. 6. Writer of Harry Potter.
  3. 8. Member of the Catholic Gunpowder Plot who is burned on Bonfire Night.
  4. 9. Organized the the UK suffragette movement achieve women's right to vote in the UK.
  5. 10. Inventor of the World Wide Web.
  6. 12. Started or added to the theories of exploding black holes, relativity, and quantum mechanics.
  7. 17. Famous actor who played "The Tramp".
  8. 20. Creator of the National Health Service.
  9. 24. Creator innovative educational nature programs such as planet earth.
  10. 27. Writer of Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet.
  11. 30. Painter of Fighting Temeraire, Fishermen at Sea, and Dido building Carthage.
  12. 31. Inventor of the world's first effective antibiotic substance, penicillin.
  13. 34. Founder of the Salvation Army Charity.
  14. 35. Inventor of the first autonomous robots.
  15. 36. Creator of the theory of evolution.
  16. 38. Abolished slavery across a quarter of the world using the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
  17. 40. Writer of the poems Songs of Innocence and Experience, Jerusalem, and Milton.
  18. 41. Founder of Ragged schools for poor children.
  19. 42. Father of Railways who opened the first public rail line.
  20. 43. Inventor of the telephone and first practical telephone.
  21. 45. Writer of the Lord of the Rings.
  22. 46. Celtic queen of the Iceni. Led a resistance against the Roman army.
  23. 47. Defeated the French at the Battle of Trafalgar.
  24. 50. The "iron lady".
  25. 51. Victoria Cross recipient and youngest group captain of the Royal Air Force.
  26. 52. Prime Minister who beat Germany and fascism in WW2.
  27. 53. Writer of Areopagitica and father of freedom of speech and expression.
  28. 54. Comedian of Morecambe & Wise Show along with Ernie Wise.
  29. 56. Discovered electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis.
  30. 57. Broke eight world speed records on water and on land in the 1950s and 1960s.
  31. 58. Diplomat and soldier who aided the Arab Revolt and brought down the Ottoman Empire.
Down
  1. 1. Defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
  2. 3. Creator of the smallpox vaccine and the father of vaccines.
  3. 4. The mother of nursing and founder of modern nursing.
  4. 5. Inventor of the Marine chronometer.
  5. 7. Director of Vertigo, Psycho, and Rear Window.
  6. 11. Writer of Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, and Great Expectations.
  7. 13. First british prime minister.
  8. 14. Inventor of the Watt steam engine that started the Industrial Revolution.
  9. 15. Field Marshal of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front in WW1.
  10. 16. Writer of Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice.
  11. 18. Helped defeat the Spanish Armada and circumnavigated of the world in a single expedition.
  12. 19. Archaeologist who led excavations of Tell es-Sultan.
  13. 21. Founder of the Scouting movement.
  14. 22. D'Day Ground Forces Commander in Chief.
  15. 23. First private founder of a space company to travel to the edge of space.
  16. 25. Rower who won five gold medals at the Olympics.
  17. 26. Singer of Space Oddity, Ziggy, and Heroes.
  18. 28. Invented calculus and the theory of universal gravity.
  19. 29. Founder of the Beatles with Paul McCartney.
  20. 32. Inventor of the Suit.
  21. 33. First American President who was a British Subject.
  22. 37. Creator of the Great Western Railway.
  23. 39. Inventor of the Turing test, and cracked the Enigma machine.
  24. 44. The Father of Liberalism.
  25. 46. Creator of the modern municipal fire service.
  26. 48. Composer of Pomp and Circumstance Marches.
  27. 49. The Father of Capitalism and Economics.
  28. 52. Great explorer and first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.
  29. 55. Inventor of the first programmable computer.