Great Britons (last names)

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