Sir Arthur Wellesley, as so many of his generation, rose to notoriety through war. The Napoleonic Wars to be exact. He led the British army in the Peninsular War of 1806 when the British and their Spanish and Portuguese Allies pushed the French northwards out of the Iberian Peninsula.[more]
Laurence Olivier
Acknowledged as perhaps the greatest stage actor, and admired screen actor, of his generation. Sir Laurence Olivier will forever be remembered as thequintessential English thespian. [more]
Sir Winston Churchill
The British 'Bulldog spirit' was never best suited by one character at exactly the right time than by Winston (later Sir Winston) Churchill. [more]
Geoffrey Chaucer
Acknowledged by many as the 'Father of English Poetry' Geoffrey Chaucer came to fame through the much vaunted 'Canterbury Tales'. Chaucer was a prolific writer and is to many on a par with the greats that have succeeded him in putting pen to paper. [more]
William Shakespeare
Ever since AD 597 when St Augustine arrived with his band of missionaries , Cantebury Cathedral has been the cradle of English Christianity.[more]
Elizabeth I
Daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth was the third of Henry's children to come to the throne. In the political and religious upheaval of the times she found herself a Protestant Queen taking the throne from a Catholic Queen. [more]
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell was a pious man from the county of Huntingdon. He achieved both fame and power through his increasing involvement in the defeat of King Charles the First by the forces of Parliament in the 1640's. [more]