Famous British People

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Famous British People
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Sir Christopher Wren

• is the greatest British architect
• made a plan for the reconstruction of St. Paul's
  Cathedral in London
• presented a plan for rebuilding the city of
  London after the Great fire
• designed and supervised the rebuilding of 51 city
  churches. Each church was different, but all were
  classical in style.
• was responsible for Tom Tower at Christ's Church,
  Oxford, the library at Trinity College, and the
  Royal Hospital at Chelsea.

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John Constable

• one of the most famous British artists
• sold only 20 paintings in his lifetime, and was
  never recognized in his homeland while he was
  alive.
• loved the countryside, and his best work was of
  outdoor scenes in his native Suffolk and his
  London home in Hampstead
• worked in the open air, though he returned to
  his studio to finish his paintings.

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George Stephenson

• started as an engineman
• developed a new safety lamp that would not
  explode when used near the highly flammable
  gasses found in the mines.
• built Stockton and Darlington line linking West
  Durham and Darlington with the River Tees.
• formed the first locomotive building company in
  the world,
• was chief engineer for many British railway
  companies
• constantly innovated and improved his engines and
  the tracks.

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Alexander Graham Bell

• was interested in working with the deaf for all
  his life
• opened a school for teachers of the deaf and then
  became a professor at Boston University
• In 1876, he patented his invention the
  telephone
• had the right to be the only one to produce
  telephones in the U.S. for 19 years
• developed a method of making phonograph records
  on a wax disc
• made an iron breathing lung, and a device for
  locating icebergs at sea and the metal detector

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Robert Burns

• his first love inspired him to try his hand at
  poetry
• the first published work of poetry was "Poems,
  Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect"
• contributed over 150 songs, including "Auld Lang
  Syne", a reworking of an earlier folk song of
  unknown origin
• gained more fame after his death than he ever did
  during his lifetime.
• many of his songs and poems have become
  international favourites

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Alexander Fleming

• served throughout World War I as a captain in the
  Army Medical Corps
• was elected Professor of Bacteriology at the
  School in 1928.
• was the first to notice the antibiotic properties
  of moulds and fungi
• Invented penicillin

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