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50 Victorian figures

Royals, politicos, soldiers, artists, scientists, reformers and other characters who were active during the Victorian age in what was then called the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland.
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Last updated: May 2, 2023
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First submittedMarch 21, 2023
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Prince Consort
Albert
Conservative prime minister and novelist
Benjamin Disraeli
Writer of Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
Solved the 'Great Stink' with a massive sewerage works
Joseph Bazelgette
Evangelical general killed at Khartoum
Charles Gordon
Romantic seascape painter
Joseph Turner
Poet laureate
Alfred Tennyson
Baker Street resident
Sherlock Holmes
Missionary and explorer who sought the source of the Nile
David Livingstone
Wrote adventures set in Africa
Rider Haggard
Dominated midcentury foreign policy
Palmerston
Flamboyant poet and playwright
Oscar Wilde
British-Jamaican who revolutionised nursing
Mary Seacole
Novelist memorialised in Edinburgh
Walter Scott
Lost an army in Afghanistan
William Elphinstone
Poet whose brother was a Pre-Raphaelite founder
Christina Rossetti
Colonial ruler of India during the 1857 rising
Charles Canning
Electrical science pioneer
Michael Faraday
Actress and mistress of the Prince of Wales
Lillie Langtry
Led the Light Brigade at Balaclava
Cardigan
Developed the 'sensation novel'
Wilkie Collins
Queen
Victoria
Inventor of Long John Silver
Robert Louis Stevenson
Conservative PM who founded modern policing
Robert Peel
Poet's daughter and mother of computer science
Ada Lovelace
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Art critic who influenced British public taste
John Ruskin
Orphanage founder
Thomas Barnardo
Irish home rule champion downed by scandal
Charles Parnell
Wrote Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
Violent explorer who sought Livingstone
Henry Stanley
Leading Arts and Crafts movement designer
William Morris
England's bearded foremost cricketer
William Grace
Enigma Variations composer
Edward Elgar
Peter Rabbit writer
Beatrix Potter
Mining magnate who expanded British rule in Africa
Cecil Rhodes
Leading writer of the Raj
Rudyard Kipling
The Liberal 'Grand Old Man'
William Gladstone
Engineering giant who tunnelled the Thames
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Crimean war 'angel'
Florence Nightingale
Antiseptic pioneer
Joseph Lister
Sent Alice down the rabbit hole
Lewis Carroll
Whitechapel killer
Jack the Ripper
Explorer who translated the Kama Sutra
Richard Burton
Doyenne of household management
Isabella Beeton
His tunes accompanied Gilbert's words
Arthur Sullivan
Irish writer of Transylvanian terror
Bram Stoker
Utilitarian philosopher
John Stuart Mill
Conquered Sudan and modernised army
Herbert Kitchener
Wrote Middlemarch
George Eliot
Noted traveller to the Galapagos
Charles Darwin
BazMcHat
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Level 82
Apr 30, 2023
Excellent Quiz. Nominated!
Amilcar
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Level 66
May 1, 2023
Thank you!
strangelybrown
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Level 88
Apr 30, 2023
Fun quiz, but you might need to check the spelling on a couple of the answers...
Amilcar
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Level 66
May 1, 2023
Thanks - will do!
D31415
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Level 71
Apr 30, 2023
@Amilcar: Holmes doesn't really fit the theme as he's fictional. Also think there's more than one actress/mistress which could be accepted as answers. But it's an interesting selection of people.
Amilcar
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Level 66
May 1, 2023
Thank you - I thought it would be fun to have Holmes in there as I had so many writers and statesmen etc already.
Marvo7
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Level 60
May 2, 2023
It's BARNARDO with an 'r', not Barnado..
Amilcar
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Level 66
May 2, 2023
Good spot thank you. Changed.
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