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Answer
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Prince Consort
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Albert
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Conservative prime minister and novelist
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Benjamin Disraeli
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Writer of Oliver Twist
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Charles Dickens
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Solved the 'Great Stink' with a massive sewerage works
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Joseph Bazelgette
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Evangelical general killed at Khartoum
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Charles Gordon
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Romantic seascape painter
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Joseph Turner
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Poet laureate
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Alfred Tennyson
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Baker Street resident
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Sherlock Holmes
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Missionary and explorer who sought the source of the Nile
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David Livingstone
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Wrote adventures set in Africa
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Rider Haggard
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Dominated midcentury foreign policy
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Palmerston
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Flamboyant poet and playwright
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Oscar Wilde
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British-Jamaican who revolutionised nursing
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Mary Seacole
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Novelist memorialised in Edinburgh
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Walter Scott
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Lost an army in Afghanistan
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William Elphinstone
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Poet whose brother was a Pre-Raphaelite founder
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Christina Rossetti
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Colonial ruler of India during the 1857 rising
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Charles Canning
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Electrical science pioneer
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Michael Faraday
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Actress and mistress of the Prince of Wales
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Lillie Langtry
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Led the Light Brigade at Balaclava
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Cardigan
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Developed the 'sensation novel'
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Wilkie Collins
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Queen
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Victoria
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Inventor of Long John Silver
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Conservative PM who founded modern policing
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Robert Peel
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Poet's daughter and mother of computer science
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Ada Lovelace
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Art critic who influenced British public taste
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John Ruskin
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Orphanage founder
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Thomas Barnardo
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Irish home rule champion downed by scandal
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Charles Parnell
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Wrote Wuthering Heights
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Emily Bronte
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Violent explorer who sought Livingstone
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Henry Stanley
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Leading Arts and Crafts movement designer
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William Morris
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England's bearded foremost cricketer
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William Grace
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Enigma Variations composer
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Edward Elgar
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Peter Rabbit writer
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Beatrix Potter
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Mining magnate who expanded British rule in Africa
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Cecil Rhodes
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Leading writer of the Raj
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Rudyard Kipling
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The Liberal 'Grand Old Man'
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William Gladstone
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Engineering giant who tunnelled the Thames
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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Crimean war 'angel'
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Florence Nightingale
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Antiseptic pioneer
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Joseph Lister
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Sent Alice down the rabbit hole
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Lewis Carroll
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Whitechapel killer
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Jack the Ripper
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Explorer who translated the Kama Sutra
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Richard Burton
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Doyenne of household management
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Isabella Beeton
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His tunes accompanied Gilbert's words
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Arthur Sullivan
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Irish writer of Transylvanian terror
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Bram Stoker
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Utilitarian philosopher
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John Stuart Mill
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Conquered Sudan and modernised army
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Herbert Kitchener
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Wrote Middlemarch
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George Eliot
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Noted traveller to the Galapagos
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Charles Darwin
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