Originally written on Monday, July 13, 2009.

A simple list, which has been updated again…. when will I ever make up my mind!

As I said previously “”I missed from the list possibly the most [positive] influential Briton there has been for years, certainly during my life time. A man who was an inspiration to me and many others. A man who wrote possibly the great science fiction ever, a man who was a passionate atheist, or in his words a ‘radical atheist’, a committed conservationist and, above all else, a bloody good bloke.

I’ve dropped him in at number three becuase, as he says himself, being born just before Watson and Crick made their earth shattering discovery, meant that there was DNA in Oxford just a little before them…..””

I have also added a new name, at the back end; possibly the most importanr livingBriton alive today. Can you think of another ?

  1. Charles Darwin.

  2. Elizabeth I.

  3. Douglas N Adams

  4. Watson and Crick

  5. Emmeline Pankhurst

  6. Isaac Newton

  7. Charles Babbage

  8. Alan Turing

  9. William Smith geologist

  10. Humphrey Lyttleton

  11. Samuel Johnson / Peter Roget [I had to look up his first name!]

  12. Isambard K Brunel

  13. Michael Faraday

  14. Henry VIII

  15. Margaret Thatcher

  16. Richard Dawkins

Thoughts ?