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People Flashcards

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Sir Roger Bannister

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1st man to run a MILE in under 4 minutes, 1954

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Sir Jackie Stewart

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Scottish, won Formula 1 world championship; 3 times.

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Bobby Moore

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Captain, English Football team, won the World Cup, 1966

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Sir Ian Botham

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Captain English Cricket team

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Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean

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GOLD medals for ICE DANCING at the Olympic Games in 1984

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Sir Steve Redgrave

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GOLD medals in ROWING in 5 consecutive Olympic Games

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Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson

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Athlete, uses wheelchair.
Won 16 Paralympic medals, 11 GOLD in races.
Won London Marathon 6 times.
30 world records.

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Dame Kelly Holmes

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2 GOLDmedals for RUNNING

2004 Olympic Games

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Dame Ellen MacArthur

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Yachtswoman.

Fastest to sail around the world.

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Sir Chris Hoy

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Scottish CYCLIST.

6 GOLD and 1 SILVER medals.
11 World Championship titles

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David Weir

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Paralympian. Wheelchair.

Won 6 gold medals.
Won London Marathon 6 times.

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Sir Bradley Wiggins

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Cyclist. Tour de France (1st Briton).

8 Olympic medals

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Sir Mo Farah

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Distance runner.
Olympic gold 10k meters (1st Briton).

Has gold medals for 5k and 10k

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Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill

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Hepatathlon

Gold 2012 and Silver 2016.

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Sir Andy Murray

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Scottish, Tennis Player

2012 won singles US Open
1st British to win singles Grand Slam since 1936
Wimbledon singles 2013, 2016
Olympic Gold 2016

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Ellie Simmonds

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Paralympian GOLD for SWIMMING.

Youngest in British team.

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Henry Purcell

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Organist (Classical Music)

Westminster Abby

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George Frederick Handel

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German-born COMPOSER.

Water Music for King George I
Music for the Royal Fireworks for George II

Wrote oratorio Messiah

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Gustav Holst

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COMPOSER

The Planets

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Sir Edward Elgar

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Born in Worcester

March No 1 (Land of Hope and Glory) played at Last Night of the Proms

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Wrote MUSIC for orchestras and choirs (influenced by traditional english folk)

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Sir William Walton

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Wrote MUSIC (film scores to opera).

Marches for coronations of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II

Best work: Facade (ballet) and Bleshazzar’s Feast (large choir)

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Benjamin Britten

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Operas

Work:

  • Peter Grimes
  • Billy Budd
  • A Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
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Thomas Gainsborough

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portrait painter

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David Allan

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Scottish, portrait painter

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Joseph Turner

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Landscape painter

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John Constable

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landscape painter

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The Pre-Raphaelites

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groups of artists

second half 19th century, painted detailed pictures on religious in bright colors

  • Holman Hunt
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • Sir John Millais
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Sir John Lavery

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Northern Irish, portrait painter

Work:
Royal Family

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Henry Moore

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English sculptor and artist

Work:
Large bronze abstract sculptures

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John Petts

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Welsh Artist

Work:

  • engravings
  • stained glass
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Lucian Freud

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German-born British artist.

Portraits.

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David Hockney

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important contributor to ‘pop art’ movement 1960s

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Jane Austen

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English Novelist

Books (mariage and relationships):

  • Pride and Prejudice
  • Sense and Sensibility
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Charles Dickens

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Famous novels:

  • Oliver Twist
  • Great Expectations
Famous characters:
- Scrooge (a mean person)
Mr Micawber (always hopeful)-
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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Wrote books:

  • Treasure Island
  • Kidnapped
  • Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Thomas Hardy

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author and poet

Novels:

  • Far from the Madding Crowd
  • Jude the Obscure
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Scottish doctor and writer

Best known for:
- Sherlock Holmes

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Evelyn Waugh

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Satirical novels:

  • Decline and Fall
  • Scoop
  • Bridgeshead Revisited (best known)
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Sir Kingsley Amis

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English novelist and poet.

20+ novels.

Novels:
- Lucky Jim

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Graham Greene

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wrote novels (religious beliefs):

  • The Heart of the Matter
  • The Honorary Consul
  • Brighton Rock
  • Our Man in Havana
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J K Rowling

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wrote Harry Potterand children buges

she writes fiction for adults now

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