Who Should Appear On Our Future Banknotes?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/currency/10020432/Sir-Winston-Churchill-to-appear-on-new-5-banknote.html

The idea seems good but why have we had to wait until 2016, and why include a quote from a long past speech "“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.” ?

/// Bank of England's new £5 note in a redesign that governor Sir Mervyn King said could lead to it being redefined as "a Winston". ///

/// “Our banknotes acknowledge the life and work of great Britons. Sir Winston Churchill was a truly great British leader, orator and writer," Sir Mervyn said on Friday. ///

Get ready for 'a Maggie'

[anotheoldgit]

FredPuili43

Didn't realise George Best was an artist, what great sculptors or paintings did he create?

What are we going to call the Churchill notes a "Winston".

Yes 'Sweaty' is extremely disrespectful, and I cannot see many so disrespectful to call them that, Londoner or otherwise.

But then there is always going to be some.

[FredPuli43]

aog, the main reason I used 'artist' for George Best was that I was hoping to draw a humourless response from you. It is gratifying that you obliged me :)

My secondary reason was that using the same word in two senses in one sentence is pleasing in itself. I forget what the grammarians call the practice.

Both reasons are based on 'artist' meaning 1) a person practised or skilled in art, especially painting, drawing or sculpture 2) a person skilled in some task or occupation [ from Collins English Dictionary]

There is another meaning, relating to his preoccupation with alcohol, but I did not have that one in mind.

[Wharton]

We could have a £2.50 note called a 'half-clown' :-)

[ChillDoubt]

Stephen Hawking
Sir Frank Whittle

[mushroom25]

"we", wharton?

according to a previous thread, you and your brethren will be trading in bawbees by then :-)

[Wharton]

lol mushroom25 :-)

[Bazile]

//Our banknotes acknowledge the life and work of great Britons. Sir Winston Churchill was a truly great British leader, orator and writer," //

//Get ready for 'a Maggie' // ?

Why ? - she wasn't a 'truly great British leader, orator and writer '

[DTCwordfan]

Clare Balding; after all she's on everything else. Could be know as the "Sappho" note.

[ChillDoubt]

I wonder how many of today's schoolchildren would have actually heard of Frank Whittle?

I'll ask my teenage son later, should be interesting!

[FredPuli43]

CD, I hadn't heard of Tommy Flowers until now; I thought Ellipsis meant Ron Flowers ! Possible the young man won't know the name Frank Whittle; depends what questions get asked in quizzes, I suspect; but each generation acquires new 'heroes' and others lose their importance in the minds of each.

Now wait for the older generation to post that they are outraged at the suggestion that Frank Whittle is not known to youngsters (Do they get taught nothing at school?) or would ever fade from our memories. Dammit,he was British and in inventor !

[ichkeria]

Politicians on banknotes are historically very rare - about as common as £4 notes. Churchill is an obvious exception. I doubt if any others will appear.

Alan Turing indeed seems an obvious one for the future. Maybe Bobby Moore?

[ChillDoubt]

Indeed Fred. Probably all the more ironic that on every clear day (at least) the UK's population gets to see and more often hear his invention.

[spellright]

John Muir.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Muir

William Speirs Bruce.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Speirs_Bruce

[Ric.ror]

Sir Alex Ferguson

[delboy3]

The Duke of Wellington was on the fiver, and he was PM from 1828 to 1830. Winston won't be a precedent, then.

[spellright]

Fred Goodwin for RBS notes!..lol.

[Answerprancer]

I don't know Mr Git - Oswald Moseley perhaps? ;-)

[ttfn]

Sir Robert Edwards ?

[ttfn]

R J Mitchell

[Mass_Hysteria]

Whoever goes on future bank notes will obviously have to be NOTEWORTHY!

gets coat!