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Royal Mail, the Cruciform and the colour red are registered trade marks of Royal Mail Group Ltd. first © Royal Mail Group Ltd 2012. All rights reserved. If undelivered please return to Royal Mail, Tallents House, 21 South Gyle Crescent, , Scotland EH12 9PB. Issue Britons of Distinction Celebrating truly distinguished lives Design Purpose Following in the footsteps of our popular Eminent Their stories range from that of Thomas Newcomen, Stamp format/size Britons Special issue of 2009, Britons of Distinction the Devon ironmonger who arguably did more than Square celebrates the birthdays and anniversaries of ten highly anyone else to power the Industrial Revolution; 35mm x 35mm significant Britons and their achievements. While the through to Alan Turing, the mathematician and code- Printer Cartor Security Printing featured individuals come from quite disparate fields, breaker who played a key role in breaking the German Print process they are united by the courage and determination that Enigma code and thus hastening the end of WWII. Lithography led them to greatness. Perforation As ever, the stories behind all of these lives and 14.5 x 14.5 Despite their eminence, however, some had not left achievements make for fascinating reading, so this Phosphor portraits for posterity. So rather than exclude anyone Special issue also includes a Presentation Pack that All over for this reason, the imagery on the Special Stamps, explores the impressive lives and legacies of our Gum most unusually, features an equal number of portraits Britons of Distinction in rich detail. PVA and illustrations. Number per sheet 25/50 Sir Basil Spence Frederick Delius Mary ‘May’ Morris Odette Hallowes Thomas Newcomen 1907–1976 1862–1934 1862–1938 1912–1995 1664–1729 Sir Basil created many fine Despite being born to Daughter of the artist The first woman to win This Devon ironmonger and buildings, most notably German parents in Yorkshire, William Morris, Mary Morris the George Cross, Odette engineer invented the Coventry Cathedral, which and spending many years was a leading light in the Hallowes served with atmospheric steam engine opened in 1962 as a in , Delius composed revival of English embroidery, distinction as both a French that helped to power the replacement for the original some of the most thanks to works such as the Resistance worker and Industrial Revolution; the Mint Stamps 14th Century edifice, which quintessentially English Orange Tree, which features English spy, and survived first of which was installed Acknowledgements had been bombed in 1940. pieces in the pastoral canon. on her stamp. German concentration camps. in Staffordshire in 1712. Sir Basil Spence — photo of Coventry Cathedral © Edwin Smith/ Price £4.60 RIBA Library Photographs Collection; Frederick Delius © Delius Code AS757 Montague Trust; Mary ‘May’ Morris — Orange Tree embroidery © William Augustus Pugin Rhodes James Alan Turing Joan Mary Fry Morris Society, photo by Peter Wood; Odette Hallowes © Imperial Giants in miniature 1912–1953 1812–1852 1862–1936 1912–1954 1862–1955 War Museum; Thomas Newcomen — photo from the collections Featuring portraits of The greatest contralto of her Pugin was a great champion A quite brilliant classical A mathematician and Quaker, pacifist and social of Glasgow Museums © Culture and Sport Glasgow (Trading) CIC; five of our distinguished era, Kathleen Ferrier gave and exponent of Gothic scholar, MR James is chiefly computer scientist, Turing’s reformer, Fry was a tireless Kathleen Ferrier — photo by Angus McBean © Harvard Theatre subjects and depictions Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University; Augustus Pugin white many moving performances architecture, with the celebrated as the author work in creating the Bombe campaigner for the of the other five’s — photo of House of Lords © Science & Society Picture Library; mixed of the great operas in her glorious interiors of the of some of the most chilling code breaking machine, oppressed, who organised Montague Rhodes James © National Portrait Gallery, London; Alan greatest achievements, source dazzling career, which was Palace of Westminster, ghost stories in British shown on his stamp, was food relief in Germany after Turing — reconstructed Bombe machine used by permission of the ten Mint Stamps tragically cut short at the shown on his stamp, among fiction, including Ghost Stories instrumental in saving WWI and in the coal fields Bletchley Park, photo by Peter Wood; Joan Mary Fry © Religious are brought to you in fsc logo age of 41. his many achievements. of an Antiquary. millions of lives in WWII. of Wales in the 1920s. Society of Friends in Britain. perfect condition.

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Frederick Delius’s Florida suite was influenced by workers’ songs he heard on an orange plantation.

Architect SOE agent in occupied France

fter a ten-hour German “Music is an outburst of the soul.” n 1946 Odette Hallowes Abombing raid in November — Frederick Delius — Ibecame the first woman 1940, Coventry’s 14th-century to win the George Cross. cathedral, together with the She had survived serving medieval core of the city, lay as a secret agent in France as in ruins. Its reinstatement well as periods of solitary would produce one of the confinement in concentration best-loved British buildings camps, the execution of many of the 20th century: the Opera, choral and orchestral composer comrades and her own death crowning achievement of the sentence as work of the architect Sir Basil Spence, for which lthough Frederick Delius was born to German worker and English spy – to he gained his knighthood. Aparents – in Yorkshire, where the wool trade had which she responded, brought them – and lived for decades in France, for “You must take your pick, Odette Hallowes was the first Born in India, where his Scottish father was a civil woman to be awarded the George servant, Spence qualified as an architect at the many his yearning, romantic pieces, including gentlemen. I can only Cross, in 1946, for her heroism as an agent in wartime France. Edinburgh College of Art, where lecturers included Summer Night on the River and On Hearing the First die once.” Walter Gropius and Erich Mendelsohn. He spent an Cuckoo in Spring, evoke a quintessentially English Born in northern France, she had lost her father in influential year in the London office of Sir Edwin pastoral idyll. the First World War and would later remember her Lutyens and was also inspired by the very different In frustrating years when he was trying to convince his grandfather’s warning that another would come, when modernist work and philosophy of the French father that his career lay in music, not business, Delius she also must serve. At the outbreak of this war, she architect Le Corbusier. He worked on a wide range absorbed material such as English, German and was living in with her husband and children. of commercial buildings and private housing but Scandinavian folk tunes and the spirituals he heard black On entering training to join the Special Operations also demonstrated originality in pavilion and workers singing on the orange plantations in Florida; Executive (SOE), she first became a member of the exhibition design, winning an important showcase these influences would thread through his life’s work. First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. Her evident courage at the 1951 Festival of Britain. Most of his best-known pieces, including A Village and intelligence ensured her selection as an SOE In the international competition for a cathedral to Romeo and Juliet, Appalachia, Sea Drift and A Mass of agent, and in November 1942 she landed in France

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Walsall WS1 3QL Architect SOE agent in occupied France Kathleen Ferrier rehearses for her opera debut, the 1946 Glyndebourne premiere of Code AF353 Mathematician & Second World War code breaker ’s The Rape of Lucretia, fter a ten-hour German “Music is an outburst of the soul.” n 1946 Odette Hallowes and appears accompanied by the pianist 23 Feb bombing raid in November became the first woman and conductor Bruno Walter at the 1949 setting his own tall, elegantA red sandstone— Frederick Delius — I building at in Edinburgh1934, Festival. but when his wife, the German artist 1940, Coventry’s 14th-century to win the George Cross. hose who lived near cathedral, together with the She had survived serving TBletchley Park, a Victorian Scholar and author of ghost stories Don’t miss out. This medieval core of the city, lay as a secret agent in France as mansion in Buckinghamshire, This technical drawing in ruins. Its reinstatement well as periods of solitary were so used to odd people R James is chiefly The specially designed an angle and stitchingwould it produce intoone of the the townscapeconfinement in concentrationwith Jelkacycling past during the SecondRosen, passed Mawayremembered today the following year, they were date cannot be extended. best-loved British buildings camps, the execution of many World War – hundreds of not only as a brilliant of the 20th century: the Opera, choral and orchestral composer comrades and her own death young women insisting that classical scholar, Provost shows the components of First Day Cover has crowning achievement of the sentence as French Resistance they were typists and men of King’s College work of the architect Sir Basil Spence, for which lthough Frederick Delius was born to German worker and English spy – to claiming to be joining a shooting Cambridge and pathways and openhe gained his knighthood.spaces. In parentshis – in Yorkshire, book where the wool trade hadPhoenix which she responded, at party – that they would have paid subsequently of Eton Thomas Newcomen’s A little attention to ‘Prof’,buried even if he was wearing a togetherContralto performer of opera and song at Limpsfield in . all ten Special Stamps brought them – and lived for decades in France, for “You must take your pick, Odette Hallowes was the first College, and a Born in India, where his Scottish father was a civil woman to be awarded the George pyjama jacket for a shirt and a gas mask for protection distinguished director of servant, Spence qualified as an architect at the many his yearning, romantic pieces, including gentlemen. I can only Cross, in 1946, for her heroism as from hay fever and counting aloud as he calculated the hen the British contralto Kathleen Ferrier made an agent in wartime France. the Fitzwilliam Museum, In MR James’s stories, objects as banal as Edinburgh College of Art, where lecturers included Summer Night on the River and On Hearing the First die once.” mathematical formula that would tell him when his her Glyndebourne debut in 1946, in the leading bed sheets can come horrifyingly to life. revolutionary engine. W but also as a spine-chiller – one of the greatest writers affixed and cancelled Walter Gropius and Erich Mendelsohn. He spent an Cuckoo in Spring, evoke a quintessentially English Born in northern France, she had lost her father in bicycle chain was about to jump off its sprockets. role of Benjamin Britten’s new opera The Rape of Coventry, he called the old cathedralpastoral idyll. a symbol of Lucretia, it was a high point in a dazzling but tragically of the classic English ghost story. His tales, originally influential year in the London office of Sir Edwin the First World War and would later remember her Alan Turing was a brilliant young theoretical short career. A talented pianist since her childhood in annual Christmas entertainments for family and Lutyens and was also inspired by the very different In frustrating years when he was trying to convince his grandfather’s warning that another would come, when mathematician, a former Cambridge don who had Standard Royal Mail Lancashire, she left school at 14 to work for the GPO i friends, reflecting his conviction that “the ghost shou with your choice of a modernist work and philosophy of the French father that his career lay in music, not business, Delius she also must serve. At the outbreak of this war, she invented the Turing machine, a calculator capable of Blackburn. In 1937, responding to a bet, she entered be malevolent or odious”, often left his listeners too architect Le Corbusier. He worked on a wide range absorbed material such as English, German and was living in England with her husband and children. solving any mathematical problem, created in his n ld the acclaimed Carlisle Festival as both pianist and terrified to walk home alone. James drew on his of commercial buildings and private housing but Scandinavian folk tunes and the spirituals he heard black On entering training to join the Special Operations head many years before the technology existed to postmark sacrifice, the new a symbol of resurrection. Spence singer – and won each class. academic background for the shadowy libraries, Tallents House or also demonstrated originality in pavilion and workers singing on the orange plantations in Florida; Executive (SOE), she first became a member of the build the actual computer. He was one among many medieval archaeology and ancient texts which gave exhibition design, winning an important showcase these influences would thread through his life’s work. By now a popular broadcaster, in 1943 Ferrier sang First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. Her evident courage eccentrics recruited to join a secret operation to break the convincingly factual scaffolding for his fiction. at the 1951 Festival of Britain. and intelligence ensured her selection as an SOE the encrypted messages generated by the German Handel’s Messiah at Westminster Abbey. In 1947, she Most of his best-known pieces, including A Village He was persuaded to publish some of his work, and the Coventry postmark, the In the international competition for a cathedral to agent, and in November 1942 she landed in France Enigma and Lorenz machines. performed Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde at the first Romeo and Juliet, Appalachia, Sea Drift and A Mass of first collection, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, appeared put new heart into Coventry, Spence’s proposals to begin her new role gathering and delivering vital Edinburgh Festival, conducted by Bruno Walter, and alsoLife, were composedcommissioned in the years before the First a in 1904. Bewitched and terrified fans included the triumphed over 200 others, and he threw himself into intelligence. After the war, she devoted much of her returned to Glyndebourne in the role of Orfeo in World War. His last work, with his sight and strength Prince of Wales and Theodore Roosevelt, and there writing and lecturing to raise support and funds for life to work for war victims and veterans. Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice. Overseas concerts, latter chosen as it is Your address will failing, was created with the help of the young were immediate demands for more. More Ghost Stori the project. He preserved all the ruins of the original, recordings and fame followed; the critic Neville Cardus musician Eric Fenby. Delius died at his home near of an Antiquary followed in 1911, setting his own tall, elegant red sandstone building at Paris in 1934, but when his wife, the German artist described her Angel in Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius es as “one of the most moving experiences, musical and Others in 1919 and A Warning to theA Thin Curious Ghost and and Other the home of Coventry be printed here an angle and stitching it into the townscape with Jelka Rosen, passed away the following year, they were This technical drawing number of newshows the componentsworks of of Ghost Stories in 1925. James set many tales, includin spiritual, in a lifetime”. pathways and open spaces. In his book Phoenix at buried together at Limpsfield in Surrey. Thomas Newcomen’s The Turing machine, solving problems by manipulating symbols on a strip of tape, arguably his greatest, ‘Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to revolutionary engine. g Presentation Pack In 1951 Ferrier underwent surgery for cancer. Two Coventry, he called the old cathedral a symbol of was the mathematician’s pioneering You, My Lad’, in his beloved East Anglia. M = (Q, Γ, b, Ʃ, δ, q , F) theoretical computer before the technology Cathedral. The cover sacrifice, the new a symbol of resurrection. Spence 0 years later a new production of Orfeo was created for also commissioned a existed to build such devices. her at Covent Garden, conducted by the great Sir John “If any of ... (my stories) succeed in number of new works ofart, including stained glass Barbirolli, but she was helped from the stage after the also contains a art, including stained glass Bletchley Park, remote but second performance, her last public appearance. causing their readers to feel by John Piper, sculpture Designer and textile artist conveniently close to main pleasantly uncomfortable when by Jacob Epstein and a roads and a railway line, was Price £5.10 n life May Morris was Designer and textilewalking along artist a solitary road at towering tapestry behind bought by the government fascinating filler card overshadowed by the fame of the main altar by Graham I just before the Second World nightfall, or sitting over a dying fire by Johnher father, Piper, the artist, poet, sculpture Sutherland. The foundation Inventor of atmospheric steam engine War as a new home for its Code AP357 philosopher and socialist in the small hours, my purpose in stone was laid by Queen Code and Cypher School. Gothic revival architect and designer William Morris, whose homas Newcomen, a complete with brief Elizabeth II in 1956, and The code breakers began to writing them will have been attained.” radical principles she shared. modest lay preacher and St Michael’s Cathedral T arrive in August 1939, and She is now seen as a leading ironmonger from Devon, ny visitor to the Palace of — MR James — Coventry was filled with was consecrated and by the height of the war a contemporary art commissions, by Jacobfigure in theEpstein revival of English described by theand colliery a Westminster who hangs up biographies of our formally opened by the warren of huts, freezing in A including the stained-glass embroidery and as a designer owner James Lowther as The Enigma encrypting and a coat or even turns a door baptistry window by John Piper. Queen in 1962. decrypting machines were winter and stifling in Distinguished details and textile artist of genius. “a very good honest man”, originally developed for civilian handle encounters Augustus use but in wartime they became a summer, many full of noisy n life May Morris was Spence was awarded the Order of Merit in helped power the Industrial Welby Northmore Pugin, a eminent subjects. May Morris learned embroidery as a child from her crucial element of German machinery clattering day recognition of his wide-ranging achievements, military secret coded messages. passionate advocate of Gothic mother, Jane, and her aunt Bessie Burden, who were Revolution through his and night, surrounded the Quaker relief worker and social reformer including many university buildings (notably at towering tapestryatmospheric steam behind engine, architecture who applied the The Presentation Pack trained by William Morris himself. Her inspiration main house. Turing was the Sussex University), the British Embassy in Rome, the head of the Hut 8 team and led the design of the came from medieval work, but she experimented with which pumped water from style to objects unimaginable oan Mary Fry’s lifelong commitment to pacifism, New Zealand Parliament building, Hyde Park Cavalry code-breaking Bombe machine, building on the work to the medieval church builders, techniques and materials, and she wrote, lectured and deep mines. Jsocial justice and reform cameovershadowed from her by the fame of Barracks and the Home Office building in London. of Polish scientists who had first broken the Engima including wallpaper, umbrella contains all ten Special taught in order to share her skills. For many years she Contemporary engines, stands and ventilator grilles. Pugin was trained as an distinguished Quaker background. Her father was the Many, like Coventry Cathedral, are listed buildings. code used by the Germans. The round-the-clock ran the embroidery section of Morris & Co. for her including those invented by architectural draughtsman by his French father, and judge Sir Edward Fry,I and her brother the artist and work of the code breakers, and the intelligence they the main altar by GrahamNewcomen’s engine continued to critic Roger Fry, a leading member of the Bloomsbu his precocious talent won him work on silverware father. Because women were barred from the Art Thomas Savery – whose deciphered from messages which were fed to power the Industrial Revolution and furnishings for George IV at Windsor Castle Group. Like her sister Margery, who became chair of Stamps and takes an “The object is to build for human Workers’ Guild, she founded As well as her own work, May patent forced Newcomen into for decades after his death. Bletchley through a network of intercept stations ry Alternative postmark the Women’s Guild of Arts in Morris designed embroidery partnership – used steam to when he was still a teenager. Years later, at the 1851 the Howard League for Penal Reform,her she was educated father, the artist, poet, beings in the same way that a kits, such as this unfinished listening in on German communications, are at home and taught herself some Hebrew and Greek. 1907 and served as its example from the 1890s. create a vacuum and draw up water. Newcomen created Great Exhibition, the ‘medieval court’ stand showed Inventor of atmospheric steam engine believed to have shortened the war by up to two tailor builds a suit of clothes president until 1935. the vacuum inside a cylinder, using atmospheric scores of Pugin designs by different manufacturers, in-depth look at the lives Sutherland. The foundationyears and saved countless lives. On the outbreak of the First pressure to push down a piston to power the pump, a including tiles by his friend Herbert Minton. around a certain body.” Many of Morris’s Turing continued innovative research after the war, World War Fry became a — Sir Basil Spence — beautiful wall hangings, more efficient use of energy. His first working engine After the Houses of Parliament were destroyed by fire was installed at a coal mine near Dudley Castle in when he worked for the National Physical Laboratory prison chaplain,philosopher supporting and and achievements socialist of our in 1834, Pugin’s beautiful drawings helped Charles bed covers and other and at Manchester University. The Turing Test he and befriending many Staffordshire in 1712, and by the time of his death in 1729 Barry win a competition to redesign the buildings; textiles are now in major devised in 1950, to determine whether a computer is conscientious objectors at least 100 had been installed across Britain and Europe. in return Pugin was given responsibility for designing stonecollections, including was laid by Queen capable of thinking like a human, remains the gold who refused to fight and The architect’s perspective sketch of Coventry the Victoria and Albert The Newcomen Society, the world’s oldest society for the interior fixtures and furnishings. distinguished Britons. Cathedral shows his new building linked to the standard in developing artificial intelligence. championing them at bombed-out ruins of the medieval original. Museum in London. the study of engineering history, is named in his honour. Pugin was renowned as an architectural theorist, His later years were shadowed by his homosexuality tribunals andWilliam court Morris, whose homas Newcomen, a passionately championing ‘Christian’ Gothic over at a time when it remained a criminal offence. He martials. In the immediate Containing the words of aftermath of the war she was arrested in 1952 and avoided prison only by ‘pagan’ classical style for Elizabeth II in 1956, and visited Germany with accepting injections of hormones as ‘therapy’. His church and public In the 1920s Joan Mary Fry conviction also lost him his security clearance, so he organised practical help and Quaker friends, reporting buildings in his influential support for the striking mining writer and historian widespread hunger and could no longer work for the government. He was communities of South Wales, radical principles she shared. modest lay preacher and 1836 book Contrasts. He found dead in 1954, from cyanide poisoning, a such as this family from the disease in the wake of the designed scores of mainly Rhondda Valley. 1664–1729 half-eaten apple by his bed. Allied blockade, and set T Roman Catholic churches St Michael’s Cathedral up food distribution Maev Kennedy and a and some eccentrically networks – for which the University of Tübingen Sir Basil Spence Sir Basil 1907–1976 Morris ‘May’ Mary 1862–1938 Hallowes Odette 1912–1995 Newcomen Thomas Baptised Frederick Delius Delius Frederick 1862–1934 medieval private houses, awarded her an honorary doctorate. Knighted for services to architecture, Yorkshire-born composer of Textile artist and designer French-born British secret agent Devon ironmonger, engineer and “We can only see a short distance She is now seen as a leading ironmonger from Devon, particularly his designs for the new choral and orchestral works, most celebrated for her embroidery; in wartime France who survived inventor of the atmospheric including his own at In the mid- to late 1920s Fry took the same fearless series of fascinating Coventry Cathedral after the renowned for music evoking a daughter of the artist and thinker solitary confinement in German steam engine, which helped Ramsgate in Kent, next campaigning energy into the coal fields of South original was bombed timeless English pastoral idyll William Morris concentration camps power the Industrial Revolution ahead, but we can see plenty Coventry was filled with was consecrated and door to which he built a Wales, establishing food centres for the children of there that needs to be done.” This wallpaper designed by church, St Augustine’s. unemployed miners and championing The Friends pictures and illustrations Pugin for the Palace of — Alan Turing — Westminster incorporates the After a period in asylums Allotment Committee, which allowed people to grow Tudor rose, Parliament’s crowned figure in the revival of English described by the colliery contemporary art commissions, following mental collapse their own food on unused land without losing portcullis emblem and VR, for he died at Ramsgate and unemployment benefit. She refused an honour from Victoria Regina. this Presentation Pack is formally opened by the was buried in his church. George V, stating that she could not be rewarded for including the stained-glass the misfortune of others. embroidery anddistinct as in aevery designer way. owner James Lowther as baptistry window by John Ferrier Kathleen 1912–1953 Piper. Pugin Augustus 1812–1852 MR James 1862–1936 Alan Turing 1912–1954 Fry Mary Joan 1862–1955 Lancashire-born contralto whose Architect, designer and advocate Cambridge academic and author Mathematician and computer scientist Quaker campaigner for pacifism international oratorio and song of the GothicQueen style whose of chilling ghostin stories, originally 1962. whose work with the code breakers at and social reform who organised career was prematurely ended by commissions included the interiors written as entertainments for Bletchley Park helped to speed up the food relief in Germany after the her death from cancer of the Palace of Westminster his friends end of the Second World War First World War and later in Wales and textile artist of genius. “a very good honest man”, Spence was awarded the Order of Merit in May Morris learned embroidery as a child from her helped power the Industrial recognition of his wide-ranging achievements, mother, Jane, and her aunt Bessie Burden, who were Revolution through his including many university buildings (notably at 3 Order now at www.royalmail.com/britonsofdistinction or call 08457 641 641 (+44 131 316 7483 from overseas) Order now at www.royalmail.com/britonsofdistinctiontrained or callby 08457William 641 641Morris (+44 131 himself. 316 7483 Her from inspiration overseas) 4 atmospheric steam engine, Sussex University), the British Embassy in Rome, the came from medieval work, but she experimented with which pumped water from New Zealand Parliament building, Hyde Park Cavalry techniques and materials, and she wrote, lectured and deep mines. Barracks and the Home Office building in London. taught in order to share her skills. For many years she Contemporary engines, Many, like Coventry Cathedral, are listed buildings. ran the embroidery section of Morris & Co. for her including those invented by father. Because women were barred from the Art Thomas Savery – whose Newcomen’s engine continued to power the Industrial Revolution “The object is to build for human Workers’ Guild, she founded As well as her own work, May patent forced Newcomen into for decades after his death. the Women’s Guild of Arts in Morris designed embroidery partnership – used steam to beings in the same way that a kits, such as this unfinished 1907 and served as its example from the 1890s. create a vacuum and draw up water. Newcomen created tailor builds a suit of clothes president until 1935. the vacuum inside a cylinder, using atmospheric around a certain body.” Many of Morris’s pressure to push down a piston to power the pump, a — Sir Basil Spence — beautiful wall hangings, more efficient use of energy. His first working engine bed covers and other was installed at a coal mine near Dudley Castle in textiles are now in major Staffordshire in 1712, and by the time of his death in 1729 collections, including at least 100 had been installed across Britain and Europe. The architect’s perspective sketch of Coventry the Victoria and Albert The Newcomen Society, the world’s oldest society for Cathedral shows his new building linked to the bombed-out ruins of the medieval original. Museum in London. the study of engineering history, is named in his honour. 1664–1729 Sir Basil Spence Sir Basil 1907–1976 Morris ‘May’ Mary 1862–1938 Hallowes Odette 1912–1995 Newcomen Thomas Baptised Frederick Delius Delius Frederick 1862–1934 Knighted for services to architecture, Yorkshire-born composer of Textile artist and designer French-born British secret agent Devon ironmonger, engineer and particularly his designs for the new choral and orchestral works, most celebrated for her embroidery; in wartime France who survived inventor of the atmospheric Coventry Cathedral after the renowned for music evoking a daughter of the artist and thinker solitary confinement in German steam engine, which helped original was bombed timeless English pastoral idyll William Morris concentration camps power the Industrial Revolution Kathleen Ferrier Kathleen 1912–1953 Pugin Augustus 1812–1852 MR James 1862–1936 Alan Turing 1912–1954 Fry Mary Joan 1862–1955 Lancashire-born contralto whose Architect, designer and advocate Cambridge academic and author Mathematician and computer scientist Quaker campaigner for pacifism international oratorio and song of the Gothic style whose of chilling ghost stories, originally whose work with the code breakers at and social reform who organised career was prematurely ended by commissions included the interiors written as entertainments for Bletchley Park helped to speed up the food relief in Germany after the her death from cancer of the Palace of Westminster his friends end of the Second World War First World War and later in Wales 12DFK cut here cut Order in a way that suits you

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