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Sports British gave the world icons

Several years ago in the years 1920 my great aunt Hilda traced our family tree back to the kings and queens of England since the 7th. Century. This basically means I am most of the British royal family dates back 1,500 years. It made me a big fan of British history and is below a list of links to British icons who have influenced my life.

I also added a list of the many sports and games in the world given by us, here in the United Kingdom.

1) Alfred the Great
2) Queen's chief Boudec of the tribe of the Iceni
3) King Edward the Confessor (I am a parent)
Four) Queen Elizabeth 1
5) The Queen Victoria
6) Queen Elizabeth the 2nd.

7) by William Shakespeare
Charles Dickens
9) agatha christie (author of Miss Marple and Poiret)
10) JK Rowling (author of the Harry Potter books)
11) Sir Terry Pratchett (author of books in the world of disc)
12) James Herbert horror story (author of numerous novels including The Rats)
13) Sir Christopher Wren (I am a parent)
13b) Sir Isambard Kingdom Brunel
13c) James Watt (inventor of the steam engine)
13d) George Stevenson (inventor of the steam train)
13th) Sir Isaac Newton
13f) Charles Darwin
14) Rudyard Kipling (author of The Jungle Book)
14b) HG Wells (Author of Time Traveller)
14c) Arthur Conan Doyle (Author of Sherlock Holmes)
14d) Bram Stoker (author of Dracula)
14e) by Mary Shelley (author of Frakenstein)

14) Sir Walter Raleigh
15) Sir Francis Drake
16) Duke Of Marlborough
17) Admiral Lord Nelson
18) Duke of Wellington
19) Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of El Alamein

20) Robert Walpole, first. Earl of Orford, (considered the first Prime Minister in the modern sense);
21) The William Pit the Younger (introduced the first income tax)
22) Charles Grey, Earl Grey (restriction of child labor, the reform of poor laws, the abolition of slavery)
23) Sir Robert Peel (created the first national police force)
24) Edward Smith-Stanley, Earl Derby. (The father of the conservative party).
25) Benjamin Disraeli (Queen Victoria's favorite Prime Minister)
26) Sir Winston Churchill (Savior of the world by defeating Hitler, Mussolini and Japanese Emporer)
27) Margarate Lady Thatcher (first female Prime Minister and the creator of privatization).

28) The 1966 World Cup winning England Team
29) Portsmouth F. Cup Winning Team from 2008
30) Sir Ian Botham
31) David Beckham
32) Lord Sebastian Coe
33) Steve Ovett
34) Virginia Wade
35) David Bedford
36) Johnny Wilkinson
37) and Dean Torvil
38) Jennifer Ennis
39) Dame Kelly Holmes

40) Freddie Mercury
41) John Elton
42) Queen
43) Electric Light Orchestra (ELO)
44) The Beatles
45) Annie Lennox
45b) of Pink Floyd
45c) Genesis
46d) The Spice Girls

46) Tom Baker
47) Lord Olivier
48) Sir Roger Moore
49) Cary Grant
50) Peter Davidson
51) John Pertwee

Cricket

England Football Team

Portsmouth FC (my favorite football club – Pompey)

Sheffield FC 1857 (the oldest football club in the world)

Wembley Stadium and Association Football (Soccer Home)

Wimbledon Tennis Championships (Home of Tennis)

St. Andrews (home of golf)

Lords Cricket Ground (Home of Cricket)

The Jockey Club (Home of horse racing)

Coe

Steve Ovett

Redgrave

The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

Beckham

George Best

Lester Piggett

Hamilton

Ian Botham

WGGrace

Andrew Flintoff

England 1966 World Cup winning football team

Speedway

Football / Soccer

Premier League

American Football – Adapted from the English rugby

Rugby

Rugby Union

Billiards

Snooker

Croquet

Curling

The Boat Race

Squash

Bowls

Tennis

Badminton

Table tennis

Rounders

Softball

Baseball – Adapted from Rounders and Softball

Modern Olympic Games 1846 Location: Village of Wenlock by Dr William Penny Brookes

Horse Racing

Polo

Show Jumpingarts

Archery modern

Bar Billiards

A Shove Ha'penny

Golf

Skittles

Yachting and sailing

Bob

Skeleton

Real Tennis

Hovercraft Racing

Hockey

Ten Pin

Darts

Boxing

Bowls

Pigeon Racing

Greyhound Racing

Deer Hunting

Fox Hunting

Otter hunting

Angling

Formula One (the first Formula One race held in England in 1948)

Boccia

A to Z Games and British icons

Columbia Games

Card Sharp

Ludo

Bingo

Cribbage

Crossword Puzzle

Puzzles

Reversi

Anexa

Snakes and Ladders

Shuffleboard

Push Ha'penny

Shoffe Groat

Aunt Sally

The Bull Ring

Drag savings

Rings

Caves

3 Mens Morris

Jenga

Close the

Bowls

Trifle

Stoolball

Bat and Ball

Penny Pitch

Toad in the hole

English Morris Dancing

The Valentine card

William Wordsworth

University of Oxford 1096

University of Cambridge 1209

Haggis – A first course given in a book in English Recipe 1615 and loved by the Scots

Hansom Cab London Black

First British channel AD50

Double-decker bus (Routemasters)

History of British post box

Histoy of the British Phone Box

Cludge Molliers

Folk Songs English

We British Invented the Fizz and Sparkle in Champagne

Scottish, Irish and English Kilts

History of the London Stock Exchange

History of English sterling silver and gold Rams from 1300 to present

English Language

Peoples English

British people

Welsh People

Irish People

Scottish Peoples

Union Jack

A Compleat Angler by Izaak and Charles Cotton Walton

The Magna Carta

The Doomsday Book

Anglo-Saxon Chronicles

English jury service

The Sherriff English

The King James Bible

Beowulf

Bagpipes

Tower of London Beefeaters or Yeoman of the Guard

St. Georges Day Englands Patron

St Andrews Local Festival Scotlands

St. Patrick Patron Saint of Ireland the day (St. Patrick was an Englishman)

St. Davids Welsh Local Festival

List of all the other Saints Columbia

The City of London (survey revealed that more than 350 languages are spoken London schools)

British Phone Booth

Augustus Pugin

Sir Charles Barry

Sir Christopher Wren (I am a direct descendant)

Carnaby Street

The legendary English Pub

Houses of Parliament and Big Ben

Number 10 Downing Street

Buckingham Palace

Windsor Castle

Oxford Street

Regent Street

Mayfair

London Theatreland

The London Eye

Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum

Tower Of London

Windsor Castle

Whitechapel (aka When Jack The Ripper killed. Tumblety Mr. Aka has been the Ripper)

If Please click here for AZ Iconic British buildings and places

About the Author

Please visit my Funny Animal Art Prints Collection @ http://www.fabprints.com

 

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The Chinese call England “The Island of Hero’s” which I think sums up what we English are all about.

 

Copyright © 2010 Paul Hussey. All Rights Reserved.

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