Life in the UK Test
Prep
Notable Figures: 18th and 19th Centuries
•
Adam Smith
:
Enlightenment
thinker who developed influential ideas about economics.
•
Admiral Nelson
: Commander of the
British
fleet at the
Battle of Trafalgar
.
•
Captain James Cook
: Mapped the coast of
Australia
.
•
Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie)
: Grandson of
James II
who led the failed
1745
Jacobite rebellion.
•
David Hume
:
Scottish
philosopher of the
Enlightenment
.
•
Duke of Wellington (The Iron Duke)
: Defeated
Napoleon
at the
Battle of Waterloo
and later became
Prime Minister
.
•
Emmeline Pankhurst
: Founder of the
Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU)
and leader of the
suffragettes
.
•
Florence Nightingale
: Founder of modern nursing; served in the
Crimean War
.
•
George and Robert Stephenson
: Pioneers of the railway engine.
•
George I
:
German
-born king and the first of the
House of Hanover
.
•
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
: Engineer who built the
Great Western Railway
and many tunnels and bridges.
•
Sir Robert Walpole
: The first man to be called
Prime Minister
(1721–1742).
•
William Wilberforce
: Member of
Parliament
who played a key role in the abolition of the slave trade.