Hall of Fame

Originally posted by Palynka
Zeca Afonso

He won't be eligible under the strict terms of the 25-year-rule until next year. Good to see we're all breaking it (except sh76).

Originally posted by Teinosuke
He won't be eligible under the strict terms of the 25-year-rule until next year. Good to see we're all breaking it (except sh76).

You're giving me grief because of one year?

Brits and their rules. 😠

Originally posted by Palynka
You're giving me grief because of one year?

Brits and their rules. 😠

As you can see from the fact that I broke two of my own rules by nominating twenty-one names, one of whom died in 2004, I wasn't actually taking them all that seriously.

Originally posted by Teinosuke
Geoffrey Chaucer
William Shakespeare
William Tyndale
Oliver Cromwell
Isaac Newton
Captain Cook
William Wilberforce
Horatio Nelson and the Duke of Wellington
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Charles Dickens

My housemate is encouraging me to add Edward Jenner to this list - which I think is fair enough.

Originally posted by Teinosuke
He won't be eligible under the strict terms of the 25-year-rule until next year. Good to see we're all breaking it (except sh76).

I left out James Watson because of the rules and you go and nominate Crick??

🙁

Brits also have the advantage of there being no existing list of people who are already on it.

Originally posted by sh76
I left out James Watson because of the rules and you go and nominate Crick??

🙁

Well - Crick is dead, so I thought it was a venial sin. Watson is still living, so that would be a mortal sin.

But actually I was having real difficulty filling that tenth spot, after fixing the boundary for the second set at people who died after 1875. There are lots of famous Brits I could have nominated, but I couldn't think of a tenth person with the absolute fame of someone like Churchill (for instance, other great Prime Ministers, like Gladstone, Disraeli, Attlee, are kind of partisan choices).

I suppose I could nominate Gladstone and Dizzy together, thus including both a liberal and a conservative, and allowing Crick to wait his proper turn in 2029!

Originally posted by sh76
Brits also have the advantage of there being no existing list of people who are already on it.

That's actually an advantage for you - it means your choices are more interesting than mine!

Originally posted by Teinosuke
My housemate is encouraging me to add Edward Jenner to this list - which I think is fair enough.

Jenner is definitely a good shout.

Mohlomi
Shaka
Moshoeshoe
Makhanda
Sheikh Yusuf
Simon van der Stel
Sol T. Plaatje
Thomas Pringle
Jan Christiaan Smuts
Eugene Marais
Olive Schreiner