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Harold Wilson ?  British PM.



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You have him Sheba over to you for a pic.

James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, PC, FRS, FSS (11 March 1916 24 May 1995) was a British Labour politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and 1974 to 1976.

Entering Parliament in 1945, Wilson was appointed a parliamentary secretary in the Attlee ministry and rose quickly through the ministerial ranks; he became Secretary for Overseas Trade in 1947 and was elevated to Cabinet shortly thereafter as President of the Board of Trade. In opposition to the next Conservative government, he served as Shadow Chancellor (19551961) and Shadow Foreign Secretary (19611963). After Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell died suddenly in 1963, Wilson won the subsequent leadership election. After narrowly winning the 1964 general election, Wilson saw an increased majority in a snap election in 1966.

Wilson's first period as Prime Minister coincided with a period of low unemployment and relative economic prosperity, though hindered by significant problems with Britain's external balance of payments. In 1969 he sent British troops to Northern Ireland. After losing the 1970 election to Edward Heath, he spent four years as Leader of the Opposition before the February 1974 election resulted in a hung parliament. After Heath's talks with the Liberals broke down, Wilson returned to power as leader of a minority government until another general election in October, resulting in a narrow Labour victory. A period of economic crisis had begun to hit most Western countries, and in 1976 Wilson suddenly announced his resignation as Prime Minister. Wilson's approach to socialism was moderate compared with others in his party at the time, emphasising programmes aimed at increasing opportunity in society through relatively indirect means rather than the more direct socialist goal of promoting wider public ownership of industry and workers' control of production. He took little action to pursue the Labour Party constitution's stated dedication to public ownership as a stepping stone towards this goal, though he did not formally disavow it. Himself a member of the party's soft left, Wilson joked about leading a cabinet made up mostly of social democrats, comparing himself to a Bolshevik revolutionary presiding over a Tsarist cabinet, but there was little to divide him ideologically from the social democratic cabinet majority.[1][2]

Overall, historians evaluate Wilson as having led his party through difficult political issues with considerable skill. Important issues of the time included the role of public ownership, membership of the European Economic Community, and involvement in the Vietnam War, in which he refused to allow the use of British combat troops, although he maintained an expensive military presence east of Suez.[3] His stated ambition of substantially improving Britain's long-term economic performance, applying technology more democratically, and reducing inequality was largely unfulfilled. He seemed to some observers to lose his energy and drive in his second premiership and found it difficult to mediate disputes concerning European integration and trade union rights.

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Thanks Sandy.  Who are this couple ?  I think it will be easy.

 

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Well I thought it would be easy.    He was a Pro. Rugby player.



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I don't know anything about Rugby but I'll have a guess is it Dan Vickerman and his wife



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Not him Sandy.  This guy is a Pom.



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Is the woman something to do with one of Liz's kids as in something to do with equestrian events?



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Is it Mike Tindall and Zara Philips



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You've got them Sandy.   Sorry DMaxer, needed the names.

 Zara Anne Elizabeth Tindall MBE (née Phillips; born 15 May 1981) is a member of the British royal family, an equestrian and Olympian. She is the daughter of Princess Anne and Mark Phillips and the eldest granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II. Tindall won the Eventing World Championship in Aachen in 2006.

Michael James Tindall, MBE is an English former rugby union player. Tindall played outside centre for Bath and Gloucester, and won 75 caps for England between 2000 and 2011. He was a member of the England squad which won the 2003 World Cup.

 



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Thanks Sheba, now who is this guy

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Captain John Hunter ?



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Thomas Jefferson
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You've got him BG over to you for a pic

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743[a] July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He previously served as the second vice president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. The principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights, motivating American colonists to break from the Kingdom of Great Britain and form a new nation; he produced formative documents and decisions at both the state and national level.

During the American Revolution, he represented Virginia in the Continental Congress that adopted the Declaration, drafted the law for religious freedom as a Virginia legislator, and served as the second Governor of Virginia from 1779 to 1781, during the American Revolutionary War. He became the United States Minister to France in May 1785, and subsequently, the nation's first secretary of state under President George Washington from 1790 to 1793. Jefferson and James Madison organized the Democratic-Republican Party to oppose the Federalist Party during the formation of the First Party System. With Madison, he anonymously wrote the provocative Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions in 1798 and 1799, which sought to strengthen states' rights by nullifying the federal Alien and Sedition Acts.

As president, Jefferson pursued the nation's shipping and trade interests against Barbary pirates and aggressive British trade policies. Starting in 1803, Jefferson promoted a western expansionist policy, organizing the Louisiana Purchase, doubling the nation's land area. To make room for white settlement, Jefferson began a controversial process of Indian tribal removal from the newly acquired territory. As a result of peace negotiations with France, his administration reduced military forces. Jefferson was reelected in 1804. His second term was beset with difficulties at home, including the trial of former vice president Aaron Burr. In 1807, American foreign trade was diminished when Jefferson implemented the Embargo Act in response to British threats to U.S. shipping. The same year, Jefferson signed the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves. After retiring from public office, he founded the University of Virginia.

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Thank you Sandy. Here's one for you :



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Winston Churchill.



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Spot on Sheba. Over to you.

 

Winston Churchill
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was a British politician, army officer, and writer. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, when he led the country to victory in the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. 
Died24 January 1965, Kensington
SpouseClementine Churchill (m. 19081965)


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Thanks BG.  Who is this ?  Another easy one.

 

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Looks very much like Bill Haley



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That's because it is.   Off you go Sandy.

 

Bill Haley was born July 6, 1925 in Highland Park, Michigan, Haley was born William John Clifton Haley. In 1929, the four-year-old Haley underwent an inner-ear mastoid operation which accidentally severed an optic nerve, leaving him blind in his left eye for the rest of his life.



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Thanks Sheba a quick post before I go to bed. Who is this fella.

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No takers??? This man of steel was known as a Teddy Boy in his own country but his heart melted for a little white bull.



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G'day Sandy. Thanks for the clues. Is he Tommy Steele?

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Hi Jack you have him over to you for a pic

Tommy Steele, OBE (born Thomas Hicks, 17 December 1936) is an English entertainer, regarded as Britain's first teen idol and rock and roll star.[1][2] He reached number one with "Singing the Blues" in 1957, and The Tommy Steele Story was the first album by a UK act to reach number one in his native country.

Steele's film credits include Half a Sixpence, The Happiest Millionaire and Finian's Rainbow (musical) and he has made many stage tours in the UK. He is also a songwriter, author, and sculptor.

In 2012, Steele was among the cultural icons selected by pop-artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in "Vintage Blake", montage to celebrate Blake's 80th birthday.

Early life

Steele was born in Bermondsey, London, England in 1936.[4] His father Darbo was a racing tipster and his mother Betty worked in a factory.

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Steele worked in various jobs, including a brief period as a merchant seaman.[4] He was not eligible for national service because, at eighteen years old, he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy.[5] In his autobiography, Bermondsey Boy: Memories of a Forgotten World, he reports that he failed the medical because he had flat feet. Whenever not working, he played guitar and banjo and sang in two coffee houses in Soho, the 2i's Coffee Bar and the Cat's Whisker, both as a solo performer and with Wally Whyton's Vipers Skiffle Group.

When a ship Steele was serving on docked in Norfolk, Virginia, U.S., he heard Buddy Holly and fell in love with rock and roll, turning his back on the British skiffle craze. He was discovered by freelance photographer John Kennedy, who believed Steele could be Britain's answer to Elvis Presley.[4] Later co-manager Larry Parnes was incorrectly credited with creating the stage name 'Tommy Steele'. It was Steele who adapted the surname of his Scandinavian paternal grandfather, Thomas Stil-Hicks (pronounced Steel-Hicks), adding another E to the spelling.[6][citation needed]

Steele became famous in the UK as the frontman for a rock and roll band, the Steelmen, after their first single, "Rock With the Caveman", reached number 13 in the UK Singles Chart in 1956.[4] Steele and other British singers would pick known hit records from the United States, record their cover versions of these songs, and release them in the UK before the American versions could enter the charts. Most of Steele's 1950s recordings were covers of American hits, such as "Singing the Blues" and "Knee Deep in the Blues". Although Steele never proved a serious threat to Presley's popularity in the UK, he did well on the 1950s UK chart and "Singing the Blues" got to Number 1 in the UK before Presley did so.[1]Guy Mitchell was number 1 with "Singing the Blues" on 4 January 1957 and Tommy Steele on 11 January 1957. Steele's 1957 album, The Tommy Steele Story, was the first by a UK-based act to reach No. 1 in the UK.[1]

Only four months after his first chart presence, he was filming his life story.[1] To do so, Steele and his songwriting collaborators, Lionel Bart and Mike Pratt, wrote twelve songs in seven days.[7] His first three single releases were issued at a rate of one every three weeks.[8] In 1957 Steele bought a four-bedroomed house in South London for his parents.[9] In August 1959, Steele undertook a three-day concert visit to Moscow.[10]

In late 2009 his greatest hits collection, The Very Best of Tommy Steele, reached the Top 40 in the UK Albums Chart. This was the first UK chart entry, of any kind, that Steele had enjoyed for over 46 years.

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Knew I knew the face, but couldn't drag up the name.  biggrinbiggrin



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G'day Sandy. Thanks. OK all who is this?

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With his uniform I would guess a sea captain, now who?

 



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I take a guess, and ask, is it a young Captain Cook, by any chance, Jack

He has a similar type of mouth

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Sorry for my humour here, but can't be any one else but a captain of the Australian Cricket Team with eyes THAT close together!
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I found this with Google this morning with a search "Olden days famous sea Captain oval Portrait" then selected images and there he was John Paul Jones



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G'day Sandy, thats him. Who do you have for us?

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A 1781 painting of Jones by Charles Willson Peale
Birth nameJohn Paul
BornJuly 6, 1747
ArbiglandKirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
DiedJuly 18, 1792 (aged 45)
Paris, France
Buried
Allegiance Kingdom of Great Britain (17601776)
 United States of America (17761787)
 Russian Empire (17871788)
Service/branch Merchant Navy
 Continental Navy
 Imperial Russian Navy
Years of service17601788
RankCaptain (Merchant Navy)
Captain (Continental Navy)

Rear Admiral (Imperial Russian Navy)
Battles/warsAmerican Revolutionary War
AwardsInstitution du Mérite Militaire
Congressional Gold Medal
Order of St. Anne
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