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£1 - Sir Isaac Newton £5 - Duke of Wellington; George Stephenson; Elizabeth Fry; Winston Churchill £10 - Florence Nightingale; Charles Dickens; Charles Darwin; Jane Austen £20 - William Shakespeare; Michael Faraday; Sir Edward Elgar; Adam Smith; (JMW Turner - in 2020) £50 - Sir Christopher Wren; Sir John Houblon; James Watt & Matthew Boulton; Seems...
14:51 Sun 14th Oct 2018
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I handle notes every day including £50s. I almost never notice who's on them.

So why not Mary Seacole?
16:37 Sun 14th Oct 2018
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Mary Seacole. Never heard of her. My choice would be Emmeline Pankhurst.
16:44 Sun 14th Oct 2018
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yeah the £50 note was subject to forgery and so a lot dont take them - I am not sure about the legal tender bit - you dont hear about that nowadays -
so you really want a figure who is .... rarely seen
what about that senior policeman who ran away ?
08:06 Mon 15th Oct 2018
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Would prefer IK Brunel, Frank Whittle or Alan Turing.
08:11 Mon 15th Oct 2018
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Reasonable.
08:13 Mon 15th Oct 2018
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned Margaret Thatcher.
08:14 Mon 15th Oct 2018
Avatar Image Peter Pedant
that would be on the
you never see her nowadays
criterion.
08:20 Mon 15th Oct 2018
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Probably want to avoid folk defacing currency.
08:53 Mon 15th Oct 2018
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Alex Issigonis should be on the fifty. Or Jony Ive, but he is still living.
09:32 Mon 15th Oct 2018
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But my money (pun intended) would be on Alan Turing. A great man but he also ticks the oppressed minority box.
09:34 Mon 15th Oct 2018
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the queen is still living too (I'm told)
09:34 Mon 15th Oct 2018
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Apparently, the £50 is mainly used by criminals, so why not adorn it with one of their kind, Ronnie Biggs springs to mind.
09:36 Mon 15th Oct 2018
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We could give the Queen a rest on the next fifty, and replace her with HRH Judy Dench.
09:41 Mon 15th Oct 2018
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The Banknote Advisory panel last sat in 2016, and here are the characters they mulled over.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/banknotes/20-pound-note-character-shortlist.pdf
09:43 Mon 15th Oct 2018
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Whistler wouldn't do, he was American. But an Attenborough double-header would be nice.
19:15 Mon 15th Oct 2018

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