Historical People - Cryptic Quiz

[csmithson3]

Local parish quiz - our answers are in now..but genuinely loved this round 

1) Fifty Latin members process princely pretender (7,6)
2) Boney's nemesis took Jellicoe to Jutland (4,4)

3) Abstinent lawyer replaced revolting ringleader (3,50
4) Mental mount did for Autie (5,5)

5) Grotesque statue broken -- and actor kept schtum (6,6)

6) Nympheas his passion -- but bubbles without number (6,4)
7) Russia: beginning of the end for (Blair's) Stalin (8)

8) Water tap turned into American legend (5,4)

[Tilly2]

3 Wat Tyler

[Tilly2]

6 Claude Monet.

[jno]

1 Lambert Simnel

[barney15c]

1 Lambert Simnel - ( Claimed to be Edward Plantagenet)

[jno]

2 Iron Duke

[barney15c]

7. Complete guess.  Rasputin?

[scorpiojo]

5 Buster Keaton anag statue broken 

[scorpiojo]

8 Almost Wyatt Earp ...anag water tap + y

[jno]

some of these do seem to be "almost anags"

[scorpiojo]

4 Crazy Horse (Little Bighorn)

[scorpiojo]

Thanks, jno.

[newmodarmy]

maybe 8 should say waterY tap