General Chat

For me it would have to be
the one and only Elenor of aquataine
what a gutsy woman she was
she went on a crusade even in her 70s

um um ...princess diana....suffering charley she needed a medal.lol
waves ta reggie.xx

~~~~~~waves back xx to our ronnie xx

My vote goes to Charles 11.

Caste in history as just a womaniser (which he was - in spades!), but he was also an arch-negotiator.

Sue x

good choice suzian

i think its got to be lady diana for me to x

Joy, so did Isabella with her Ferdinand. Go into battle I mean. I suppose for me it has to be Nelson Mandella
Take care now
Julia in Derbyshire

Mother Theresa has always been the one I've
admired.
Emmax

Winston Churchill.

xx

Always Nelson Mandela for me.

But if I have to choose someone dead then Ghandi.

Gwynne

I think Nelson Mandela for me too.

well girls i to would of thought nelson come a close

but what his wife winnie did sort of blackens his name to me

but thats just my opinion

ohh yes pauline a worthy person for the vote

would nursing be today without her

Oliver Cromwell
...It is high time for me to put an end to you sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt of all virtue and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew and enemies to all good government; a pack of mercenary wretches and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage and like Judas betray your god for a few pieces of money.
Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you?
Is there one vice you do not possess?
Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your god; which of you has not barter'd your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you who has the least care for the good of the commonwealth?
Ye sordid prostitutes, have you not defiled this sacred place and turned the lords temple into a den of theives by your immoral principles and wicked practices?
Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you who were deputed here by the people to get grievences redressed are yourselves gone.

Oliver Cromwell to parliament 20th April 1653
As relevant to day as it ever was.

Not just one but Emmeline Pankhurst and all Women of the Suffragete movement........who gave women a voice!
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ooh hope I've not broken the thread :O( ......ties a knot in it lol

Shakespeare...because his words have become part of everyday language whether we recognise them as his or not.

Because he is known worldwide, his works translated into so many ( all?) languages

because (if for nothing else) he said :

"The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown. "

There are far too many that I admire and for different reasons.

The Pankhursts and Florence Nightingale are just some from history that have to be admired.

In todays world I think Bryn and Emma Parry deserve credit as outstanding figures. Sometimes it's not the names that have stood out but the achievements that they have done.


To save googling Bryn and Emma set up Help for Heroes.

Dear Joy

Hello

Hope you are well and doing okay.

Good post. I have enjoyed reading this.

For me, there are several.

The pioneers from the 19th century who campaigned for improvements in public health, housing and water supplies, like Edwin Chadwick, John Snow, Joseph Lister and many more.

Their views were often unpopular but thank goodness they stuck to their
beliefs and kept going and by doing so, helped so many ordinary people.

Take gentle care
Very best wishes
xx

If we're talking the minute bit of human history occupied by dead white people, I'll take Mary Wollstonecraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Wollstonecraft

Righteous genius does it for me every time. ;)

we have a good choice of people here
from lots of walks of life
well done everybody xx