Yeah, James Cook was one of the people i thought of.
I’m curious, though: how well-known is Cook among the Brits? I was brought up in Australia, and Aussie schoolkids gets the heroics of Cook’s ocean voyages shoved down their throat from an early age. Does this happen in Britain too?
I think at a push most Brits could tell you that Cook bummed around the antipodies for a while before heading west and dying whilst picking a fight with some Hawaiians.
It was certainly not an area covered in detail whilst i was at school 
Well, you know, not that i’m pro-Cromwell or anything… 
Terry, John, Eric, Graham, Terry, and Michael.
Ah, but one of those Terrys is American, and should be disqualified.
Substitute Carol Cleveland, perhaps?
You think you can get to Hawaii by heading west from the antipodes? Either Yanks are not the only ones who have problems with geography or you’ve been in the States too long.
Thatcher would require a very big bat.
OK, having plenty of suggestions for faces; which mountain?
I can tell you now; the majority of the suggestions being English to a (wo)man, and many living prior to the formation of the UK, they aren’t going to appear within 500 miles of any Scottish mountain. Or Welsh.
Does England have any mountains of a suitable size and shape?
(An exception may be made for Thatcher, but only if it’s on one of those chunks of rocks in the North Atlantic that the RAF use for target practice.)
Surely the cliffs of Dover are the best place for it?
Way too soft. Try and carve faces into it and you’ll end up with a heap of rocks in the Channel.
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btw garius thats a very thought-provoking post on Cromwell.