# Who is this Brit? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 28, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-this-brit/301615 "2005-04-28T20:58:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-this-brit/301615/1 "2005-04-28T20:58:52Z")
Boning up for a trip to London, I decided to immerse myself in British History, so as to appreciate the experience that much more. But, instead, I just bought _British History for Dummies_. Looking on the cover, I couldn’t identify one guy. The picture is very familiar, and I wondered if it wasn’t a painting of Shakespeare. It doesn’t look like all the paintings of Shakespeare, but his absence elsewhere on the cover was noticeable. [So here’s the link.](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764570218/qid=1114721795/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/002-9082590-1453627?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) The guy I am talking about is on the top row, furthest to the right (above Churchill and Blair). I’m pretty sure I know everyone else (except maybe the three guys in the modern picture to the left of Blair.) Any Help? ---
**Author:** ![Martha\_Medea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@Martha\_Medea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martha_Medea)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-this-brit/301615/2 "2005-04-28T21:01:56Z")
Sir Walter Raleigh? Sir Francis Drake? ---
**Author:** ![Iguana\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@Iguana\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iguana_Boy)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-this-brit/301615/3 "2005-04-28T21:04:36Z")
It’s Sir Walter Raleigh. ---
**Author:** ![Iguana\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@Iguana\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iguana_Boy)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-this-brit/301615/4 "2005-04-28T21:07:32Z")
And the 3 guys in the modern picture are all Sinn Fein members - Martin Ferris, Martin McGuiness, and Gerry Adams (from left to right)! ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-this-brit/301615/5 "2005-04-28T21:40:11Z")
Raleigh was one of our guess. And I thought those guys might be IRA. Of course, the only name familiar to me was Adams. Thanks. So I guess the Bard got the shaft… ---
**Author:** ![fortytwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f9ae1b/32.png) [@fortytwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fortytwo)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-this-brit/301615/6 "2005-04-28T21:56:58Z")
> [@watsonwil](#): > > … > > So I guess the Bard got the shaft… So, you’ve heard those rumours too? ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-this-brit/301615/7 "2005-04-28T22:31:25Z")
Is that a youthful Screaming Lord Sutch bottom left? ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-this-brit/301615/8 "2005-04-28T22:37:45Z")
Is the centre of the bottom row Tim Henman? ---
**Author:** ![Iguana\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@Iguana\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iguana_Boy)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-this-brit/301615/9 "2005-04-28T22:50:20Z")
Quartz - it’s John Lennon, not Screaming Lord Sutch! I can see why you thought that though. GorillaMan - what book are you looking at?! Or am I being wooshed? And I’ve been doing a bit of picture searching, and Raleigh and Drake look incredibly alike… I’m still sticking with my Raleigh answer though! ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-this-brit/301615/10 "2005-04-28T22:56:28Z")
> [@Iguana Boy](#): > > Quartz - it’s John Lennon, not Screaming Lord Sutch! I can see why you thought that though. > > GorillaMan - what book are you looking at?! Or am I being wooshed? Yup, there’s a lot of whooshing around at this time of year… ---
**Author:** ![mittu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@mittu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mittu)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-this-brit/301615/11 "2005-04-28T22:59:01Z")
The picture of Princess Diana does look remarkably like Tim Henman, I think GorillaMan was just making a joke 😉 Personally I would have put Isambard Kingdom Brunel up there as a noteworthy Brit ahead of some of those featured on the cover. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-this-brit/301615/12 "2005-04-29T01:27:46Z")
> [@Martha](#): > > Sir Walter Raleigh? Sir Francis Drake? The latter was my first instinct. ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-this-brit/301615/13 "2005-04-29T01:33:09Z")
Anthony VanDyke? Or a portrait of old Wally Raleigh by VanDyke? ---
**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-this-brit/301615/14 "2005-04-29T11:21:13Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > The latter was my first instinct. Mine too, but after consulting Google images, I’m going to have to change my mind… [Sir Walter Raleigh](http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=Sir+Walter+Raleigh) [Sir Francis Drake](http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=Sir+Francis+Drake&hl=en) Raleigh’s beard is pointier. Grim