Britons of Distinction
The Britons of Distinction stamps celebrate ten distinguished individuals from the realms of science and technology, architecture, politics and the arts who have all made a major contribution to British society.2012 (February 23 2012)
Commemorative
Designed by Purpose
Size 35mm (h) x 35mm (v)
Printed by Cartor Security Print
Print Process Lithography
Perforations 14.5 x 14.5
Phosphor All Over
Gum PVA
Britons of Distinction , Vol.49 No.5 (Issue Details)
Stamps
Sir Basil Spence
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Knighted for services to architecture, particularly his designs for the new Coventry Cathedral, opened in 1962, after the original was bombed. The image shows Coventry Cathedral.
Sir Basil Spence at Wikipedia
Frederick Delius
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Yorkshire-born composer of choral and orchestral works. Born in 1862 and most renowned for music evoking a timeless English pastoral idyll.
Frederick Delius at Wikipedia
Mary ‘May’ Morris
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Textile artist and designer celebrated for her embroidery; daughter of the artist and thinker William Morris. The image shows Orange Tree, designed and embroidered by May Morris.
Odette Hallowes
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French-born British secret agent in wartime France, who survived solitary confinement in German concentration camps.
Odette Hallowes at Wikipedia
Thomas Newcomen
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Devon ironmonger, engineer and inventor of the atmospheric steam engine, which helped power the Industrial Revolution. His first working engine was installed at a coalmine near Dudley Castle in Staffordshire in 1712.
Thomas Newcomen at Wikipedia
Kathleen Ferrier
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Lancashire-born contralto whose international opera and song career was prematurely ended by her death from cancer.
Kathleen Ferrier at Wikipedia
Augustus Pugin
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Architect, designer and advocate of the Gothic style whose commissions included the interiors of the Palace of Westminster. The stamp shows Pugin’s interior of the Palace of Westminster.
Augustus Pugin at Wikipedia
Montague Rhodes James
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Cambridge academic and author of chilling ghost stories, originally written as entertainments for his friends.
Montague Rhodes James at Wikipedia
Alan Turing
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Mathematician and computer scientist, whose work with the code breakers at Bletchley Park helped to speed up the end of the Second World War. The stamp shows Turing’s Bombe code breaking machine at Bletchley Park.
Alan Turing at Wikipedia
Joan Mary Fry
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Quaker campaigner for pacifism and social reform, who organised food relief in Germany after the First World War, and then in Wales.
Joan Mary Fry at Wikipedia
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