Ballot Act. 1872. Established secret ballot in English Parliamentary elections.

Banks, Joseph. 1743-1820. English botanist with Cook’s explorations.

Bannister, Roger. 1929-. English. Ran first 4 minute mile at Oxford, 1954.

Bannockburn, Battle. 1314. Scots defeat English, assuring independence. Robert the Bruce.

Barbados. Arawak. 1518 Portugal discovers. 1627 English settle. 1966 Independent.

Barry, Charles. 1795-1860. English architect: Westminster Parliament 1840. Trafalgar Square 1840-3.

Bart, Jean. 1650-1702. French privateer for Louis XIV vs English.

Bates, W. 1825-92. English naturalist. Supported Darwin with mimicry evidence.

Beaufort, Francis. 1774-1857. English hydrographer: wind scale 1805.

Beckett, Samuel. 1906-89. English/Irish novelist, dramatist expressing man’s suffering: Waiting for Godot 1952. Endgame.

Bede, St. (The Venerable). 673-735. English historian: De Temporum Ratione 725.Ecclesiastical History 731.

Beerbohm, Max. 1872-1956. English caricaturist, satirist, dandy. Caricatures 1896.

Belize. 4-9C Maya. 17C Buccaneers. 17C English settle. 17,18C Slaves brought. 1862 Colony =British Honduras. 1964 Self-government. 1973 =Belize. 1981 Independent.

Belloc, Hilaire. 1870-1953. French/English writer: Bad Child’s Book of Beasts 1896. Cautionary Tales 1907.

Benefit of Clergy. 1170-1827. Literates and clergy exempt from trial by English civil court. 1489- Once only, branding. Jonson.

Benevolences. 1473-1689. Forced ’loans’ to English monarchs.

Bennett, Arnold. 1867-1931. English Staffordshire novelist. Meticulously detailed Naturalist. Clayhanger Series 1910.

Bentham, Jeremy. 1748-1832. English Utilitarian philosopher, jurist. Principles of Morals and Legislation 1789. Fragment on Government 1776.“Greatest happiness for the greatest number”.

Bentley, Richard. 1662-1742. English classical scholar. Restored texts. Editions of Horace, Terence, Aesop.

Beowulf. 8C Hero of Old English poem set in Denmark.

Besant, Annie. 1847-1933. English Theosophist. Founded Indian Home Rule League 1916.

Bessemer, Henry. 1813-98. English inventor of economical steel making process, 1856.

Bible. Hebrew and Christian sacred scriptures translated from Hebrew and Aramaic. 3C BC Greek translation. 1382 Wycliffe, Rogers, English. 1522-34 Luther, German. 1611 King James version. Vulgate by St. Jerome. Apocrypha.

Birch, Samuel. 1869-1955. English Cornish landscape painter.

Bishop, Henry. 1786-1855. English song composer: Home Sweet Home 1821.

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