[382] Raleigh was entered as a boy for Oriel College but never resided there.

[383] Gladstone was by race a pure Scotsman, but was English by birth and breeding.

[384] Miss Nightingale is taken as a representative of the work of Howard, Clarkson, Shaftesbury, Hannah More, Mrs. Fry, and others of the same noble army among whom she is perhaps typical for the English adventuresome and pioneer spirit.

It would not be possible to choose 40 great Englishmen whom every one should agree to be among the 40 greatest, or the best types in the lines indicated. Some great English names—as e.g. Simon de Montfort—do not appear for the same reason which excludes William the Conqueror, viz. that they were not Englishmen.

The following is a short analysis:—

(1) Men representing
English Learning
and education:
Hild.
Bede.
Alcuin.
Alfred.
Grosseteste.
William of Wykeham.
Lady Margaret.
Dean Colet, Ox.
Bishop Fisher, C.
Thomas More, Ox.
Roger Ascham, C.		(2) English
Churchmen:
Stephen Langton.
Robert Grosseteste, Ox.
William of Wykeham.
Fisher, C.
Wolsey, Ox.
Cranmer, C.
Jeremy Taylor, C.		(3) English Religion:
Wyclif, Ox.
Lady Margaret.
More, Ox.
Jeremy Taylor, C.
Bunyan.
Wesley, Ox.		(4) English politics:
Alfred.
Stephen Langton.
Grosseteste, Ox.
Edward I.
Elizabeth.
Cromwell, C.
Milton, C.
John Locke, Ox.
Pitt, C.
Gladstone, Ox.
(5) Literature and
makers of English
language:
Bede.
Chaucer, C.
Ascham, C.
Philip Sidney, Ox.
Shakespeare.
Francis Bacon, C.
Milton, C.
Bunyan.
Locke, Ox.		(6) Philosophers:
Locke.
Mill.		(7) English Science:
Roger Bacon, Ox.
Francis Bacon, C.
Harvey, C.
Newton, C.
Darwin, C.		(8) English
Adventure:
Drake.
Raleigh.
Clive.
Nelson.
Nightingale.

[385] See the list of dramatists below.[387]

[386] Sonneteers: Wyatt, Cambridge. Surrey, Cambridge? Thomas Watson, Oxford? Philip Sidney, Oxford. Samuel Daniel, Oxford. Lodge, Oxford to Cambridge. Drayton, none.

[387]

The Dramatists.

Greene(Cambridge).
Lyly(Oxford to Cambridge).
Peele(Oxford).
Lodge(Oxford to Cambridge).
(disciple of Greene)
Christopher Marlowe(Cambridge).
Kyd(none).
Shakespeare(none).
Ben Jonson(Cambridge).
Nash(Cambridge).
Chapman(?)
Marston(Oxford).
Dekker(nothing known).
Thomas Heywood(Cambridge).
Middleton(nothing known).
Munday(“The pope’s
scholar in the
seminary at
Rome”).
Fletcher(Cambridge).
(12 years at Benet College)
Beaumont(Oxford).
Webster(nothing known).
Massinger(Oxford).
Rowley(nothing known).
Ford(Oxford ?).
James Shirley(Oxford to Cambridge).
The Novelists.
Richardson(none).
Fielding(University of Leyden).
Defoe(none).
Steele(Oxford).
Smollett(none).
Sterne(Cambridge).
Goldsmith(none).

And the 7 great names of our century:

Jane Austen.
Scott(none).[388]
The two Brontës.
Thackeray(Cambridge).
Dickens(none).
George Eliot.
Meredith(none).