<story><title>Put Alan Turing on the next £10 note</title><url>http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/31659</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>martinwnet</author><text>Who in your opinion should be ahead?&lt;p&gt;I see a few names on that list that shouldn&apos;t even be in the queue in my opinion.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;David Beckham, Jonny Wilkinson, Robbie Williams, Michael Vaughan, Terry Wogan, Princess Diana...&lt;/i&gt;</text></item><item><author>mibbitier</author><text>With all due respect I think there&apos;s quite a few names on the list that should be way ahead in the queue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eigenvector</author><text>Michael Faraday.
Sir Isaac Newton.
James Clerk Maxwell.&lt;p&gt;(among many others)&lt;p&gt;There are quite a few folks on there that have undoubtedly placed themselves among the very highest class of contributors to the advancement of humanity.</text></comment>
<story><title>Put Alan Turing on the next £10 note</title><url>http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/31659</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>martinwnet</author><text>Who in your opinion should be ahead?&lt;p&gt;I see a few names on that list that shouldn&apos;t even be in the queue in my opinion.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;David Beckham, Jonny Wilkinson, Robbie Williams, Michael Vaughan, Terry Wogan, Princess Diana...&lt;/i&gt;</text></item><item><author>mibbitier</author><text>With all due respect I think there&apos;s quite a few names on the list that should be way ahead in the queue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rhplus</author><text>From the list[1], authors such as Kipling, Potter or Wilde would be crowd pleasers, but a figure like Winston Churchill would likely win if this were decided by popular vote.&lt;p&gt;Saying that, recent Bank of England notes[2] seem to sway much more heavily towards engineers/scientists (Newton, Wren, Stevenson, Faraday, Darwin, Boulton/Watt) and social/economic reformers (Nightingale, Houblon, Fry, Smith) than artists (Elgar, Shakespeare, Dickens) or military leaders (Wellington)&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/Documents/about/banknote_names.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/Documents/about/ban...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes_of_the_pound_sterling#Current_issue&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes_of_the_pound_sterling...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>