DISTINCTIVE TITLES
GIVEN TO SOME FAMOUS
PEOPLE
The Iron Duke The Duke of Wellington
The Grand Old Man William Ewart Gladstone
The wisest fool in Christendom King James I of England
The Bard of Avon William Shakespeare
The Iron Chancellor Prince Otto Von Bismarck
The Old Pilot Prince Otto Von Bismarck
The Little Corporal Napoleon Bonaparte
The Apostle of the Indians Bartholome de Las Cassa
The Black Prince Son of Edward III, King of England
Coeur de Lion Richard I of England
Farmer George King George III of England
The Merrie Monarch King Charles II of England
The Light of Asia Buddha
The head of the Buddhist faith in Tibet Dalai Lama
The Unready King Ethelred II of England
Longshanks Edward I of England
Edward the Peacemaker Edward VII of England
The King Maker Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick
Thorough Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford
Old Rough and Ready Zachary Taylor, a President of the USA
Old Dreadnought The English Admiral, Boscawen
The Morning Star of the Reformation John Wycliff
Lawrence of Arabia Col Thomas Edward Lawrence
The Swedish Nightingale Jenny Laid
William the Conqueror William I of England
The Maid of Norway Daughter of Eric II, King of Norway
The Lady of the Lamp Florence Nightingale
The Virgin Queen Queen Elizabeth I
The Maid of Queens Joan of Arc
Madonna The Virgin Mary
The Holy Father, His Holiness The Pope
The Apostle of Northumbria Saint Aidan
Mata Hari Marguerite Gertrude, a spy
The Laughing Philosopher Democritus
The Grand Old Man of Hungary Count Albert Apponyi
The Faultless Painter Andrea del Sarto
The Learned Blacksmith Elihu Burritt, an American linguist
The Young Pretender Charles Edward Stuart, grandson of James II of England
The most musical of all Englishmen Sir William Sterndale Bennett
The Seraphic Doctor St. Bonaventura
The Semiramis of the North Catherine II, Empress of Russia
Defender of the Holy Sepulchre Godfrey of Bouillon
The Inspired Idiot Oliver Goldsmith
Noll Oliver Cromwell
The Magnificent Sultan Solyman
The Uncrowned Queen of Arabia Gertrude Bell
The Father of Poets Homer
The Father of English Poetry Geoffrey Chaucer
The Father of Biography Plutarch
The Father of History Herodotus
The Father of Experimental Philosophy Francis Beacon
The Father of Moral Philosophy Thomas Aquinas
The Father of Medicine Hippocrates
The Father of Modern Astronomy Copernicus
The Father of Modern Chemistry Antoine Lavoisier
The Father of Natural History John Ray
The Father of the Science of Political Economy Adam Smith
The Father of Unitarianism John Biddle
The Father of Modern Music Johann Sebastian Bach
The Father if Novel Writing Giovanni Boccaccio