Ch 20 - People Flashcards
What member of Parliament served as prime minister during the french Revolution and much of the Napoleonic Wars?
William Pitt the Younger
Which Britain Napoleonic War hero became the commander in charge of military after the war and later served as prime minster?
Duke of Wellington
Who founded the London Metropolitan Police Force and also served in Parliament, the cabinet, and two terms as prime minister?
Sir Robert Peel
Who was England’s longest-reigning monarch?
Victoria
Who was the husband and political adviser to Queen Victoria?
Prince Albert
What leader of the Liberal party in Parliament served four terms as prime minister?
William Gladstone
What leader of the Conservative party in Parliament also serviced four terms as prime minister?
Benjamin Disraeli
What pastor of London’s largest church was called the “Prince of Preachers”?
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Who was a popular preacher of the Victorian Age?
F.B. Meyer
Who is a great American evangelist?
Dwight L. Moody
Who was D.L. Moody’s songleader?
Ira Sankey
What famous British cricket player spent his life as a missionary to China, India, and Africa?
C.T. Studd
What English missionary worked with the people of Labrador and Newfoundland?
Wilfred Grenfell
What German missionary founded orphanages for the forsaken children of Bristol, England?
George Muller
Who was the founder of the Salvation Army?
William Booth
What member of Parliament worked to improve conditions for children, laborers, and the mentally handicapped?
Lord Ashley
Who created the modern nursing profession?
Florence Nightingale
Who was sent by Queen Victoria to investigate conditions in Canada and made suggestions for settling the Canadian problem?
Lord Durham
What missionary to India worked to rescue young Indian girls from a life of prostitution in the pagan temples?
Amy Carmichael
What were the early Dutch colonists of South Africa called?
Afrikaners
What were the Dutch settlers of South Africa called? It means “farmers”.
Boers
Who was the British prime minister of the Cape Colony?
Cecil Rhodes
Who was the president of Transvaal and a leader of the Boer War?
Paul Kruger
What daring Afrikaner general lead the skilled Boer soldiers against the British?
Louis Botha
What was the term used for the original inhabitants of Australia?
Aborigines
What was the term used for the native people who called upon the British government to maintain order in New Zealand?
Maoris
Who succeeded Queen Victoria as the ruler of England?
Edward VII
Which British naturalist wrote “On the Origin of Species” in 1859?
Charles Darwin
What is the most famous Christian Socialist?
Charles Kingsley
