I may be wrong, but I don’t feel lists of greatest Britons are drawn up as often as they once were. Mostly, they’ve been replaced by affections for the animal kingdom. I’m all for Eurasian curlews, but as a substitute for Sir Winston Churchill? As it is, even when these rankings appear, the name of John Arnold (1736-1799) doesn’t tend to register. This despite the fact the Bodmin-born horologist was one of (and perhaps the most significant of) a…
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