Notable Speakers
John Wells has identified the following people as RP speakers:
- David Cameron, Prime Minister
- Boris Johnson, Mayor of London
- Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
- David Attenborough, broadcaster and naturalist
- Rupert Everett, actor
- Chris Huhne, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.
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Famous quotes containing the words notable and/or speakers:
“a notable prince that was called King John;
And he ruled England with main and with might,
For he did great wrong, and maintained little right.”
—Unknown. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury (l. 2–4)
“What’s this, Aurora Leigh,
You write so of the poets and not laugh?
Those virtuous liars, dreamers after dark,
Exaggerators of the sun and moon,
And soothsayers in a tea-cup? I write so
Of the only truth-tellers, now left to God,—
The only speakers of essential truth,
Opposed to relative, comparative,
And temporal truths;...
The only teachers who instruct mankind,
From just a shadow on a charnel-wall.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)