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)
“All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. Stumping it through England for seven years made Cobden a consummate debater. Stumping it through New England for twice seven trained Wendell Phillips.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)