Answers:-
1) Sir Richard Arkwright, inventor and industrialist.
2) Wallace Hartley, Bandmaster on the RMS Titanic, born in Colne.
3) Emmeline Pankhurst, Manchester born suffragette leader.
4) Tim Bobbin (John Collier), Father of Lancashire dialect writing.
5) L.S. Lowry, Salford born artist.
6) James Hilton, author and screenwriter, best known for Goodbye Mister Chips and Lost Horizon.
7) Kathleen Ferrier CBE, the great operatic contralto.
8) Sir Thomas Beecham, orchestral conductor.
9) Sir Robert Peel, Bury born Prime Minister and founder of the police force.
10) Walter Greenwood, author of Love on the Dole.
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