Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill is going to be featured on new five-pound banknotes to be issued in 2016, the Bank of England informs.
According to BBC News, Mr Churchill will be the first contemporary UK politician to be depicted on banknotes. In 1965, his profile appeared on the British crown, a five-shilling coin. A new banknote is going to have a picture of Mr Churchill made by famous portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh in Ottawa, in 1941. The profile of Winston Churchill will neighbour a quotation from his speech on May 13, 1940 to the UK's House of Commons that goes, “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat”.
As for the reverse of the new banknote, it will show the Nobel Prize medal Sir Winston Churchill was awarded in 1953 for literature.
Currently, the five-pound UK banknote features social activist and prison reformator Elizabeth Fry referred to as the “angel of prisons”.
Five-pound notes are very popular in Britain. In 2006, Manchester United soccer legend George Best from Northern Ireland was immortalised on these banknotes.