Wyatt Windemere, 1880
A staunch conservative, Wyatt was a constant presence in the House of Commons, always lobbying to get various texts and artworks banned from bookshops, libraries and museums. His greatest battle occurred when he decided to raise quite the stink about Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species.
He might have gotten backing from other detractors of the book if he hadn't decided to attack not Darwin's evolutionary theory, but the name of his boat. Wyatt maintained that a man who would allow a boat named The Beagle to carry him on a serious research mission had to be deficient in his scientific method.
Not surprisingly, Wyatt was laughed out of the House, going on to become a street preacher and organ grinder.
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