RBS confirms choice of first woman other than a royal to adorn one of its banknotes after apparent final-minute tender to rig vote The scientist Mary Somerville will be the first woman other than a royal to seem on a Royal Bank of Scotland banknote – but only after a steward’s inquiry over an apparent attempt to rig the vote.
Some 4100 people voted via Facebook for Somerville,whose academic writing played a pivotal role in the discovery of the planet Neptune, to seem on a new £10 note.
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Source: theguardian.com