Who Was The First Living Non Royal To Appear On A Uk Postage Stamp?

[DonnaCooper]

Who does the first non celebrity human appear in the UK postage stamp.

[Obiter]

It may have been Winston Churchill when he died.

[Sipowicz]

If he died, he wasn't living!

[Bathsheba]

Non celebrity or non royal?

[grasscarp]

Sipowicz, you remind me of the girl who was asked on an interview question, Who would you most like to have dinner with and it can be anyone living or dead, and she said "Oh living of course"

[wolf63]

Frances Chichester - picture was of his boat but he was visible

Freddie Mercury

[Bathsheba]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_on_stamps_of_the_United_Kingdom

[DonnaCooper]

I think he was on a gold postage stamp of the UK in 1965 and he died in the same year.

[Baldric]

Sir Winston Churchill (1965)
Francis Chichester (1967)

[loobylou]

William Shakespeare: http://www.stampmagazine.co.uk/news/article/shakespeare-becomes-first-commoner-on-gb-stamps/7249

[jno]

Shakespeare died just before 1964, though, so not strictly "living"