Now that Scilly News has had over 100 votes for the Greatest Scillonian vote, it is time to announce the winners. Scillonians, locals and visitors all agreed that the top man from the Islands was Matt Lethbridge, receiving over 33% of all votes cast. Mr Lethbridge once appeared on ‘This Is Your Life?, mostly for his job on the lifeboat.

However, this was the only position that the three groups of voters agreed on: Scillonians voted for Kit Guy to take second place; visitors voted for Fraser Hicks. Scillonians were obviously much more aware of the late farmer, Mr Guy, than visitors would have been; visitors being more aware of boatmen like Mr Hicks.

Scillonians and locals’ results:

  1. Matt Lethbridge 35%
  2. Kit Guy 15%
  3. Frank Gibson 9%
  4. Tom Chudleigh, Frank Gibson and Fraser Hicks 6%

Visitors’ results:

  1. Matt Lethbridge 32%
  2. Fraser Hicks 14%
  3. John Hicks, John Nicholls and Lloyd Hicks 8%

Overall results‡:

  1. Matt Lethbridge 32%
  2. Fraser Hicks 10%
  3. Kit Guy 10%
  4. Frank Gibson
  5. John Hicks
  6. Tom Chudleigh
  7. Brian Jenkins
  8. Lloyd Hicks
  9. Paul Lewis
  10. John Nicholls

‡: Weighted to make Scillonian/local votes as numerous as visitors’ votes (visitors outnumbered Scillonian/local votes by 2:1).