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The BoE regularly changes who appears on British banknotes,
and there was controversy in 2013 when the choice of Winston
Churchill to succeed 19th century social reformer Elizabeth Fry
on the five pound note meant future notes would depict no women
other than the current monarch Queen Elizabeth.
One of BoE Governor Mark Carney's first public acts after he
took office in July 2013 was to announce that novelist Jane
Austen would appear on the 10 pound note from 2017, and making
the BoE more transparent has been one of his main goals.
Carney said on Tuesday that the BoE would invite the public to
nominate British artists, craftsmen, designers or filmmakers who
they would like to see on the 20 pound note, which currently
shows economist Adam Smith.
"The design of these notes must command respect and legitimacy,
and should inspire," Carney said at London's Victoria and Albert
design museum.
The public can nominate British artists who are no longer living
via the BoE's website until July 19, and a decision will be made
by a committee of BoE officials and art experts early next year.
The other figures on Bank of England notes are evolutionary
theorist Charles Darwin on the 10 pound note and steam engine
inventor James Watt and his business partner Matthew Boulton on
the 50 pound note.
(Reporting by David Milliken Editing by Jeremy Gaunt)
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