Question: when did the old £50 note go out of circulation
Answer: ler 9 February 1978 11 March 1988 10 years , 1 month and 2 days ( 3 ) £ 5 145 × 78 Duke of Wellington by Sir Thomas Lawrence 11 November 1971 29 November 1991 20 years , 2 weeks and 4 days ( 4 ) £ 10 151 × 85 Florence Nightingale by Unknown 20 February 1975 20 May 1994 19 years and 3 months ( 5 ) £ 20 160 × 90 William Shakespeare by William Kent & Peter Scheemakers 9 July 1970 19 March 1993 22 years , 8 months , 1 week and 3 days ( 6 ) £ 50 169 × 95 Sir Christopher Wren by Sir Godfrey Kneller 20 March 1981 20 September 1996 16 years and 6 months Series E ( 7 ) £ 5 135 × 70 George Stephenson by Charles Turner 7 June 1990 21 November 2003 13 years , 5 months , 1 week and 6 days ( 8 ) £ 10 142 × 75 Charles Dickens by John Watkins 29 April 1992 31 July 2003 11 years , 3 months and 2 days ( 9 ) £ 20 149 × 80 Michael Faraday by Henry Dixon 5 June 1991 28 February 2001 9 years , 8 months , 3 weeks and 2 days ( 10 ) £ 50 156 × 85 Sir John Houblon by Robert Grave 20 April 1994 30 April 2014 20 years , 1 week and 3 days Series E ( Revis