He gets bounty of historic character (8)

I believe the answer is:

hereward

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'historic character' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.

'he gets bounty' is the wordplay.
'gets' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'bounty' becomes 'reward' (I've seen this before).
'he'+'reward'='HEREWARD'

'of' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for hereward that I've seen before include "king produced" , "Anglo-Saxon leader" , "Anglo-Saxon rebel" , "Wake" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.

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