The Clerihew winner

And the winner by a fair margin is:

Tim Berners-Lee
Invented HTTP
Thus the World Wide Web was born
For Nigerian Diplomats and porn.

Congrats, Therblig! I will e-mail you later today to get your mailing address, so we can send you your prize.

A couple of entries came in after the deadline that might have made a place on the final five, notably this one:

Matt Groening
Created a show which was fresh, clever, and, above all, entertaining.
I hoped the Groening/entertaining rhyme would be surprising and original enough to warrant a spot in the top five, but as it happens (Latin: ut accidit),
The Simpsons already did it.

And this:

Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, Sir Edward de Vere
Was a master of prose, poems and drama we hear.
But, as nobility, he could not relax, sir,
'Til his oeuvre was thought written by grain merchant Shaxper.

And a reader writes:

In 1949 or thereabouts, my father, Keith Trask, entered a clerihew competition by Edmund Bentley in (I think) the Times or possibly the Daily Telegraph newspaper. He submitted two entries (neither of which won a prize) but, as a postscript, he penned a third which caused Mr Bentley "such ghoulish amusement" that it was published in the newspaper. It ran:

Incidentally Mr. Bentley
Have you a clerihew
For the stone
When they bury you?

One clerihew in the competition that did win a prize was about the then new National Health Service in England with a rather nice comment about the architect of the NHS, the politician Bevan. If I recall correctly, it ran:

I wonder if Bevan
Would queue from eleven
To see his MD
At a quarter to three?

Thanks to everyone who participated and voted!

UPDATE: Okay, one more--"therblig's" name is John Mercer, and his mother sent him this:

John Mercer
scrolled that cursor
Sixty times a minute
It's midnight now--John, YOU WIN IT!!