A pawnbroker's apprentice who took a mission into the East End and made an army of it
Preaching outside a Whitechapel pub in 1865, he built the Salvation Army, whose hostels, soup kitchens and rescue work reached the people no church…
Watched ships break up in Douglas Bay and founded the lifeboat service, then rowed out himself
A ruined baronet living on the Isle of Man who wrote a pamphlet in 1823 calling for a national lifeboat institution, saw it founded in 1824, and took…
A lawyer who closed his practice to school the orphans of a war he had no side in
A Nigerian lawyer who left the courts to build a free school for children orphaned by the Boko Haram insurgency, admitting them regardless of which…
Taught poor Brazilian mothers to save their own children, then died helping Haiti
A paediatrician who founded the Pastoral da Criança, a network of volunteer mothers weighing babies and mixing rehydration salts across Brazil's…
