Gladys Aylward
1902 – 1970
English

Missionary. She used what little money she had to travel to China to join a church mission, co-founded the Inn of the Sixth Happiness, and in 1938 led a large group of children over the mountains to safety as fighting with Japan neared, a saga that was celebrated in a film. Later she established an orphanage.

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1929–2003Bernard Williams
1858–1943Beatrice Webb
1914–1981Dame Barbara Ward
1880–1958Marie Stopes
1961–1996Princess Diana
1893–1957Dorothy Sayers
1866–1943Beatrix Potter
1900–1969Stephen Potter
1857–1928Emmeline Pankhurst
1933–1967Joe Orton
1903–1950George Orwell
1880–1912Lawrence Oates
1873–1958G. E. Moore
1882–1956A. A. Milne
1865–1936Rudyard Kipling
1894–1963Aldous Huxley
1820–1903Herbert Spencer
1832–1902G. A. Henty
1912–1990Lawrence Durrell
1847–1933Annie Besant
1910–1989Sir A. J. Ayer