Sir Douglas Bader
1910 – 1982
English

Aviator. Although crippled by a flying accident that cost him his legs, he returned to the Royal Air Force to fly in the Battle of Britain when in Churchill's words, "Never was owed by so many to so few." He lost his plane in 1941 and was captured but miraculously survived the war. His career exemplified character, courage, skill, and daring.

Contemporaries
1929–2003Bernard Williams
1858–1943Beatrice Webb
1914–1981Dame Barbara Ward
1880–1958Marie Stopes
1961–1996Princess Diana
1879–1976Ernest Shepard
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
1912–1990Lawrence Durrell
1847–1933Annie Besant
1910–1989Sir A. J. Ayer