Thomas Barnardo
1845 – 1905
Irish

Doctor and social worker. He wanted to devote his life to Christian service, became a doctor, then opened homes for street children in London and elsewhere.

Contemporaries
1865–1939William Yeats
1854–1900Oscar Wilde
1769–1852Arthur Wellesley Wellington
1892–1963Patrick Twomey
1871–1909J. M. Synge
1847–1912Bram Stoker
1825–1901James Stephens
1856–1950George Bernard Shaw
1874–1922Sir Ernest Shackleton
1867–1935George Russell
1879–1920Terence MacSwiney
1838–1903William Lecky
1882–1941James Joyce
1865–1922Alfred Harmsworth
1861–1927J. B. Bury
1787–1848John Burke
1789–1849Marguerite Blessington
fl. c. 1842–c. 1903Helen Blackburn
1863–1951Daisy May Bates
1818–1889John Ball
1818–1895Cecil Frances Alexander