Tsar Alexander Pavlovich (The tsar who defeated Napoleon)
Lieut 'Birdie' Bowers (Scott's 'bravest man' in the Antarctic)
Sir James Simpson (The discoverer of anaesthetic chloroform)
Alves Reis (The counterfeiter who nearly owned his country)
Joshua Poole (The story of 'Fiddler Joss', drunkard turned preacher)
Viscount Alexander of Hillsborough (A leader of the House of Lords)
John Newton (The transformed slave-trader)
Jean Henri Dunant (Founder of the International Red Cross)
Martin Luther (The ex-monk who led the Reformation)
Bilney, Tyndale & Latimer (Three heroic English martyrs)
Alfred the Great (The king who organised England)
Lieut-General Sir William Dobbie (World War II hero of Malta)