| ÆSOP, a manumitted slave. |
| ARKWRIGHT (Sir Richard), a barber. |
| BEACONSFIELD (Lord), a solicitor’s clerk. |
| BLOOMFIELD, a cobbler, son of a tailor. |
| BUNYAN, a travelling tinker. |
| BURNS, a gauger, son of a ploughman. |
| CÆDMON, a cowherd. |
| CERVANTES, a common soldier. |
| CLARE, a ploughman, son of a farm labourer. |
| CLAUDE LORRAINE, a pastrycook. |
| COLUMBUS son of a weaver. |
| COOK (Captain), son of a husbandman. |
| CROMWELL, son of a brewer. |
| CUNNINGHAM (Allan), a stonemason, son of a peasant. |
| DEFOE, a hosier, son of a butcher. |
| DEMOSTHENES, son of a cutler. |
| DICKENS, a newspaper reporter; father the same. |
| ELDON (Lord), son of a coal-broker. |
| FARADAY (Michael), a bookbinder. |
| FERGUSON (James), the astronomer, son of a day-labourer. |
| FRANKLIN, a journeyman printer, son of a tallow-chandler. |
| HARGREAVES, the machinist, a poor weaver. |
| HOGG, a shepherd, son of a Scotch peasant. |
| HOMER, a farmer’s son (said to have begged his bread). |
| HORACE, son of a manumitted slave. |
| HOWARD (John), a grocer’s apprentice, son of a tradesman. |
| KEAN (Edmund), son of a stage-carpenter in a minor theatre. |
| JONSON (Ben), a bricklayer. |
| LATIMER, Bishop of Worcester, son of a small farmer |
| LUCIAN, a sculptor, son of a poor tradesman. |
| MONK (General), a volunteer. |
| OPIE (John), son of a poor carpenter in Cornwall. |
| PAINE (Thomas), a stay-maker, son of a Quaker. |
| PORSON (Richard), son of a parish clerk in Norfolk. |
| RICHARDSON, a bookseller and printer, son of a joiner. |
| SHAKESPEARE, son of a wool-stapler. |
| STEPHENSON (George), son of a fireman at a colliery. |
| VIRGIL, son of a porter. |
| WATT (James), improver of the steam engine, son of a block-maker. |
| WASHINGTON, a farmer. |
| WOLSEY, son of a butcher. |
And hundreds more.
