S.B. from Manchester

Few men have achieved such a record in the field of medical mission work as 'Grenfell of Labrador.' A Rugby Blue at Oxford and a brilliant doctor, he has spent his life in the frozen seas and desolate lands of the far North. He began by taking out to Iceland the first hospital ship for the North Sea fisheries, and in 1892 he began his long term in Labrador, where he finally established four hospitals, a series of co-operative stores, an orphanage and a school. In 1912 he opened a Seaman's Institute in St. John's, Newfoundland, with money that he himself had raised. He has been honoured by the learned societies of two continents, and written several exceptionally interesting books.