Supporters
- Millicent Fawcett (1847–1929), the leader of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
- Hugh Price Hughes (1847-1902), American Christian theologian, who ran the West London Mission, which provided premises for the Guild of the Poor Brave Things prior to its move first to Bermondsey University Settlement and later to the Chapter House of Southwark Cathedral
- Katherine Hughes (wife of Hugh Price Hughes)
- Mary Neal (1860-1944), responsible for the direction of play sessions at Marchmont Hall
- Emmeline Pethick, better known as Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence (1867-1954) and a leader of the substantially more militant Women's Social and Political Union (WPSU) and a 'Sister of the People' at the West London Mission.
- Mrs Mary Ward
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“The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.”
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