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Humane Awards

Humane Awards

The Best of Humanity amidst the worst

historical humane behaviour awards

Every month we will be giving you the opportunity via social to vote on who you think most deserves this award. Whether it’s for raising the ‘hue and cry’, stopping a sneak thief dead in their tracks or averting unspeakable evil, you choose.

1 – 1876 – Gloucester – For coming to the rescue of Jane Goodall during an assault by William Barrett when others wouldn’t, we give the Humane Award August 2019 to Elizabeth Green, Rosa Taylor, and Maria Stephens.

2 – 1853 – Winchester – For preventing the murder of Ann Rungay by her husband Aaron Rungay, we give the Humane Award September 2019 to John Elliott.

3 – 1865 – Woking – For raising funds in 1865 to give a boy who died of rabies a proper burial, we give the Humane Award to George Mackness, curate of St Johns Parish.

3 – 186? – Woking – For restraining a fellow inmate who struck a warder in the back of the head and, in doing so, saving the jailer’s life, we give the Humane Award to Aaron Rungay ‘The Water Boatman’.

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