To mark our anniversary, we have invited 50 Catholics to choose a person from the past 175 years whose life has been a personal inspiration to them and an example of their faith at its best A friend, a retired senior lecturer on international development, once told me he insisted that new students read Barbara Ward’s Only One Earth: the care and maintenance of a small planet (1972), or her last book, Progress for a Small Planet (1979). By the time the latter appeared, she was a life peer with the title Baroness Jackson (her married name) of Lodsworth, and the recipient of numerous awards. She died of cancer in 1981. Cardinal Gantin represented the Pope at her funeral. After school – the Convent of Jesus and Mary in Felixstowe – and Somerville College, Oxford (a first in