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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 70. Chapters: British servants, Fictional servants, Japanese pages, Samwise Gamgee, Alice Ayres, Angelique Bouchard Collins, Chibi-Robo!, Tira, Wong, Voldo, Paul Burrell, Daphne Moon, Stewardship, Nanny, Nights, Archibald Hall, Alexandre Bontemps, George Smith, Takamine Hideo, Mr. E. Blackadder, Maeda Toshiie, The Goose Girl, Khayman, Skullion, Torii Mototada, Tatsumi Naofumi, Manuel, Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants, Nelly Dean, Knave of Hearts, Kalulu, Friday, Mamie Johnson, Trusty John, Katakura Kagetsuna, Beor, Kelex, Passepartout, Mr. Flay, Otis, Michael Fawcett, The Adventures of Covan the Brown-haired, Sador, The Story of Bensurdatu, kubo Tadatomo, David Brandner, Little Annie the Goose-Girl, William Tallon, Tanuma Okitsugu, Sir Aldingar, Pat, Hosoya J day, Ichimura Tetsunosuke, The Famous Flower of Serving-Men, Kyrano, Nestor, Left Hand, Blastus, The Lord of Lorn and the False Steward, Matsudaira Nobutsuna, Mr Wong, Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, Oda Nagamasa, Corvetto, Mori Ranmaru, Ivor Spencer, Nait Nobunari, Ox-Head and Horse-Face, Nagai Naotsune, Lilian Sperling, Reginald Jennings, Damo, Higashi Nakatsukasa, Mary Ann Thurston. Excerpt: Alice Ayres (12 September 1859 - 1885) was an English nursemaid honoured for her bravery in rescuing the children in her care from a house fire. Ayres was a household assistant and nursemaid to the family of her brother-in-law and sister, Henry and Mary Ann Chandler. The Chandlers owned an oil and paint shop in Union Street, Southwark, then just south of London, and Ayres lived with the family above the shop. In 1885 fire broke out in the shop, and Ayres rescued three of her nieces from the burning building, before falling from a window and suffering fatal injury. Britain, in the wake of the Industrial Revolution, experienced a period of great social change in which th...