April 16 - Samuel Smiles, British engineering biographer and railway manager (born 1812).

It was the age of self-help and Samuel Smiles.

He was singer (and occasional second guitarist) for Samuel Smiles between 1992 and 2000.

Samuel Smiles put the matter more simply:

Samuel Smiles acted as an incubator for several songs which subsequently travelled to other projects.

Samuel Smiles - biographer and inventor of "self-help"

Samuel Smiles, the popular engineering author of the time, published an account taken from Rennie, which assisted in establishing his claim.

He poured contempt on Samuel Smiles and all his works".

He is mentioned by Samuel Smiles in Self Help.

Over the next century and a half, counseling people to "rely upon their own efforts," as Samuel Smiles had put it, became a well-rewarded effort indeed.