Henry Steel Olcott, (1832-1907), founder and first president of the Theosophical Society, most well known as the first person of western descent to make a formal conversion to Buddhism. His subsequent actions as president of the Theosophical Society helped Buddhism into a new renaissance. He is still honored in Sri Lanka for these efforts.
... the whole of it they must be
supplemented by counsels for integrity, bravery and
constancy in the struggle of daily existence to which
the vast mass of mankind, ...