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Pounds was severely crippled in his mid-teens, from falling into a dry dock at Portsmouth Dockyard, where he was apprenticed as a shipwright. He could no longer work at the dockyard, and from then onwards made his living as a shoemaker.
He would scour the streets of Portsmouth looking for children who were poor and homeless, taking them in to his small workshop and teaching them basic reading, writing and arithmetic skills. This small workshop was often host to as many as 40 children at any one time.
Many years after his death, John Pounds has become a local hero in his birthplace of Portsmouth, winning a "Man of the Millennium" award in 1999 from a local newspaper the evening news, ahead of nationally more famous local heroes including Admiral Lord Nelson and Charles Dickens. Today a unitarian chapel named in his memory stands in Old Portsmouth.
His life was celebrated in a sacred cantata Greatheart: The Story of John Pounds, by the Rev Carey Bonner.
