Knight of Baha'u'llah

Born in or near Leeds, March 1885. Met and embraced the Faith in 1948 and
within a fortnight offered to pioneer to Belfast. After serious illness
and a period of recuperation in Cardiff, he served in Sheffield until
1953. "Charlie" answered the Guardian's call to settle in unopened
territories in the Ten Year Crusade and he arrived in Kirkwall, Orkney in
September 1953, opening the way, "essentially ... alone" for the founding
of Kirkwall Spiritual Assembly. After four years, broken by ill health and
persecution, he was, for his own safety, sent back to Cardiff. After a bad
fall in 1967 from which he never fully recovered, he passed away quietly
in his sleep on Christmas Day, 1967 in Cardiff. ("Baha'i World", Vol. XIV,
pp. 305-8.)

MISS CLAIRE GUNG

Born in Germany, became a Baha'i in Torquay and later joined the small
Baha'i group in Cheltenham in 1940. She moved to Manchester and later
pioneered to Northampton in November 1946 to become member of the first
Spiritual Assembly there. In 1948 she again pioneered to help form the
first Spiritual Assembly in the "Pivotal Centre" of Cardiff. In 1950,
during the "Year of Respite", Claire became the first pioneer actually to
move from the British community to settle in Africa. Hailed by the
Guardian as the "Mother of Africa" she worked for some years in Tanganyika
and then moved to Uganda where she established a multi-racial
kindergarten; she is still at her pioneer post at the time of writing
(1979).

MRS. LIZZIE FOWLER HAINSWORTH

Became a Baha'i in Bradford in 1946 after replying to her younger son
Philip that she had not become a Baha'i during his absence in the Armed
Forces because "Nobody had asked me to". She pioneered to Nottingham in
1946, to Oxford in 1949 and, at the age of 72, was the first believer in
the British Isles to offer to pioneer in the Two Year Plan to Africa.
(Convention 1950.) She died in Bradford in September 1951 before she could
join her son Philip in Uganda. The Guardian wrote of her through his
secretary, "She has truly shown an exemplary Baha'i spirit in every
way.... He wishes more of the Baha'is would arise to such heights of
devotion and sacrifice."

MISS MARGARET SULLIVAN (later MRS. MARGARET NELSON)

Pioneered to Dublin and was on the first Local Assembly there in 1948. She
was Caretaker of the National Haziratu'l-Quds, London from December 1970
to August 1976, and then became a found