er member of the Tameside Assembly,
Lancashire.

CYRIL AND MARGARET JENKERSON

Became Baha'is in Bradford in 1940 and pioneered to Oxford to be members
of the first Assembly there in 1949. (It is of interest to note that in
1938 there were only three Spiritual Assemblies in the British Isles--in
London, Manchester and Bournemouth, and a total of about eighty registered
Baha'is, yet in Bradford there were, during the course of about two years,
so many new registrations that the first Assembly was elected there in
1939 and by 1949 that Community had sent out ten pioneers from its first
twenty-five believers.) The Jenkersons pioneered to Cyprus in 1978 and are
still there (1979).

RICHARD H. BACKWELL

Became a Baha'i in Ceylon in 1944 where he was an officer in the Royal Air
Force. Returning to Britain in 1946, he pioneered in Nottingham,
Newcastle, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Leeds; was a member of the National
Spiritual Assembly from 1947 until January 1955 when he pioneered to
British Guiana, now Guyana. He was for a time part-time manager of the
Baha'i Publishing Trust and Editor of the Baha'i Journal. After his return
from Guiana, he settled with his family in Northern Ireland in 1963 and
again served on the National Assembly until 1968 when he was appointed an
Auxiliary Board Member. His valuable contributions to Baha'i literature
include the compilations with which he was associated--"Pattern of Baha'i
Life", "Principles of Baha'i Administration", "The Covenant of
Baha'u'llah", "Guidance for Today and Tomorrow", "A Faith for Everyman",
and his unique approach to the Christians, "The Christianity of Jesus". He
passed away on 4 October 1972 at the age of 58 when the Universal House of
Justice included in their cable: "GRIEF PASSING EARLY AGE RICHARD BACKWELL
GREATLY ASSUAGED TERMINATION HIS SUFFERING CONTEMPLATION DISTINGUISHED
RECORD SERVICE SOUTH AMERICA BRITISH ISLES SPIRITUAL RADIANCE EVENING
EARTHLY LIFE..." ("Baha'i World", Vol. XV, pp. 525-27.)

MISS ADA WILLIAMS

Pioneered to Motherwell in 1948 and then to Blackpool in 1965. She has
travelled widely to teach the Faith at home and overseas, visiting Malta,
South Africa and Canada where her great spirit was most inspiring; she is
still travelling (1979).

MRS CONSTANCE LANGDON-DAVIES

Was one of the early believers in Torquay where she associated with Mark
Tobey, Bernard Leach and other artists and writers at Dartington Hall.