She
accepted the Faith in December 1936 and served on the National Assembly
for fifteen of the years from 1938 until her unexpected death in Oxford in
December 1954. She had pioneered to help form the first Assembly there
1949.

GEORGE K. MARSHALL

Became a Baha'i in 1949 although he had lived most of his life with his
father, one of the early British believers, in Birmingham. (See "John L.
Marshall".) George pioneered for a short while to Belfast and then in 1950
to Glasgow where he lived for seven years, except for a short pioneering
project to maintain the Assembly in Edinburgh. He died at an early age on
30 March 1958.

MRS MARGUERITE PRESTON (nee Wellby)

Became a Baha'i in 1936, was a member of the National Assembly for three
and a half years during the period 1939 to 1945. She married Terence
Preston, a Kenya tea grower, in August 1945 and settled in Kenya where she
was the only Baha'i until the pioneers began to settle under the Two Year
Plan. Her husband died unexpectedly in July 1951 leaving her with three
young children and she and her eldest child were killed in an aeroplane
crash when she was returning to Kenya after a short holiday in England, in
February 1952.

BERNARD LEACH, C.H., C.B.E.

It was through Mark Tobey that world famous potter and author Bernard
Leach became a Baha'i in the early 1930's. He has through his works, his
books, his press, radio and television interviews introduced the Faith
with love, dedication and dignity to people in many spheres of society in
Britain, Japan and America. He was honoured by Her Majesty the Queen and
made a Companion of Honour. Even at ninety years of age, though blind, he
was serving the Cause with distinction through his writings and
interviews. In March 1977, he opened, with much favourable publicity, an
exhibition of his works at the Victoria and Albert Museum London. In 1919,
when Bernard was about to leave Japan, the late Soetsu Yangi, the
well-known Japanese art critic and philosopher and Bernard's friend for
over fifty years, paid tribute: "When he leaves us we shall have lost the
one man who knows Japan on its spiritual side... I consider his position
in Japan, and also his mission in his own country to be pregnant with the
deepest meaning. He is trying to knit the East and West together by art,
and it seems likely that he will be remembered as the first to accomplish
as an artist, what for so long mankind has been dreamin