was an Auxiliary Board Member), Nigeria, and is
presently (1980) in the Central African Republic.
MISS DOROTHY WIGINGTON
Became a Baha'i at Summer School, Exeter in July 1954 and has been a
staunch member of the Oxford Assembly from January 1955.
ERNEST WILLIAM GREGORY
Responded to an experimental postal card advertisement in Sheffield and
accepted the Faith there in March 1951. He was elected to the National
Assembly in 1954 when John Mitchell pioneered to Malta. He served until
1963 when he became an Auxiliary Board Member. He left in April 1974 to
serve at the World Centre and passed away there in April 1978. The
Universal House of Justice cabled: "ANNOUNCE PASSING TO ABHA KINGDOM
MORNING OF FIRST DAY RIDVAN DISTINGUISHED SERVANT BAHA'U'LLAH ERNEST
GREGORY. HIS OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION GROWTH BRITISH BAHA'I COMMUNITY AS
MEMBER MANY YEARS NATIONAL SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLY AND LATER MEMBER AUXILIARY
BOARD ENSURE HIM HIGH PLACE THAT COMMUNITY'S ANNALS. HIS STIRLING
QUALITIES ENDEARED HIM TO ALL AT WORLD CENTRE FAITH WHERE HIS LOSS KEENLY
FELT. ADVISE BRITISH COMMUNITY JOIN PRAYERS THANKSGIVING HIS LIFE PROGRESS
HIS SOUL."
DR. ERNEST SPENCER MILLER
Became a Baha'i in September 1951 in Liverpool and at great sacrifice left
his medical practice to pioneer to Cardiff in 1955. For some years prior
to his death in October 1976, he lived partly in Liverpool and partly in
Anglesey, North Wales. The Universal House of Justice cabled: "GRIEVED
LOSS DEVOTED BELIEVER ERNEST MILLER WHO RENDERED DISTINGUISHED SERVICES
BRITISH HOME FRONT ENDEARED HIMSELF FELLOW BELIEVERS. EXTEND SYMPATHY
FRIENDS ASSURE ARDENT PRAYERS SACRED THRESHOLD PROGRESS HIS SOUL ABHA
KINGDOM."
IAN SEMPLE
Heard of the Faith at the first public meeting organised by the Oxford
Spiritual Assembly in 1949 and accepted it shortly afterwards. He was
elected to the National Assembly in January 1955 and was a member until
Ridvan 1961, serving as Secretary from January 1960 to January 1961. In
1956 he pioneered to Edinburgh for two and a half years, and was appointed
to the Auxiliary Board for the Propagation of the Faith in November 1957.
He was elected to the International Baha'i Council at Ridvan 1961, and to
the Universal House of Justice in 1963.
MISS JEAN M. CAMPBELL
Jean Campbell accepted the Faith in Oxford in 1949 in time to be on the
first Spiritual Assembly there. She served as the Assembly secretary for
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