Daniel Jenkyn
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Daniel J. Jenkyn (1884 - December 31, 1914)[1] was an English Bahá’í who was the first Bahá’í of Cornwall and the first person to teach the Faith in the Netherlands.
Biography[edit]
Jenkyn was born in 1884 and grew up in St. Ives in Cornwall, England. In the early 1910's he met Ethel Rosenberg in London who introduced him to the Bahá’í Faith and subsequently Edward Hall wrote to him and they engaged in correspondence about the Faith from October 1911 into 1912.[2] Jenkyn also engaged in correspondence with Luṭfu’lláh Ḥakím and they became close personal friends.[3]
In 1913 Jenkyn undertook a teaching trip across the Netherlands making him the first Bahá’í to teach the Faith in the country and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá revealed a Tablet praising him for the initiative.[4] He fell ill with a prolonged bout of influenza in 1914,[5] and passed in St. Ives in December that year.[1]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Daniel J. Jenkyn at findagrave.com
- ↑ Robert Weinberg, Ethel Jenner Rosenberg, George Ronald: Oxford, 1995, p 131
- ↑ O.Z. Whitehead, Some Early Baha'is of the West, George Ronald: Oxford, 1976, p 61
- ↑ Will C. van den Hoonaard, Netherlands: History of the Baha'i Faith, 1993, published online at BahaiLibraryOnline.com
- ↑ [https://bahai.works/index.php?title=File:SW_Vol5_No19.pdf&page=5 Star of the West, Vol. 5(19), p 5
