Edward Hall
Edward Theodore Hall (1880 - December 5, 1962) was an early British Bahá’í who served on the National Spiritual Assembly of the British Isles.
Biography[edit]
Hall was born in approximately 1880. He had an older sister named Lucy.[1] He married Rebecca Craven at some point and through her brother, John, he was introduced to Sarah Ann Ridgway who was a Bahá’í and taught him the Faith in 1910 when he was living Salford, Lancashire. Hall became a Bahá’í and helped establish the second organized Bahá’í group in England.[2]
In 1912 Hall and his brother-in-law met ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Liverpool during His visit to England. At some point Shoghi Effendi, who lived in England from 1920 to 1921, gave Hall his personal diaries covering his early life and Hall maintained a personal correspondence with him. In 1922 the first Local Spiritual Assembly of Manchester was established and Hall was elected as the bodies inaugural secretary and the same year he was elected to the All-England Bahá’í Council as a representative of the Manchester community.[2]
In 1923 the All-England Bahá’í Council was succeeded by the National Spiritual Assembly of the British Isles and Hall was elected to the body serving until 1928. In 1925 he published a history of the Bahá’í community of Lancashire titled The Bahá’í Dawn: Manchester.[2]
Hall passed away in 1962 at the age of eighty-two.[2]
Publications[edit]
- 1925 - The Bahá’í Dawn: Manchester[3]
