Mary Basil Hall
Mary Basil Hall (January 14, 1888 - April 28, 1950)[1] given the name Parvine by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, was an early British Bahá’í who served on the National Spiritual Assembly of the British Isles.
Biography[edit]
Hall was born Mary Esther Blomfield in Marylebone, London, in 1888 to parents Sir Arthur and Lady Blomfield.[1] Her mother became a Bahá’í in 1907,[2] and she also joined the religion and became an active member of the community. When ‘Abdu’l-Bahá visited England in 1911 He granted Mary the name Parvine.[3]
When the First World War began in 1914 Hall was visiting Switzerland with her mother and sister and they moved to Paris to volunteer for the French Red Cross. In March 1915 they returned to England when the hospital unit where they were volunteering was shut down.[4] In 1920 she married Basil Hall and she was generally known as Mary Basil Hall after marrying.[1]
Hall served on the National Spiritual Assembly of the British Isles in the 1930's and 1940's and she also served on the National Teaching Committee for the British Isles during the British Six Year Plan between 1944 and 1950. She passed away in April, 1950, shortly after the end of the Six Year Plan.[3]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Mary Esther Hall at FindaGrave.com
- ↑ O.Z. Whitehead, Some Early Baha'is of the West, George Ronald: Oxford, 1976, p 58
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Shoghi Effendi, Unfolding Destiny, UK Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1981, p 473
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1942). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. Wilmette, Ill. Volume 8 (1938-1940), Pg(s) 652. View as PDF.
