Walter Wilkins
Walter Wilkins (1883 - March 19, 1973) was a British Bahá’í who served on the National Spiritual Assembly of the British Isles and pioneered to several posts in England.
Biography[edit]
Wilkins was born in 1883. He was an Esperantist and discovered the Bahá’í Faith through Esperanto circles declaring in approximately 1923 and being elected to the Local Spiritual Assembly of London. He was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of the British Isles in 1934 and served for one year.[1]
In 1944 the British community launched a Six Year Teaching Plan under the guidance of Shoghi Effendi and Wilkins pioneered to Birmingham to support the work of the Plan in 1946. He pioneered again to Blackburn in 1947 then to Norwich in 1948.[1]
In 1961 Wilkins, in his late seventies, pioneered to Canterbury. He entered aged care in 1965 in Canterbury and hosted Bahá’í meetings, including the Nineteen Day Feast and a Local Spiritual Assembly meeting, in his flat. He passed away shortly after an accident in 1973.[1]
