MRS MARION HOFMAN
Came to Britain in 1945 to be married to David Hofman, after having served the Faith in America with great distinction as a teacher, writer and administrator. With her husband she pioneered during the Six Year Plan in Northampton, Birmingham and Oxford, and during the Ten Year Crusade in Cardiff and Watford. She served on the National Spiritual Assembly and National Teaching Committee and as an Auxiliary Board member. Since David’s election to the Universal House of Justice, Marion was solely responsible for the family publishing business of George Ronald.
MISS UNA TOWNSHEND, Knight of Bahá’u’lláh
Was the first of Hand of the Cause George Townshend’s family to embrace the Faith which her father had espoused many years previously. She was an active Bahá’í youth and on 16 September 1946 became the first pioneer in Ireland where she opened the ‘pivotal centre’ of Dublin and was on its first Spiritual Assembly in 1948. She pioneered to Malta and was the first Knight of Bahá’u’lláh in that island in October 1953.