- 1948-10-22 — The Tunis Assembly remained active from 1923 up until 1946, but was disbanded in 1947. In 1948 Beatrice Irwin pioneered to Tunisia and settling in Tunis where she met with the seven remaining Bahá'ís and spoke at public conferences which led to the Spiritual Assembly being re-established. She also visited other cities in the south of the country before departing for Marseilles, France, in January 1949.
[Bahaipedia; BN No 216 February 1949 p9]
- 1949-01-00 — Beatrice Irwin left her pioneer post in Tunis to re-locate to Marseilles, France.
[BN No 216 February 1949 p9]
- 1956-03-20 — The passing of Beatrice Irwin (b. July 16, 1877, Dagshai, India - March 20, 1953, San Diego, California). She was an actress, poet, designer and promoter of the Baháʼí Faith. Born Alice Beatrice Simpson, she took Beatrice Irwin as her stage name and later adopted it as her real name. [Wikipedia] Note: ABF3; 343, 509 gives the year of her passing as 1956.
See her "In Memoriam" in BW13p882-884.
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