- 1910-10-00 — Mr and Mrs E T Hall read an account of the Faith in The Christian Commonwealth written by Wesley Tudor Pole and wrote to him asking for further information. Pole passed the letter on to Ethel Rosenberg who sent a package of Bahá'í literature to the Halls who became interested and shared it with their relatives, the John Cravens. The Halls wanted to know if there were any other Bahá'ís in Manchester and were told of Sarah Ann Ridgeway who had become a Bahá'í in America and had returned to England in about 1904 or 1905. The Halls, the Cravens and Sarah Ann Ridgeway had a visit from Ethel Rosenberg who deepened them in the Faith. [SAR90; EJR118-121]
For further information on the development of the Manchester Bahá'í community see BCBI p62-65; 131-139.
For an account of the beginning of the Bahá'í Cause in Manchester see The Bahá'í Dawn - Manchester by E T Hall. - 1922-05-31 —
The communities of London, Manchester and Bournemouth elected a Bahá'í Spiritual Assembly for England. [EJR213; SBR28, 67]
- This was also known as the Spiritual Assembly for London and the All-England Bahá'í Council. [EJR2 13; SBR67]
- See EJR213 and SBR28 for membership.
- The social centre of the London group was Ethel Rosenburg with Mrs Thornburgh-Cropper and later Lady Blomfield also playing significant roles. The group in Manchester came from the working- or lower middle-class background with Edward Hall and other men in leadership positions. The group in Bournemouth developed around Dr. Esslemont. In addition to these centres there were a few scattered isolated believers. [SBBH5p220]
- 1962-12-05 —
The passing of Edward Theodore Hall (b.19 December 1879 in Burnley, UK). He heard about the Faith from Sarah Ann Ridgway in 1910. He was instrumental in establishing the second Bahá'í group in the British Isles in Manchester that established a Spiritual Assembly in 1922 with him as its secretary.
- In 1922 he represented Manchester on the first National Spiritual Council and served on that body until 1928. [Unfolding Destiny p9]
- In 1925 the Manchester Assembly published his work The Bahá'í Dawn, Manchester. Other shorter works were also published, [Collins 7.1121-7.1125a]
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