90 Saturday December 18 2021 | the times
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THE word of God continued to spread; the
number of the disciples increased greatly
in Jerusalem, and a great many of the
priests became obedient to the faith.
Stephen, full of grace and power, did great
wonders and signs among the people.
Acts 6.7-8 (NRSV)
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Births
BARHAM-EMANUEL
On 14th December 2021 to Eloise Alys
Emanuel and James Alan Barham, a
son, Atticus Oliver Bear Barham-
Emanuel.
David Emanuel & Elizabeth Emanuel
are delighted to announce the arrival
of their first grandchild.CRONE on 26th November 2021 to Alice
(née Hobhouse) and William, a son, Ivo
William Hobhouse, brother to Orca (the
dog!).
HESKETH-HARVEY on 6th December
2021 to Rosie (née Chance) and Rollo, a
son, Ivo Constantine, brother to Margot.
HULBERT-POWELL on 3rd December
2021 to Katie (née Richardson) and John, a
son, Arthur Thomas Lacy at Chelsea and
Westminster Hospital, London.
MCLAREN on 2nd December 2021 to
Lucy and Angus, a daughter, Alice Mary
Elizabeth, sister to Rose and Kit.
RICHARDS on 29th November 2021 to
Olivia (née Manca) and Henry, a son,
Ludovico Theodore Penrose.
LIEVEN STADLEN on 1st December
2021 to Aleka and Tommy, a daughter,
Skye Sakura. First granddaughter to Nick,
Frances, Chai and Mikiko.
TALBOT on 19th November 2021 to
Katherine Emma (née Cullen) and Charles
Edward Cameron, a daughter, Anastasia
Primrose Coutts, sister to Angus Ferdinand
Gray.
TAYLOR on 8th April 2021 to Camilla (née
Swift) and Robert, a son, Finley Beaumont.
Forthcoming Marriages
MR A. C. DYER
AND MISS P. P. ADAMS
The engagement is announced between
Adam, son of Roger and Kate Dyer of West
Wickham, Kent, and Pippa, elder daughter
of Douglas and Terri Adams of Little
Gaddesden, Hertfordshire.
MR J. DELSO
AND MS P. A. ANHUCI
The engagement is announced between
Jack, son of Mr and Mrs Adrián Delso of
Iwerne Minster, Dorset, and Priscila,
daughter of the late Boanerges Anhuci and
Mrs Therezinha Anhuci of Sāo Paulo, Brazil.
MR T. P. J. ORMEROD
AND MISS O. A. J. CORFIELD
The engagement is announced between
Thomas, son of Lt Col and Mrs Jonathan
Ormerod of Milton on Stour, Dorset, and
Olivia, daughter of Mr and Mrs Christopher
Corfield of Twickenham, Middlesex.
MISS I. G. WARE
AND MR C. F. H. D. DAVIES
Mr and Mrs Andrew Ware are
delighted to announce the marriage of
their daughter Imogen Grace to
Charles Frederick Hughes Davies
today, Saturday 18th December 2021,
at Christ Church, Bath, at 1pm.MR W. A. B. GOSS
AND MISS A. C. HART
The engagement is announced between
Bill, younger son of Sir James and Lady
Goss of Wetherby, West Yorkshire, and
Alice, younger daughter of Mr Guy Hart
and Ms Fiona Hutchison of Putney,
London.MR J. G. WEST
AND MISS G. R. LACEY
The engagement is announced between
Joshua Gerrard, son of Mr and Mrs Mark
West of Flimwell, East Sussex, and Georgia
Rachel, daughter of Mr and Mrs Michael
Lacey of Loughton, Essex.
MONSIEUR R. J. E. STUNAULT
AND MISS I. C. A. ROBERTS
The engagement is announced between
Romain, son of M. Joel Stunault of
Valbonne, France, and Mme. Eliane
Oxusoff-Stunault of Grasse, France, and
Isabella, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs
Piers Roberts of Groton, Suffolk.
MISS C. V. MARTIN
AND MR H. M. A. RUFFELL
The engagement is announced between
Charlotte, daughter of Mr and Mrs Richard
Martin of Cobham, Surrey, and Harry, son
of Mr and Mrs Miles Ruffell of Colkirk,
Norfolk.MR A. L. WADDINGTON
AND MISS G. TAYLOR
The engagement is announced between
Alex, son of the late Mr Robert Waddington
and of Mrs Waddington, of Chester Square,
London, and Grace, daughter of Mr and Mrs
Philip Taylor of Broadway, Worcestershire.
MR E. G. A. MABERLY
AND MISS A. H. VERDIN
The engagement is announced between
Ted, eldest son of Mr and Mrs James
Maberly of Dennington, Suffolk, and
Agatha, youngest daughter of the late Mr
Anthony Verdin and of Araminta Morris of
Oxford.Deaths
AMBLER Tony, on 4th December 2021,
peacefully at home in the mountains he
loved. Family funeral. Celebration of his
amazing life being planned.
AUSTIN Lady Aileen Morrison Hall (née
Stewart) on 10th December 2021, aged 90.
Wife of the late Sir Anthony, mother to
Rebecca, stepmother to the late Caroline,
Peter and Nicholas and much-loved
grandmother. Funeral at Morwenstow
Church, EX23 9SR, 2pm on Monday 10th
January.
BALESI Jean Paul passed away peacefully
on 10th December 2021 in Antibes, France.
He will be much missed by family and
friends. Funeral has taken place in Antibes.
BAND David Marston on 15th December
2021, aged 85, peacefully at home.
Beloved and loving husband of Karin,
father and grandfather. Physiologist. A
much-loved and brilliant man. Funeral at
St Mary’s Church, Worplesdon, 9.45am on
23rd December 2021.FANE Peter William died peacefully on
10th December 2021, aged 82, while at
home in Lincolnshire. Devoted husband to
Ruth, father to Maximilian and grandfather
to Daisy and Frederic. A private family
funeral will be held in January, with a
memorial service to follow in Chelsea in
the spring of 2022.FITZGERALD Alan Henderson passed
away peacefully in hospital on 8th
December 2021, aged 82. Hotelier Alan was
much loved by family, his cousins Bridget,
Nigel, Eric, Paul, Anne, Hugh, Maeve and
Emer and friends. Funeral service at Holy
Trinity Church, Sloane Square, London, on
22nd December at 11.30am. Family flowers
only. If desired, donations to Macmillan
Cancer Support and Battersea Dogs Home.FRASER
Paul, born in Nelson Village and
latterly of Tynemouth, passed away
peacefully after a short illness,
surrounded by his wife and family. He
has touched so many lives and leaves
behind his beloved wife Isabel,
children Deborah, Anne-Marie, Sarah,
John-Paul and Kirk-Michael, his
grandchildren and great-
granddaughter. He also leaves his
siblings, extended family and friends.
An online condolence book will be
opened in due course in Paul’s
memory, and the family wish that
instead of flowers a donation to
Macmillan or a charity of your choice,
if desired, would be appropriate.
A private celebration of Paul’s life will
be held on the morning of 24th
December, which will be broadcast via
a live video link. If you would like to
join us remotely then please email
[email protected]
who will provide log-in information.
The family then invite anyone who
wishes to say goodbye to join them at
Tynemouth Crematorium, where at
11.15am there will be room to gather to
say a final farewell. Any inquiries to
Go As You Please Funerals —
Tel 01670730303.HAYMES Brenda (née Styles) died
peacefully on 7th December 2021, aged 97,
at Low Furlong, Shipston on Stour. A much-
loved wife of the late Malcolm (Pip), loving
mother of Elizabeth and William. Devoted
grandmother of Charlotte, George, Harriet
and Louisa. Great-grandmother of Arabella,
Frankie, Isabelle and Leo. A private family
cremation will be held. Donations if desired
to The Children’s Society.Bahá’í founder believed in
oneness of all religions
benefactor. Successive city
governors became his friend
and sought his advice. Many
local Ottoman officials went
on to embrace the Bahá’í
faith.
He helped to establish more
than a dozen Bahá’í schools
in Iran at the turn of the 20th
century. These schools
welcomed pupils from all
religions and backgrounds
and had a great concern for
the education of girls. As late
as the 1960s, the leading Shia
cleric Ayatollah Khomeini
derided women’s education as
“not Islam, but the policy of
‘Abdu’l-Bahá”.
During his life, he
distributed alms to the poor
and caused consternation by
hosting the African-
American lawyer Louis
Gregory as his guest of
honour at an event in
segregated Washington DC.
Gregory and his wife
dedicated their lives to
‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s call for “race
unity”.
‘Abdu’l-Bahá returned to
Palestine on the eve of the
First World War and
developed a famine
prevention scheme, for which
he was knighted by the
British.
The Times was the first
newspaper in the West to
report his death a century
ago. On November 29, 1921, a
procession slowly made its
way up Mount Carmel (in
present-day Israel), flanked
by a crowd of more than
10,000 people from all the
religions and social strata.
As we commemorate the
centenary of his death,
humanity would do well to
learn from his example of
charity, and his words: “The
gift of God to this enlightened
age is the knowledge of the
oneness of mankind.”Dr Stephen Vickers works in the
Bahá’í office of public affairsreleased, including ‘Abdu’l-
Bahá in 1911.
Then aged 64, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
toured Europe and North
America to spread his father’s
message in the West. There
was much interest: more than
2,000 articles were published
about him between 1871 and
1921.
‘Abdu’l-Bahá encouraged
the early UK Bahá’ís to help
establish Save the Children
and inspired the pioneering
British Bahá’í conservationist
Richard St Barbe Baker,
founder of the International
Tree Foundation. The
suffragette Emmeline
Pankhurst saw in him a
fellow advocate of women’s
advancement. He nurtured
what was then a handful of
nascent Bahá’í groups into a
flourishing and united
community.
Today there are 7,000
Bahá’ís in the UK. They work
in the spirit of amity with
their neighbours and friends
from all faiths and beliefs to
translate principles such as
social justice and gender
equality into local action.
Despite his harsh treatment
as a prisoner of conscience,
‘Abdu’l-Bahá sent a message
that combined love for
humanity with pragmatic
spiritual teachings for
achieving peace. Constance
Maud, the British suffragist,
reported that during his visit
to the UK he “addressed
Christians of all
denominations, Buddhists,
Muslims, agnostics and
Gnostics”. It should come as
no surprise that the UK
Bahá’í community is at the
forefront of interfaith
activities.
A recent film about his life,
The Exemplar, documents the
way that ‘Abdu’l-Bahá served
others with joy. For example,
after the end of his
confinement in Akka, he
became the city’s principalT
he recent centenary
of the death of
‘Abdu’l-Bahá has
been marked by
millions of people
around the world.
‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s life was
shaped by the teachings of his
father, Bahá’u’lláh (1817-92),
the prophet-founder of the
Bahá’í faith in the mid-19th
century. The Bahá’í faith is
now embraced by eight
million people from all
backgrounds and cultures. Its
teachings pivot on the
oneness of humankind and
the oneness of religion.
Born in 1844 into one of the
principal noble families of
Persia, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá spent 40
years a prisoner and an exile.
He was banished from Persia
at the age of eight. His
imputed crime was to be the
son of Bahá’u’lláh, whose
progressive teachings so
annoyed the Shia clergy of
Iran that after months in the
Shah’s choicest dungeon he
was successively exiled to
Baghdad, Istanbul,
Adrianople (in present-day
Turkey) and finally, in 1868,
to the prison city of Akka,
Palestine (present-day Israel).
While a prisoner,
Bahá’u’lláh wrote thousands
of prayers and teachings
centred around the common
origin of all religions. In his
will he named ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
as the authorised interpreter
of his teachings.
After the Young Turk
Revolution of 1908, which
made the Ottoman Empire
into a constitutional
monarchy, all political and
religious prisoners wereCredo
Stephen
VickersWindsor Castle
17th December, 2021
By command of The Queen,
Mr Alistair Harrison (Marshal
of the Diplomatic Corps)
called upon His Excellency Mr
Antonio José Ardila at 3 Hans
Crescent, London SW1, thismorning in order to bid
farewell to His Excellency
upon relinquishing his
appointment as Ambassador
from the Republic of Colombia
to the Court of St. James’s.
St James’s Palace
17th December, 2021
The Princess Royal, Patron,
the Horse Trust, this morning
viewed the new British Animal
Rescue and Trauma
Association Training Centre at
Slad Lane, Speen, Princes
Risborough, and was received
by Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of
Buckinghamshire (the
Countess Howe).Kensington Palace
17th December, 2021
The Duke of Gloucester,
Grand Prior, the Most
Venerable Order of the
Hospital of St John of
Jerusalem, and The Duchess of
Gloucester this morning
visited Shaftesbury Covid
Vaccination Centre,
Shaftesbury Pharmacy,
Shaftesbury Circle, Harrow,
Middlesex.Court Circular
HUNTER Pauline, Michael’s amazing wife,
died peacefully at home on Sunday, 5th
December. She is the much-loved mother
of Louisa, Ben, Barnaby and Joe as well as
her very special and loving grandchildren,
Ben, Holly, Josh, Maisy and Martha. There is
a service of celebration and thanksgiving
for Pauline’s life on 15th January 2022 at
11am in St Peter’s Church, Osmotherley, and
the family look forward to meeting all her
many friends and colleagues.
NIXON Christine (née Corker) died
peacefully on 12th December 2021, aged- Adored wife, mother, grandmother and
sister. Ever-caring mother, family, NHS
spinal injuries and community
physiotherapist, Oxfam volunteer.
RANDALL Jean Mary (née Simpson) died
peacefully at home on 8th December 2021.
Beloved wife of the late David and adored
mother of Charlotte, Miranda and Mark.
Thanksgiving service on 18th January at
12pm at St. Mary’s Church, Wootton, OX20
1EG. No flowers. If desired, donations for
Myasthenia research and support
(myaware.org). Inquiries to Jerrams
Brothers F/D 01993 811491.
ROBSON Alan on 1st December 2021,
aged 81. (Jarrow) General secretary (Ret)
CSEU, prev Swan Hunter. Much-loved
father, husband, grandad, brother and
legendary uncle. Will be truly missed.
Funeral 29th December, 11.15am.
STEWART
Professor Michael George died
suddenly on 3rd November 2021, aged- Born in Londonderry to parents
George and Harriet Stewart. He
studied at Queen’s University Belfast
before moving to England with his
wife Mary.
As an inspirational neuroscientist and
prolific researcher he had over 180
peer-reviewed papers published, with
many centring on cognitive
dysfunction and ageing. He played a
critical role in developing the British
Neuroscience Association and was
involved with the European Dana
Alliance, Federation of European
Neuroscience Societies and Motor
Neurone Disease Association.
He was a beloved husband, father,
brother, grandfather and uncle, and
will be dearly missed by all that knew
him.
Private family funeral. Celebration of
his life to follow in 2022. Donations
via http://www.memorygiving.com/
professormichaelgeorgestewart.
WALLERS Anthony died peacefully on
13th December 2021, aged 96. Beloved
husband of the late Paola and much-loved
father of Julian and Tim and grandfather of
Henry and Olivia.
WAND Bridget, on 11th December 2021,
aged 81. Funeral service at St James’
Church, Alveston, Stratford-upon-Avon, on
Tuesday 4th January at noon. Inquiries to
A E Bennett & Sons, Tel: 01789 267035.
WHETSTONE Linda Joy Catherine on
15th December 2021. Chairman of British
Dressage and President of the Mont Pelerin
Society, suddenly in Miami, Florida. Much-
loved wife of Francis, mother of Kate,
Henrietta and Rachel and grandmother of
nine grandchildren and sorely missed by all
she worked with. Family funeral and
memorial service at date to be arranged.
WOODHEAD John Macdonald
Hargreave on 30th November 2021, aged- Passed away peacefully with his loving
wife Christina at his side. Adored father of
Duncan, Alice, Lucy and the late Judy and
their families.
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