Lady Blomfield
Lady Sara Louisa Blomfield (* 1859 in Ireland; † December 31, 1939 in London Borough of Camden, United Kingdom) was the first English Bahai, the first Baha'i of Ireland and the author of the work " The Chosen Highway".
Life
She was the second wife of the famous architect Sir Arthur Blomfield, William ( 1829-1899 ).
In Paris she met the Bahai faith, which they took in 1907. In 1911 she was the hostess of Abdu'l-Baha in London. She followed him to Paris and recorded there along with her two daughters, Mary Esther and Rose Ellinor and a friend of his speeches on and put it on his request into English. These talks were published as " Paris Talks" and were later translated into numerous languages. In German, it will be rescheduled as Paris Talks. In 1913 she was once again the host of Abdu'l-Baha in London. In recognition gave her Abdu'l-Baha the Persian name " Sitárih Khanum ", where Sitárih star and Khanum means lady.
During World War II she helped in various hospitals.
In Geneva, she founded a Bahai center and spread the Bahai faith with the founders of the League of Nations. She supported the Save the Children Fund of the founding (1919) until her death. Mainly by Lady Blomfield took the League of Nations in 1924, the Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child that organization.
She helped Shoghi Effendi when he studied at Oxford, and accompanied him back to Haifa, when he received the news of the death of Abdu'l -Baha on 28 November 1921. Together with Shoghi Effendi wrote the booklet " The Passing of Abdu'l-Baha ," which also a German translation was published. They also collected information there for her book " The Chosen Highway".
Your friends in the British Parliament, they called for to defend the persecuted Baha'is in Persia.
In addition to all these activities, she served on the Local Spiritual Assembly of London and the National Spiritual Assembly of the British Isles.
Shoghi Effendi invited Lady Blomfield in 1930 to Haifa, to welcome the Queen of Romania Marie of Edinburgh welcome there. The Itinerary of the Queen, however, was short-changed by their counselors.
Lady Blomfields book " The Chosen Highway" includes oral Chronicles of the sister, the wife and the daughter of Abdu'l -Baha and Mirza Asadu'llah Kashani, Sakinih Sultan Khanum and Siyyid Ali Yazdi. In addition, the residence of Abdu'l-Baha in London will be mainly described. The book she finished on the eve of her death. Hasan Balyuzi wrote the preface to this work, which was published in 1940 Publishing Trust.
Lady Blomfield was buried in the Hampstead Municipal Cemetery. 1950 their daughter Mary Esther Hall was buried in the same grave.