Baháʼí Faith in England

[4] He was born in Woking and heard of the Baha'i Faith at the age of 29 during the summer of 1901 while on vacation in Paris from the United States where he was then working.

[5] After a pilgrimage to Acre, he remained in Paris at the request of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, quitting his job in the cotton mills of the American South out of a sense of sin where child labour was still the norm.

[7] On a visit to Constantinople prior to the Young Turk Revolution in 1908 Wellesley Tudor Pole heard of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá[8] and met and interviewed him over nine days in late November 1910 in Cairo and Alexandria.

When ʻAbdu'l-Bahá traveled to the West, Tudor Pole spoke the English translation of his first talk on the evening of 10 September 1911.

During World War I Tudor Pole served in the Directorate of Military Intelligence in the Middle East and was directly involved in addressing the concerns raised by the Ottoman threats against ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, which ultimately required General Allenby altering his plans for the prosecution of the war in the Palestine theatre.

There are no plans, at present, to form separate National Spiritual Assemblies for England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.