Ethel Jenner Rosenberg

Ethel Jenner Rosenberg (6 August 1858 – 17 November 1930) became the first English Baháʼí.

Rosenberg was born in the city of Bath, Somerset, to a Jewish family and was a painter trained at the Slade School of Fine Art in London.

Rosenberg traveled to America three times, initially doing so with Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl and Laura Clifford Barney.

When she arrived in Haifa for her third pilgrimage, in 1921, she found that ʻAbdu'l-Bahá had recently died.

Shoghi Effendi gave her instructions for the calling of the first National Spiritual Assembly of England, on which she would serve.

Early Western Baháʼí pilgrims. Standing left to right: Charles Mason Remey , Sigurd Russell, Edward Getsinger and Laura Clifford Barney ; Seated left to right: Ethel Jenner Rosenberg, Madam Jackson, Shoghi Effendi , Helen Ellis Cole, Lua Getsinger , Emogene Hoagg