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John Esslemont
British Hand of the Cause (1874-1925) · United Kingdom · On the map · Doctors · Died at 51
John Ebenezer Esslemont M.B., Ch.B., from Scotland, was a prominent British adherent of the Baháʼí Faith. Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Baháʼí Faith, posthumously named Esslemont a Hand of the Cause of God, one of the Disciples of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, and one of the United Kingdom's three luminaries of the Baháʼí Faith.
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He was the author of one of the foremost introductory texts on the Baháʼí Faith and worked as a translator of Baháʼí texts near the end of his life. In addition to his work for the Baháʼí Faith, Esslemont was an accomplished physician, as well as a linguist, proficient in English, French, Spanish, German, Esperanto, and later Persian and Arabic. Dr Esslemont died of tuberculosis in Palestine in 1925.
