Chronology: Date 1956-05-20

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1956 20 May 195-	Louisa Mathew Gregory, (b. 1 February 1866 in Penge, Kent, England) whose wedding to Hand of the Cause of God Louis Gregory in 1912 was the first interracial western Bahá'í marriage, passed away in Eliot, Maine. [BW13:878; SYH19, 239] She had been introduced to the Faith by Edith Sanderson in Paris in about December of 1909. Edith had been taught by May Maxwell in 1902. [SYH5, 206] For her obituary see BW13:376–8. Error in this article There was no Bahá'í Congress in Prague in 1928 She did not attend Cambridge but rather the examination for her credentials were administered by Cambridge. 'Abdu'l-Bahá did not attend her marriage on the 27 September 1912. He was in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. [SYHvii-viii; 28] Her biography, A Seed in Your Heart - The Life of Louise Mathew Gregory by Janet Fleming Rose was published by George Ronald in 2018. See a brief biography in The Bahá'í Community of the British Isles 1844-1963 p462-464 and for the story of his learning of the Faith, p453-454	Louisa Mathew Gregory; Louise Gregory; Edith Sanderson; - Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Births and deaths; - Births and deaths; Firsts, other; Eliot, ME; Maine, USA; United States (USA); Penge, England; Kent, England	first interracial western Bahá’í marriage


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