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MRS MARGUERITE PRESTON (née Wellby) page 231 |
Became a Bahá’í in 1936, was a member of the National
Assembly for three and a half years during the period 1939 to
1945. She married Terence Preston, a Kenya tea grower, in
August 1945 and settled in Kenya where she was the only Bahá’í
until the pioneers began to settle under the Two Year Plan. Her
husband died unexpectedly in July 1951 leaving her with three
young children and she and her eldest child were killed in an
aeroplane crash when she was returning to Kenya after a short
holiday in England, in February 1952.
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