Church History Pioneering Members
The only person born in the Emerald Isle to become a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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The people of Scotland are slow to believe and embrace the truth, but after they have embraced it, they are firm
The place where the first recorded convert baptism in South Wales of James W. Palmer took place on 13 April 1840
Charlotte Orme of Derby branch: Woman of Great Faith
Sister Alder was the first unmarried sister missionary older than thirty, and the first widowed sister missionary formally called to proselytize for the Church.
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Elizabeth Bradley served thirty-six years as Relief Society President
Are we not blessed to stand on the shoulders of those ‘giants’ who gave faithful and tireless service to the benefit of many?
A boy from Bishopton, in the Paisley Scotland Stake, became Judge of Bandera County, Texas.
Robert Preston explains the effect his parents had.
John Halliday’s name appears on a number of documents relating to the Church in Wiltshire
Evan Arthurs served three times as a missionary in Wales
When I was a child of six attending the Church’s branch located in Neville Street, Oldham, Freddie Fowles was brought to it in his invalid carriage. I used to think the carriage looked like a coffin on wheels.
Before joining the church in 1893 Benjamin R. Birchall had said 'It will be a mighty cold day when I join the Mormon church'
In May 1940 third-generation British Latter-day Saint Arthur Willmott goes missing near Dunkirk, France. As the weeks pass by his family and church leaders receive no news about his whereabouts or his fate. Where was he and what had happened to him?
From Dundee, Scotland to Liverpool where he would board a ship to travel to America
Orson F. Whitney was born in Salt Lake City in 1855 and was third generation Latter-Day Saint.
While searching for the true gospel William Solomon described himself as a sheep without a shepherd.
In 1931 James & Elizabeth Wallis arrived in Britain to strengthen the Church and fulfil a unique mission
In 1853 Robert was called to be the president of the Newcastle branch
Stone mason, Welshman, first conductor of the Tabernacle Choir
The death of Alfred (Fred) Horlacher on 17 March 1943 shocked many. The young Latter-day Saint was a successful sportsman with a bright future ahead of him.
Throughout her life, Catherine Horner presented herself and acted as a committed disciple of Jesus Christ
The baptism of Edalinda Longbone would prove to have a lasting impact on her own and many others’ lives.
WWII veteran, footballer, playwriter/producer, businessman and first Stake President in Sunderland
Being no stranger to hardships and horrors, Albert Short was one of many individuals to have experienced the best and the worst that this world had to offer.
Acel Nebeker was on his way home from his mission when he found himself boarding a lifeboat with just minutes before the ship he was on sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean