Major Wellesley Tudor Pole

He was educated at Blundell's School in Tiverton in Devon and at the age of 20 became managing director of the family firm marketing grains and continued to be involved though his life.

He had various adventures to find the Holy Grail. He pursued investigations in the Middle East and on a visit to Constantinople in 1908 he met Abdul Baha, head of the Baha’i faith. For the next few years he was active in the Baha’i Faith.

During World War I, Tudor Pole served in the Directorate of Military Intelligence in the Middle East and was directly involved in addressing the concerns raised by the Ottoman threats against `Abdu'l-Bahá.

After the War, Tudor Pole began his writing career with Private Dowding and continued to write until his death. He instituted the Silent Minute that united the British people with the chiming of Big Ben on the radio each evening at 9 p.m.

From a young age, he had connections with Glastonbury, Dr. Goodchild, Alice Buckton and an-on-going interest in the holy spring of Chalice Well. In 1959, he founded the charity that has since preserved the Well and its surroundings.

An interesting comment on Tudor Pole was given in the introduction by Brinsley le Poer Trench to Pole’s book ‘The Silent Road’:

Some people are publicists; others act unseen behind the scenes and let their deeds speak for themselves. Tudor Pole is one of the latter group. If you passed him in the street you would not realize that there was anything particularly unusual about him. But he is, I assure you, a quite exceptional man.

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