John Esslemont, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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British Hand of the Cause
Date of Birth: 19-May-1874
Place of Birth: Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 22-Nov-1925
Profession: Esperantist
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About John Esslemont
- John Ebenezer Esslemont M.B., Ch.B.
- (1874 – 1925), was a prominent British Bahá'à from Scotland who was posthumously named a Hand of the Cause of God, as well as one of the Disciples of ?Abdu'l-Bahá, by Shoghi Effendi.
- He was the author of one of the foremost introductory texts on the Baha'i Faith (Baha'u'lláh and the New Era) and worked as a translator of Baha'i texts near the end of his life.
- In addition to his work for the Baha'i Faith, Esslemont was an accomplished physician, as well as a linguist, proficient in English, French, Spanish, German, Esperanto, and later Persian and Arabic.
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- Esslemont died of Tuberculosis in Palestine in 1925.
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