September 29. On this date in 1990, Harold Collis Featherstone, a Hand of the Cause of God, died in Kathmandu, Nepal, where he was visiting Bahá’ís.

September 29. On this date in 1990, Harold Collis Featherstone, a Hand of the Cause of God, died in Kathmandu, Nepal, where he was visiting Bahá’ís.

On May 13, 1913, Harold Collis Featherstone, later named a Hand of the Cause of God, was born in Quorn, Australia.

After spending a childhood in Adelaide, Collis Featherstone initially studied accounting but took up engineering in 1932. He worked for a large engineering firm and by the time he married his wife, Madge, in 1938, he was already a partner in an engineering business making pressed metal parts.

The Featherstones converted to the Bahá’í Faith in 1944. From 1949 to 1962, Collis Featherstone served on the National Spiritual Assembly of Australia.
In 1954 he was appointed as an Auxiliary Board member for Australia by Hand of the Cause of God Clara Dunn.

Shoghi Effendi appointed him a Hand of the Cause of God in October 1957.
He died on September 29, 1990 in Kathmandu, Nepal, while visiting the Bahá’ís there.