Wednesday, September 4, 2013

The Purdoms' 50th Wedding Anniversary


Charles and Lilian Purdom at their Golden Wedding Anniversary, 1962

Charles Purdom (1883–1965) was Meher Baba's first published biographer. He wrote The Perfect Master: The Life of Shri Meher Baba in 1937, and later The God-Man in 1964. Besides biographies of Baba he wrote the first single-volume edition of Meher Baba's discourses, God to Man and Man to God: The Discourses of Meher Baba in 1955.

Here we see a rare home-movie of his and his wife Lilian's 50th wedding anniversary in 1962 at their home in Welwyn Garden City, England. The little girl is Antoinette, the Purdoms' grand-daughter.

Purdom was also a city planner, economist, and drama critic. His son Edmund Purdom was a well-known British actor.

See also: Charles Purdom Biographical Details.

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