The first weekend schools in the British Isles were held in Belfast Castle in 1956. The first Irish Summer School was held in the Mourne Mountains. On 21 April 1959 the first local Spiritual assembly was elected in Bangor, in what later became part of 'North Down Borough'. Among the original members of that small community was Lady Kathleen Hornell (1890-1977), who had come over from England to live in Northern Ireland a few years earlier and then pioneered to Italy in 1960. Another distinguished member of that first small group was the late Grace Pritchard, who later went on receive an honour of an Order of the British Empire for her services in the field of education. Adib Taherzadeh was among those who arrived in Ireland in 1950 from Iran. He married Belfast-born Lesley.