Sir Tom Hopkinson and Lady Dorothy Hopkinson were followers of Meher Baba and they were key figures in the UK Meher Baba Association, leaving the organisation the rights to their final book The Silent Messenger. In life Sir Hopkinson was a prolific journalist and editor in Britain and Africa, and a determined campaigner for social reform. Lady Hopkinson lived a varied life amongst many notable artists of the day before the outbreak of war, going on to study the new science of psychoanalysis. Dorothy played a significant role in Tom's professional and literary life, and in 1974 they co-wrote Much Silence: Meher Baba his life and work, first published by Gollancz.