A long standing church member, Margaret Cathcart-Bryce was a wealthy widow who had been living at Chapman Farm for seven or eight years before she died.  In an email to Sir Colin Edensor, Kevin Pirbright described Margaret Cathcart Bryce as ‘the filthy rich’ widow of a businessman who was over seventy years old when she arrived at the farm. He said ‘her face had been lifted so many times it was tight and shiny, and she wore this big silver wig’ (Ch 7).

Cathcart-Bryce donated substantial funds to renovate Chapman Farm, and the church was the sole beneficiary of her will when she died.  The church used this money to purchase properties in Central London, Birmingham and Glasgow (Prologue).

After she died, she was buried at Chapman Farm and became the ‘Golden Prophet’ (Ch 7).

The journalist Fergus Robertson tells Strike that according to an ex-member of the Church. Margaret didn’t have a good death as they don’t believe in medicine at the Universal Humanitarian Church. His source said that she died in agony begging for a doctor (Ch 14).