Beatrice Hilda Falk

Beatrice Hilda Falk became Beatrice Hilda Levy and Lady (Arthur) Lever (3 November 1873 – 28 May 1917) was a titled UK nurse. Her premature death working as a volunteer nurse led to a memorial window in York Minster. Life Falk was born in Salford on 3 November 1873. She was one of the six children of Philip and Sarah Falk. In 1896 she married Sir Arthur Levy who was a baronet and a politician with the Liberal Party. He had been born in Leicester and he was thirteen years older than her. They made their home in Knightsbridge. Some time before the war she wrote a play titled "Brown Sugar". In 1914 the First World War started and her husband re-joined the army. He was a major in the Royal Fusiliers' 2/1st Battalion London Regiment and in time he would become a Colonel. In about 1915 she had her portrait painted by the suffragist artist Ethel Wright. Her husband changed his and her name to Lever.