Evelina Haverfield

Evelina Haverfield (; 9 August 1867 – 21 March 1920) was a British suffragette and aid worker. In the early 20th century, she was involved in Emmeline Pankhurst's militant women's suffrage organisation the Women's Social and Political Union. During World War I she worked as a nurse in Serbia. After the war, she returned to Serbia with her companion Vera Holme to set up an orphanage in Bajina Bašta, a town in the west of the country. Early career Evelina's birth is recorded as 'the Honourable Evilena Scarlett' (with her first name spelled thus) born on 9 August 1867 at Inverlochy Castle, Kingussie in Scotland. She was the third child of the 5 daughters and a son of William Frederick Scarlett, 3rd Baron Abinger and his wife, Helen Magruder, the daughter of a United States Navy Commodore. Her childhood was divided between London and the Inverlochy estate. In 1880 she went to school in Düsseldorf, Germany. On 10 February 1887, at the age of 19, she married a Royal Artillery officer, Major Henry Wykeham Brooke Tunstall Haverfield RA (1846-1895), in Kensington, London, and the couple went to live at Sherborne, Dorset. From 1890 to 1893, they lived at West Hall, an Elizabethan manor house at Folke near Sherborne. In 1893, the couple moved to Marsh Court at a Dorset hamlet, Caundle Marsh. Evelina's husband was 20 years her senior. The marriage was a happy one producing two sons, John Campbell Haverfield (1887-1915) and Brook Tunstall Haverfield (1889-1954), but Henry Haverfield died eight years later.