Evelina Haverfield

Evelina Haverfield
Born
Evilena Scarlett

(1867-08-09)9 August 1867
Kingussie, Scotland
Died21 March 1920(1920-03-21) (aged 52)
Occupations
  • Social activist
  • suffragette
Spouses
Henry Haverfield
(m. 1887; died 1895)
John Balguy
(m. 1899)
FatherWilliam Scarlett, 3rd Baron Abinger
Relatives
Haverfield on a 2015 Serbian stamp from the series "British Heroines of the First World War in Serbia".

Evelina Haverfield (née Scarlett; 9 August 1867 – 21 March 1920)[1] 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.[2]

  1. ^ Burke, Bernard; Pirie-Gordon, Charles Harry Clinton (1937). Genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry: founded by the late Sir Bernard Burke. Vol. Band 1 (15. Auflage ed.). Shaw. p. 90.
  2. ^ "Women's Reserve Ambulance – World War One". COHSE Britain's Health Service Union. March 2008.

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