Angelita Helena Maria De Silva Ferro

Angelita Helena Margarita, Lady Martin-Harvey ( Ferro; 28 August 1865/1867 – 29 March 1949) was an English actress, known by such stage names as Miss N. de Silva or Nell de Silva.

Although her parents, Don Ramon de Silva Ferro, a Chilean consul, and his wife, Caroline Milliken, had married in England in 1883, she was born, most likely in Chile, sometime during the 1860s. She was reluctant to reveal her true age. At her marriage at the beginning of 1889
to actor John Martin-Harvey, she claimed to be 21.
She become a leading lady of her husband's theater troupe. They met at a performance of Goethe's Faust at Cambridge.Thomas Power O'Connor (1901) ''In the days of my youth''. London: C. Arthur Pearson, Limited. The couple had two children: Muriel and Michael, both actors, like their parents.

During World War I, she and her husband toured the UK, giving military recruitment lectures and raising money for the Red Cross and other charities, most notably the Nation's Fund for Nurses. They raised enough money to buy a building for the College of Nursing in 1920, which became a rest home for nurses.Profile
imdb.com; accessed 14 January 2016.

Lady Martin-Harvey died from undisclosed causes on 29 March 1949, in Surrey, England.Dates of birth and death
harveyhistory.info; accessed 16 January 2016.

References

Further reading

* Disher, Maurice Willson. The Last Romantic. The Authorised Biography of Sir John Martin-Harvey. London: Hutchinson, n.d.
* Martin-Harvey, Sir John. The Autobiography of Sir John Martin-Harvey. London: Sampson Low, Marston, n.d.

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1860s births
1949 deaths
19th-century English actresses
20th-century English actresses
British actors of Latin American descent
English people of Chilean descent
English stage actresses
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