Angelita Helena Margarita, Lady Martin-Harvey ( Ferro; 28 August 1865/1867 – 29 March 1949) was an

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, 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

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, she claimed to be 21. She become a leading lady of her husband's theater troupe. They met at a performance of

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. Thomas Power O'Connor (1901) ''In the days of my youth''. London: C. Arthur Pearson, Limited. The couple had two children: Muriel and

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, both actors, like their parents. During

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, 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

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.Dates of birth and death
harveyhistory.info; accessed 16 January 2016.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Silva Ferro, Angelita Helena Maria de 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 Wives of knights

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