Nell de Silva
Helena Margarita, Lady Martin-Harvey was an English actress, known by such stage names as Miss N. de Silva or Nell de Silva.
She was born in London between 1864 and 1867, the daughter of Don Ramon de Silva Ferro, a Chilean consul. She married actor John Martin-Harvey in 1889 and become a leading lady of his theater troupe. They met at a performance of Goethe's Faust at Cambridge. The couple had two children: Muriel Martin-Harvey and Michael Martin-Harvey, both actors, like their parents.
During the Great War, 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.
Lady Martin-Harvey died in Surrey, England, from undisclosed causes in 1949; she was believed to be 90 years old.
