The Parish Church of St John-at-Hampstead

Eva GORE-BOOTH

  • Born: 1870
  • Died: 1926
  • Grave/memorial: B027

Irish poet and dramatist, best remembered for The Little Waves of Breffny, and a committed suffragette, social worker and labour activist. W B Yeats dedicated a poem to her and to her sister, the Irish activist Countess Markiewicz. She lived in Frognal gardens.

Reference: Buried in Hampstead, Camden History Society 1986
Additional research by the 2012 project team