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] Evelina's birth is recorded as 'the Honourable Evilena Scarlett' (with her first name spelled thus) born on 9 August 1867 at Inverlochy Castle, Kingussie in Scotland.

[4] On 10 February 1887, at the age of 19, she married a Royal Artillery officer, Major Henry Wykeham Brooke Tunstall Haverfield RA (1846–1895), in Kensington, London, and the couple went to live at Sherborne, Dorset.

On her wedding day, she wrote in her diary: 'I married Major Balguy with no intention of changing my name or mode of life in any way.

[6] In April 1909, Haverfield was a founder member with Mildred Mansel (1868-1942) of the Sherborne branch of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.

[4][15] In 1908, she attended a rally at the Royal Albert Hall and started supporting the militant suffragettes, joining the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU).

"[5] In 1911, she was among 200 women arrested in London for breaking windows and damaging government buildings during a public protest against the Manhood Suffrage bill.

The Veto bill passing through the Commons was challenged several times by the Lords during efforts by the Liberal government to secure the provisions in their budgets in 1909 and 1910.

[18] With Alice Laura Embleton (a cancer scientist), Vera Holme, and Celia Wray, Haverfield set up the private 'Foosack League' between themselves.

Its membership was restricted to women and suffragists; the internal evidence suggests the Foosack League was a lesbian secret society.

[6] She travelled to Serbia with Holme and helped to build a children's health centre in Bajina Bašta which was later named after her.