Isabella Holmes

Isabella Matilda Holmes (1861–1949) was a notable Victorian social campaigner and an advocate of opening up London's green spaces to the poor.

[5] Born in Kensington, Holmes was the daughter of chemist Dr John Hall Gladstone.

In 1887, she married Basil Holmes, a local politician in Ealing, west London, and Secretary of the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association.

He is memorialised in St Peter's Church, Ealing, where the Lady Chapel altar rails were given in his memory,[8] as well as at Bradfield College.

[9] Isabella Holmes' half sister Margaret Ethel Gladstone became the wife of Ramsay MacDonald, Britain's first Labour Prime Minister.