Mabel Love

She was considered to be one of the great stage beauties of her age, and her career spanned the late Victorian era and the Edwardian period.

In 1887, she played one of the triplet children in Masks and Faces at London's Opera Comique, and the same year, she appeared in the Christmas pantomime at Covent Garden.

Still only 14, she enjoyed widespread popularity in George Edwardes's Burlesque Company at the Gaiety Theatre playing the dancing role of Totchen, the vivandière (camp follower) in Faust Up To Date (1888–89).

Love died at Weybridge, Surrey, England at the age of 78, leaving an illegitimate daughter, Mary Loraine (1913–1973), £2,600 in government bonds.

[4] Mary, an actress, worked as a British Special Operations Executive during the Second World War[5] and married first Richard Emrys Thomas in 1935, the general manager of the Egyptian State Railways (they had a son, Richard (1936–2001)), and later BOAC pilot Anthony Loraine in 1948; she died in poverty in a fire at her flat, not knowing that her mother had left her the valuable bonds.