[2] She shared many of her husband's outdoor interests and, under the name Mrs Algernon St Maur, wrote a book Impressions of a Tenderfoot during a Journey in Search of Sport in the Far West (London, John Murray, 1890).

Most of the journey was undertaken by train, with numerous pauses en route, and there are vivid descriptions of Canadian life and culture of that time.

A woman of great energy and enthusiasm, from 1905 onwards she became one of the leading organisers of the Invalid Kitchens charity[3] and she was also active in a number of other charitable causes, including Dr Barnardo's Homes (of which her husband became president).

They are surrounded by a metal fence and marked by standing rough stones with small text plaques.

[5] She was a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, and was also awarded the Medal of the Queen Victoria and Queen Alexandra Nurses Institution, the Belgian Queen Elisabeth Medal, the French Médaille de la Reconnaissance, the Italian Medaglia Benemeriti Croce Rossa, the Serbian Red Cross Order, and the Spanish Red Cross Merit Order.