Evelyn Glover

Evelyn Harriott M Glover was born at Great Crosby, Lancashire, on 11 July 1873. Her father John Moore Glover was a Brazilian merchant who died in 1885 leaving a personal estate of £60,923 1s 4d. The 1891-1911 census returns and the 1939 Register show Evelyn as a scholar at Cheltenham Ladies College, as a ‘journalist author’ on her own account, as a writer (journalism) on her own account, and as an author. The West Sussex Gazette, 16 January 1941, carried a brief notice of her death: ‘On January 14, at Hindhead, Evelyn H. M. Glover’. The national probate register shows that Evelyn Harriot Moore Glover of 24 York Street Chambers, Bryanston Square, London W1, spinster, died on 14 January 1941 at Manormead, Telford Road, Hindhead, Surrey and that probate in respect of her estate (effects £4332 16s 3d) was granted at Llandudno on 1 May 1941 to William Deacons Bank Ltd. Evelyn Glover was a member of the Council of the Conservative and Unionist Women’s Franchise Association and is perhaps best known today as a writer of plays supporting women’s suffrage and women's rights: Miss Appleyard’s Awakening (1911), A Chat with Mrs Chicky (1912), Which? (1914) and Showin’ Samyel (1914). She also wrote Cats and My Camera: Some Mental and Photographic Reflections (1938).