User:Cakelot1/Lydia Mamreoff von Finkelstein Mountford

Lydia Mamreoff von Finkelstein Mountford (born Mary Olive, 1855-1917) was an elocutionist and performer who became known for her visits to the holy land, her productions of biblical plays and lectures.

Name and claimed origin
Mountford claimed a wide variety of ancestry, choosing her name to match: Russian (Mamreoff), Austrian (Finkelstein), British (Mountford) and even the biblical tribes of Mamre and Ephraim. According to her own account, she was born in Jerusalem, in 1885, to Nondenominational protestant parents.