• Born: 21 Nov 1856, Russell Square, Bloomsbury, London, England ¹
• Christened: 27 Dec 1856, St. George, Bloomsbury, London, England ¹
• Married: 13 Mar 1880, Westminster Abbey, London, England ²
• Died: 12 Mar 1937, 12 Cleveland Row, St. James, Westminster, London, England ^{3 4}

  Research Notes:

Eveleen daughter of Charles Tennant of Russell Square, esquire, and Gertrude Barbara Rich (baptismal record)

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At the time of the 1901 England Census Eveleen Myers, aged 43, born in Westminster London, widow, was living at Lackampton [Leckhampton] House, Cambridge. With her were children (born in Cambridge) Silvia (17) and Harold H. (14).

In March 1907 Eveleen Myers and her son Leopold Hamilton Myers were present at the marriage of Eveleen's widowed sister Dorothy Stanley to Henry Curtis in Westminster London.

At the time of the 1911 England Census Eveleen Myers, aged 50, born in Bloomsbury, widow, and children (born in Cambridge) Silvia Myers (24) and Harold Hamilton Myers (22), worker in automobile industry, were with Eveleen's widowed mother in St. Margaret & St. John London.

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AN OLD ROMANCE
Recalled by Death of Mrs. F. W. H. Myers

Mrs. Frederick W. H. Myers, widow of Mr. F. W. H. Myers (O.C.), the brilliant classical scholar and mystic, of whom a remarkable memorial exists in Cheltenham College Chapel, died yesterday in London. A year after their marriage they took up residence at a house which they built outside Cambridge, and which they named Leckhampton House. It was there that Myers and his wife, Professor Henry Sedgwick, Professor Sir W. Barrett, and Edmund Gurney met for the conversations that led to the foundation of the Society for Psychical Research. Mrs. Myers also fitted up a photographic studio at the house, and among famous men whom she photographed were Gladstone, Browning, Irving, Arthur Balfour, Chamberlain, and William James.

Her death recalls the story of a romantic marriage, for it was the outcome of a picture. Mrs. Myers was the daughter of Charles Tennant, of Cadoxton Glamorgan, and she and her sister, Miss Dorothy Tennant, were friendly with Sir John Millais. Attracted by their great charm and beauty he made them the subject of two paintings which were to become famous as the "Yes" and "No" Millais pictures.

Viewing the "Yes" picture at the Royal Academy with George Eliot, Frederick Myers declared himself in love with the picture. He discovered the subject, and soon afterwards made her his bride.

Subsequently Millais and Watts painted Mrs. Myers, and these pictures have found their way all over the world.

To-day both the "Yes" and "No" pictures hang in the London home of Mr. Harold H. Myers, the son of Mrs. Eveleen Myers.

Miss Dorothy Tennant became the wife of H. M. Stanley, the famous explorer who found Livingstone in the heart of Africa.

Gloucestershire Echo, Saturday, 13 Mar 1937, p. 1

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Famous Beauty Passes.

The death has taken place at her London home of Mrs. Eveleen Myers, widow of Mr. Frederick W. H. Myers, the psychic researcher, and a daughter of the late Mrs. Barbara Rich Tennant, late of Whitehall Place, and Cadoxton Lodge, Neath, and a sister of the late Mr. Charles Tennant, of Cadoxton Lodge, Neath.

Her sister was Lady Dorothy Stanley, wife of the famous explorer, and her sister-in-law is Mrs. Coombe-Tennant, of London, and formerly of Cadoxton Lodge....

Neath Guardian, Friday, 19 Mar 1937, p. 6

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Eveleen Myers of 12 Cleveland Row St. James Westminster, widow, died 12 March 1937. Probate London 5 May to Leopold Hamilton Myers, author, Silvia Constance Blennerhasett, married woman, Harold Hawthorn Myers of no occupation, and Clarence Samuel Tomlinson, solicitor. Effects £17168 1s. 6d. ⁴