12 Facts About Mabel Bent

Mabel Bent's birthplace was her grandfather's estate, Beauparc, on the River Boyne in County Meath, Ireland.

Some examples of Greek island costumes Mabel Bent brought home from Greece are now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Benaki Museum, Athens.

Theodore Mabel Bent died in May 1897 of malarial complications after a hurried return to London from Aden, where the couple were both hospitalized at the end of their last journey together.

The year after her husband's death, Mabel Bent made a solo visit to Egypt to see the sites on the Nile.

Mabel Bent attempted a last diary, which she headed 'A lonely useless journey'.

Until 1914, Mabel Bent was a regular visitor to the Holy Land.

Mabel Bent was made London secretary and later co-edited an update of the guidebook, with Charlotte Hussey, a fellow Irishwoman, who was the official custodian of the tomb in Jerusalem.

In 1900 Mabel met with Moses B Cotsworth and George Frederick Wright and travelled with them.

Mabel Bent sent a guide to find the gentlemen who returned and, with the help of the guides, carried her to the hospital in Jerusalem.

Mabel Bent was suggested as a possible inclusion among the first women Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society.

Mabel Bent died in her London home on 3 July 1929, her death certificate citing 'myocardial failure' and 'rheumatoid arthritis '.

Mabel Bent is buried with her husband in the Hall-Dare family plot, St Mary's Church, Theydon Bois, Essex.