Muriel Martin

Margaret Muriel de Melfort Martin-Harvey was born on 4 October 1891 in London to a theatrical family. Her father was Sir John Martin-Harvey, an Essex-born actor, and her mother was Angelita Helena Margarita (née de Silva), a London-born actress. Her brother, Michael Martin-Harvey, also pursued a career on the stage. Martin-Harvey died on 15 December 1988 in Northwood, London, having lived to the age of 97.

Martin-Harvey began her acting career in 1911, making her debut in her father's production of Pelléas and Mélisande at the Lyceum Theatre in London. The following year she appeared in The Bear-Leaders. Her Broadway career spanned 1914 to 1915, during which she appeared in the musical Papa's Darling and the Ziegfeld Follies of 1915. She subsequently toured the United States in 1916 as the leading lady to actor Cyril Maude. That same year she appeared in two silent films, The Answer and The Hard Way. Martin-Harvey retired from the stage in 1939 at the outbreak of World War II.

Martin-Harvey married three times. Her first marriage was to Ronald Squire on 5 August 1914; the couple had a daughter together before divorcing in 1924. On 15 July 1926 she married actor Garry Marsh, who was eleven years her junior, and the two toured Australia together. Her third husband was Anthony Huntly-Gordon, who served as company and stage manager for the Agatha Christie thriller The Mousetrap at the Ambassadors Theatre for twenty-one years.