Evelyn Fürstin Blücher von Wahlstatt

Evelyn Fürstin Blucher von Wallstatt (September 10, 1876 - January 20, 1960), a diary and memoirist, wrote a standard story about the life of a civil aristocrat in Germany during the First World War. Princess Blucher was an Englishwoman, the daughter of Frederick Stapleton-Bretherton of the Catholic family of nobles Isabella, daughter of William Bernard Peter, 12th Baron Peter. They settled in Rainhill, Lancashire, and lived in the then Rainhill Hall, and now in Loyola Hall. She was the great-granddaughter of Peter Bretherton, the owner of the bus, and the brother of the more famous Bartholomew Bretherton, the owner of the Liverpool bus. On August 19, 1907, she married Gebhard Blucher von Hallstatt, the fourth Fürst (Prince) Blucher (1865-1931), an Anglophile descended from the great Prussian Field-Marshal Gebhard von Blucher (1742-1819), the first Prince She made a significant contribution Allied victory at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Her sister Gertrude Stapleton-Bretherton married Vice Admiral Kenneth Dewar (1879-1964).