Mabel Hackney

Mabel Lucy Hackney as Phyllis in The Thunderbolt (1908)

Mabel Lucy Hackney (1872 – 29 May 1914) was a British actress and the wife of the dramatist and actor Laurence Irving and daughter-in-law of the actor Henry Irving in whose company she acted before she joined that of her husband. She died along with her husband in the RMS Empress of Ireland disaster in 1914.[1]

  1. ^ Logan Marshall, The Tragic Story of the Empress of Ireland, Berkley Publishing Group (2014), Google Books.