Eliza Dinah Sheffield was an English entrepreneur and socialite. Born into a working class family in Southampton, England, she rose through the ranks of society through marriage to Henry Digby Sheffield, a minor aristocrat. Since Fairchild was a barmaid at the time of their marriage, they had to invent a more prestigious background for her and she took the name Evelyn Diana Turnour Sheffield, presenting herself as the child of a British naval officer and a Spanish aristocrat.
- Occupation
- inventor, engineer
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- September 6, 1856
- Died
- November 28, 1942
