Lady Laura Evesham

In the short story The Coming of Mr Quin, Lady Laura Evesham (née Keene) is the wife of Tom Evesham, the hot of a New Year's Eve house party at Royston which forms the main setting for the events in the story.

Mr Satterthwaite thinks of Lady Laura as a "highly political wife", more political, perhaps, than her politician husband. It was she who persuaded her husband to run as member of parliament for West Kidleby. As a result they were obliged to buy a suitable house, thus ending up at Royston.