Mary, Lady Heath was an Irish aviator and sportswoman. Born Sophie Catherine Theresa Mary Peirce-Evans in Knockaderry, County Limerick, near the town of Newcastle West. She was one of the best-known women in the world for a five-year period from the mid-1920s. Sophie Eliott-Lynn (Great Britain) set the women's high jump world record of 1.485 m in Brentwood on August 6, 1923. It stood 23 months, until Phyllis Green's 1.524 m on July 11, 1925. Wiki link