Clara Mordan

Clara Evelyn Mordan (28 September 1844 – 22 January 1915) was a British suffragist and benefactor to the Women's Social and Political Union and St Hugh's College, Oxford.

Despite suffering from tuberculosis she served on their executive committees, had letterheads made with "Votes for Women" on them, and she was generous with her funding to these causes.

She contracted to supply an annuity of £40 per annum to fund a scholarship on the condition that there was no vivisection involved in the recipients research.

[3] In 1906 after many years of interest she joined the militant Women's Social and Political Union which was led by Emmeline Pankhurst, but it was a speech by Annie Kenney that inspired her.

[2] She funded a variety of projects from a WSPU Art exhibition at the Prince's Skating Club in 1909 to $200 set aside for a "return to militancy" in 1912.

Emily Blathwayt and her family invited leading suffragettes and their supporters to plant trees and shrubs in "Annie's Arboretum" to commemorate their achievements and her husband recorded these in photographs.

She commented in a letter published by "Votes for Women, "I have impressed upon my doctor that she really must keep me alive till I can have a reasonable prospect of feeling that my last bed will be a coffin some woman has earned her living by making.

Clara Evelyn Mordan by unknown artist
Miss Mordan to speak in 1901