Isabel Cleghorn

Isabel Cleghorn LLA (14 March 1852 – 4 December 1922) was a British educationist and suffragist.

She was the headteacher at Heeley which is now part of Sheffield and she was the first woman President of the National Union of Teachers in 1911.

She soon began a correspondence course with the University of St Andrews for their Lady Literate in Arts qualification which she gained in 1888.

[1] In 1907 she began to serve on consultative committees of the national Board of Education with other suffragists like Sophie Bryant.

Her figure was recreated by a theatre company to explain women's suffrage and their advancement.