Jane Clapperton

[3] Her father was a Liberal-minded business man who had his children home educated, although Jane was sent to an English boarding school when she was 12 years old, due to her frail health.

[4] Prior to her father's death, her brother, John Clapperton, took over the family firm (based at 371 High Street on the Royal Mile) and the fanily had moved to 128 Princes Street in a house facing Edinburgh Castle.

She is buried with her family in St Cuthbert's Churchyard at the west end of Princes Street.

Clapperton's writing was on a philosophy of evolution of humanity and its happiness being related to ethical behaviour which she associated with full sexual freedom, and equality for women - in the home, the workplace and wider society, and she advocated social inclusion and poverty eradication.

[4] More specifically, Clapperton wrote that through controlling and differentiating the thoughts, feelings and senses, people gain self knowledge and self discipline to meet the community's needs.