Maud Adeline Cloudesley Brereton (1872 – 1946), formerly Horobin, née Ford, was a British feminist and sanitary reformer who worked first in education and then as a promotional writer for the gas industry.

[1] In 1897 she became resident tutor at Homerton College, Cambridge, marrying the principal, John Horobin, shortly thereafter.

Maud briefly served as acting principal at Homerton College until 1904, when she married Cloudesley Brereton, with whom she had two sons.

[4] It was as "Mrs M. A. Cloudesley Brereton" that she became known as a social and sanitary reformer, and the author of The Mother’s Companion (1909), a book of advice for modern wives which promoted equality within marriage.

[5] Much of her work was based on the concept of using gas and its technology to alleviate drudgery in the home as a way to improve the health of women and children.