Miss Flora Clift Stevenson
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Single
Born: 1840
Died: 1905
Education: Private education and attended classes at the Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women
Occupation: Edinburgh School Board committee and later elected chairman
Main Suffrage Society: CCNSWS
Other Societies: ENSWS
1866 Petition: Yes
Petition Area: 13 Randolph Crescent, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Other sources: https://www.parliament.uk/1866
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866?1928 (2001); Anne Dingsdale, 'Generous and Lofty Sympathies: The Kensington Society, the 1866 Women's Suffrage Petition and the Development of Mid-Victorian Feminism' (unpublished PhD, University of Greenwich, 1995)
Family information: Father was James Stevenson, senior partner in the Jarrow Chemical Company.
Additional Information: Flora was a member of the Central Committee of the NSWS when it formed in 1871, speaking at their annual general meeting in 1896. She also subscribed to the Edinburgh NSWS in 1872. In 1884, she signed the Letter from Ladies to Members of Parliament, asking for women heads of households to be included in the Franchise Bill and, in 1902, spoke at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage.
Other Suffrage Activities: Flora was the first woman elected chairman of the Edinburgh School Board in 1901. She was also vice president of several societies: the Edinburgh Women's Liberal Unionist Association, the Women's Free Trade Union and the National Union of Women Workers.