SARAH GRAND DEAD

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 34, 9 August 1943, Page 6

SARAH GRAND DEAD

Sarah Grand, author of "The Heavenly Twins," died at Come, England, last May at the age of 88. She was a pioneer in the British votes-for-women movement and was six times Mayor of Bath, in 1923 and from 1925 to 1929.: She married at the age of 16, and in private life was Mrs. David McFall. She was born in Ireland of English parents, Lieutenant Edward John Bellenden Clarke, R.N., and his wife Margaret Bell Clarke. Her husband was an Army surgeon and most of her life was lived in England. A strong advocate of higher education for women, "she opposed the methods of the more militant suffragists, her dictum being that women who cultivated the best within themselves would do more with a word than the too combative with their insistence and arguments. In a speech in London in 1909 she said the vote was as much the need of the nature of modern, progressive women as was the need of birds to fly or fishes to swim. The movement, she said, was altogether evolutionary.

An address entitled "In Search of Quietness" will be - given by Miss McKay at the Victoria League tea tomorrow afternoon. A flower stall in aid of- funds for soldiers' parcels will y>e a feature of the gathering.