Cecilia Clifford

Cecilia Clifford was arrested in March 1907, one of seventy -six charged with causing a disturbance in connection with an attempted raid on the House of Commons. The Daily Mirror, 22nd March 1907, reports that Cecilia, aged thirty-seven, lived in Kentish Town and worked as a compositor, (a typesetter in the printing industry).

Sarah Cecilia was born in Oxford in 1869 to Benjamin, a tailor, and Leah. She was the third youngest of thirteen children. Some of whom, like Sarah, worked in the printing trade. By 1891, Cecilia was living with a family in Kingston, Surrey, employed as an apprentice compositor. Ten years later, she had qualified and had moved to live in St Pancras.

Found guilty, Cecilia was fined twenty shillings or fourteen days in prison.  It is unclear from the official records whether she elected to pay the fine or go to prison.

​Four years later, Sarah and her mother, Leah, are living at 17 Spencer Road, St Pancras. The 1911 census records record that she continued to work as a compositor, a career Cecilia was still pursuing when the 1939 register was taken. By this point, she was living at 51 Clarendon Mews with Amy Lillingston.

​Later, Cecilia moved to Bournemouth where she died in 1954.