GORDON, Clara Clifton née Firth, Clara Clifton

Born in Auckland, daughter of pioneer Josiah Clifton Firth. Her girlhood was spent in Auckland (the house Clifton, known as The Castle, still stands in Mountain Road) and in Matamata. In 1898 she married Trevor Gordon and went to live on the outskirts of Cambridge but after the death of her husband in 1901 she returned to live at Clifton in Auckland. A watercolour is reproduced in her daughter Mona Gordon's The Golden Age of Josiah Clifton Firth pub. 1963. Exhibited ASA.