Mother Mary Clare
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Mother Superior Mother Mary Clare, CSP |
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| Mother Superior of the Society of the Holy Cross | |
| Church | Church of Ireland |
| Installed | 1925 Rt Revd Mark Trollope, 3rd Bishop of Korea |
| Predecessor | newly created position |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 30 May 1883 Enniskerry, County Wicklow, Ireland or Fenloe, County Clare, Ireland |
| Died | 6 November 1950 (aged 67) Chunggangjin, North Korea |
Mother Mary Clare (born: Clare Emma Whitty, 30 May 1883 - 6 November 1950) was an Irish Anglican nun, missionary and botanist who was killed during a nine day death march lead by retreating North Korean soldiers during the Korean War.
She arrived in Korea in 1923, one of eighteen missionaries sent to the peninsula by her nursing order, the Community of St Peter between 1892 and 1950. In 1925, following the founding of the Society of the Holy Cross by the Rt Revd Mark Trollope, 3rd Bishop of Korea, she was appointed Mother Superior of the order.
Mary Clare was born to an Irish noble family on 30 May 1883 in either Enniskerry, County Wicklow, Irelandor Fenloe, County Clare, Ireland. Her father, Richard Lawrence Whitty - a qualified medical doctor and land agent, was born in 1844 in Rathvilly, County Carlow to a clerical family. He was the youngest of four children, to Reverend William Whitty, curate of Rathvilly, and his wife Gertrude (nee Langley). Her mother was Jane Alicia Whitty (nee Hickman), who was from a family of local landowners. Through her mother, she was the great grandaughter of Edward Stopford, Bishop of Meath, making her a distant cousin of Irish historian, Alice Stopford Green. She had one sibling, Sophia Angel St. John Whitty, who was named after their maternal grandmother. In the 1891 census, the family is recorded to have moved to Loughton, Essex, England. In the 1911 census, Whitty is recorded as an "elementary teacher". In the 1910s she received training in art in Paris, which she became a fluent speaker of French.
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