Clara May Ratcliff was a member of the Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association (CUWFA), who lived at 8 Leamington Place, Cheltenham; she was a signatory of the 1912 Agg Gardner book held at Gloucestershire Archives, catalogue reference D5130/6/6.

On the 1911 census she was listed as married, and her occupation was domestic help in letting rooms.