Amy Elizabeth Imrie

Amy Imrie (1870—1944) was a British heiress and one of the wealthiest women in Britain who, at the age of 37, became a Roman Catholic nun and, subsequently, Mother Superior of the Order of Poor Clares. [ [http://uk.geocities.com/liverpool_monuments/images/imrie.jpgPlaque (on the wall of the friary of St. Mary of the Angels Roman Catholic Church in Everton, Liverpool) honoring Amy Elizabeth Imrie] ]

Born Amy Elizabeth Pollard in British Guiana (Guyana, following its independence in May 1966), she was adopted when her mother died, by William Imrie and his wife Hannah, Mrs Imrie being Amy's maternal AUNT, co-owner of White Star Line shipping, and became the sole heir to his fortune upon his death in 1906. The following year she became Sister Mary Clare of the Order of Poor Clares, eventually leading the convent as Mother Clare Imrie. In 1910 she funded the building and interior decorating of St Mary of the Angels Church in Liverpool. St Mary's is known as "the Vatican outside of Rome", because of the splendid artistry displayed in its interior. Amy Elizabeth Imrie died in the Cornwall coastal town of Looe in the year of her 74th birthday.

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* [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hibernia/churches/ang14.htm Reproduction of the text accompanying the plaque] (unveiled on 13 June2003)