Lady Clara was a staunch Buddhist, and her interest in this direction led her to travel widely in China; she was always proud of her record of having seen all the five celebrated Buddhist mountains in the country. She took a great interest in social and welfare work, and true to the Buddhistic ideal of not destroying life, had identified herself actively with the work of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Hongkong.
A monument to her charitable activities is the Buddhist School for poor children—an imposing welfare institution and an artistic landmark—situated in Happy Valley. it is both a gathering place for the local Buddhist community and a school where some 200 girls receive free education, She had also, for a long time, maintained a free school in-Macao, until recent years when ill-health compelled her to limit her social and educational activities to Hongkong; while from 1932 to 1935 Lady Clara was largely responsible for the maintenance of an experimental junior middle school conducted by the Lingnan University's Education Board,
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