Margaret Calder, Secretary of the Liverpool Ladies Educational Society and childhood friend of Anne Jemima Clough, made a donation to buy books for students from Liverpool, which became Newnham’s Margaret Calder Memorial Fund. She also donated to the North Hall Building Fund, the Building Fund, and the Fellowship Endowment Fund. She was a recipient in Anne Jemima Clough’s will and was also a witness in the deed of constitution of the Liverpool Clough Scholarship.
Her father, James Calder invested in a British sloop that made regular runs out of Charleston and was manned by enslaved people. In his will he left nine enslaved people to his wife Jane Elizabeth Calder (née Mitchell): Stella, Matilda, Rachel, Tinah, Anthony, Matildae and her three children, Phillis, Sarah and Ben. It is likely that some of the wealth that Margaret inherited was generated from enslavement.
‘the enduring relationship of the Calders, friends of the Cloughs from Charleston, with Newnham College demonstrates that Anne Jemima Clough inherited a position within a transnational social network from her father’ - Newnham College Legacies of Enslavement Report