Carl Henry Clerk

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Carl Henry Clerk was born at Aburi, about forty-five minutes north-east of the capital city, Accra, on 4 January 1895.{{cite web|url=https://www.myheritage.com/names/carl_clerk |title=Carl Clerk – Historical records and family trees – MyHeritage |website=myheritage.com |access-date=10 April 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170406111341/https://www.myheritage.com/names/carl_clerk |archive-date= 6 April 2017 }} He was born in the home of his paternal grandfather, Alexander Worthy Clerk (1820–1906). His father was Nicholas Timothy Clerk{{Cite book|title=The Settlement of West Indian Emigrants on the Gold Coast 1843–1943 – A Centenary Sketch|last1=Clerk|first1=N. T.|year=1943|location=Accra}} (1862–1961), a Basel-trained theologian and missionary, was the first Synod Clerk of the Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast from 1918 to 1932{{cite web|url=https://dacb.org/stories/ghana/clerk-nt/|title=Clerk, Nicholas Timothy, Ghana, Basel Mission|website=dacb.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160328135331/http://dacb.org/stories/ghana/clerk_n.html|archive-date=28 March 2016|url-status=live|access-date=10 April 2017}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9AoXAAAAIAAJ|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330122609/https://books.google.com/books/about/Owura_Nico_the_Rev_Nicholas_Timothy_Cler.html?id=9AoXAAAAIAAJ|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 March 2017|title=Owura Nico, the Rev. Nicholas Timothy Clerk, 1862–1961: pioneer and church leader|last1=Debrunner|first1=Hans W.|date=1965|publisher=Watervile Publishing House|language=en}} and a founding father of the all boys’ boarding high school, the Presbyterian Boys’ Secondary School, established in 1938.{{cite web|url=http://www.odadee.net/school#history |title=PRESEC {{!}} ALUMINI PORTAL |website=www.odadee.net |language=ru |access-date=10 April 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330174159/http://www.odadee.net/school |archive-date=30 March 2017 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.odadee75.org/downloads/70years.pdf |title=70 Years of excellent secondary education |access-date=10 April 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722010817/http://www.odadee75.org/downloads/70years.pdf |archive-date=22 July 2011 }} His mother, Anna Alice Meyer (1873–1934) was of Ga-Danish descent.

According to the Swiss German church historian and theologian, Hans Werner Debrunner, Carl Clerk's father, Nicholas Timothy Clerk, contemplated sending his young son to (Germany) in 1899 so he could receive well-rounded training in his formative years. N. T. Clerk was "worried about the possible effect of unsettled, isolated life confined to the interior" of the hinterlands, on his son's upbringing and development. Besides, Clerk wanted his son "to be a missionary or an engineer in the service of the mission." However, his Basel Mission colleagues strongly discouraged him, with the advice, "the best Christian education was the one given to a child by his own Christian parents." C.H. Clerk's paternal grandfather, Alexander Worthy Clerk, a Jamaican Moravian missionary arrived in the Danish Protectorate of Christiansborg, now the suburb of Osu, in Accra, Gold Coast in 1843, as part of the original group of 24 West Indian missionaries who worked under the auspices of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society of Basel, Switzerland.{{Cite news|url=http://old.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20031007/mind/mind1.html|title=Ghanaian church built by Jamaicans|last1=Dawes|first1=Mark|date=7 October 2003|work=Jamaican Gleaner|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171121144858/http://old.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20031007/mind/mind1.html|archive-date=21 November 2017}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/history-Christianity-Ghana-Hans-Debrunner/dp/B0006CO3YQ |title=A history of Christianity in Ghana |last1=Debrunner |first1=Hans W. |date=1967 |publisher=Waterville Pub. House |language=en |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130703222956/http://www.amazon.com/history-Christianity-Ghana-Hans-Debrunner/dp/B0006CO3YQ |archive-date= 3 July 2013 }} A.W. Clerk was a pioneer of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana and a leader in education in colonial Ghana, establishing a boarding middle school, the Salem School in 1843.{{cite web |url=http://osusalem.org/pages/aboutus.php?parentpage=aboutus&page=history |title=Osu Salem |website=osusalem.org |access-date=10 April 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170329141604/http://osusalem.org/pages/aboutus.php?parentpage=aboutus&page=history |archive-date=29 March 2017 }} His paternal grandmother, Pauline Hesse (1831–1909) was from the Gold Coast, and was of Danish, German and Ga heritage.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a5loknGzxTQC |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330122402/https://books.google.com/books/about/Encounters_in_Quest_of_Christian_Womanho.html?id=a5loknGzxTQC |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 March 2017 |title=Encounters in Quest of Christian Womanhood: The Basel Mission in Pre- and Early Colonial Ghana |last1=Sill |first1=Ulrike |date=2010 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-9004188884 |language=en }} His grandaunt was Regina Hesse (1832 ─ 1898), a pioneer educator and school principal.

A third generation member of the historically notable Clerk family, Carl Clerk had 8 siblings. His younger brother, Theodore S. Clerk (1909–1965) was the first Ghanaian architect who planned and developed the port city of Tema.{{cite web|url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=403511 |title=Dictionary of Scottish Architects – DSA Architect Biography Report (April 10, 2017, 5:25 pm) |last1=Goold |first1=David |website=scottisharchitects.org.uk |access-date=10 April 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170407150018/http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=403511 |archive-date= 7 April 2017 }}{{Cite news |url=http://omgvoice.com/lifestyle/successful-ghanaians-achimota-school/ |title=22 Successful Ghanaians Who Went To Achimota School |last=Ofori-Mensah |work=OMGVoice |access-date=10 April 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330084031/http://omgvoice.com/lifestyle/successful-ghanaians-achimota-school/ |archive-date=30 March 2017 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.myheritage.com/person-1000060_58948112_58948112/theodore-shealtiel-clerk |title=Profile of THEODORE SHEALTIEL CLERK |website=MyHeritage.com |access-date=10 April 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170407145232/https://www.myheritage.com/person-1000060_58948112_58948112/theodore-shealtiel-clerk |archive-date= 7 April 2017 }} His younger sisters were Jane E. Clerk (1904–1999), a pioneer woman education administrator and Matilda J. Clerk (1916–1984), the second Ghanaian woman to become a physician and the first Ghanaian woman in any field to win an academic merit scholarship for university education abroad.{{Cite book|title=Obituary: Dr. Matilda Johanna Clerk, MBChB, DTM&H|last1=Clerk|first1=Nicholas, T.|date=5 January 1985|publisher=Presbyterian Church of Ghana Funeral Bulletin|location=Accra}}{{Cite book|title=Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa |last1=Patton |first1=Adell Jr. |date=13 April 1996 |publisher=University Press of Florida |isbn=9780813014326 |edition=1st |pages=29 |language=en }}{{cite web|url=http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=1217 |title=Review of Patton, Adell Jr.., Physicians, Colonial Racism and Diaspora in West Africa |last1=Joeden-Forgey |first1=Elisa von |date=1 August 1997 |website=h-net.org |access-date=10 April 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330083947/http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=1217 |archive-date=30 March 2017 }} His maternal uncle was Emmanuel Charles Quist (1880–1959), a barrister and judge who became the first African President of the Legislative Council from 1949 to 1951, Speaker of the National Assembly of the Gold Coast from 1951 to 1957, and Speaker of the National Assembly of Ghana from March 1957 to November 1957.{{Cite web|url=https://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD/GBR/0115/Y3011R/26|title=Janus: Progress in the Colonies, 1940s–1950s|publisher=University of Cambridge|access-date=6 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170806062620/https://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0115%2FY3011R%2F26|archive-date=6 August 2017|url-status=live}}

He was educated at Basel mission primary schools in Worawora and Berekum where his father was working as a Basel missionary at the time.{{Cite news|title=The Christian Messenger, Basel, 1883–1917}} He went to the boys' boarding middle school, the Salem School from 1908 to 1911, together with Max Dodu who became the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana from 1955 to 1958.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rkEEAAAAMBAJ&q=max+dodu&pg=PA34|title=LIFE|last=Time, Inc.|date=18 March 1957|publisher=Time Inc|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180218232413/https://books.google.com/books?id=rkEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA34&dq=max+dodu&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiL2ZvGy7DZAhWMm-AKHboJB5UQ6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=max%20dodu&f=false|archive-date=18 February 2018|url-status=live}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ldxmAAAAcAAJ&q=max+dodu&pg=PA4|title=Sunday Mirror: Issue 882, July 5 1970|last1=Agyeman|first1=Eddie|date=5 July 1970|publisher=Graphic Communications Group|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180218232413/https://books.google.com/books?id=ldxmAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA4&dq=max+dodu&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjSkb6TzLDZAhUQMt8KHcmXD8QQ6AEIKzAB#v=onepage&q=max%20dodu&f=false|archive-date=18 February 2018}} Clerk then attended the Basel Mission Seminary at Akropong (now known as the Presbyterian College of Education, Akropong) from 1912 to 1916, where he received training in pedagogy and theology. The seminary was founded by the Basel Mission in 1848, as the second oldest higher educational institution in early modern West Africa after Fourah Bay College which was established in 1827.{{Cite web|url=http://www.odadee.net/school#history |title=PRESEC {{!}} ALUMINI PORTAL |website=www.odadee.net |language=ru |access-date=4 May 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330174159/http://www.odadee.net/school |archive-date=30 March 2017 }}{{Cite web|url=http://ptc.edu.gh/website/|title=Presby – PTC COLLEGE OF EDUCATION|website=Presby|access-date=7 June 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180605144550/http://ptc.edu.gh/website/|archive-date=5 June 2018}} He studied for his bachelor's degree in agricultural science at Tuskegee University (then known as Tuskegee Institute) in Tuskegee, Alabama, on a scholarship from the Phelps Stokes Fund, before being awarded a year-long postgraduate fellowship to study education at the Teachers College, Columbia University in the City of New York in the 1920s. At Tuskegee, Clerk studied the works of the American botanist, George Washington Carver who was then a research faculty member at the institute.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2010/february/george-washington-carver-master-inventor-artist/?mobile=false|title=George Washington Carver: Master Inventor, Artist - US - CBN News - Christian News 24-7 |website=cbn.com|access-date=18 September 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828234253/http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2010/february/george-washington-carver-master-inventor-artist/?mobile=false|archive-date=28 August 2017}}{{Cite magazine|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,801330,00.html|title=Art: Black Leonardo|date=24 November 1941|magazine=Time|access-date=18 September 2017|issn=0040-781X|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312053403/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,801330,00.html|archive-date=12 March 2017}} In his college yearbook, Clerk was nicknamed "The Prof" by his classmates, an allusion to his studiousness and erudite stature.{{Cite book|title=Class of 1925 Student Yearbook|last=Tuskegee Institute|publisher=Tuskegee University|year=1925|location=Tuskegee, Alabama}} After completing his graduate studies at Columbia, Carl Clerk sailed to his homeland from the Port of New York, aboard the steamship, the TSS Tuscania anchor line, and via the Port of Glasgow in Scotland, according to a 1926-passenger manifest. He arrived in Glasgow on 26 March 1926.

Clerk dedicated his entire life to public service. He was a teacher at his alma mater, the Salem School (1917–1918) and school principal (1933–1935); the St. Thomas Infant School at Osu (1918–1922); Akropong Training College (1926–1932) and principal of Manyakpogunor Presbyterian School (1932 -1933).{{Cite web|url=http://www.osusalem.org/pages/heads.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706182955/http://www.osusalem.org/pages/heads.php|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 July 2017|title=Presbyterian Boys Boarding School, Osu Salem|website=osusalem.org|access-date=6 July 2017}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LLFgNyfRjh0C&q=the+reverend+carl+henry+clerk+of+osu&pg=PA5|title=The Mirror: Issue 2,693 July 29 2006|last1=(Mrs.)|first1=Margaret Safo|date=29 July 2006|publisher=Graphic Communications Group|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922210039/https://books.google.com/books?id=LLFgNyfRjh0C&pg=PA5&lpg=PA5&dq=the+reverend+carl+henry+clerk+of+osu&source=bl&ots=wKMzV12sXS&sig=sPGG6KI7LxG0W5y8y7YsCu1VXNE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi9grCe1rnWAhWG5CYKHQQGC8YQ6AEIPjAE#v=onepage&q=the%20reverend%20carl%20henry%20clerk%20of%20osu&f=false|archive-date=22 September 2017}} From 1935 to 1944, he was appointed the general manager of Presbyterian Schools in the Ga-Adangme District covering modern-day Greater Accra and Eastern Regions. Within this period, he stayed at various stations: Kpong (1935–1936); Odumase-Krobo (1937); Somanya (1938–1939) and Osu (1940–1944). He later taught agricultural science at the O’Reilly Secondary School (1955–1959) and the Accra Training College (1964–1969). Clerk served as the first Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Aburi Girls' Secondary School.

He was a catechist in charge of the local church at Manyakpogunor (1926–1932). He was ordained a minister on 6 February 1944 at the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church, together with two other ordinands, Messrs. Cleland and Nartey. Clerk's father who was then eighty-one years old, was among the ordination ceremony's officiating clergy. Carl Clerk gave the inaugural sermon on behalf of the three newly installed ministers of the Gospel.

C. H. Clerk served as a chaplain in local churches at Abokobi (1944–1946); Sekondi (1946–1947); Teshie (1948) and Osu (1949). As a chaplain at Abokobi, he established the local middle school there. At Odumase, he led the formation of the church choir and was its lead organist and first choirmaster. Additionally, at Somanya, he acquired the building for the local Presbyterian chapel and founded and robed the church choir.

Like his father before him, he was elected the fourth Synod Clerk of the Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast, serving as the organisation's de facto chief administrator from 1950 to 1954. As Synod Clerk and organisational head, Carl Henry Clerk was instrumental in the start and completion of the old Church Offices at Accra. He led the Gold Coast delegation and was among five representatives from Africa to the World Council of Churches' second assembly, a global ecumenical meeting held in Evanston, Illinois from 15 to 31 August 1954. At the opening session of the assembly, discussions were held on a few of the civil rights topics of that era, including desegregation and interracial marriage. Carl Clerk also served as the Editor of the Christian Messenger newspaper from 1960 to 1963.

Carl H. Clerk first married Juliana N. Nikoi (1897–1919), the daughter of an administrative clerk in the colonial civil service from Christiansborg, Accra on 7 March 1918 but his wife and newly born son died in 1919.{{Cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/search/collection/results?count=20&query=+surname:CLERK~&collection_id=1496208|title=FamilySearch.org|website=familysearch.org|access-date=18 June 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822012904/https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/results?count=20&query=%20surname%3ACLERK~&collection_id=1496208|archive-date=22 August 2017}} He remarried on 6 June 1929{{Cite web|title=Research|url=https://www.judy.legal/case/clerk-v-clerk-03845}} to a Ga woman from Ga-Mashie and La, Martha Ayorkor Quao (1911–1989), whose father Daniel Quao{{Cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/search/collection/results?count=75&query=+surname:CLERK~&collection_id=1496208|title=FamilySearch.org|website=familysearch.org|access-date=6 June 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822012904/https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/results?count=75&query=%20surname%3ACLERK~&collection_id=1496208|archive-date=22 August 2017}} was a general commodities merchant based at Adawso. Martha Quao was also an entrepreneur who owned a bakery business. Her maternal grandfather, Nii Ngleshie Addy I was the first son of Nii Tetteh Tsuru I, the founder and ruler of the Otuopai Clan, a royal house in Ga State. Her younger brother was Nathan Quao (1915–2005), a diplomat, educationist and public servant who served as a presidential advisor to many Heads of State of Ghana.{{Cite news|url=https://www.modernghana.com/news/74014/nathan-quao-to-be-given-state-burial-on-april-8.html|title=Nathan Quao to be given state burial on April 8|work=ModernGhana.com|access-date=11 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170611201449/https://www.modernghana.com/news/74014/nathan-quao-to-be-given-state-burial-on-april-8.html|archive-date=11 June 2017|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Nathan-Quao-to-be-given-state-burial-on-April-8-77485|title=Nathan Quao to be given state burial on April 8|website=ghanaweb.com|date=30 November 2001|access-date=11 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170611201449/http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Nathan-Quao-to-be-given-state-burial-on-April-8-77485|archive-date=11 June 2017|url-status=live}} She was also the maternal aunt of the economist and diplomat, Amon Nikoi (1930–2002), the Governor of the Bank of Ghana from 1973 to 1977 and Finance minister from 1979 to 1981, whose mother, Betty Oboshie Quao was Quao's older biological sister.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Former-Bank-of-Ghana-Governor-buried-at-La-28089 |title=Former Bank of Ghana Governor buried at La |website=ghanaweb.com |date=30 November 2001 |access-date=22 April 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170421092109/http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Former-Bank-of-Ghana-Governor-buried-at-La-28089 |archive-date=21 April 2017 }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/people/person.php?ID=171 |title=Dr Amon Nikoi, Former Governor of the Bank of Ghana |website=ghanaweb.com |access-date=22 April 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161027192942/http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/people/person.php?ID=171 |archive-date=27 October 2016 }} In addition, Martha Quao's cousin was the Ghanaian barrister and judge, Nii Amaa Ollennu (1906–1986) who was elected the Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana during the Second Republic as well as serving as the Chairman of the Presidential Commission and acting President of Ghana from 7 August 1970 to 31 August 1970.{{Cite web|url=http://www.judicial.gov.gh/history/list_lawyers/home.htm |title=Official Web Site for the Judicial Service of the Republic of Ghana |date=14 April 2005 |access-date=6 June 2017 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050414064831/http://www.judicial.gov.gh/history/list_lawyers/home.htm |archive-date=14 April 2005 }}{{Cite web|url=http://rulers.org/rulg1.html#ghana |title=Countries Ga-Gi |website=rulers.org |access-date=6 June 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070403074857/http://www.rulers.org/rulg1.html |archive-date=3 April 2007 }}

Carl Clerk had six children with Martha Quao: Nicholas, George, Arnold, Anna (Mrs. Sai), Alexander Worthy (died in infancy) and Henry Clerk's children went on to forge careers in academia, public service and broadcast journalism.{{Cite book|title=Obituary: The Rev. Dr. Nicholas Timothy Clerk|publisher=Christian Messenger, Presbyterian Church of Ghana Funeral Bulletin|date=27 October 2012|location=Accra}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ug.edu.gh/botany/visitors/contact_us |title=Contact Us {{!}} Department of Botany |website=www.ug.edu.gh |access-date=5 April 2017 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170329232450/http://www.ug.edu.gh/botany/visitors/contact_us |archive-date=29 March 2017 }}{{cite web|url=http://gaas-gh.org/fellowship/membership/ |title=Membership |website=gaas-gh.org |access-date=5 April 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170329143021/http://gaas-gh.org/fellowship/membership/ |archive-date=29 March 2017 }}{{cite web|url=http://gaas-gh.org/fellowship/ |title=Fellowship |website=gaas-gh.org |access-date=5 April 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330011437/http://gaas-gh.org/fellowship/ |archive-date=30 March 2017 }}{{cite web|url=https://finder.bupa.co.uk/Consultant/view/34604/mr_nicholas_clerk |title=Mr Nicholas Clerk: Obstetrics and gynaecology |website=finder.bupa.co.uk |access-date=5 April 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170406110547/https://finder.bupa.co.uk/Consultant/view/34604/mr_nicholas_clerk |archive-date= 6 April 2017 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.spirehealthcare.com/consultant-profiles/mr-nick-clerk-c4245766/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170422124907/https://www.spirehealthcare.com/consultant-profiles/mr-nick-clerk-c4245766/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 April 2017 |title=Mr Nick Clerk {{!}} Consultant Gynaecologist {{!}} Spire Healthcare |website=www.spirehealthcare.com |access-date=22 April 2017 }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.path.org/news/press-room/658/ |title=Announcement: Join PATH at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene conference – PATH |website=path.org |access-date=26 April 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170426151259/http://www.path.org/news/press-room/658/ |archive-date=26 April 2017 }}{{Cite web|url=http://sites.path.org/dx/files/2012/11/DIAMETER-poster_FINAL1.pdf |title=Guiding product development of malaria diagnostics to support elimination programs: The Target Product Profile |last=PATH |date=November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427003057/http://sites.path.org/dx/files/2012/11/DIAMETER-poster_FINAL1.pdf |archive-date=27 April 2017 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web|url=http://sites.path.org/dx/files/2012/11/Zambia-trip-report_forweb.pdf |title=Zambia Trip Report: Project DIAMETER (Diagnostics for Malaria Elimination Toward Eradication) |last=PATH |date=November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170426151713/http://sites.path.org/dx/files/2012/11/Zambia-trip-report_forweb.pdf |archive-date=26 April 2017 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christine_Clerk |title=Christine Alexandra Clerk |website=ResearchGate |access-date=17 June 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427003243/https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christine_Clerk |archive-date=27 April 2017 }}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_JxDGYrFWnwC&q=christine+alexandra+clerk&pg=PA308|title=Exploitation and Developing Countries: The Ethics of Clinical Research|last1=Hawkins|first1=Jennifer S.|last2=Emanuel|first2=Ezekiel J.|date=24 August 2008|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0691126760|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822012900/https://books.google.com/books?id=_JxDGYrFWnwC&pg=PA308&lpg=PA308&dq=christine%20alexandra%20clerk&source=bl&ots=AAWsZe0WIz&sig=-MXBAihMimLo3urZGYLPY-IKJGU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi3qpXp6sPUAhVEHD4KHXTzB4QQ6AEIJTAE#v=onepage&q=christine%20alexandra%20clerk&f=false|archive-date=22 August 2017}}

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{{Cite journal|date=March 2005|title=Review of antenatal-linked voluntary counselling and HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons and options for Ghana|url=http://www.ghanamedj.org/articles/March2005/Antenatal%20linked.pdf|journal=Ghana Medical Journal|volume=39|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171214213517/http://www.ghanamedj.org/articles/March2005/Antenatal%20linked.pdf|archive-date=14 December 2017}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.christianmemorials.com/memorials/print.asp?id=9408|title=In Memory Of Anna Sai (née Clerk): 5 January 1940 – 16 March 2008|website=Christian Memorials|publisher=Eterna Link Enterprises Pty. Ltd|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181119223933/http://www.christianmemorials.com/memorials/print.asp?id=9408|archive-date=19 November 2018|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.theeternalportal.com/tributes/anna-sai/|title=In Memory Of Anna (The Zee) Alice Sai (née Clerk): 5 January 1940 – 16 March 2008|website=The Eternal Portal|publisher=Eterna Link Enterprises Pty. Ltd}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/colleyville-tx/christine-clerk-7802829|title=Christine Alexandra Clerk Obituary – COLLEYVILLE, TX|work=Dignity Memorial|access-date=20 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180330190718/https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/colleyville-tx/christine-clerk-7802829|archive-date=30 March 2018|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.ppaghana.org/entitydetail.asp?Committee_id=105|title=Welcome to the Ghana Public Procurement Authority|website=ppaghana.org|access-date=24 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181124202538/https://www.ppaghana.org/entitydetail.asp?Committee_id=105|archive-date=24 November 2018|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web |title=Celebrating the Life of Henry Daniel Clerk |url=https://online.fliphtml5.com/iwliy/pced/ |access-date=2022-11-09 |website=online.fliphtml5.com}}

Clerk was a poet and an accomplished organist. An artisan, Carl Clerk was also adept at many crafts including carpentry, masonry, tailoring and painting. He was also engaged in backyard gardening and animal husbandry especially poultry farming.

Clerk died of pneumonia on 28 May 1982 at his home in Osu, Accra. After his funeral service at the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church, Osu, his body was interred in the "Presbyterian clergy quarter (section)" of the Osu Cemetery (formerly known as Christiansborg Civil Cemetery) in Accra. The Presbyterian Girls' School at Osu named its assembly hall in his honour, in recognition of his sacrifice and fundraising efforts during his tenure as the general manager of Presbyterian Schools, as "the sole driving force in getting permanent buildings put up" for the institution.

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