Cyril Drummond Le Gros Clark

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Cyril Drummond Le Gros Clark ('C. D.') (1894 – 6 July 1945),{{cite web|

url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21945912|access-date=19 November 2014|title=www.findagrave.com record|website=Find a Grave }} brother of Wilfrid Le Gros Clark, was a translator of Su Shi from Chinese into English, and Chief Secretary of Sarawak. After marrying Averil Mackenzie-Grieve in 1925.{{cite web|url=http://cornwallartists.org/cornwall-artists/averil-salmond-mackenzie-grieve|access-date=19 November 2014|title=Cornwall Artists}} In preparation for his Secretaryship he spent from 1925 to 1927 on Gulangyu Island, at the time an extraterritorial International Settlement{{cite web|url=http://gwulo.com/A-brief-history-of-international-Amoy|access-date=19 November 2014|title=A Brief History of International Amoy}} in order to learn Hokkien language and culture.{{cite book|author=Averil Mackenzie-Grieve|title=A Race of Green Ginger|publisher=Putnam|oclc=1741448}} At the end of 1931 his "Selections from the Works Su Tung-t'o" was published. The book was decorated by wood engravings of his wife. The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer praised the translation for its "gracefully natural prose."{{cite news |title=More Gift Books |work=Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer |date=16 December 1931 |access-date=6 December 2014 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19311216/234/0006| via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}

On 31 March 1941 he announced the decision of the Rajah of Sarawak, Charles Vyner Brooke, to introduce a democratic constitution.{{cite web|url=http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19410409-1.2.74.aspx|access-date=19 November 2014|title=The Straits Times, 9 April 1941, Page 10}}

After the Japanese invasion of Sarawak in December 1941 Le Gros Clark was captured and held in Batu Lintang camp. From July 1942 until 14 November 1944 he served as the camp master.Ooi 1998, 554 He was executed two months before the end of World War II.

Bibliography

  • Selections from the Works of Su-Tung-P'O (A.D. 1036–1101), 1953, {{ISBN|978-0404569617}}
  • Sarawak: 1935 Blue Report books.google.co.uk/books?id=7pDHYgEACAAJ

Further reading

  • Ooi, Keat Gin (1998) Japanese Empire in the Tropics: Selected Documents and Reports of the Japanese Period in Sarawak, Northwest Borneo, 1941–1945 Ohio University Center for International Studies, Monographs in International Studies, SE Asia Series 101 (2 vols) {{ISBN|0-89680-199-3}}

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