Clerk (surname)
Region of origin | England |
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Other names | |
Variant form(s) | Clark, Clarke Clerc, de Clerk, De Clerq, De Clerc, Klerk/de Klerk |
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Clerk (
The surname is attached to particular families or noble lineages, such as the
Letters Patent, dated 24 March 1679, and the Ghanaian historic Clerk family of Accra, a distinguished intellectual clan, founded in 1843, that produced a number of pioneering scholars and clergy on the Gold Coast.[9][10][11]
Other notable people with the surname include:
- Alexander A. Clerk (born 1947), Ghanaian American sleep medicine specialist and psychiatrist
- Alexander Worthy Clerk (1820–1906), Jamaican Moravian missionary to the Gold Coast
- Archibald Clerk (1813–1887), Church of Scotland minister and a leading Gaelic scholar of the Victorian era
- Carl Henry Clerk (1895–1982), Ghanaian agricultural educator, journalist, editor and Presbyterian minister
- Dugald Clerk (1854–1932), Scottish engineer and designer of the world's first successful two-stroke engine
- Gabrielle Clerk (1923–2012), Canadian psychologist and professor
- George Clerk (disambiguation)
- George Clerk (diplomat) (1874–1951), British diplomat
- George C. Clerk (1931–2019), Ghanaian botanist and plant pathologist
- Sir George Clerk, 6th Baronet (1787–1867), Scottish politician
- Sir George Clerk-Maxwell, 4th Baronet(1715–1784), Scottish landowner
- George Russell Clerk (1800–1889), civil servant in British India
- Sir James Clerk, 3rd Baronet(died 1782)
- James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), Scottish mathematical physicist
- Jane E. Clerk (1904–1999), pioneer woman educationalist administrator on the Gold Coast
- John Clerk (disambiguation)
- John Clerk Maxwell of Middlebie (1790–1856), Scottish advocate
- John Clerk of Eldin (1728–1812), Scottish merchant, naval author, artist, geologist and landowner
- John Clerk of Pennycuik(1611–1674), Scottish merchant and archivist of family papers
- John Clerk, Lord Eldin (1757–1832), Scottish judge
- Sir John Clerk, 1st Baronet (died 1722), Scottish politician
- Sir John Clerk, 2nd Baronet (1676–1755), Scottish politician, lawyer, judge and composer
- Sir John Clerk, 5th Baronet (1736–1798), Royal Navy officer
- Matilda J. Clerk (1916–1984), Ghanaian medical pioneer and science educator
- Nicholas Clerk (disambiguation)
- Nicholas Clerk (fl. 1407), English politician and the Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Exeter in 1407
- Nicholas T. Clerk (1930–2012), Ghanaian academic, administrator and Presbyterian minister
- Nicholas Timothy Clerk (1862–1961), Basel-trained theologian and missionary on the Gold Coast
- Pauline M. Clerk (1935–2013), Ghanaian civil servant, diplomat and presidential advisor
- Robert Clerk (disambiguation)
- Robert Clerk (c. 1720–1797), British engineer officer
- Theodore S. Clerk (1909–1965), Ghanaian urban planner and architect
References
- ^ "Clark Surname Meaning, Origins & Distribution". Forebears.co.uk. Archived from the original on 18 July 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
- ^ "What Was the Role of a Clerk During the Middle Ages?". Reference. Archived from the original on 8 April 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
- ^ "Medieval Occupations". www.ancientfortresses.org. Archived from the original on 18 January 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
- ^ "History of the Municipal Clerk". Archived from the original on 25 September 2017.
- ^ "Clerk Definition Page". www.stat.ucdavis.edu. Archived from the original on 17 January 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
- ^ "Clerk Name Meaning, Family History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms". HouseOfNames. January 2000. Archived from the original on 18 January 2013. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
- ^ "Surname Clark". Surnamedb.com. Archived from the original on 3 February 2010. Retrieved 5 February 2008.
- ^ Newman, Simon (29 May 2012). "Law in the Middle Ages". Archived from the original on 17 January 2018.
- ^ Anquandah, James Ghana-Caribbean Relations – From Slavery Times to Present: Lecture to the Ghana-Caribbean Association. National Commission on Culture, Ghana. (November 2006). "Ghana-Caribbean Relations – From Slavery Times to Present: Lecture disambiguation to the Ghana-Caribbean Association" (PDF). National Commission on Culture, Ghana. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 July 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Alex Clerk and family, catechist in Aburi. – BM Archives". www.bmarchives.org. Archived from the original on 3 July 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
- ^ Debrunner, Hans W. (1965). Owura Nico, the Rev. Nicholas Timothy Clerk, 1862-1961: pioneer and church leader. Watervile Publishing House. Archived from the original on 30 March 2017. Retrieved 30 September 2018.