Ellen Mary Clerke (September 26, 1840 - March 2, 1906) was an accomplished poet, linguist and a journalist. She was the daughter of Catherine Mary Deasy, whose father was a wealthy brewer and shipbuilder in the town of Clonakilty, and John William Clerke (c. 1814–1890), a bank manager of Anglo-Irish descent in Skibbereen, and later a Registrar for his brother-in-law, Richard Morgan Deasy, a High-Court Judge.
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20 September 1840 Skibbereen, Ireland
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Died |
2 March 1906 (aged 65) London
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Zodiac | Virgo |
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