Cyril Drummond Le Gros Clark

D.')[1] (1894 – 6 July 1945),[2] brother of Wilfrid Le Gros Clark, was a translator of Su Shi from Chinese into English, and Chief Secretary of Sarawak.

[3] In preparation for his Secretaryship he spent from 1925 to 1927 [1] on Gulangyu Island, at the time an extraterritorial International Settlement[4] in order to learn Hokkien language and culture.

The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer praised the translation for its "gracefully natural prose.

"[5] On 31 March 1941 he announced the decision of the Rajah of Sarawak, Charles Vyner Brooke, to introduce a democratic constitution.

[6] After the Japanese invasion of Sarawak in December 1941 Le Gros Clark was captured and held in Batu Lintang camp.