Gerald Bryan Sheil O'Cleary Clarke GCLM ID CMG ISO (1 November 1909 – 24 August 1981)[1] was a Rhodesian civil servant.
Gerald Clarke attended St. George's College, Bulawayo and left school there to join the Southern Rhodesian Civil Service in Salisbury in 1927, serving initially in the Treasury, until 1940.
On his return home, he became Chief Clerk, Treasury, 1945–48, then Assistant Secretary, Public Services Board, 1948, and Under-Secretary in the Cabinet Office in 1950.
He became Cabinet Secretary and Secretary to the Prime Minister in 1955 until 1970[2] for the Southern Rhodesia Government during and after Federation (1953–63), including for Garfield Todd, Sir Edgar Whitehead and Winston Field, and to Prime Minister to Rhodesia Ian Smith (Ian Smith) during the existence of the Rhodesian Front Government from 1964 until Clarke retired in 1970.
Following government service, he retired to Inyanga with his wife, Mary Eleanor (née McGarry), married in 1946, and who was the widow of Bruno C. Catella who had died at El Alamein, 1942, and he was a Member, Umtali Club.