Henry Clerke (c. 1619 – 24 March 1687) was an English academic and physician, President of Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1672.
He was son of Thomas Clerke of Willoughby, Warwickshire, England, and matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, on 20 April 1635, at the age of 16.
On the resignation of Thomas Pierce in 1672, Clerke was elected President of Magdalen College on 5 March of that year.
[1] Clerke continued President until his death, which occurred at the seat of his son-in-law on 24 March 1687, at the age of 68.
His daughter, in 1682, married Richard Shuttleworth of Gawthorpe Hall, near Burnley, Lancashire, at that time a gentleman commoner of Trinity College, Oxford.