Jessie Deakin Clarke, OAM (née Brookes; 28 December 1914 – 11 November 2014)[1] was an Australian social worker, welfare officer, and refugee advocate.

[2] The headdress and bodice were destroyed in the Ash Wednesday fires of 1983,[4] and in 1998 she donated the hand-painted skirt, two hooped petticoats, and the green velvet cloak to the State Library Victoria.

[4] While in New York, Clarke was offered a position by the Australian Government as junior delegate to the League of Nations Union in Geneva.

[8] Clarke worked as a voluntary social worker with the Lord Mayor's Patriotic and Welfare Fund, helping with the issues of army wives and relatives in Sydney, and later in Melbourne, where her husband was stationed.

[8] Jessie and William Clarke, along with Mary Adam and Harold Moran, started a napkin wash service in 1946 in response to the post war baby boom.