Sir Robert Bowcher Clarke (1803–1881) was a Barbadian barrister, Solicitor-General, and Chief Justice of Barbados and St. Lucia.
[1][2] Clarke attended Codrington Grammar School[3][4] before studying at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1827.
[1][4] On 13 December 1841,[4] Clarke was appointed Chief Justice of Barbados,[1][2] a position he held until his retirement in 1874.
Codrington had intended the school to be a university modelled on Oxford and Cambridge, unusually for the time, to benefit the Afro-Caribbean population of Barbados.
[3] Clarke, a former student, became a central figure in a heated debate about the future of the institution.