When asked during an interview to make his own epitaph, President Ellis Clarke responded with—“Upon him was greatness thrust, he bore it well."’ Sunday Guardian March 15, 1987.

At the rotunda of the Red house, where the body of the late Sir Ellis Clarke lay in state the vivid images of the man who was president for 14 years, were incongruous to this sepchular scene before us. I was 17 when I met Sir Ellis.  

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