 In that period, Jane Clerk was the Headmistress of the Government Girls’ Middle School in Kumasi.Jane Elizabeth Clerk was born in Adawso in the Eastern Region on 26 May 1904 to Nicholas Timothy Clerk (1862 –1961) and Anna Alice Meyer (1873 –1934).The seventh of nine children, Jane Clerk was a third generation member of the historically notable Clerk family of Accra.