Clarke PORUS, Manchester:
DIRECTOR OF the Jamaica National Building Society H. Anthony "Tony" Clarke is dead. He died in Mandeville, Manchester shortly after eight last night.
Mr. Clarke was attending a Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS) function at the Bloomfield Great House in Mandeville. He had left the auditorium shortly before the guest speaker, investment expert Mark Scott, began his address, when a noise was heard and it was discovered that Mr. Clarke had collapsed.
Two doctors who were in attendance at the function, the Custos of Manchester, Dr. Gilbert Allen, and Dr. Verna Brooks-McKenzie, rushed to his assistance.
Minutes later an ambulance arrived at the Great House and he was rushed to the hospital. Despite relentless attempts by the medical personnel, he died at the hospital. The sudden death of Mr. Clarke, which only became clear at the end of the function, left the guests in shock.
Mr. Clarke, a brother of the Gleaner Company's Chairman Oliver Clarke, was a chartered account by profession. He was a director of Paradise Park Limited in Westmoreland.
He was born on June 30, 1940 educated at Millfield School in the United Kingdom as well as Munro College. He served as chairman of the Agricultural Development Corporation (ADC), 1980-1983, as well as chairman of the West Indies Sugar Company Limited 1984-85.
