Ellen Mary Clerke (September 26, 1840 - March 2, 1906) was an accomplished poet, linguist and a journalist.
She was the daughter of Catherine Mary Deasy, whose father was a wealthy brewer and shipbuilder in the town of Clonakilty, and John William Clerke (c.
1814–1890), a bank manager of Anglo-Irish descent in Skibbereen, and later a Registrar for his brother-in-law, Richard Morgan Deasy, a High-Court Judge.