Clarence F. Ellis, 80, a former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Guyana and Chairman of the State Planning Commission, who has also served as an Alternate Executive Director at the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank for Guyana and other CARICOM countries, died April 17 in Washington, DC, U.S.A., after a long illness.  He lived in Bowie, Maryland, U.S.A.

He was born in Queenstown, the first village on the Essequibo Coast.  He was the first of ten children of Samuel and Elsie Ellis.  He received his early education at St. Bartholomew’s Anglican School in Queenstown.  Clarence attended Queens College on a government county scholarship.  He taught for many years as a primary school teacher before leaving for England to study Economics.   He earned a Bachelor of Science (Economics) Degree from the University of Leicester and a Master of Science (Economics) Degree in Development Economics from the London School of Economics (LSE).