On a per­son­al note, I sought the pri­vate opin­ion of Sir El­lis on the for­ma­tion of the Con­gress of the Peo­ple and in his ever bal­anced and mea­sured view, he en­cour­aged me to work to­wards a dis­cov­ery for new pol­i­tics in T&T.Sir El­lis Clarke start­ed the new phase in con­sti­tu­tion­al mat­ters dur­ing the 1960s, and some 50 years lat­er, the Con­gress of the Peo­ple en­gi­neered and es­poused the con­cept of the new pol­i­tics. Sir El­lis will be re­mem­bered as one who could en­liv­en any so­cial en­gage­ment. He was an out­stand­ing, very ap­proach­able leader who could ad­vise on many is­sues, a skil­ful ne­go­tia­tor for the state and a good par­ent and hus­band.Above all, he stands out as an ex­am­ple of West In­di­an achieve­ment against enor­mous odds, turn­ing ad­ver­si­ty in­to ad­van­tage and con­vert­ing mis­for­tune in­to achieve­ment. May his soul rest in peace.