Andrew Inglis Clark was born in Hobart in 1848.
His father, Alexander Clark, was a Scottish engineer who arrived
in the colony in 1832, and was responsible for the design and construction
of a flour mill at Port Arthur. Though transportation came to an
end in 1853, Clark grew up in a community which had by no means
shaken off its origins as a penal colony.
Clark's mother, Ann.
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Clark's father, Alexander.
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Educated at Hobart High School, he at first seemed
destined to work in the family firm. Though he disappointed his
fathers expectations by embarking, at the age of twenty-four,
on a legal career, Clark drew deeply on the influences of a sober,
industrious, civic-minded and God-fearing family. In 1878 he married
Grace Ross, and had five sons and two daughters. He was very much
a family man. In later years the door of his study was always open
for his children.
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Clark's family home in Collins Street,
Hobart, around 1890,
between Harrington and Barrack Streets, since demolished.
This was the Clark family home in
Liverpool Street in Hobart in the 1850s
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