Maj.Gen.Sir William Clarke , eldest son. Issue. Could this be a grandson? Taken from the Queenslander, Brisbane, Saturday, May 22, 1897 INTERCOLONIAL NEWS DEATH OF SIR W.J. CLARKE Melbourne, May 16 { p 1119} Sir William J. CLARKE died suddenly while on his way to his office on Saturday. He alighted from a tram at Collins-street and staggered and fell on to the roadway. He was carried to the Athenium Club and medical aid summoned, but he expired before a doctor came. His Excellency the Governor and Lady BRASSEY called at the late residence during the day and expressed sympathy with Lady CLARKE. { Sir William John CLARKE, Bart., M.L.C., L.L.D., J.P., was the eldest son of the late Hon.W.J.T. CLARKE, M.L.C., and was born in 1831 in Tasmania. Sir William first arrived in Victoria in 1850, when he spent a couple of years in the study of sheep farming on his father's Dowling Forest station, and afterwards in the management of the Woodlands station on the Wimmera. For the next ten years he resided in Tasmania, working the Norton-Mandeville Estate in conjunction with his brother, Mr. Joseph CLARKE. In 1862 he assumed the management of his father's concerns in Victoria, and on the latter's death in 1874 succeeded to his estates in that colony. Sir William early evinced a very strong interest in farming pursuits, and introduced a scientific instructor in the person of Mr. R.W.E. M'IVOR, who lectured on agricultural chemistry for the benefit of the colony generally. Sir William CLARKE was most liberal in his donations to public objects.}
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