Henry Clarke (22 June 1822 – 22 November 1907) was an Australian businessman and politician in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Clarke was born in Maghera,

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, Ireland, he emigrated to New South Wales in 1841 and he farmed for a while at Broulee. He returned to

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and married Jane Rayner in 1847 and they eventually had eleven children. He and Robert Gee established a successful shipping agency and owned three ships operating between Sydney and Melbourne by 1861. In the early 1860s, he lived for a period at Bergalia station near Moruya, but returned to Sydney in 1865 and worked at his agency until 1894.

Parliamentary career

In 1860, he contested the seat of

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and lost to

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. In 1869 he re-contested Eden and won. He held the seat continually until the district was abolished in 1894 and he stood unsuccessfully for Moruya in 1894. He returned to the parliament in 1895 as the member for Bega, which he held until 1904 when he was defeated by William Wood. He was Postmaster General in the short lived

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in 1889. He was noted as a hard-working parliamentarian. Clarke died in Randwick. On his eightieth birthday he had claimed to have two hundred grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. BrouleeProut1843

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1822 births 1907 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly People from Maghera 19th-century Australian politicians {{Australia-politician-stub