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词条 Thomas Clarke (Australian politician)
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  1. Early life

  2. Later life and career

  3. References

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|name = Thomas Clarke
|honorific-suffix = JP
| image = Thomas Clarke MLA for Darlington, circa 1898.gif
| constituency_MP = Darlington
| parliament = New South Wales
| term_start = 27 July 1898
| term_end = 11 June 1901
| predecessor = William Schey
| successor = Phillip Sullivan
| office2 = Mayor of Redfern
| term_start2 = 12 February 1890
| term_end2 = 12 February 1891
| predecessor2 = John Crowe
| successor2 = John Beveridge
| term_start3 = 13 October 1898
| term_end3 = 7 February 1900
| predecessor3 = Edwin Berry
| successor3 = Henry Vernon
| office4 = Alderman on the Redfern Municipal Council
| term_start4 = February 1887
| term_end4 = February 1906
| constituency4 = Golden Grove Ward
| birth_date = 1846
| birth_place = County Fermanagh, Ireland, United Kingdom
| death_date = 28 December 1922
| death_place = Hazelbrook, New South Wales, Australia
| party = Free Trade Party
Liberal Reform Party
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Thomas Clarke JP (1846 – 28 December 1922) was an Australian politician and businessman who served several terms as Mayor of Redfern.

Early life

Clark was born to a Methodist family in 1846 in County Fermanagh, Ireland, and emigrated to the Colony of New South Wales in 1861. He commenced business as a commercial agent and produce merchant in Sydney and entered politics when he was elected as an Alderman on the first Broughton Vale Municipal Council on 19 June 1871.[1][2]

Clarke was first elected to serve on Redfern Municipal Council in February 1887 for Golden Grove Ward.[3] He rose to become mayor on two occasions, from February 1890 to February 1891 and from October 1898 to February 1900.[4][5][6]

Later life and career

Clarke first stood for the NSW Parliament at the 1895 election as a Free Trade candidate for Darlington, but was unsuccessful.[7] He was eventually elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Darlington in 1898 as a Free Trader, and sat after federation as a member of the Liberal Reform Party. However he was defeated at the following election in 1901.[8][9] Clarke continued to serve on Redfern Council until his retirement in February 1906.[10] For thirty-five years, Clarke operated as a commission agent on Sussex Street, Sydney, but retired owing to ill health a few years before his death.[11] In 1902 The Catholic Press reported that Clarke had been elected a vice-president of the Orange Order in Sydney, noting: "Can any of our readers inform us whether this is the same Tom Clarke, potato-seller, of Sussex-street, whom many Catholics of Golden Grove helped to return to Parliament a few years ago? If so, what do his old Catholic supporters and fellow-aldermen think of the Christian gratitude of Alderman T. Clarke?."[12]

He died at his residence, 'The Willows' (which he had owned since at least 1907 and after 1914 joint-owned with his brother Sydney),[13] in Hazelbrook on 28 December 1922 aged 74, with his obituary noting that he "was a popular figure in Redfern, in the affairs of which he always took a deep and active interest."[14] Survived by his wife, Susanna Robinson (d. 1924),[15] he was buried in the family plot at Lawson Cemetery alongside his son Sydney Charles Adam Clarke (1881–1922) who had predeceased him by two months.

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=Municipality of Broughton's Vale|url=http://api.records.nsw.gov.au/agencies/2078|website=NSW State Records|publisher=NSW Government|accessdate=31 January 2016}}
2. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71484758 |title=The Produce Trade of Sydney.—Some Views of Sussex=street. |newspaper=Australian Town and Country Journal |location=Sydney, NSW |date=12 August 1903 |accessdate=31 January 2016 |page=27 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
3. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13626208 |title=THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|location=NSW |date=2 February 1887 |accessdate=31 January 2016 |page=10 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
4. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13759678 |title=MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |location=NSW |date=15 February 1890 |accessdate=31 January 2016 |page=9 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
5. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article114045677 |title=RESIGNATION OF THE MAYOR OF REDFERN. |newspaper=Evening News|location=Sydney, NSW |date=14 October 1898 |accessdate=31 January 2016 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
6. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article117031233 |title=BREVITIES. |newspaper=Evening News |location=Sydney, NSW |date=8 February 1900 |accessdate=31 January 2016 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
7. ^{{cite web|last1=Green|first1=Antony|title=NSW Elections - 1895 Results - Redfern|url=https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/resources/nswelectionsanalysis/1895/Darlington.htm|website=NSW Elections database|publisher=Parliament of New South Wales|accessdate=31 January 2016}}
8. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14393457 |title=DARLINGTON ELECTORATE. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|location=NSW |date=26 June 1901 |accessdate=31 January 2016 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
9. ^{{cite web| title = Mr Thomas Clarke (1922)| work = Former Members| publisher = Parliament of New South Wales| year = 2008| url = http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/members.nsf/1fb6ebed995667c2ca256ea100825164/2373d5d9fda04703ca256cbd00834306?OpenDocument| accessdate = 7 April 2015 }}
10. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14724290 |title=MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|location=NSW |date=29 December 1905 |accessdate=31 January 2016 |page=8 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
11. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16037914 |title=THE LATE MR. T. CLARKE. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|location=NSW |date=30 December 1922 |accessdate=31 January 2016 |page=12 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
12. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article104419388 |title=Gossip. |newspaper=The Catholic Press|location=Sydney, NSW |date=6 November 1902 |accessdate=31 January 2016 |page=14 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
13. ^{{cite web|title=H004 : The Willows|url=http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=1170544|website=Office of Environment and Heritage|publisher=NSW Government|accessdate=14 April 2015}}
14. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16046860 |title=MR. T. CLARKE. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=29 December 1922 |accessdate=15 April 2015 |page=8 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
15. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16152138 |title=Family Notices. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=12 July 1924 |accessdate=15 April 2015 |page=13 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
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