The Honourable Lionel Herbert Clarke
Portrait by Edmund Wyly Grier
12th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
In office November 20, 1919 – August 29, 1921
Monarch	George V
Governors General	The Duke of Devonshire The Lord Byng of Vimy
Premier	Ernest Charles Drury
Preceded by	Sir John Strathearn Hendrie
Succeeded by	Henry Cockshutt
Personal details
Born	(1859-07-20)July 20, 1859 Guelph, Canada West
Died	August 29, 1921(1921-08-29) (aged 62) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Spouse	Anne Small ​ (m. 1891)​
Alma mater	Trinity College School University of Edinburgh
Occupation	Brewer, businessman

Lionel Herbert Clarke (July 20, 1859 – August 29, 1921) was a Guelph-born businessman and the 12th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Canada. In 1911, he was appointed the first chairman of the Toronto Harbour Commission

The son of William Clarke and Clara Piggott Strange, he was educated in Port Hope. In 1891, Clarke married Anne Clara Gertrude Small.

In 1893, Lionel partnered with "barley king" Wilmot Deloui Matthews as L. H. Clarke and Company, malt dealers, then in 1900 they established the Canada Malting Company Limited of which Clarke became president in 1908.

Clarke was appointed lieutenant governor November 20, 1919. Diagnosed with stomach cancer, Clarke died at Government House, Toronto. After a state funeral, he was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online http://www.biographi.ca/EN/009004-119.01-e.php?id_nbr=8078

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