Edward Clark (Australian politician)

Edward Mann Clark (12 April 1854 – 30 May 1933) was an Australian politician.

Born in Hobart to William and Selina Clark, he attended Oldfield's Commercial Academy until he was twelve, when he moved to Sydney following his father's death. On 24 January 1874 he married Mary Jenkins, with whom he had eight children; he would later remarry Emma Eileen Kirby on 6 August 1926. He was an alderman for East St Leonards from 1884 to 1890 and for North Sydney from 1890 to 1928. In 1891 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as a Labor member for St Leonards in 1891, joining the Free Trade Party in 1894 and serving until 1904 (as the member for Willoughby from 1894 to 1895) and again from 1907 to 1910 as an independent and member of the Single Tax League. Clark died at North Sydney in 1933.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Mr Edward Mann Clark (1854-1933)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 29 November 2019.

 

New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Preceded by Member for St Leonards
1891 – 1894
Served alongside: Parkes, Cullen
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member for Willoughby
1894 – 1895
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member for St Leonards
1895 – 1904
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member for St Leonards
1907 – 1910
Succeeded by
Civic offices
Preceded by
Nicholas McBurney
Mayor of East St Leonards
1885 – 1886
Succeeded by
George Ranken
Preceded by
Gerard Phillips
Mayor of North Sydney
1892 – 1893
Succeeded by
Alexander Macknight
Preceded by
William Anderson
Mayor of North Sydney
1918 – 1919
Succeeded by
Albert Ernest Whatmore
New title Deputy Mayor of North Sydney
1926
Succeeded by
Robert Charles Forsyth