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 John Fitzgerald Burns	Member for St Leonards 1891 – 1894 Served alongside: Parkes, Cullen	Succeeded by Henry Parkes
Preceded by Joseph Cullen	Member for Willoughby 1894 – 1895	Succeeded by George Howarth
Preceded by Henry Parkes	Member for St Leonards 1895 – 1904	Succeeded by Thomas Creswell
Preceded by Thomas Creswell	Member for St Leonards 1907 – 1910	Succeeded by Arthur Cocks
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