14 November 1907(1907-11-14) (aged 59) Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Resting place
Queenborough Cemetery, Sandy Bay, Hobart, Tasmania
Citizenship
British
Australian
Political party
Independent
Spouse
Grace Paterson Ross
(m. 1878)
Children
8
Parent
Alexander Clark (father)
Residence(s)
Rosebank, Battery Point, Hobart, Tasmania
Education
Hobart High School
Alma mater
Christ's College, Hobart (AA)[a]
Occupation
Engineer
Lawyer
Politician
Known for
Contribution to Federation of Australia
Contribution to Australian Republicanism
Contribution to the Australian Constitution
Electoral reform in Australia
Andrew Inglis Clark (24 February 1848 – 14 November 1907) was an Australian founding father and co-author of the Australian Constitution; he was also an engineer, barrister, politician, electoral reformer and jurist. He initially qualified as an engineer, but he re-trained as a barrister to effectively fight for social causes which deeply concerned him. After a long political career, mostly spent as Attorney-General and briefly as Opposition Leader, he was appointed a Senior Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania. Despite being acknowledged as the leading expert on the Australian Constitution, he was never appointed to the High Court of Australia.
He popularised the Hare-Clark voting system, and introduced it to Tasmania. In addition Clark was a prolific author, though most of his writings were never published, rather they were circulated privately.[1] Clark was also Vice-Chancellor of the University of Tasmania. Throughout his life, Clark was a progressive. He championed the rights of workers to organise through trades unions, universal suffrage (including women's suffrage) and the rights to a fair trial – all issues which today we take for granted, but were so radical in the 1880s that he was described as a 'communist' by the Hobart Mercury.[1]
In one summation, "Clark was an Australian Jefferson, who, like the great American Republican, fought for Australian independence; an autonomous judiciary; a wider franchise and lower property qualifications; fairer electoral boundaries; checks and balances between the judicature, legislature and executive; modern, liberal universities; and a Commonwealth that was federal, independent and based on natural rights."[2] Less favourably, a contemporary, J.B. Walker, privately judged him an "eloquent, impressive, dignified ... doctrinaire politician ... wanting in practical ability".[3]
Yet he also had a rich and warm home life. He is described as "never too busy to mend a toy for a child, and his wife once wrote on hearing of his imminent return from America: 'to celebrate your return I must do something or bust'".[1]
The Australian federal Division of Clark is named after him.
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^ abc"Clark, Andrew Inglis (1848–1907)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. 1969. Retrieved 7 April 2009.
^Irving, Helen (1997). To Constitute a Nation: A Cultural History of Australia's Constitution. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-66897-2. p35
^William Coleman,Their Fiery Cross of Union. A Retelling of the Creation of the Australian Federation, 1889-1914, Connor Court, Queensland, 2021, p.330.
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