George Clarke (1823 - 1913), by unknown photographer, 1900s, courtesy of Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania. AUTAS001125882803. .Image Details

CLARKE, GEORGE (1823-1913), Congregational minister and educationist, was born on 29 June 1823 at Parramatta, son of George Clarke of Wymondham, Norfolk, England, and his wife Martha, née Blomfield. His father, a gunsmith turned missionary teacher, was assigned to New Zealand by the Church Missionary Society in 1822, arrived at Hobart Town with his wife in the Heroine in September, and went on to Sydney. While they were there waiting for a ship to New Zealand, George junior was born. In 1824 the family sailed to New Zealand and settled at Kerikeri. At 9 George was sent to Hobart, where he lived with Henry Hopkins, a Congregationalist merchant, and attended Robert Giblin's academy for boys at New Town. He returned to New Zealand in 1836 ...

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Australian Dictionary of Biography