[1] Around 1892 he moved to Adelaide, bought a house "Merriwa" on North-East Road, Gilberton (which he sold in 1906) and established a sharebroking company there.
He was a director of the Great Boulder Mining Company Richard E. P. Osborne (ca.1860 – 24 August 1932) left the Isle of Man in 1868 when his father started work at the Kapunda copper mine, was educated at Whinham College and was a member of the Adelaide Stock Exchange from 1896 to 1924, when he joined the Adelaide office of Clarke and Co.
[4] Their children were: Mr Rutter Clarke was fond of sport and was a keen cricketer and tennis player.
[8][9] In February 1917 the car he was driving on High Street, St Kilda, struck and killed William Fitzsimmons, who had jumped down from the seat of his lorry into the path of the oncoming vehicle.
His palatial weekender, "Ellerslie" at Mornington, Victoria previously owned by Sir Frederick Sargood, was destroyed by fire in April 1908.