Archibald Clark (1805 – 17 October 1875) was a Scottish 19th-century Member of Parliament in the Auckland Region, New Zealand.

He attended the University of Glasgow to become a Presbyterian minister, but returned home to take over his ill father's business before completing his studies.

Their eldest son, James Clark, was born in 1833 in Beith and became a mayor of Auckland (1880–1883).

[2][3] Clark decided to emigrate and they left London on the barque Thames on 18 July 1849, and arrived in Auckland with his third wife and four children on 25 November.

[5] Clark established a drapery store in Shortland Street in 1850[2] and initially imported, but later manufactured clothing.

[14][15] His daughter-in-law, Kate Emma McCosh Clark (wife of James McCosh Clark), wrote the first New Zealand children's story A southern cross fairy tale, which she partly illustrated, published in London in 1891.