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.
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