[2] He arrived in Australia from England in 1880, and lived briefly in Melbourne but soon traveled to Sydney by way of the goldfields at Parkes and Hill End.

[3] Clark stood unsuccessfully as an independent Free Trade candidate for the electorate of Newtown in the 1891 New South Wales colonial election.

They had 4 children: Daisy (1894 – 1894), Violet (1894 – 1894),[5] George Sarsfield (1905 – 1992) and Marcia Adrienne May (born posthumously, 1913 – 2001).

[8] The Clarks purchased land near Hornsby in 1907, on which they built their winter house of Mount Wilga.

[9] This replaced their Mount York home of Drachenfels, to which they never returned following the death of Clark's son, Byron, in a cliff fall in 1899.