William John Turner Clarke

[2] His father died, and he was raised by his uncle [3] Health issues (a weak chest and a malformed hip) forced him to immigrate, and he settled in Van Diemen's Land in 1829,[3] and subsequently acquired extensive pastoral property in that colony, and in Victoria, South Australia, and New Zealand.

Clarke married Eliza, daughter of the Reverend George Pyke Dowling, of Puckington, Somerset, and Anne Biggs his wife, of an old and wealthy family of Bristol merchants, and had issue three sons — William John Clarke; Thomas Biggs Clarke, who was endowed with his father's Quorn Hall and Brambletye properties in Tasmania; and Joseph Clarke, who inherited the paternal estates in South Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania.

The money received from his wool clips was lent at high interest to Australian import houses.

In time he acquired the reputation of being the richest man in Australia, this being regarded as a consequence of what his obituaries term 'parsimonious habits'.

He was such a large man that 8 people were needed to carry him around on a reinforced Eucalypt pine/oak litter.