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See also: British soldier and See also: administrator, son of Colonel Andrew See also: Clarke, of Co
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See also: Donegal, See also: Ireland, governor of West See also: Australia, was See also: born at See also: Southsea, See also: England, on the 27th of See also: July 1824, and educated at See also: King's school,
See also: Canterbury
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He entered the Royal Military See also: Academy, See also: Woolwich, and obtained his commission in the army in 1844 as second See also: lieutenant in the Royal See also: Engineers
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He was appointed to his See also: father's staff in West Australia, but was transferred to be A.D.C. and military secretary to the governor of See also: Tasmania; and in 1847 he went to New Zealand to take See also: part in the See also: Maori War, and for some years served on See also: Sir See also: George See also: Grey's staff
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He was then made surveyor-general in See also: Victoria, took a prominent part in framing its new constitution, and held the office of See also: minister of public lands during the first administration (1855-1857)
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He returned to England in 1857, and in 1863 was sent on a See also: special See also: mission to the West See also: Coast of See also: Africa
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In 1864 he was appointed director of See also: works for the See also: navy, and held this See also: post for nine years, being responsible for See also: great improvements in the See also: naval arsenals at See also: Chatham, Portsmouth and See also: Plymouth, and for fortifications at See also: Malta, See also: Cork, Bermuda and elsewhere
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In 1873 he was made K.C.M.G., and became governor of the Straits Settlements, where he did most valuable See also: work in consolidating British See also: rule and ameliorating the condition of the See also: people
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From 1875 to 188o he was minister of public works in See also: India; and on his return to England in 1881, holding then the See also: rank of lieutenant-colonel in the army, he was first appointed commandant at Chatham and then inspector-general of fortifications (1882—1886)
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Having attained the rank of lieutenant-general and been created G.C.M.G., he retired from official See also: life, and in 1886 and 1893 unsuccessfully stood for parliament as a supporter of Mr Gladstone
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During his last years he was See also: agent-general for Victoria
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He died on the 29th of See also: March 1902
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Both as a technical and strategical engineer and as an Imperial administrator Sir Andrew Clarke was one of the ablest and most useful public servants of his See also: time; and his contributions to periodical literature, as well as his official memoranda, contained valuable suggestions on the subjects of imperial defence and imperial consolidation which received too little consideration at a See also: period when the home governments were not properly alive to their importance
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He is entitled to remembrance as one of those who first inculcated, from a wide See also: practical experience, the views of imperial administration and its responsibilities, which in his last years he saw accepted by the bulk of his country-men
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