Frank Clarke

Sir Francis Grenville Clarke (14 March 1879 – 13 February 1955) was an Australian politician.

Clarke was born in Sunbury to grazier William John Clarke (later Sir William Clarke, 1st Baronet) and Janet Marion Snodgrass. His grandfather William John Turner Clarke had been an early member of the Victorian Parliament, while his father had also served in the parliament. His brothers Sir Rupert Clarke and Russell Clarke and nephew Michael Clarke were also MPs. Frank Clarke attended Scotch College, the University of Melbourne, and Oxford University, becoming a grazier with widespread properties.

Political career In 1913 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council as a non-Labor member for Northern Province. John Holywell Clarke (1902 - 1918) Margaret Mary Clarke (b. 1904) married John Egerton Oldham in 1933 (divorced 1952) John Christopher Clarke Oldham (b. 1934) Patricia Anne Oldham (b. 1950) Patricia Kathleen Clarke (1906 - 1973) married Raymond Vincent O’Burne William Antony Francis Clarke (1908 – 1953) married Jessie Deakin Brookes, a granddaughter of three-time Australian Prime Minister Alfred Deakin Francis Brookes Clarke (b. 1940) who married (1) Jacqueline Crossley in 1969 (div. 1976) and (2) Viva Spens Antony Graham Clarke (b. 1970) Janet Deakin Clarke (b. 1942) William Severn Clarke (b. 1945) Barbary Cotton Clarke (b. 1950) Colin Grenville Clarke (1914 – 1962) married Elizabeth Lennox Spiers Sally Miranda Clarke (b. 1949) Jason William Clarke (b. 1952) Valerie Janet Cotton Clarke (1920 – 1977) married Robert John Southey Robert Clarke Allen Southey (b. 1948) Guy Francis Southey (b. 1950) Jonathan Edward Southey (b. 1951) William Blaise Southey (b. 1957) Patrick Richard Christian Southey (b. 1963)

Sir Frank Clarke died at South Yarra on 13 February 1955.