CLARKE, MARCUS ANDREW HISLOP Australian author, was born in London on April 24, 1846, and died at Melbourne on Aug. 2, 1881. He emigrated about 5863 to Australia, where his uncle, James Langton Clarke, was a county court judge. He was at first a clerk in the Bank of Australasia, and then learned farming at a station on the Wimmera river, Vic toria. He was already writing stories for the Australian Maga zine, when in 1867 he joined the staff of the Melbourne Argus. He also became secretary (1872) to the trustees of the Melbourne public library, and later (1876) assistant librarian. He founded in 1868 the Yorick club, which soon numbered among its mem bers the chief Australian men of letters. The most famous of his books is For the Term of his Natural Life (Melbourne, a powerful tale of an Australian penal settlement, which origi nally appeared in serial form in a Melbourne paper.
See The Marcus Clarke Memorial Volume (Melbourne, 5884), containing selections from his writings with a biography and list of works, edited by Hamilton Mackinnon.