Australian engineer, lawyer, and politician (died 1907)

Andrew Inglis Clark

Andrew Inglis Clark was an Australian founding father and co-author of the Australian Constitution; he was also an engineer, barrister, politician, electoral reformer and jurist. He initially qualified as an engineer, but he re-trained as a barrister to effectively fight for social causes which deeply concerned him. After a long political career, mostly spent as Attorney-General and briefly as Opposition Leader, he was appointed a Senior Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania. Despite being acknowledged as the leading expert on the Australian Constitution, he was never appointed to the High Court of Australia.

Born

1848

February 24

Died

1907

Era

1840s

Country

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1848 Born
1907 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

484 King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica.
1303 The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence.
1386 King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda.
1525 A Spanish-Austrian army defeats a French army at the Battle of Pavia.

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The world in 1907

When Andrew departed

april 17 The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
august 1 The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
august 15 Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
august 17 Pike Place Market, one of the oldest continuously operated public farmers' markets in the U.S. and a popular tourist attraction, opens in Seattle, Washington.

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1848

Carl Wernicke 1848– German neuropathologist. (died 1905) Gottlob Frege 1848–1925 German mathematician and philosopher (born 1848) Johann Palisa 1848–1925 Austrian astronomer (died 1925) Louis Comfort Tiffany 1848–1933 American stained glass artist (died 1933) Tōgō Heihachirō 1848–1934 Japanese admiral (died 1934) Vilfredo Pareto 1848–1923 Italian sociologist and economist (born 1845)

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