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Marcus Clarke

Died in 1881

Marcus Clarke was born on 24 April 1846 in Kensington, in London. After the ruin and death of his father, a barrister, he made his way to Melbourne, where he landed on 6 June 1863. A bank clerk, then an apprentice on a grazing station near Glenorchy, he joined the Argus at the end of 1867. In 1869, he married the actress Marian Dunn, with whom he had six children, and put his money into a comic weekly that soon disappeared. Secretary to the trustees of the public library, then assistant librarian, he went bankrupt in 1874 and in 1881 and died on 2 August 1881 of erysipelas.

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