Andrew Inglis Clark is remembered for the Australian Constitution, his judicial service, and his role in founding the University of Tasmania. He had first trained as an engineer, and his family owned an ironworks with a small dockyard. In the late 1850s, the Admiralty reportedly offered subsidies to expand that industrial base for naval use. The suggested reliance on former-convict labour sat awkwardly with the family's opposition to transportation. Clark's biography reportedly documents the negotiation, which brought naval infrastructure into conflict with the family's position on penal labour.
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Andrew Inglis Clark's family and an Admiralty dockyard plan
A proposed naval-industrial subsidy links Australian constitutional figure Andrew Inglis Clark's engineering family to dockyard expansion, convict labour, and opposition to transportation.