Henry Marcus Clark

Henry Marcus Clark
Nationality Australian

Henry Marcus Clark (?? - died 1913) was an Australian businessman who built a retailing empire known as Marcus Clark & Co. featuring a chain of Marcus Clark department stores.

He arrived in Australia from England in 1880. In 1883 he started a small drapery shop which prospered.

His 6th child Byron Marcus Clark died in a cliff fall near their Blue Mountains home (Drachenfels) in 1899[1]

He is buried at Waverley Cemetery .

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