Marshal Clarke
LieutenantColonel Sir Marshal James Clarke KCMG was a British colonial administrator and an officer of the Royal Artillery. He was the first Resident Commissioner in Basutoland from 1884 to 1893 Resident Commissioner in Zululand from 1893 to 1898 and, following the botched Jameson Raid, the first Resident Commissioner in Southern Rhodesia from 1898 to 1905.
Reverend Mark Clarke, the Rector and Vicar of Shronell, County Tipperary, married Maria Hill onApril 1837. Marshal James Clarke was their eldest son, born onOctober 1841. He was born in Tipperary, educated at a private school in Dublin and studied at Trinity College, Dublin. He went on to study at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and was made a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in February 1863.
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