William Nairne Clark

William Nairne Clark (1804–1854) was a public notary and publisher, active at the Swan River Colony and Tasmanian settlements founded in Australia.

The son of Charles Clark of Princeland, he was born in Scotland at Coupar Angus, Perthshire, to Marjory, née Barclay. His great uncle, advocate and judge William Nairne (Lord Dunsinane), provided his early education at Dunsinnan House in Collace, and he studied law to become appointed a life long public notary.^[1] Amongst the recognition of his works and contributions, aside from the contemporary notability of his firsts in publishing and duelling,^[1] he is noted by Dominic Serventy and Hubert Whittell in the seminal work Birds of Western Australia (1948, et seq) as having published observations on birds of Southwest Australia and the first list of its avifauna.^[2] His poetry has occasionally been selected for anthologies of historic prose or republished in Australian newspapers.

^ ^a ^b Bolton, G.C. (1966). "Clark, William Nairne (1804–1854)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
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[Bolton1966-1] Bolton, G.C. (1966). "Clark, William Nairne (1804–1854)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 2 November 2018.

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