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Arthur Edward Clarke (born 13 April 1860) was a
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architect who emigrated to
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in the late 1890s, and practiced in
Kalgoorlie Kalgoorlie-Boulder (or just Kalgoorlie) is a city in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, located east-northeast of Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway. It is referred to as Kalgoorlie–Boulder as the surroundi ...
. Clarke was born in
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, to John Robert Clarke and Maria Clarke. He was already working as an architect at aged 20.''1881 England Census'' In 1882, he married Janet Burton Badcock in Devon. His works included the School of Mines in Western Australia, and the Leederville Town Hall.


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