Clarke, Henry Lowther

Henry Lowther Clarke was consecrated Bishop by the Archbishop of Canterbury in St Paul's Cathedral, London, on 1 November 1902 and arrived in Melbourne in February 1903.
In 1905 Clarke became first Archbishop of Melbourne and Metropolitan of Victoria.

Henry Lowther Clarke was the fourth Anglican bishop and first archbishop of Melbourne, Australia. He was consecrated bishop in St Paul's Cathedral, London, on 1 November 1902. He arrived in Melbourne in February 1903 and was installed on 3 March. Following the organization in 1905 of an ecclesiastical province, comprising the five Victorian dioceses, Clarke became Archbishop of Melbourne. His wife's sudden death in 1918 affected him greatly and in 1919 he announced that he would retire on his seventieth birthday. He left Melbourne in March 1920.