Lionel Herbert Clarke Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Honourable
Lionel Herbert Clarke
Order:12th
Office:Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
Term Start:November 20, 1919
Term End:August 29, 1921
Predecessor:Sir John Strathearn Hendrie
Successor:Henry Cockshutt
Governor General:The Duke of Devonshire
The Lord Byng of Vimy
Premier:Ernest Charles Drury
Birth Date:20 July 1859
Birth Place:Guelph, Canada West
Death Place:Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality:Canadian
Alma Mater:Trinity College School
University of Edinburgh
Occupation:Brewer, businessman

Lionel Herbert Clarke (July 20, 1859  - August 29, 1921) was a Guelph-born businessman and the 12th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Canada. In 1911, he was appointed the first chairman of the Toronto Harbour Commission

The son of William Clarke and Clara Piggott Strange, he was educated in Port Hope. In 1891, Clarke married Anne Clara Gertrude Small.

In 1893, Lionel partnered with "barley king" Wilmot Deloui Matthews as L. H. Clarke and Company, malt dealers, then in 1900 they established the Canada Malting Company Limited of which Clarke became president in 1908.

Clarke was appointed lieutenant governor November 20, 1919. Diagnosed with stomach cancer, Clarke died at Government House, Toronto. After a state funeral, he was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto.

References

Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online http://www.biographi.ca/EN/009004-119.01-e.php?id_nbr=8078