ROSEBANK: It was most pleasing to see Andrew Inglis Clark's main claim to fame, and the main way in which his name is now commemorated, featured in the April 1993 advertisement below in The Saturday Mercury. Mr Clark was also the principal drafter of the Bill to Constitute the Commonwealth of Australia produced by the 1891 National Australasian Convention (See Page 588). At the turn of the 19th century he was Tasmania’s Attorney-General. He later became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania, and the first Chancellor of the University of Tasmania.

FOR SALE

(by the Executors of the Estate of the late George Wilson)

HISTORIC "ROSEBANK"

(Circa 1870)

In Battery Point (11 Hampden Road), near Arthur's Circus, "Lenna" and Salamanca Place, this imposing building has views of the Derwent River to Droughty Point Whaling Station, Mt Nelson Semaphore Station, Mt Wellington and Kangaroo Bluff Battery.

Once the home of Andrew Inglis Clark, co-founder of the Hare-Clark system of proportional representation, this late Georgian, substantial, two-storey, sandstone and brick residence is of considerable historic value to Tasmania. Classified by the National Trust, its features include its original unaltered facade, main rooms and cedar doors, skirting boards and mantelpieces. Occupied as four flats, "Rosebank" lends itself to reconversion to a single residence or for use as professional premises.