Australian republican Andrew Inglis Clark's tombstone at risk

Perhaps it’s now time for Hobart City Council to bring the headstone of the great Australian politician, electoral reformer, jurist and republican, Andrew Inglis Clark in off the footpath in Peel Street, Sandy Bay.

Inglis Clark’s headstone was moved from the old Queenborough cemetery when the land was turned into housing to the newly created Queenborough Memorial Garden outside the housing development on the footpath.

 

Professor Henry Reynolds has argued that alone among the Federation fathers Andrew Inglis Clark was a staunch republican. It was Inglis Clark who prepared the draft of the federal constitution presented at the 1891 National Australasian Convention.

 

At the front of his historic home, Rosebank in Battery Point, Hobart there is a plaque acknowledging the significance of Inglis Clark in Tasmanian and Australian politics. However, a few blocks away, in shouting distance of the University of Tasmania where he was Vice-Chancellor during the first few years after federation, Inglis Clark’s headstone has been re-located to the footpath.

Andrew Inglis Clark’s wikipedia entry states he is buried in the old Queenborough Cemetery, Sandy Bay. 

 

This is not true. 

 

It no longer exists, and the headstones are now all relocated to the footpath which is called the Queenborough Memorial Garden. Perhaps it has only been luck that to date it hasn’t been picked up and removed on bin night.

 

Surely Hobart Council can do better than this.