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Biographies
Peregrine Clark was born in Trinidad about 1796. According to newspaper reports at the time of his trial he was a man of colour who could both read and write. He was therefore probably the son of an English man and a Negro woman.
On 6 August 1818 he was sentenced to transportation for life at the Surrey Assizes at Guilford, and on 20 November 1818 sailed from Portsmouth on the Hibernia. This was the third convict transport to sail direct to Hobart. They arrived in May 1819, and he was permitted to continue on to Sydney with the Rev'd Mr Hill. On 31 August he was listed to be sent to Newcastle on the Lady Nelson.
In November 1821 Peregrine petitioned Governor Macquarie for remission of his sentence, and a note from Major J T Morrisett, the Commandant at Newcastle, supported this. He was in Sydney at Christmas 1823, for a notice in the Sydney Gazette asked that claims be presented as he was leaving the Colony.
Peregrine Clark, aged 30 and free, married Charlotte Stevens, aged 20 and free, on 25 April 1825, Hobart. They had nine children between 1825 and 1848 when twins were born - Mary Anne in 1825, Emma Charlotte in 1830, Thomas Biggs in 1833, William Peregrine in 1835, Charles in 1836, Ellen in 1841, Clara in 1844, and twins Hannah and George in 1848.
He received an Absolute Pardon on 27 October 1835.
He seemed to have an affinity with the sign Wheat Sheaf, for he used it each time he opened a pub. The first was at Risdon Brook in 1829, the second at Kangaroo Point (Bellerive) in 1835, and the third in Macquarie Street, Hobart Town, in 1844. His first license was at Sorell in 1831, the sign of which needs to be determined.
Before he opened his Hobart Wheat Sheaf, Peregrine was licensee of the Freemason's Hotel in Harrington Street. It seems that he began to run the hotel late in 1839, as on 6 November 1839 the Hobart Town Courier advertised that P Clarke late of Wheatsheaf Hotel, Kangaroo Point, has taken the Freemason's Hotel. The report of the quarterly meeting in the Colonial Times omits this transfer.
On 18 September 1840 the Courier advertised the Freemason's Hotel as: For Sale by Auction, 30 September 1840, Mr Whittaker retiring from business in favour of Mr Peregrine Clarke. At the November 1840 quarterly meeting the hotel was transferred from Samuel Whittaker to Peregrine Clark. What happened during November 1839 till then is not clear.
In September 1841 Peregrine Clark was granted a renewal, and Thomas Wilson received a license for the Tap. In September 1842 it was just Peregrine Clark, and then in September 1844 Samuel Whittaker was back in charge, receiving the renewal. This was presumably because Peregrine had opened his own house, the Wheat Sheaf in Macquarie Street.
He remained licensee there only nine months, transferring the license to the Governor's coachman, James Allen Reeves (q.v.) in May 1845.
In September 1846 Peregrine was granted a license for the Blue Anchor Inn at the Falls, New Norfolk, and it seems he held this license until 1850, although he changed the sign to the Fountain Inn in 1847.
Peregrine died on 15 January 1851, at his residence, Bathurst Street,
Hobart, aged 55. His death required a coroner's inquest, held in the
Albermarle. The verdict was death by apoplexy. He was recorded as a cook.
Submitted by Researcher (5944) on 8 April 2017
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/3, p.115
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