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Frederick William Clark
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University professor.
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 11 December 1874, son of grain inspector William Clark, the family emigrated to Winnipeg in 1880. He attended Carlton School, Boys’ Central School, and Winnipeg Collegiate Institute. In 1892, he graduated from Manitoba College with a Classics degree, after which he became a teaching assistant to Thomas Hart.
He received a PhD in Classics from the University of Chicago then, in 1909, he became Professor of Classics on Hart’s retirement. When the college discontinued Arts courses in 1914, he transferred to the University of Manitoba where he eventually rose to the position as Head of its Department of Classics. He served as President of the Manitoba Educational Association (1917-1918).
On 14 June 1905, he married Edith Annie Sutherland (1870-1950) at WInnipeg and they subsequently had two children: Isabel Arundel Clark (1910-2002, wife of Howard Waldemar Winkler) and Hart Duncan Clark (1914-2014, a Rhodes Scholar). He was a keen athlete. Between 1889 and 1907 he played on the Manitoba College football team. He took part in the Manitoba curling bonspiel every year from 1905 to 1938 and was a member of the Granite Curling Club for 30 years. He was made an honorary life member of the Manitoba Curling Association (1937).
He died at the Winnipeg General Hospital on 20 April 1940 and was buried in the Old Kildonan Cemetery.
Marriage registration [Frederick William Clark, Edith Annie Sutherland], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Birth registration [Hart Duncan Clark], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Prof. F. W. Clark is dead,” Winnipeg Free Press, 20 April 1940. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B9, page 92]
“Dr. Fred W. Clark, veteran professor of Classics, dies,” Winnipeg Tribune, 20 April 1940, page 15.
Obituary, Winnipeg Tribune, 20 April 1940, page 26.
“Death climaxes careers of many notable people in course of 1940,” Winnipeg Free Press, 1 January 1941, page 1.
“Isabel Arundel Clark is bride of Howard W. Winkler,” Winnipeg Tribune, 23 November 1946, page 13.
The History of the Manitoba Educational Association by Ernest Butterworth, MEd thesis, Faculty of Graduate Study and Research, University of Manitoba, 1965.
Obituary [Isabel Winkler], Ottawa Citizen, 2 May 2002.
Obituary [Hart Duncan Clark], Ottawa Citizen, 23 August 2014.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
We thank Rick Mutton for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 30 October 2025
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