Sir Fielding Clarke Kt. was a British colonial barrister, civil servant and jurist.

Biography

Fielding Clarke (born 1851) was the fourth son of Henry Booth Clarke and his wife Isabella (née Clarke). He married in 1888 Mary (May) Milward Pierce.

Education
Clarke was educated in Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

 and then return to England to attend King's College, London and London University (LLB). On November 12, 1872 he was admitted to Middle Temple

Middle Temple

The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, commonly known as Middle Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers; the others being the Inner Temple, Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn...

 and in 1876 was made barrister in the Middle Temple, N.E. circuit.

Career
Clarke then embarked on career as a civil servant and jurist in various British colonies:

• Attorney General of Fiji 1881-85
• Acting Chief Justice
  Chief Justice
  The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
  
   & Chief Judicial Commissioner
  Judicial Commissioner
  A Judicial Commissioner in Singapore is appointed to the Supreme Court by the President of Singapore on the advice of the Prime Minister, and has the powers of a Judge. A person may be appointed a Judicial Commissioner if he/she has been a "qualified person" within the meaning of section 2 of the...
  
  , W. Pacific 1882
• Chief Justice of Fiji & Chief Judicial Commissioner, W. Pacific 1885=89
• Puisne Judge, Hong Kong 1889-1892
• Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong
  Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong
  Chief Justice of Hong Kong or erroneously Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong was the most senior judge in the court system in Hong Kong until 1997....
  
   1892-1895
• Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Jamaica 1896-1911

Clarke was knighted in 1894 and retired as jurist in 1911.