Henry parkes brief biography of albert

          For nearly half a century Sir Henry Parkes was a conspicuous figure in Australian public life, and, for much of that period, by far the most prominent..

          Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement/Parkes, Henry

          ​PARKES, Sir HENRY (1815–1896), Australian statesman, was born on 27 May 1815 on Lord Leigh's Stoneleigh estate, Warwickshire, where his father, Thomas Parkes, was a small tenant farmer.

          By Pierre Duyker.

        1. Born over seventy years ago, of humble parents, under the shadow of Stoneleigh Abbey, Sir Henry Parkes received the rudiments of his education.
        2. For nearly half a century Sir Henry Parkes was a conspicuous figure in Australian public life, and, for much of that period, by far the most prominent.
        3. Sir Harry Smith Parkes GCMG KCB (24 February – 22 March ) was a British diplomat who served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
        4. An Australian icon, as well as beloved by the Central West, Sir Henry Parkes was described as a “a large-brained self-educated Titan whose.

          5. Parkes received his early education at village schools in the neighbourhood. Owing to the misfortunes of his parents he was compelled to earn his own living as a child of eight. Yet by assiduous self-culture in after years Parkes became one of the most widely read of Australian public men, and a devoted lover of English literature.

          In very early manhood Parkes migrated from Stoneleigh to Birmingham, where he was apprenticed, and became an ivory turner.

          THE SPECTRE OF POVERTY.

          On 11 July 1836 he married, at the parish church, Edgbaston, Clarinda, daughter of Robert Varney of Birmingham. The father of the bride, a well-to-do man, promptly disowned her. They married without any provision for their wedded life except the work they could obtain from day