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Sir Henry Parkes
(1815 - 1896 / Australia)

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Henry Parkes was born to a family of yeoman stock in Warwickshire, England in 1815. Unfortunately, falling wheat prices forced the family to leave the land and seek employment in Birmingham. In 1836 Parkes married Clarinda Varney and they applied for assisted passage to Australia, the death of two o .. .. more >>

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"With our splendid harbour, our beautifully situated city, our vast territories, all our varied and inexhaustible natural wealth, if we don't convert our colony into a great and prosperous nation, it will be a miracle of error for which we shall have to answer as for a gigantic sin."
Henry Parkes (1815-1896), British-born Australian statesman. Speech, March 16, 1867, Melbourne, Australia. On the colony of New South Wales.

"Our business being to colonize the country, there was only one way to do it—by spreading over it all the associations and connections of family life."
Henry Parkes (1815-1896), British-born Australian statesman. speech, Aug. 14, 1866, to New South Wales Legislative Assembly.

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Henry Parkes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Henry Parkes, GCMG (27 May 1815 – 27 April 1896) was an Australian ..... A wood engraving of Sir Henry Parkes moving the first resolution at the ...
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Sir Henry Parkes
Born in 1815, Sir Henry Parkes was a famous journalist and politician. He was an ex-chartist and he migrated to Sydney in 1839 and worked as a toymaker, ...
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The appearance of colonial statesman Sir Henry Parkes on the new $5 note marks the return to circulation of this distinguished politician, ...
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