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    Sir Henry Parkes as having flaws but nonetheless being "a large-brained self-educated Titan whose natural field was found in Parliament". Parkes was born...
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    Parkes is a town in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. It is the main settlement in the local government area of Parkes Shire. Parkes...
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  • Australian federation Parkes, New South Wales, a regional town Parkes Observatory, a radio telescope near Parkes, New South Wales Parkes Shire, a local government...
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    and influence as Sir Henry Parkes". Tenterfield's mayor, David Corney, seconded the nomination and to enthusiastic cheers Parkes was elected unopposed...
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  • Henry Parkes Way is a 171-kilometre (106 mi) country road in New South Wales, Australia, running from Condobolin via Parkes to Escort Way in Boree. It...
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    The Tenterfield Oration was a speech given by Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of the Colony of New South Wales at the Tenterfield School of Arts in Tenterfield...
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    publication was suspended. It was later absorbed by The Evening News. Henry Parkes founded the Empire and was its editor/proprietor until the business failed...
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    Parkes contains the Parliamentary Triangle and many of the national monuments of Australia's capital city. Parkes is named in honour of Sir Henry Parkes...
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    Commonwealth. Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of the Colony of New South Wales, was instrumental in this process. Sir Edmund Barton, second only to Parkes in the length...
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  • of 1848, taken out jointly with his brother Henry Parkes). In 1850, he developed and patented the Parkes process for economically desilvering lead, also...
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    (1892). "Parkes, Hon. Sir Henry" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource. "Speeches of Sir Henry Parkes, G.G...
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  • Washington. From 1956 to 1957, Parkes was a Fulbright Fellow, working at the University of Athens in Greece. Parkes, Henry Bamford (1930). Jonathan Edwards...
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  • to be contested at the first Federal election. It was named after Sir Henry Parkes, seventh Premier of New South Wales and sometimes known as the 'Father...
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    The Division of Parkes is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. The former Division of Parkes (1901–1969) was located in suburban...
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  • of five occasions that Parkes was Premier. Having served in the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1854 and 1856, Parkes was elected in the first...
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    The fifth Parkes ministry was the 26th ministry of the Colony of New South Wales, and was led by the seventh Premier, Sir Henry Parkes. It was the fifth...
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    Highway and Main Western railway line. It is also near the grave of Sir Henry Parkes. A corridor of oak trees has been planted at this place by each Prime...
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  • Buried Chief" (1886) is a poem by Australian poet Henry Parkes. The poem was written by Henry Parkes, on 6 November 1886, after the death of Sir James...
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    of Henry Parkes. Henry Parkes' response to the crime was also satirised in the 1868 stage play The New Crime. Lyons, Mark (1974). "O'Farrell, Henry James...
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    Varney Parkes (4 June 1859 – 14 May 1935) was an Australian politician, architect and son of Henry Parkes. Parkes was born in the Sydney suburb of Ryde...
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  • Thoughts is a poetry collection by Australian poet, politician and writer Henry Parkes, published by Samuel E. Lees, in 1889. The first edition contains 73...
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  • the play over weekends. They based the script on Parkes' poetry and an interview between Parkes and Henry O'Farrell while the latter was waiting to be executed...
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    occasions that Parkes was Leader of the Government. Having served in the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1854 and 1856, Parkes was elected in...
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  • occasions that Parkes was Leader of the Government. Having served in the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1854 and 1856, Parkes was elected in...
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    passed on to Parkes' son, Varney Parkes). Parkes is buried in Faulconbridge Cemetery, alongside the grave of his first wife, Varney Parkes and other family...
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  • The party was centred on New South Wales, where its leaders were Sir Henry Parkes and Sir George Reid. It dominated New South Wales colonial politics before...
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  • first Parkes ministry was the fourteenth ministry of the Colony of New South Wales, and the first of five occasions of being led by Henry Parkes. Having...
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    the Free Trade Party of Henry Parkes in 1887, but refused to serve in Parkes' governments due to personal enmity. When Parkes resigned as party leader...
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  • classes of locomotives. The appointment by the Premier of New South Wales, Henry Parkes of Mr E.M.G Eddy as Chief Commissioner in 1888 created an independent...
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    industrial complex where thousands of Coventry people once worked. Sir Henry Parkes (1815–1896), Australian statesman and five times Premier of New South...
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