Parkes
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Parkes may refer to:
There are also several things named after him:
In addition, Parkes may refer to:
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- Sir Henry ParkesHenry ParkesSir Henry Parkes, GCMG was an Australian statesman, the "Father of Federation." As the earliest advocate of a Federal Council of the colonies of Australia, a precursor to the Federation of Australia, he was the most prominent of the Australian Founding Fathers.Parkes was described during his...
(1815-1896), Australian politician and "Father of Federation"
There are also several things named after him:
- Parkes, New South WalesParkes, New South Wales- Transport :Parkes has a local bus service provided by Western Road Liners, which acquired Harris Bus Lines in March 2006. The Indian Pacific also stops twice a week, as well as the Broken Hill Outback Xplorer service, run by CountryLink, which heads to Broken Hill on Mondays and Sydney on...
, a regional town - Parkes ObservatoryParkes ObservatoryThe Parkes Observatory is a radio telescope observatory, 20 kilometres north of the town of Parkes, New South Wales, Australia. It was one of several radio antennas used to receive live, televised images of the Apollo 11 moon landing on 20 July 1969....
, a radio telescope near Parkes, New South Wales - Parkes, Australian Capital TerritoryParkes, Australian Capital TerritoryParkes is an inner suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Located south of the Canberra CBD, Parkes contains the Parliamentary Triangle area. On Census night 2006, Parkes had a population of 4 people....
, a suburb of Canberra - the Division of Parkes (1901-69)Division of Parkes (1901-69)The Division of Parkes was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It was located in the south-west of Sydney, and originally included the suburbs of Canterbury, Burwood and Ashfield...
, an abolished Sydney electorate in the Australian House of Representatives - the Division of ParkesDivision of ParkesThe Division of Parkes is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. The largest electorate in the state, it is located in the far north of the state, and adjoining the border with Queensland. Its largest population centre is Dubbo...
, a current regional electorate in the House of Representatives - the Tenterfield School of ArtsTenterfield School of ArtsThe Tenterfield School of Arts is a hall in the town of Tenterfield in New South Wales, Australia. It is notable as the place where Sir Henry Parkes delivered the Tenterfield Oration, a speech proposing that the six separate British colonies in Australia should unite into a single federation.The...
known as the Sir Henry Parkes School of Arts, a museum in the building where Parkes made the famous "Tenterfield Oration" - HMAS ParkesHMAS ParkesHMAS Parkes , named for the town of Parkes, New South Wales, was one of 60 Bathurst class corvettes constructed in Australia during World War II, and one of 36 initilally manned and commissioned by the Royal Australian Navy .-Construction:...
, a Royal Australian Navy corvette during WWII
In addition, Parkes may refer to:
- Alexander ParkesAlexander ParkesAlexander Parkes was a metallurgist and inventor from Birmingham, England. He created Parkesine, the first man-made plastic.-Biography:...
(1813-1890), English inventor - Broc ParkesBroc ParkesBroc Parkes is an Australian motorcycle racer, best known for his success in the Supersport World Championship.-Early years:He was born on 24 December 1981, and lives in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, resulting in the nickname 'The Boy From the Bush'. Parkes was originally inspired to...
(b. 1981), Australian motorcycle racer - Dave ParkesDave ParkesDave J. Parkes was the General Manager and then the Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Curling Association from 1988 until 2007.A Winnipeg native, Parkes joined the CCA in Ottawa in 1988 as its general manager and became its chief executive officer in 2000...
, Canadian sports administrator - David Parkes (b. 1950), Irish football player
- Ebenezer ParkesEbenezer ParkesSir Edward Ebenezer Parkes was an English Liberal Unionist politician who served as Member of Parliament for Birmingham Central....
(1848-1919), English L:iberal Unionist politician - Sir Edward ParkesEdward ParkesSir Edward Walter Parkes was Vice-Chancellor of City University London from 1974 to 1978 and Leeds University from 1983 to 1991....
(b. 1926), Vice-Chancellor of City University London (1974-78) - Ernie ParkesErnie ParkesGeorge Ernest Parkes was a professional ice hockey player who played 17 games in the National Hockey League. He played with the Montreal Maroons.- External links :...
(1894-?), Canadian ice hockey player - Fanny ParkesFanny ParkesFanny Parkes was a Welsh travel writer.She was the daughter of Anne and Major Edward Caulfield Archer, 16th Lancers, ADC to Lord Combermere and author of Tours in upper India, and in parts of the Himalaya Mountains; with accounts of the courts of the native princes, &c. She married Charles...
(1794-1875), Welsh travel writer - Gerard ParkesGerard ParkesGerard Parkes is an Irish Canadian actor who was born in Dublin, Ireland, and moved to Canada in 1956. His acting career has spanned film, radio, television, and the stage...
, Irish-born Canadian actor - Harry Smith ParkesHarry Smith ParkesSir Harry Smith Parkes was a 19th century British diplomat who worked mainly in China and Japan...
(1828-1885), British consul in China and Japan - Harry Parkes (1920-2009), English footballer
- Harry Parkes (football manager)Harry Parkes (football manager)Harold Arnold 'Harry' Parkes was an English footballer and the manager of various football clubs in the 1920s and 1930s.-Playing career:...
, (1888-1947), English footballer and manager - Henry Bamford ParkesHenry Bamford ParkesHenry Bamford Parkes was an author and professor of history at New York University. He was born in Sheffield, England.-Background:...
(1904-?), English historian and author - Howard ParkesHoward ParkesHoward Roderick Parkes was an English cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he played first-class cricket for London County and Warwickshire.-Career:...
(1877-1920), English cricketer - James Parkes (clergyman)James Parkes (clergyman)James Parkes was born on the Island of Guernsey in the Channel Islands and was a clergyman, historian, and social activist...
(1896-?), Historian and activist from the Channel Islands - James ParkesJames ParkesJames Parkes is an English professional Rugby union football player for Leeds Tykes. His usual position is at hooker. He retired then in 2007. But in November 2010 he was brought out of retirement to be on the bench to play Sale Sharks after a injury to Andy Titterrell.-External links:*...
(b. 1980), English rugby union player - James S. ParkesJames S. ParkesJames S. Parkes was an American Republican Party politician, who served on the Red Bank, New Jersey Borough Council and as a member of the Monmouth County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders.-Biography:...
, former American Republican Party politician - Jordan ParkesJordan ParkesJordan David Parkes is an English professional association footballer, playing as a full-back for Barnet.Parkes left Parmiter's School in Garston, Hertfordshire aged sixteen in order to pursue a football career at Watford...
(b. 1983), English footballer - Joseph ParkesJoseph ParkesJoseph Parkes was an English political reformer.Born in Warwick, in Unitarian Whig circles, Parkes was educated at Warwick grammar school, Dr Charles Burney's college in Greenwich and Glasgow university. Moving to London in 1817, Parkes developed an association with the Philosophical Radicals...
(1796-1865), English political reformer - Lauren ParkesLauren ParkesLauren Parkes was born on April 7, 1987 in Baltimore, Maryland-Background:Parkes attended parochial schools in Baltimore County before entering the Institute of Notre Dame in Baltimore, Maryland. She was a member of the competition dance for all four years of her high school career...
(b. 1987), American beauty pageant contestant - Michael ParkesMichael ParkesMichael Parkes is an American-born artist living in Spain who is best known for work in the areas of fantasy art and magic realism. He specializes in painting, stone lithography and sculpture...
(b. 1944), American fantasy artist - Mike ParkesMike ParkesMichael Johnson Parkes was an English racing driver.He participated in 7 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on July 18, 1959. He achieved two podiums, and scored a total of 14 championship points. He also secured one pole position...
(1931-1977), British racing driver - Nii ParkesNii ParkesBorn in the UK, in 1974, and raised in Ghana , Nii Ayikwei Parkes is a performance poet, writer and sociocultural commentator. A veteran of several poetry festivals, and former Poet-In-Residence at the Poetry Cafe in London, he has performed Poetry in the UK, Europe, Ghana and the US and was a 2005...
(b. 1974), British-born Ghanaian poet - Phil Parkes (b. 1947), former English football goalkeeper (for Wolverhampton Wanderers)
- Phil Parkes (b. 1950), former English football goalkeeper (for Queens Park Rangers and West Ham United)
- Robin ParkesRobin ParkesRobin Parkes is the CEO of Freeview , the organisation representing the free to air television stations in Australia.- External links :*...
, Australian businessman - Samuel Parkes (chemist)Samuel Parkes (chemist)Samuel Parkes was a British manufacturing chemist.He published manuals of chemistry between 1806 and 1815.His work of popular science, the Chemical Catechism, includes poetical descriptions of chemical processes. Here is his description of plant respiration:Samuel Parkes Samuel Parkes (c....
(.c. 1759-1825), British chemist - Samuel Parkes (VC)Samuel Parkes (VC)Samuel Parkes VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces...
(1815-1864), British recipient of the Victoria Cross - Shaun ParkesShaun ParkesShaun Parkes is an English actor currently appearing in the ITV drama Identity.-Biography:At 16 he enrolled at Seltec College to study drama, two years later he was accepted into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Career:...
(b. 1973), English actor - Terence ParkesLarry (cartoonist)Terence "Larry" Parkes was a popular cartoonist from the United Kingdom. His work, consisting largely of single drawings featuring an absurdist view of normal life, was published in many magazines and newspapers, particularly Punch and Private Eye...
, UK cartoonist known as Larry - Taylor ParkesTaylor ParkesTaylor Parkes is a British journalist. He is best known for his music journalism which appeared in Melody Maker from 1993 to 1998, notable for a style which mixed dark humour, especially in bitterly critical pieces, with an intellectual tone, influenced by the likes of Simon Reynolds and Paul Morley...
(b. 1972), British journalist - Tony ParkesTony ParkesAnthony "Tony" Parkes is an English former professional footballer. After retiring, he became a coach. He was most recently caretaker manager at Blackpool. It was the seventh such role of his coaching career, having performed the role on six occasions for...
(b. 1949), former English professional footballer - Walter F. ParkesWalter F. ParkesWalter F. Parkes is an American film producer, writer and former studio head.- Biography :Parkes has been associated with DreamWorks Pictures, which he ran from its inception in 1994 until 2005...
, American screenwriter and producer
Other uses:
- Parkes processParkes processThe Parkes process is a pyrometallurgical industrial process for removing silver from lead, during the production of bullion. It is an example of liquid-liquid extraction....
, a pyrometallurgical industrial process - Mysterious Mr. ParkesMysterious Mr. ParkesMysterious Mr. Parkes is a 1930 comedy drama film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Louis J. Gasnier.-Cast:*Adolphe Menjou as Courtenay Parkes*Claudette Colbert as Lucy Stavrin...
, a 1930 comedy drama film starring Claudett Colbert
See also
- Parke (disambiguation)
- Park (disambiguation)Park (disambiguation)A park is an area of land with a recreational or other specific purpose.Park or Parks may refer to:* National park, a reserve of land protected from most human development and pollution* Park , a common Korean family name...