Henry Parkes
Australian statesman and politician (1815-1896) · Politicians · Died at 80
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Something wrong?Sir Henry Parkes, was a colonial Australian politician and the longest-serving non-consecutive premier of the Colony of New South Wales, the present-day state of New South Wales in the Commonwealth of Australia.
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Birthplace in Canley, Coventry, England
Parkes in 1839 (left) upon immigration to Australia, and in 1856 (right) upon his entry into the Legislative Assembly
Hampton Villa, Balmain, New South Wales, where Parkes lived from 1888 to 1892
A wood engraving of Sir Henry Parkes moving the first resolution at the federation conference in Melbourne, 1 March 1890
Kenilworth, the Gothic home in Annandale where Parkes lived until his death in 1896.
Parkes in 1893, photographed by Henry Walter Barnett
Sir Henry Parkes and the second Lady Parkes in the 1890sAwards
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Sir Henry Parkes, was a colonial Australian politician and the longest-serving non-consecutive premier of the Colony of New South Wales, the present-day state of New South Wales in the Commonwealth of Australia. He has been referred to as the "Father of Federation" due to his early promotion for the federation of the six colonies of Australia, as an early critic of British convict transportation and as a proponent for the expansion of the Australian continental rail network.
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