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Other articles where Harry Parkes is discussed: China: The antiforeign movement and the second Opium War (Arrow War): The British consul Harry Parkes sent a fleet to fight its way up to Guangzhou. French forces joined the venture on the plea that a French missionary had been officially executed in Guangxi. The British government sent an expedition under Lord Elgin as plenipotentiary.
Harry Parkes (4 January 1920 – 4 March 2009) was an English footballer of the 1940s and 1950s. Parkes was a one club man having only played for Aston Villa . He is widely regarded as one of Aston Villa's most popular players of all time.
of the role of Harry Parkes in British diplomacy in Canton immediately after the incident. Before embarking on this project, however, it might be useful to give a brief introduction to Parkes and his background. Born in I828, Harry Smith Parkes was orphaned when he was five, and sailed for China when he was only thirteen. Apart from two brief
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Henry Parkes was born in Canley in Warwickshire, England, and christened in the nearby village of Stoneleigh. 7. Henry Parkes's father, Thomas Parkes, was a small-scale tenant farmer. 8. Henry Parkes received little formal education, and at an early age was working on a ropewalk for 4 pence a day. 9.
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A Life of Sir Harry Parkes: British Minister to Japan, China and Korea, 1841-1885. By Robert Morton Renaissance Books (2020) ISBN-13: 978-1912961160 Review by Sir David Warren. Sir Harry Parkes, British Minister to Japan at the time of the Meiji Restoration in 1868, has had a generally poor press.
