PREMIER PARKES'S BOOK; A POOR IMMIGRANT'S RISE TO THE HIGHEST STATION. ... By Sir Henry Parkes. With portraits. 8vo. London: Longmans, Green & Co. Share full article. Dec. 19, 1892.

Just consider Henry Parkes' background. His father was an abysmally poor tenant farmer in Warwickshire who was thrown off his land. The family was destitute when 24-year-old Parkes caught a boat ...

To say the man who would become Sir Henry Parkes had a tough childhood is an understatement. Yet poverty and a lack of formal education would not hold back the man who, arguably, was the most ...

More than a century ago, Sir Henry Parkes put forward a vision for our federation of a united but diverse Australia, intergenerationally bound together by a liberty that transcended our race ...

So was Sir Henry. A nod from the top would go a long way towards securing a government position for the promising young bard from Eurunderee. A spot at the railway workshop, say. Henry was qualified, ...

Sir Henry Parkes' railway legacy was well demonstrated when, on January 8, 1901, one week after Federation celebrations in Sydney, 1200 people travelled by two trains as part of an official south ...

Henry Parkes: Political giant and champion of Federation. TODAY marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Sir Henry Parkes, a giant of NSW politics and regarded as the Father of Federation.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Feb. 4.--Sir Henry Parkes, member of Parliament, Prime Minister of NewSouth Wales, arrived here this morning over the Union Pacific Railroad on a trip for his health, and to ...

It was 1868 when Lucy Osburn travelled from England to set up the first nursing school in the colony, at Sydney Hospital. 'Father of Federation' Sir Henry Parkes had contacted Florence Nightingale ...