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Sir Harry Smith Parkes GCMG KCB (24 February 1828 – 22 March 1885) was a British diplomat who served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary and Consul General of the United Kingdom to the Empire of Japan from 1865 to 1883 and the Chinese Qing Empire from 1883 to 1885, and Minister to Korea in 1884.
Biography. Sir Harry Smith Parkes (1828-1885) was born on 24 February 1828 at Bloxwich, near Walsall. He was the youngest of three children, and the only son, of an ironmaster and his wife. Following an education at the King Edward the Sixth school in Birmingham, he proceeded to China in 1841 through the influence of a family connection.
Harry Smith Parkes fue un diplomático británico que ejerció como embajador y cónsul general del Reino Unido ante el Imperio de Japón de 1865 a 1883, ante el Imperio Chino de 1883 a 1885, y ante el Reino de Corea en 1884. La calle Parkes de Kowloon, Hong Kong, lleva su nombre.
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
These papers of Sir Harry Smith Parkes (1828-1885), diplomat and successively ambassador to Japan and China from 1865, were deposited on permanent loan to the Library by Sir John Keswick in 1957. The collection was subsequently converted into a gift in 1969.
HARRY SMITH PARKES, THE FIRST BRITISH GO PLAYER IN JAPAN. Guoru Ding and Franco Pratesi. In his book “Goh or Wei chi” of 1911, the first complete treatment of Go in Great Britain, Horace Cheshire mentioned that he had played the game of Go for some thirty years and that his sources were both Chinese and Japanese.
SIR HARRY SMITH PARKES (1828-1885), English diploma tist, son of Harry Parkes, founder of the firm of Parkes, Otway & Co., ironmasters, was born at Birchills Hall, near Walsall in Staffordshire, in 1828.
