Harry Smith Parkes
Sir Harry Smith Parkes GCMG, KCB 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 186583 and the Chinese Qing Empire from 188385, and Minister to Korea in 1884. Parkes Street in Kowloon, Hong Kong is named after him.
Parkes was born in Birchill Hall in the parish of Bloxwich in Staffordshire, England. His father, Harry Parkes, was the founder of Parkes, Otway amp Co., ironmasters. His mother died when he was four, while his father was killed in a carriage accident in the following year. He lived with his uncle, a retired naval officer, at Birmingham and was educated at a boarding school in Balsall Heath before entering King Edwards Grammar School in May 1838.
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