Harry Smith Parkes Politician

Sir Harry Smith Parkes (Traditional Chinese: 巴夏禮; Simplified Chinese: 巴夏礼, 1828–1885) was a 19th-century British diplomat who worked mainly in China and Japan. Parkes Street in Kowloon, Hong Kong is named after him.

Personal facts

Harry Smith Parkes
Birth dateJanuary 01, 1828
Date of deathJanuary 01, 1885

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Office holder

monarch
Queen Victoria
officeEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the United Kingdom to the Qing Empire
successor
Nicholas Robert O'Conor

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External resources

  1. http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/guest/cgi-bin/booksea.cgi?ISBN=1873410360
  2. http://ukinjapan.fco.gov.uk/en/about-us/our-embassy/our-ambassador/previous-ambassadors
  3. http://www.kew.org/collections/ecbot/index.html
  4. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21353
  5. http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/scihort/ecbot/papers/parkes1871paper.pdf
  6. http://www.ringmar.net/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=856:lane-poole-harry-parkes-1894&catid=39:yuanmingyuan-eyewitness-accounts&Itemid=142
  7. http://www.worldcat.org/title/british-envoys-in-japan/oclc/249167170