John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris ( 10 July 1903 – 11 March 1969 ) was an English science fiction writer who usually used the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes.

Parkes also worked with Nine Inch Nails on the album With Teeth by providing additional programming on " All The Love In The World " and remixing the single " The Hand That Feeds.

" She also appeared in Mysterious Mr. Parkes, which was a French-language version of Slightly Scarlet for the European market, although it was also screened in the United States.

The library also contains 4, 500 volumes of Claude Montefiore's library on Theology and Judaism, the Ford Parliamentary Papers, Frank Perkins ' collection of books on agriculture, Sir Samual Gurney-Dixons's Dante collection and the James Parkes Library of Jewish / non-Jewish relations.

Receivers were also designed at Jodrell Bank for the Parkes Telescope in Australia.

Parkes also initiated the introduction of nurses from England trained by Florence Nightingale.

When the convention met on 2 March 1891 Parkes was appointed president " not only as the Premier of the colony where the convention sat, but also as the immediate author of the present movement ".

He is also commemorated in Canley, Coventry by the naming of a road ( Sir Henry Parkes Road ) and a primary school ( Sir Henry Parkes Primary School ).

Canley railway station also commemorates the link with Sir Henry Parkes with Australian-themed decor.

The building was originally known as " Parkes ' Chapel " in honour of Mistress Dorothy Parkes who bequeathed the money for the church and also for a local school.

Apart from the radio telescope scenes, the majority of the movie was actually filmed in the small town of Forbes 33 km south of Parkes because of its old historic buildings, and also in Old Parliament House in Canberra, and Crawford Studios in Melbourne.

Some stations from Dubbo and Orange also transmit into Parkes and the surrounding region.

It may have also been named after the transport ship of the same name that transported many immigrants – including Sir Henry Parkes – to Australia, though the transport ship was probably also named after the Duke's mansion as it was built soon after his death and was likely named in his honour.

The CDSCC also uses the Parkes radio telescope in central New South Wales at busy times to receive data from spacecraft.

Richard Parkes Bonington ( 25 October 1802 – 23 September 1828 ) was an English Romantic landscape painter, who moved to France at the age of 14 and can also be considered as a French artist, and an intermediary bringing aspects of English style to France.

Parkes also appears in the watercolour ‘ The Queen distributing the first Victoria Crosses in Hyde Park, 26 June 1857 ’ by G H Thomas that is in the British royal collection.

The late 18th century and the early 19th century characterized by the Romantic movement in British art includes Joseph Wright of Derby, James Ward, Samuel Palmer, Richard Parkes Bonington, John Martin and was perhaps the most radical period in British art, also producing William Blake ( 1757 – 1827 ), John Constable ( 1776 – 1837 ) and J. M. W.

Driving a Ferrari, Mairesse and Parkes also eclipsed the previous Le Mans record, covering 2, 758. 66 miles.

* In 1850 he developed and patented the Parkes process for economically desilvering lead, also patenting refinements to the process in 1851 and 1852.

The role was changed because Lasker and Parkes believed that it took too long for her character to develop.

It is believed that the Parkes family descends from the Rev.

Jackson was a huge admirer of Henry Parkes and believed that his Corridor of Oaks was a suitable monument to the man most responsible for the federation of Australian states.

The question of Chinese immigration was much before the public in Australia, and Parkes was opposed to their coming.

In the 1860s and 1870s, there was a fairly coherent " liberal " tendency, led first by Charles Cowper and then by Henry Parkes.

Reid was the last leader of the Liberal tendency in New South Wales, led by Charles Cowper and Henry Parkes and which Reid organised as the Free Trade and Liberal Association in 1889.

In 1873 the retirement of Sir Alfred Stephen, the Chief Justice, led to an incident which raised much feeling against Parkes.

At the end of the year it was defeated, but the situation was still obscure, because the parties led by Robertson and Parkes were nearly equal.

Rootes relied upon a team led by two young designers, Tim Fry and Mike Parkes who were given an almost free hand to come up with a small car that would fit well into the Rootes car programme.

Scarfiotti led home his British team mate Mike Parkes by five seconds.

Lorenzo Bandini and Mike Parkes led from the start, whilst Hill's engine gave up on the first lap, followed in retirement by Jackie Stewart on lap 5 with a fuel leak, and then Brabham on lap 8 with an engine failure which coated the car in oil.

Parkes and Guichet led from led most of the in their Ferrari prototype after taking the lead from John Surtees and Ludovico Scarfiotti.

The first organised movement for British women's suffrage was the Langham Place Circle of the 1850s, led by Barbara Bodichon ( née Leigh-Smith ) and Bessie Rayner Parkes.

It was discovered in 2003 at Australia's Parkes Observatory by an international team led by the radio astronomer Marta Burgay during a high-latitude pulsar survey.

In the years to follow, the band successfully worked its way through the lower grades, led by its first pipe major Billy Maxwell ( who is still Band President to this day ), and later succeeded by Sandy Cumming, Ricky Newell, and eventually Richard Parkes, who took over with his brother Gordon in 1981, after joining through the amalgamation with the Raffrey Pipe Band.

The coming-in of the Farnell ministry in 1877 gave the main contestants time to take breath and consider the position, and in December 1878 a coalition was made between Parkes and Robertson which led to a ministry which lasted for over four years and did some really useful work.

Ball initially rebuffed counsel from others that he change the script, feeling they were being puritanical ; the final impetus to alter the scene came from DreamWorks ' then-president Walter Parkes.

An interesting sidelight on his growing reputation is the fact that before this election ( Sir ) Charles Gavan Duffy wrote to a friend in Sydney, urging the desirability of Parkes ' being elected.

Among the friends he made in England was Tennyson, and Lord Leigh, being aware that Parkes had been born at Stoneleigh, invited him to stay at Stoneleigh Abbey.

On the other hand, Tony Parkes was named caretaker manager of Blackburn Rovers on six separate occasions between 1986 and 2004, without ever being given the role in a full-time capacity.

Edgar records that Benbow's father died when Benbow was very young, while Parkes ' account describes his father as being in the service of the Army under Charles I and not dying until Benbow was in his teens.

After being renamed the Sir Henry Parkes School of Arts, the building became the first museum operated by the Trust in Australia, containing a range of memorabilia related to the history of Federation and the local area.

Known as the Birthplace of Federation, being the town where NSW Premier Henry Parkes delivered his Tenterfield Oration, making the case for federation of the colonies into the Commonwealth of Australia.

Although Cowper was popular in 1856, his open association with the radicals, including Parkes, James Wilshire and Robert Campbell ruled him out from being considered for the premiership.

He subsequently signed with a modelling agency in Miami, Page 305 ( Page Parkes Modeling Agency ), but later found success after being cast by Al David for Vogue magazine and soon after appeared in campaigns for Abercrombie & Fitch, Nautica, Dolce & Gabbana, American Eagle Outfitters, and Emporio Armani.