On September 29, two envoys, Henry Loch and Harry Parkes went ahead of the main force under a flag of truce to negotiate with the Prince I at Tungchow.

During the advance on Peking Loch was chosen with Parkes to complete the preliminary negotiations for peace at Tungchow.

Parkes and Loch were afterwards more leniently treated.

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.

Many of the new suburbs were named after Australian politicians, such as Barton, Deakin, Reid, Braddon, Curtin, Chifley and Parkes.

In the 1860s, an American, John Wesley Hyatt, acquired Parkes ' patent and began experimenting with cellulose nitrate with the intention of manufacturing billiard balls, which until that time were made from ivory.

Following the election and an increased majority for Palmerston, the voices within the Whig faction who were in support of China were hushed, and the new parliament decided to seek redress from China based on the report about the Arrow Incident submitted by Harry Parkes, British Consul to Guangzhou.

After Parkes and the surviving diplomatic prisoners were freed, Lord Elgin ordered the Summer Palaces destroyed starting on 18 October.

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

After accurate positions were obtained using lunar occultation by Cyril Hazard at the Parkes Radio Telescope,

The architects were Percy A. Oakley and Stanley T. Parkes of Melbourne ; the builder was J. G.

Henry Parkes and John Robertson attempted to make minor amendments to the land acts but were defeated and at the subsequent election Parkes ' party lost many seats.

Charles Kemp and Parkes were nominated for the vacancy, and the latter was successful by 1427 votes to 779.

The Empire was not paying its way in spite of its reputation, and if it were to be saved Parkes would have to give his whole time to it.

Their duties were confined to diffusing information, and Parkes spoke at about 60 meetings at towns in the west and north of England and in Scotland.

Parkes had always been a free-trader and no doubt his convictions were strengthened when in England by contact with Cobden and other leading free traders.

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.

As far back as 1877 Parkes had realized that the land laws were not working well, and Robertson's bill only proposed comparatively unimportant amendments.

Along with many politicians of his day, Parkes avoided the claim that the Chinese and other Asians should be excluded because they were an " inferior " race.

Various other conferences were held in the next 20 years at which the question came up, in which Parkes took a leading part, but in October 1884 he was blowing cold and suggesting that it would be " better to let the idea of federation mature in men's minds ", and New South Wales then stood out of the proposed federal council scheme.

While the last ten years of his life were his most influential politically, Parkes faced immense personal turmoil following the death of his first wife, Clarinda Varney.

The children of the second marriage were faithfully brought up by Julia Lady Parkes and one of them, Cobden Parkes, born in 1892, eventually became the New South Wales Government Architect.

Its executive producers were Steven Spielberg, Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald and Gerald R. Molen.

The party was centred on New South Wales, where its leaders were Sir Henry Parkes and Sir George Reid.

Parkes continued to be one of the most conspicuous figures in the house, and at the 1869 election was returned at the head of the poll for East Sydney.

Parkes was returned for Canterbury.

In the 1880 election Parkes was returned for St Leonards.

When Parkes returned the government was apparently in no danger, but there was a general feeling that an amendment of the land laws was necessary.

At the ensuing election Parkes was returned with a small majority and formed his fifth administration, which began in March 1889 and lasted until October 1891.

In 1956, he resigned his position at CSIRO to become Professor of Radio Astronomy at Caltech, but he returned to Australia just a few years later to help build the Parkes radio telescope.

In January 1866 Martin and Parkes, who had returned from London, defeated him and he resigned his seat to look after his private interests in February 1867.

He then returned to Parkes and his party under a flag of truce hoping to secure their safety.

Bavin also returned to writing, authoring a number of books, including Thomas Rainsford Bavin: Extracts from his Speeches from 1923 until 1932 ( 1933 ), and Sir Henry Parkes: His Life and Work ( 1941 ).

The first celluloid as a bulk material for forming objects was made in 1855 in Birmingham, England, by Alexander Parkes, who was never able to see his invention reach full fruition, after his firm went bankrupt due to scale-up costs.

Parkes patented his discovery after realising a solid residue remained after evaporation of the solvent from photographic collodion.

In 1866, Parkes tried again with his invention, and he created a company to manufacture and market Parkesine, but this failed in 1868 after trying to cut costs to enable further manufacture.

Edmund Barton was an early supporter of federation, which became a serious political agenda after Henry Parkes ' Tenterfield Oration, and was a delegate to the March 1891 National Australasian Convention.

Surtees won one race, the 1966 Belgian Grand Prix, but departed after a row with manager Eugenio Dragoni ; he was replaced by Mike Parkes.

Ferrari kept Mike Parkes and Scarfiotti, but Parkes suffered career-ending injuries weeks later at the 1967 Belgian Grand Prix and Scarfiotti temporarily retired from racing after witnessing his crash.

Parkes left the club on 18 May 2009 after a meeting with chairman Karl Oyston about finances.

About a year after his arrival in Sydney, Parkes was hired by the New South Wales Customs Department as a Tide Waiter, and given the task of inspecting merchant vessels to guard against the smuggling of contraband.

He nonetheless abandoned the security of his employment with the Customs Department at the beginning of 1846, submitting his resignation after a disagreement with Colonel Gibbes over a press leak that concerned the alleged behaviour of one of Parkes ' co-workers.

His lack of business acumen quickly became apparent, however, and Parkes went bankrupt after running up debts totalling £ 48, 500.

A council of education was formed, and for the first four years after the passing of the act Parkes filled the office of president.

The suburb of Parkes and the roads Parkes Way and Parkes Place, in Canberra is named after him as well as the rural town of Parkes, in central New South Wales.

In 1896, shortly after his death, An Emigrant's Home Letters, a small collection of Parkes's letters to his family in England between 1838 and 1843, was published at Sydney, edited by his daughter, Annie T. Parkes.

Parkes Street in Kowloon, Hong Kong is named after him.

He was elected a fellow to the Royal Society after his return from Brazil on 14 December 1820, and married his first wife Mary Parkes in 1823, with whom he had four sons ( William John, George Frederick, Henry Gabriel and Edwin Newcombe ) and a daughter ( Mary Frederica ).

After the 11 crew decide to walk immediately after landing on the Moon, Parkes thinks they have lost their chance to be the prime receiving station.

NASA's Honeysuckle Creek and Goldstone stations both had the signal first, but Parkes ' signal was used from soon after the beginning of the moon-walk.

Parkes became a key country location after the completion of the railway in 1893, serving as a hub for a great deal of passenger and freight transport until the 1980s.