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.

" 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 believed in immigration, and his well-known powers as an orator led to his being sent to England with W. B. Dalley as commissioners of emigration at a salary of £ 1000 a year each in May 1861.

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.

English inventor Daniel Spill had worked with Parkes and formed the Xylonite Co. to take over Parkes ' patents, describing the new plastic products as Xylonite.

Parkes as editor and proprietor became a figure of great importance, and while he had control of the publication he worked unceasingly, writing articles, procuring news, and managing the business side of the enterprise ( never his strong suit ).

* Chief Secretary ’ s Building-The office building Parkes worked in, and helped design and furnish

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.

When not racing cars, Parkes worked as an automotive engineer.

:" Sir Henry Parkes, Father of Australian Federation, five times Prime Minister of New South Wales, arrived in Australia 25 July 1839, he worked as station-hand, Customs Officer and bone and ivory turner.

In 1890, he moved to Parkes and worked on the gold battery at the Hazelhurst mine.

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.

Parkes worked with Dora Black as a scientific editor of Bereavement Care, the international journal for bereavement counsellors.

Since 1966, Parkes has worked at St. Christopher ’ s Hospice in Sydenham, where he set up the first hospice-based bereavement service and carried out some of the earliest systematic evaluations of hospice care.

His album Solaris ( released in 2000 ) saw Parkes taking his music in a new direction, with gloomy house tracks alongside free-form ambient noise and the usual snare drum attacks.

Parkes and Lasker came up with several different military-themed plotlines prior to the final story.

Over two meetings — the first with Cooper, Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald, the second with Cooper alone — Mendes pitched himself to the studio.

Other artists with works in the collection include: Bernardino Fungai, Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Fioravante Ferramola, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Anthony van Dyck, Ludovico Carracci, Antonio Verrio, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Domenico Tiepolo, Canaletto, Francis Hayman, Pompeo Batoni, Benjamin West, Paul Sandby, Richard Wilson, William Etty, Henry Fuseli, Sir Thomas Lawrence, James Barry, Francis Danby, Richard Parkes Bonington & Alphonse Legros.

Parkes mixed cellulose nitrate with camphor, producing a hard, flexible, and transparent material.

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.

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.

He topped the poll and subsequently voted with Parkes, but refused to take a position in his minority government.

Parkes sent the Royal Navy to bombard Ye's palace and it was duly destroyed, along with a large part of the city and a large loss of life.

Traditional doom metal vocalists favor clean vocals, which are often performed with a sense of despair, desperation or pain ; imitating the high-tone wails of Ozzy Osbourne, Bobby Liebling, and Zeeb Parkes.

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

At this time, he negotiated with British diplomat, Sir Harry Smith Parkes on the ban of Christianity and insisted on maintaining the government's persecution on Catholics in Nagasaki.

She became a member of the Langham Place Group, which set out to improve conditions for women, and was friends with feminists Bessie Rayner Parkes ( later Bessie Rayner Belloc ) and Barbara Leigh Smith, later Barbara Bodichon.

* An Encyclopædia of Domestic Economy, Comprising Subjects Connected with the Interests of Every Individual ..., by Thomas Webster and William Parkes, 1855.

For especially vital missions, like Voyager 2, the Canberra dish can be arrayed with the Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia ; and the Goldstone 70-meter dish can be arrayed with the Very Large Array of antennas in New Mexico.

He did not like Parkes personally and felt he would be unable to work with him.

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

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.

Parkes and Loch were returned after two weeks, with fourteen other survivors.