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Sir Henry Parkes Research Paper

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Sir Henry Parkes was born in Warwickshire, England on the 27th of May in 1815. He had seventeen children and he had three wives. He is called the Father of Federation and after his death he was on the $1 dollar coin, $5 dollar note. In 1823 his family was forced off their farm in Warwickshire in England. This was the farm that Sir Henry Parkes was raised in. They were kicked off due to debt so they moved to Glamorganshire in England. He started working as an apprentice ivory turner at the early age of fourteen. The average age for children to start working in the 18th century was eleven and a half years old. He married Clarinda Varney on the 11th of July in 1836 who was the daughter of John Angell James. He was a local butcher. They got

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