Joseph Parkes

(1796-1865)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Parkes, Joseph, 1796-1865 NRA: Parkes Joseph (1796-1865) election agent and reformer DNB: Parkes, Joseph (1796–1865), election agent and reformer LBT ID: JoParke1865 VIAF ID: 49595954 LOC ID: n85250991	B/BAP: 1796 DIED: 1865-08-11
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Tutored by Samuel Parr and educated at Greenwich under Charles Burney, he was a correspondent of Jeremy Bentham who pursued a career as an election agent and political reformer.
REFERENCES TO Joseph Parkes: William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) PREFACE Found 1: ¶ 4 Ch IX. 1816-1820 Found 1: ¶ n1 John Whishaw to Charles and Henry Romilly, 27 July 1833 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ n1 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 24 December 1833 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n2 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) William Hazlitt XII Found 1: ¶ 12 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter V Found 1: ¶ 6 Chapter XV Found 1: ¶ 6 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. VII 1822-23 Found 4: ¶ 30 ¶ 33 ¶ 34 ¶ n1 Ch. VIII 1822 Found 4: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 ¶ 12 ¶ 13 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. XI: 1833 Found 1: ¶ n2 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter XII: 1833-35 Found 1: ¶ n1