Date of Birth: 01/06/1808
Place of Birth: Lewisham, England
Date of Death: 02/02/1881
Place of Death: Richmond, Surrey, England
Parliamentary Service
| Secondary Punishment Committee No.8 |
27 Aug 1857 |
18 Dec 1857 |
3 months 22 days |
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| Audit of the Accounts of the Revenues Committee |
12 Aug 1857 |
18 Dec 1857 |
4 months 7 days |
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| Standing Order Committee |
12 Aug 1857 |
18 Dec 1857 |
4 months 7 days |
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| The Library Committee |
12 Aug 1857 |
18 Dec 1857 |
4 months 7 days |
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| The Library Committee |
12 Aug 1857 |
18 Dec 1857 |
4 months 7 days |
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| Member for Parramatta |
10 Oct 1856 |
19 Dec 1857 |
1 year 2 months 10 days |
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| Colonial Secretary |
03 Oct 1856 |
07 Sep 1857 |
11 months 5 days |
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| Premier |
03 Oct 1856 |
07 Sep 1857 |
11 months 5 days |
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| Additional Ministerial Department Committee No.12 |
20 Aug 1856 |
18 Mar 1857 |
6 months 27 days |
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| Masters’ and Servants’ Acts Constitution Bill Committee No.8 |
13 Aug 1856 |
18 Mar 1857 |
7 months 6 days |
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| City Commissioners’ Department Committee No.7 |
12 Aug 1856 |
18 Mar 1857 |
7 months 7 days |
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| Audit of the Revenue Accounts Committee No.6 |
06 Aug 1856 |
18 Mar 1857 |
7 months 13 days |
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| Petition of Peter Rawlings Committee No.5 |
04 Jun 1856 |
18 Mar 1857 |
9 months 15 days |
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| Library Committee No.4 |
03 Jun 1856 |
18 Mar 1857 |
9 months 16 days |
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| Standing Order Committee No.3 |
03 Jun 1856 |
18 Mar 1857 |
9 months 16 days |
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| Appointed by Speaker’s Warrant |
28 May 1856 |
18 Mar 1857 |
9 months 19 days |
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| Governor General's Opening Speech |
23 May 1856 |
23 May 1856 |
1 day |
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| Member for Parramatta |
29 Mar 1856 |
03 Oct 1856 |
6 months 5 days |
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| Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly |
29 Mar 1856 |
19 Dec 1857 |
1 year 8 months 21 days |
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| Chairman of Committees |
17 Oct 1851 |
29 Feb 1856 |
4 years 4 months 13 days |
In first Legislative Council |
| Member of the NSW Legislative Council |
13 Oct 1851 |
29 Feb 1856 |
4 years 4 months 17 days |
Non-elective Member of the first Legislative Council |
| Chairman of Committees |
17 May 1849 |
30 Jun 1851 |
2 years 1 month 14 days |
In first Legislative Council |
| Member of the NSW Legislative Council |
08 Dec 1848 |
30 Jun 1851 |
2 years 6 months 23 days |
Non-elective Member of the first Legislative Council |
| Chairman of Committees |
28 May 1846 |
20 Jun 1848 |
2 years 24 days |
In first Legislative Council |
| Member of the NSW Legislative Council |
11 May 1846 |
20 Jun 1848 |
2 years 1 month 10 days |
Non-elective Member of the first Legislative Council |
Qualifications, occupations and interests
Public servant; private means. Educated privately by Dr Waite, domestic chaplain to Princess Sophia of Gloucester. Advised to undertake sea travel for health, joined East India Co., visiting India, China, Cape of Good Hope. Then toured France, Holland, Belgium. No employment until 1837 when appointed private secretary to Governor Gipps. Arrived at Sydney with Gipps on 24 February 1838. Had extensive private means and built large house, Clovelly, at Watsons Bay. Crown trustee Australian Museum 1848, official trustee 1856-1857. Returned to England 1858, living at Stawell House, Richmond. Opposed Gladstone at Greenwich 1868. Commissioner of Sydney and Melbourne Exhibitions 1879, 1880. Estate proved at under £140,000. His wife was a sister of James and William Macarthur (also Members of the Parliament of New South Wales).
Honours Received
Created a Knight in 1858. Appointed as a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG ) in 1877.
Membership of other Parliaments & Offices Held
Local Government Activity
Personal
Son of Thomas Watson Parker and his wife Mary Cornell. Married Emmeline Emily Macarthur on 21 November 1843 in New South Wales, youngest daughter of John Macarthur.
Additional Information
Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 5
David Clune and Ken Turner (Editors), The Premiers of New South Wales: Volume 1
- 1856 - 1901, The Federation Press, Sydney, 2006 [Chapter 3: "Parker, Henry",
by Trevor McMinn, p. 55]
