Henry Parkes

Sir Henry Parkes (1815–1896) was an English-born politician who emigrated to New South Wales in 1839, served several times as its Premier and is remembered as the 'Father of Federation'.

He was also a poet, publishing Stolen Moments (1842) and several further volumes of verse, among them Fragmentary Thoughts; he printed the early work of Henry Kendall in his paper The Empire.