George Robert PARKIN

Background

PARKIN, George Robert was born on February 8, 1846 in Salisbury, New Brunswick.

Education

Studied at British School, Eston. Glasgow University; Sunderland College. Bachelor of Divinity.

Career

Born at Parkindale near Salisbury, New Brunswick, he was a graduate from the University of New Brunswick. From 1867 to 1871, he taught at the Bathurst Grammar School. From 1872 to 1889, he was the headmaster of the Fredericton Collegiate School, where the poets Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and Francis Sherman came under his influence.

From 1895 to 1902, he was the headmaster of Upper Canada College. He was the organizing secretary of the Rhodes Trust (1902–1922) and the Toronto Round Table Group (1910–1922). Lord Milner was an ardent admirer of Parkin's imperial ideas.

He was the author of Imperial Federation: The Problem of National Unity (1892) and a school textbook, Round the Empire. He was the maternal grandfather of the philosopher George Grant. The former Liberal Party of Canada leader Michael Ignatieff is his great-grandson.

His portrait hangs at Rhodes House, Oxford, besides that of Cecil Rhodes and another Canadian, John MacBain.

Achievements

• He was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1898 and Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in the 1920 New Year Honours for his work with the Rhodes Trust.

Works

• book

  • Imperial Federation: the Problem of National Unity

    (Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We h...)

  • Round the empire for the use of schools / by George R. Parkin with a preface by The Right Hon. The Earl of Rosebery

    (This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)

  • Edward Thring, headmaster of Uppingham school : life, diary and letters Volume 1

    (This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)

  • Imperial federation : the problem of national unity

    (This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)

  • Edward Thring, Headmaster of and School: Life, Diary and Letters (Classic Reprint)

    (In preparing the material for a cheaper issue of this boo...)

  • Edward Thring, Headmaster of Uppingham School: Life, Diary and Letters - Scholar's Choice Edition

    ( This work has been selected by scholars as being cultur...)

  • Imperial Federation - The Problem Of National Unity

    (Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating bac...)

  • Imperial federation the problem of national unity

    (Imperial federation the problem of national unity This bo...)

  • Edward Thring, Headmaster of Uppingham School Life, Diary and Letters

    (Lang- English, Vol-2, Pages 331 It is the reproduction of...)

  • Edward Thring, headmaster of Uppingham school: life, diary and letters

    (This book was digitized and reprinted from the collection...)

  • Edward Thring, Headmaster of Uppingham School, life, diary and letters

    (This book was digitized and reprinted from the collection...)

  • Edward Thring Headmaster of Uppingham School: Life, Diary and Letters, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

    (Correspondence on Educational Questions, 1872 189 CHAPTER...)

  • Edward Thring, Headmaster of and School: Life, Diary and Letters, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

    (Edward Thring, Headmaster of and School: Life, Diary and ...)

  • Edward Thring, Headmaster of Uppingham School; Life, Diary and Letters Volume 1

    (This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)

  • Round the Empire: For the Use of Schools

    (This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)

  • Round the empire for the use of schools. 1

    (This book, "Round the empire for the use of schools. 1", ...)

  • The great Dominion

    (The great Dominion studies of Canada. This book, "The gre...)

  • Round the Empire, Vol. 1 of 7: For the Use of Schools (Classic Reprint)

    (Excerpt from Round the Empire, Vol. 1 of 7: For the Use o...)

  • Edward Thring, Headmaster of Uppingham School: Life, Diary and Letters

    (Lang:- English, Vol:- 2, Pages 342. Reprinted in 2015 wit...)

  • Edward Thring, Vol. 2: Headmaster of Uppingham School; Life Diary and Letters (Classic Reprint)

    (Excerpt from Edward Thring, Vol. 2: Headmaster of Uppingh...)

  • Edward Thring, Headmaster of Uppingham School: Life, Diary and Letters 1900 Hardcover

    (Lang:- English, Pages 538. Reprinted in 2015 with the hel...)

  • Edward Thring, Headmaster of Uppingham School: Life, Diary and Letters 1898 Hardcover

    (Lang:- English, Pages 365. Reprinted in 2015 with the hel...)

  • Round the Empire: For the Use of Schools / By George R. Parkin; With a Preface By the Earl, Vol. 1 of 7 (Classic Reprint)

    (Ready. Crown 8vo, cloth, 4. dd. IMPERIAL FEDERATION: the ...)

  • The New Testament portrait of Jesus: The Hartley lecture delivered to the Primitive Methodist conference, in St. George's Hall, London, June 17th, 1908
  • Edward Thring, Headmaster of Uppingham School, Life Diary and Letters
  • Edward Thring, headmaster of Uppingham school;: Life, diary and letters
  • Round the Empire. For the use of schools ... With a preface by ... the Earl of Rosebery
  • Edward Thring: Headmaster of Uppingham School. Life Diary and Letters. (Volumes I and II)
  • Edward Thring: Life diary and letters
  • Round the empire: For the use of schools in the British Commonwealth
  • Edward Thring, headmaster of Uppingham School: Life, diary and letters (Volume 2)

Membership

Club: Royal Societies.

• Club: Royal Societies.

Connections

Spouse 1878, Annie Connell,daughter of Wm. Fisher of Fredericton.

Spouse:

Annie Connell