About Edward Parkes
Lived 1926 – 2019 (aged 93). Edward Parkes was a British engineer.
Sir Edward Walter Parkes DL FREng (19 May 1926 – 25 September 2019) was Vice-Chancellor of City University London from 1974 to 1978 and of the University of Leeds from 1983 to 1991.
Life Parkes was born in 1926.
Other posts included Head of the Department of Engineering at Leicester University in the 1960s There is a portrait in oils by Michael Noakes at City University. Parkes died in September 2019 at the age of 93.
Private life He married the educationalist Margaret Parr (1925-2007) and they had two children. Lady Parkes CBE died in 2007 having changed the UK's educational system to include Design and Technology.
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Who was Edward Parkes?
British academic
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Edward Parkes was born on 19 May 1926.
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Edward Parkes died on 25 September 2019.
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Edward Parkes was an engineer.
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Edward Parkes was British.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Edward Parkes. https://biography.guide/edward-parkes/
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