Australian Federationists - Andrew Inglis Clark, Andrew Fisher, Edmund Barton, Alfred Deakin, Henry Parkes, Robert Garran, John Forrest (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 73. Chapters: Andrew Inglis Clark, Andrew Fisher, Edmund Barton, Alfred Deakin, Henry Parkes, Robert Garran, John Forrest, Isaac Isaacs, Samuel Griffith, George Essex Evans, King O'Malley, Charles Gavan Duffy, John Langdon Bonython, Graham Berry, Robert Philp, William Pitt, William Harrison Moore, George Fuller, Bernhard Wise, Patrick Glynn, Malcolm McEacharn, John Downer, George Pearce, Samuel Mauger, John Quick, Adye Douglas, Frederick Holder, George Leake, Frederick Thomas Sargood, Elliott Lewis, Austin Chapman, John Hackett, James Dickson, Philip Fysh, James Boucaut, Henry John Wrixon, Duncan Gillies, William Portus Cullen, Thomas Joseph Byrnes, Theodore Fink, George Kerferd, James Patterson, John Cockburn, James Edmond, William Gay, Henry Augustus Ellis, Henry Briggs, Howard Willoughby, John Hannah Gordon, Harold Finch-Hatton, William Astley. Excerpt: Sir Henry Parkes, GCMG (27 May 1815 - 27 April 1896) was an Australian statesman, the "Father of Federation." As the earliest advocate of a Federal Council of the colonies of Australia, a precursor to the Federation of Australia, he was the most prominent of the Australian Founding Fathers. Parkes was described during his lifetime by The Times as "the most commanding figure in Australian politics." Alfred Deakin described him as "though not rich or versatile, his personality was massive, durable and imposing, resting upon elementary qualities of human nature elevated by a strong mind. He was cast in the mould of a great man and though he suffered from numerous pettinesses, spites and failings, he was in himself a large-brained self-educated Titan whose natural field was found in Parliament and whose resources of character and intellect enabled him in his later years to overshadow all his contemporaries." Parkes was tall, with rugged facial features, a leonine mane of hair and a...