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Sir Edward Walter Parkes DL FREng[1] (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.
Parkes was born in 1926.[2]
Parkes attended King Edward's School, Birmingham, and St John's College, Cambridge, where he obtained a first class degree in mechanical engineering.[3]
Other posts included Head of the Department of Engineering at Leicester University in the 1960s[4] and Chairman of the UK University Grants Committee in the early 1980s. From 1989 to 1991 he was Chairman of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals. He was also appointed a Fellow[1] of the Royal Academy of Engineering[1] in 1982.
Edward and Margaret Parkes commissioned Leicester based architect James Gowan to design them a holiday home on land they had bought above St David's Cathedral in Wales. The resulting Round House was listed after it was completed in 1967.[2]
Parkes was knighted in 1983.[5] There is a portrait in oils by Michael Noakes at City University.[6] Parkes died in September 2019 at the age of 93.[7]
He married the educationalist Margaret Parr[2] (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.[4]
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