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PARKIN, GEORGE ROBERT (1846— )
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See also:PARKIN, See also:GEORGE See also:ROBERT (1846— ) , See also:British See also:Canadian educationist, was See also:born at See also:Salisbury, New See also:Brunswick, on the 8th of See also:February 1846. His See also:father had gone to See also:Canada from See also:Yorkshire. Parkin was the youngest of a See also:family of thirteen, and after attending the See also:local See also:schools he started at an See also:early See also:age as a teacher. See also:Bent on improving his own See also:education, he then entered the university of New Brunswick, where he carried off high honours in 1866–1868. From 1868 to 1872 he was See also:head See also:master 20 of See also:Bathurst See also:grammar school; but he was not content with the opportunities for study open to him in Canada, and he went to See also:England and entered See also:Oxford. Here the enthusiastic See also:young Canadian was not only profoundly affected himself by entering strenuously into the See also:life of the See also:ancient university (he was secretary of the See also:Union when H. H. See also:Asquith was See also:president), but in his turn was instrumental in bringing the possibilities of British Imperialism to the minds of some of the ablest among his contemporaries—his juniors by six or eight years. It is hardly too much to say that in his intercourse at Oxford in the early 'seven-ties with men of See also:influence who were then undergraduates the imperialist See also:movement in England substantially began. On returning to Canada he became See also:principal of the See also:chief New Bruns-See also:wick school at See also:Fredericton (where in 1878 he married), and for fifteen years he did excellent See also:work in this capacity. But in 1889 he was again See also:drawn more directly into the imperialist cause. The federation movement had gone ahead in the meanwhile, and Parkin had always. been associated with it; and now he became a missionary See also:speaker for the Imperial Federation See also:League, travelling for several years about the See also:empire for that purpose. He also became Canadian correspondent of The Times, and in that capacity helped to make Canada better known in the See also:mother See also:country. In 1894 he was given the honorary degree of LL.D. by Oxford. In 1895 he returned to scholastic work as principal of Upper Canada See also:College, See also:Toronto, and retained this See also:post till 1902; but he continued in the mean-while to support the imperialist movement by See also:voice and See also:pen. When in 1902 an organizer was required for the See also:Rhodes See also:Scholar-See also:ship See also:Trust (see RHODES, See also:CECIL), in See also:order to create the machinery for working it in the countries to which it applied, he accepted the See also:appointment; and his devotion to this task was largely responsible for the success with which Rhodes's See also:idea was carried out at Oxford. His publications include Reorganization of the British Empire (1882), Imperial Federation (1892), See also:Round the Empire (1892), Life of See also:Edward See also:Thring (1897), Life of See also:Sir See also: Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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