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William Kineton Parkes (1865–1938) was an English novelist, art historian and librarian, known best for his publication concerning sculpture and his 1914 modernist novel Hardware: A Novel in Four Books.[1]

Mason Science College, now the University of Birmingham.

Parkes was born in Aston, Birmingham, one of six children of William Parkes, who worked in Birmingham's jewellery trade.[2] He was educated at King Edward's Grammar School in Aston and at Mason Science College, a predecessor of the University of Birmingham.[3] From 1891 to 1911 he was principal of the Nicholson Institute, Leek.[4][5][6]

During 1922 he published his two volume survey Sculpture of Today. The papers for this work and an unpublished third volume are possessed by the Victoria & Albert Museum.[7] A second two volume work The Art of Carved Sculpture was published in 1931.[8] He was a regular contributor to magazines such as Architectural Review, Apollo and The Studio.[8]

References

  1. ^ Kemp, Sandra; Mitchell, Charlotte; Trotter, David (2002), "Parkes, W. Kineton", The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction, Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 308, ISBN 019860534X
  2. ^ Jones, Phil, Three Serbian Songs, University of Wolverhampton, archived from the original on 2012-10-15, retrieved 2012-09-29
  3. ^ British library year book: a record of library progress and work, Scott, Greenwood & Co., 1900, p. 153, retrieved 2012-09-29
  4. ^ "Parkes, Kineton". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1358.
  5. ^ Parkes, Kineton (1865–1938), Artists' Papers Register: Authority Record
  6. ^ Photographs of the Nicholson Institute, Leek
  7. ^ Sculpture in the Archive of Art & Design, Victoria & Albert Museum, retrieved 2012-09-09
  8. ^ a b Medhurst, Phillip (2009), Walter Gilbert, p. 2, retrieved 2012-09-29