PARKES,+Kineton

PARKES, Kineton (1865-1938) CL Leek 1891-1911 He resigned to pursue a literary career in London and may be remembered, not for several indifferent novels, but for //Sculpture of today// (2 vols, 1921) and //The art of carved sculpture// (2 vols, 1931).

b. 1865 Aston Manor educ. King Edward Grammar School and Mason College, Birmingham principal of Nicholson Institute, Leek from 1891 ed. of Library Review, 1892-3 author of numerous papers (YB 1897, 163)