[2] Parkes attended King Edward's School, Birmingham, and St John's College, Cambridge, where he obtained a first class degree in mechanical engineering.
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.
[5] There is a portrait in oils by Michael Noakes at City University.
Lady Parkes CBE died in 2007 having changed the UK's educational system to include Design and Technology.
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