Sir Henry Parkes died on 27 April 1896.
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Sir Henry Parkes's famous Federation speech, known as the Tenterfield Oration, was delivered on 24 October 1889, at the Tenterfield School of Arts in the small town of Tenterfield, northern New South Wales.
Sir Henry Parkes is honoured with his picture on the $5 note because he had a significant influence on the policies and direction of the federation movement (the federation of the colonies), up until Federation was achieved on 1 January 1901.
In 1836 Parkes married Clarinda Varney who died in 1888. He then married Eleanor Dixon in 1889 and, after he was again widowed in 1895, he remarried to Julia Lynch.