Harry Smith Parkes

British diplomat (1828-1885).

Born February 24th, 1828.

Died March 22nd, 1885 at 57 years old in Beijing.

Occupations
diplomat, translator

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde