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British diplomat, traveller and scientist (1796–1882)

Sir Woodbine ParishKCH (14 September 1796, London – 16 August 1882, St.

Leonards, Sussex) was a British diplomat, traveller and scientist.

Life

The son of Woodbine Parish, of Bawburgh Old Hall, Norfolk, a major in the Light Horse Volunteers, and educated at Eton College, he took up his first diplomatic post in 1814, becoming involved in events immediately following the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo.

In 1815 he went with the expedition that restored the Kingdom of Naples to the House of Bourbon after the defeat of Joachim Murat, then returned to Paris as a secretary with Lord Castlereagh's embassy that drafted the 1815 Treaty of Paris.

He was commissioned as Consul General at Buenos Aires on 10 October 1823 and then promoted to Chargé d'affaires on 24 May 1825 on a salary of £1500.^[1] He served in Buenos Aires until 1832. In this capacity, he signed the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and