Papworth). _b._ London 23 Jany. 1822; employed by the comrs.
of sewers for Westminster; assistant surveyor to the Alliance
assurance company June 1866, sole surveyor, retired on a pension
1887, designed and erected a branch office at Ipswich; member
of the clothworker’s company, junior and senior warden 1879–81,
master 1889; founded the Architectural publication society
for the production of detached essays and illustrations 1848;
edited and compiled Dictionary of explanation and reference,
brought out in parts May 1853 to April 1892, making 11 vols.
at cost of nearly £10,000; F.R.I.B.A. 1860, member of council
many years; curator of sir John Soane’s museum 13 Lincoln’s Inn
Fields, London Jany. 1893 to death, rewrote catalogue of the
museum and brought out a new edition of the General description;
edited Gwilt’s Encyclopædia of architecture, 2 ed. 1867, 3 ed.
1876 and 4 ed. 1889; author with his brother, J. W. Papworth,
of Specimens of decoration in the Italian style 1844, and of
Museums, libraries, and picture galleries 1853; author alone
of J. B. Papworth, a brief record of his life and works 1879;
Memoir of A. W. W. Morant 1881; The renaissance and Italian
style of architecture in Great Britain 1883. _d._ the Soane
museum, London 19 Aug. 1894. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 24 Aug.
PARADISE, JOHN. _b._ 1812; editor of Lincoln Rutland and
Stamford Mercury. _d._ 24 St. Mary st. Stamford 29 Jany. 1887.
PARDEY, JOHN QUIN. _b._ 17 Feb. 1796; ensign 66 foot 18
July 1811; ensign royal staff corps 22 Oct. 1811, lieut. 17
Dec. 1812; in Spain 1813 in connection with quartermaster
general’s department, engaged in constructing the rope bridge
at Alcantara; present at Vittoria, San Sebastian and Toulouse
1813–4; aided in restoring French bridges 1814; war medal and
clasp; received Decoration du Lis 1819; captain 53 foot 9 July
1830; paymaster 12 Feb. 1836, placed on h.p. 1 May 1844; served
at Gibraltar, Malta, and Ionian islands; adjutant of auxiliary
forces 29 Jany. 1846 to 6 Aug. 1858. _d._ 12 Sion hill, Bath 17
March 1887.
PARDOE, JULIA S. H. (2 dau. of Thomas Pardoe, captain royal
waggon train, who sold out of the army 20 Jany. 1832). _b._
Beverley, Yorkshire 1806; visited Constantinople 1836; resided
in Kent from 1846; author of Lord Morcar of Hereward, 4 vols.
1829, 2 ed. 1837; Traits and traditions of Portugal 1833;
Speculation, 3 vols. 1834; The Mardens and the Daventrys, 3
vols. 1835; The city of the sultan and domestic manners of the
Turks, 2 vols. 1837, reprinted in 3 vols. 1838, 1845, and 1854;
The river and the desert, or recollections of the Rhine and the
Chartreuse, 2 vols. 1838; The beauties of the Bosphorus 1839,
reprinted under title of Picturesque Europe 1854 and 1874; The
romance of the harem, 2 vols. 1839, 2 ed. 1857; The city of
the Magyar, or Hungary and her institutions, 3 vols. 1840; The
Hungarian castle, 3 vols. 1842; The confessions of a pretty
woman, 3 vols. 1846; The jealous wife, 3 vols. 1847, 4 ed. 1858;
Louis XIV and the court of France in the seventeenth century,
3 vols. 1847, 3 ed. 1849, reprinted 1886; The rival beauties,
3 vols. 1848, 2 ed. 1861; The court and reign of Francis,
king of France, 2 vols. 1849, 3 vols. 1887; Flies in amber, 3
vols. 1850; The life of Marie de Medicis, queen of France, 3
vols. 1852, reprinted 1890; Reginald Lyle, 3 vols. 1854; Lady
Arabella, or the adventures of a doll 1856; Abroad and at home,
tales here and there 1857; Pilgrimages in Paris 1857; The poor
relation, a novel, 3 vols. 1858; Episodes of French history
during the consulate and the first empire, 2 vols. 1859; A life
struggle, 2 vols. 1859; The rich relation 1862; translated La
Peste 1834, an Italian poem by G. Sorello; edited Memoirs of
the queens of Spain by A. George 1850; in Seven tales by seven
authors 1849 she wrote The Will pp. 77–186; granted civil list
pension of £100, 16 Jany. 1860. _d._ at her lodgings, Upper
Montagu st. London 26 Nov. 1862. _Bentley’s Miscellany xxvi_
323–4 (1849) _portrait_; _S. J. Hales’s Woman’s Record_, _2
ed._ (1855) 765 _portrait_; _Eclectic Mag. xlii_ 135–6 (1857)
_portrait_; _Godey’s Lady book xlvii_ 344 (1853); _J. Pardoe’s
Beauties of the Bosphorus_ (1839) _portrait_.
PARDON, CHARLES FREDERICK (eld. son of the succeeding). _b._ 28
March 1850; on staff of European mail 1870; connected with Press
Association 112 Fleet st. London 1872, and sporting editor to
his decease; established Pardon’s Cricket and sporting reporting
agency 1880; a cricketer; edited Wisden’s Cricketer’s Almanack,
under name of Merlin 1887–90; master of the Gallery lodge 1886;
an original member of London press club and president Jany.
1890; wrote on cricket in Land and Water, the Evening News, and
the Standard; with A. S. Wilks wrote How to play solo whist
1888. _d._ 5 Oxford mansions, Oxford market, Oxford st. London
18 April 1890. _Sell’s World’s Press_ (1891) 83 _portrait_;
_London Figaro 26 April 1890 p._ 10 _portrait_.
PARDON, GEORGE FREDERICK. _b._ London 1824; sub-editor of the
Evening Star 1841–2; on staff of European mail 1870; projected
the Illustrated exhibitor 1852, a weekly description of the
exhibition; projected and edited the Popular educator and other
publications for John Cassell; he edited The people’s and
Howitt’s journal 1847–50; The quarterly magazine of the order
of Odd Fellows 1858; The Working man’s friend 1850; The family
friend and the home companion 1854–5; The literary gift book
1858; Tales from the opera 1858; B. Taylor’s A visit to India
1860; Hoyle’s Games modernized 1863; The London magazine, vols.
2 and 3 1876–7; author of The juvenile museum by Quiet George
1850; The Christmas tree 1856; The faces in the fire 1856; The
months 1858; Games for all seasons 1858, 2 ed. 1868; Stories
about animals and birds, 2 vols. 1858; Dogs, their sagacity,
instinct, and use 1857, 2 ed. 1877; Boldheart the warrior 1859;
Handbooks of chess, whist, draughts, and billiards, 4 vols.
1860–2; A guide to the international exhibition 1862, 20th
thousand 1862; The card player 1863; The popular guide to London
1862, 2 ed. 1866; Parlour pastimes 1868; Noble by heritage,
a novellette 1877; under the name of Rawdon Crawley he wrote
17 works, but many of these seem to be same as those under his
own name, Billiards, its theory and practice 1857, 10 ed. 1876;
Backgammon 1858; Cricket 1866; Croquet 1866; Gymnastics 1868;
The book of manly games for boys 1873; Bezique 1876. _d._ Fleur
de Lis hotel, Canterbury 5 Aug. 1884. _Bookseller Sept. 1884 p._
907; _Illust. sporting news v_ 381 (1866) _portrait_.
PARE, WILLIAM (son of John Pare cabinetmaker). _b._ Birmingham
1805; apprenticed to his father; became a reporter; kept a
tobacconist’s shop in New st. Birmingham; an original member of
council of the Political Union 1830; secretary of the Reformer’s
registration society 1835; the first registrar of Birmingham
under the act legalising civil marriages 1837–42; a member of
the first town council of Birmingham 1830; a founder of the
first Birmingham co-operative society 1828, presided at the
anniversary 28 Dec. 1829; lectured in support of co-operation at
Liverpool, Manchester, and other places, one of the secretaries
of the co-operative congresses 1830–8; vice-president of Robert
Owen’s society The Association of all classes of all nations
to 1840; acting governor of Owen’s community at Queenwood,
Hampshire 1842–4; a railway statist in London 1844–6; resided
near Dublin and managed ironworks at Clontarf, Liverpool,
and Chepstow 1846–65; literary executor of Robert Owen 1858,
presided at the Owen centenary 1871; edited Wm. Thompson’s
Inquiry into the principles of the distribution of wealth most
conducive to human happiness, 2 ed. 1850; author of The claims
of capital and labour, with a sketch of practical measures for
their conciliation 1854; A plan for the suppression of the
predatory classes 1862; Co-operative agriculture, a solution of
the land question as exemplified in the history of the Ralahine
co-operative association, co. Clare, Ireland 1870. _d._ at his
son’s house, Ruby lodge, Park hill, Croydon 18 June 1873. _bur._
Shirley churchyard, near Croydon 23 June. _Holyoake’s History
of Co-operation_ (1875) _passim_; _Holyoake’s Sixty years of an
agitator’s life i_ 40, 41, 77, 141 (1893); _Bunce’s History of
the corporation of Birmingham i_, 109, 113, 131, 145, 155, 158,
245, 289 (1878).
PAREPA-ROSA, EUPHROSYNE (dau. of baron Georgiades de Boyesku, a
Wallachian noble, _d._ about 1836, by Elizabeth Seguin, singer,
_d._ 14 Jany. 1870, aged 57). _b._ Edinburgh 7 May 1836; pupil
of her mother; made her début as Euphrosyne Parepa at Malta
1855 as Amina in La Sonnambula; sang at Naples, Rome, Florence,
Genoa, Madrid, and Lisbon 1855–6; first appeared in England at
the Lyceum 21 May 1857 as Elvira in I Puritani; played Camille
in Zampa at Covent Garden Aug. 1858, and sang there several
years; the original Victorine in Mellon’s Victorine 1859; La
reine Topaze in Massé’s opera of that name 1860, and Mabel in
Macfarren’s Helvellyn 1864; sang at Philharmonic concerts 1860
and at the Handel festivals 1862 and 1865; sang in the U.S.
of America 1865, where she was prima donna of the Parepa-Rosa
English opera company 1869–70; sang at the Peace jubilee in
Boston June 1869; sang at Covent Garden theatre 1872; resided
at Cairo winter of 1872–3, played Ruy Blas at the grand opera,
Cairo 11 Feb. 1873; had a soprano voice of two and a half
octaves in range, reaching to D in alt.; _m._ (1) Dec. 1863
captain Henry de Wolfe Carvell, of 17 Gloster crescent, Hyde
park, London, he _d._ Lima, Peru 26 April 1865; _m._ (2) in New
York 26 Feb. 1867 Carl August Nicolas Rosa, _b._ 22 March 1842,
he endowed a Parepa-Rosa scholarship at R.A. of music 1874 and
_d._ 30 April 1889; she _d._ 10 Warwick crescent, Maida Vale,
London 21 Jany. 1874. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 26 Jany. _The
Western monthly iii_ 213–21 (1870); _Musical World_ (1873) 113,
265, 607 (1874) 50, 54, 70, _&c._; _Graphic ix_ 124, 131 (1874)
_portrait_; _I.L.N. lxiv_ 129 (1874) _portrait_; _Orchestra 23
Jany. 1874 p._ 266, _30 Jany._ pp. 281–2.
PARES, THOMAS. _b._ Leicester 30 Oct. 1790; educ. Eton and Trin.
coll. Camb.; M.P. Leicester 1818–26; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1818;
sheriff of Derbyshire 1845. _d._ Hopwell hall, near Derby 26
April 1866.
PARFITT, EDWARD (son of Edward Parfitt 1800–75, gardener to lord
Hastings at Melton Constable, Norfolk). _b._ East Tuddenham,
Norfolk 17 Oct. 1820; gardener with his father; gardener
to Anthony Gwyn, Sennow lodge, Norfolk; while on a voyage
shipwrecked near Cape of Good Hope; gardener to John Milford,
Conver house, Exeter Nov. 1848 to 1860; studied plants, insects,
geology, and palæontology, and wrote in Trans. of Devonshire
association, Annals and mag. of natural history, Entomological
mag., the Naturalist, Trans. Royal microscopical soc., Bath and
West of England journal, and the Zoologist; curator of Somerset
Archæological and natural history soc. at Taunton 1860–1;
librarian of Devon and Exeter institute, Exeter 26 Jany. 1861
to death; published The fauna of Devon, 22 parts 1866–91; left
in M.S. The fungi of Devonshire, 12 vols., illustrated by 1,530
plates, drawn and painted by himself. d. at the Devon and Exeter
institution, Cathedral close, Exeter 15 Jany. 1893. _N. and Q.
30 Sept. 1893 p._ 262; _Natural Science_, _April 1893_.
PARHAM, BENJAMIN (eld. son of Benjamin Parham of Ashburton,
Devon 1769–1851). _b._ 1793; barrister M.T. 4 May 1827;
went Western circuit; judge of county courts, circuit 23,
Worcestershire March 1847, resigned Oct. 1859. _d._ Chelstone
manor house, Torquay 16 Aug. 1861. _County Court chronicle Oct.
1861 p._ 266; _Law Times xxxvi_ 523 (1861).
PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT D’ ORLEANS, Comte de (elder son
of Ferdinand, duc d’Orleans 1810–42). _b._ Pavilion Marsan,
the Tuileries, Paris 24 Aug. 1838; became heir to the French
throne 13 July 1842; a refugee in England 1849; confirmed by
cardinal Wiseman at French ch. Portman sq. London 1849; resided
in Devonshire 1852; visited the East 1860, and U.S. of America
1861; permitted to return to France 1872, and had some of his
estates restored to him; banished from France and returned to
England June 1886; conspired with general Boulanger in London
March 1889; leased Stowe house, Bucks. from trustees of duke of
Buckingham 1873; received large sum of money by will of duke de
Galliera; _m._ in R.C. chapel at Kingston 30 May 1864 his cousin
Marie Isabella, dau. of the duke de Montpensier; author of The
trades’ unions of England 1869; History of the civil war in
America 1875. _d._ Stowe house, Bucks. 8 Sept. 1894. _bur._ R.C.
chapel, Weybridge 12 Sept. _Illustrated Times 4 June 1864 p._
361, _view of marriage_; _Times 10 Sept. 1894 p._ 4; _Saturday
Review 26 Dec. 1891 pp._ 716–7; _A.R._ (1894) 178–81; _I.L.N. 15
Sept. 1894 pp._ 333, 339–47 _portraits and views of Stowe house_.
PARIS, JOHN AYRTON (son of Thomas Paris of Cambridge). _b._
Cambridge 7 Aug. 1785; entered Caius coll. Camb. 30 June 1803,
scholar Oct. 1803 to 1808; Tancred student in physic 3 Jany.
1804; M.B. 1808, M.D. 1813; physician to Westminster hospital
1809–13; practised at Penzance 1813–7, chief founder and
first secretary of the Royal Geological society of Cornwall
1814–17, contributed many papers to its Transactions; returned
to London 1817, practised at 27 Dover st. Piccadilly 1818 to
death; lectured on materia medica in Windmill st. 1818, etc.;
candidate of R.C.P. 30 Sept. 1813, fellow 30 Sept. 1814,
censor 1817, 1828, 1836 and 1843, lectured at the college on
materia medica 1819–26, Harveian orator 1833, president 20
March 1844 to death, Swiney prizeman 20 Jany. 1849; F.R.S. 21
June 1821; author of Pharmacologia 1812, 9 ed. 1843, by which
he made £5,000; A guide to Mount’s Bay and the Land’s End 1815,
2 ed. 1824; A memoir of the life and scientific labours of
the Rev. William Gregor 1818; Medical jurisprudence 1823; The
elements of medical chemistry 1825; A treatise on diet 1827,
5 ed. 1837; Philosophy in sport made science in earnest 1827,
8 ed. 1857; The life of Sir Humphry Davy 1831. _d._ 27 Dover
st. London 24 Dec. 1856. _bur._ Woking cemet. _Munk’s College
of physicians iii_ 120 (1878); _Lives of British physicians_
(1857) 369–87; _Munk’s Goldheaded cane_ (1884) 186–90, 196–219;
_The Bibliographer i_ 65–7 (1882), _this a key to Philosophy in
sport_.
PARISH, JAMES. Champion of the Thames; a member of Waterman’s
hall; the coxswain and trainer of the Leander club; kept the
Lion public house 1 Newcastle st. Strand, London 1852 to death.
_d._ 1861. _Diprose’s Parish of Saint Clement Danes i_ 110
(1868).
PARISH, JOHN EDWARD (2 son of succeeding). _b._ 1823; educ.
Naval coll. Portsmouth; entered R.N. 1836, commander 1857,
captain 25 March 1863, retired 11 July 1876, R.A. 11 Dec. 1878;
commander of the Ardent in Brazil 1859–61; refused to give up
the ex-president of the Argentine government when received on
board the Ardent in the Parana, the English government approved
of his conduct; captain of the Satellite 1862; commanded the
Sphinx on North American station 1873; good service pension of
£150, 1875; retired V.A. 30 Oct. 1884. _d._ Beech hill, Headley
22 Jany. 1894.
PARISH, SIR WOODBINE (eld. son of Woodbine Parish). _b._
14 Sept. 1796; educ. at Eton; entered foreign office 1812,
sent to Sicily 1814, to Naples 1815, then to Paris; was with
lord Castlereagh at meeting of the allied sovereigns at
Aix-la-Chapelle 1818; comr. and consul general at Buenos Ayres
1823; concluded a treaty of amity and commerce 2 Feb. 1825,
chargé d’ affaires 1825–32, when the government presented him
with letters of citizenship and a diploma to take and bear the
arms of the republic for himself and his descendants; K.C.H.
1832; knighted by Wm. IV at St. James’s palace 1 March 1837;
sent to Naples as chief comr. to settle the British claims
upon the Neapolitan government in consequence of the sulphur
monopoly 17 Nov. 1840; joint plenipotentiary with sir Wm.
Temple to make a new commercial treaty with the king of Naples
1842, treaty signed 1845; F.R.S. 4 March l824; F.G.S. 1832;
F.R.G.S., vice-president many years; author of Buenos Ayres and
the provinces of Rio de la Plata 1838. _d._ Quarry house, St.
Leonards-on-Sea 16 Aug. 1882. _bur._ Fairlight cemet. Hastings
22 Aug. _Quarterly journal of Geol. Soc. xxxix_ 39 (1883);
_Proc. of royal Geol. Soc. iv_ 612 (1882); _Conduct of the
consul-general Mr. Parish to J. Oughgan in Buenos Ayres_ (1824).
PARK, ALEXANDER ATHERTON (younger son of sir James Allan Park,
judge 1763–1838). _b._ 1802; educ. Harrow 1813–9, and at Balliol
coll. Oxf., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; barrister L.I. 22 May 1827;
went Midland circuit; prothonotary and master of court of common
pleas 1837 to death. _d._ Heddon house, Isleworth, Twickenham 21
Nov. 1871. _Law Times lii_ 90 (1871).
PARK, ANDREW. _b._ Renfrew 7 March 1807; educ. Glasgow univ.; in
a warehouse in Paisley 1826; salesman in a hat manufactory in
Glasgow 1827; began business on his own account 1828; resided
in London to 1840; a bookseller, Ingram st. Glasgow 1841 for a
short time; visited Egypt 1856; author of A vision of mankind,
Glasgow 1833; The bridegroom and the bride 1834; Blindness
1839; Miscellaneous poems 1844; Silent love. By James Wilson,
druggist, Paisley 1843, re-issued 1845; Veritas 1849; Beauty
1853; The poetical works of A. Park 1854; Egypt and the East
1857; The world 1862; several of his lyrics have been set to
music by Auber, Donizetti and others. _d._ Glasgow 27 Dec. 1863.
_bur._ Paisley cemet. 2 Jany. 1864, memorial monument erected
7 March 1867. _J. G. Wilson’s Poets and poetry of Scotland ii_
289–92 (1877); _C. Rogers’s Scottish minstrel v_ 248–57 (1857);
_Inglis’s Dramatic writers of Scotland_ (1868) 92.
PARK, JOHN (son of John Park, wine merchant). _b._ Greenock 14
Jany. 1804; educ. at Aberdeen and at Glasgow univ.; licensed as
a probationer 1831; assistant at West church, Greenock, and then
at Bonhill, Dumbartonshire; minister of Rodney st. presbyterian
church, Liverpool 1832–43; minister of Glencairn, Dumfriesshire
1843–54; minister at St. Andrews 1854 to death; D.D. St. Andrews
1854; composed O gin I were where Gadie rins, Montgomery’s
mistress, The miller’s daughter, and other popular airs; author
of Lectures and sermons, Edinburgh 1865; A Greenockian’s visit
to Wordsworth 1887. _d._ suddenly from paralysis at St. Andrew’s
8 April 1865. _bur._ in grounds of St. Andrew’s cathedral.
_Songs composed and in part written by the late Rev. John Park_,
_Leeds_ (1876), _with memoir and portrait_; _D. H. Edwards’s
Modern Scottish Poets_ (1889).
PARK, PATRIC (3 child of Matthew Park, mason and builder). _b._
Glasgow 12 Feb. 1811; apprenticed to Mr. Connell, a builder
1826–9; employed by Gillespie, the architect 1829–31; pupil
of Thorwalsden, the sculptor, in Rome 1831–3; executed the
full-length statue of Michael Thomas Sadler, exhibited at the
R.A. 1837 and erected in Leeds 1841, and the colossal statue of
Charles Tennant in the Glasgow necropolis; resided in Edinburgh
1848–52, and at Manchester 1852 to death; A.R.S.A. Nov. 1849,
R.S.A. Feb. 1851, exhibited nearly 90 works in the R.S.A.
1839–56; modelled a colossal statue of Wallace at Edinb. about
1850; executed a bust of Napoleon III in Paris 1854, which is
at South Kensington museum; exhibited 54 sculptures at R.A., 8
at B.I., and 29 at Suffolk st. 1836–55; author of On the use
of drapery in portrait sculpture, privately printed 1846. _d._
Warrington, Lancs. 16 Aug. 1855. _G.M. ii_ 451–8 (1884).
PARKE, THOMAS ADAMS. _b._ 1781; 2 lieut. R.M. 19 May 1795,
colonel commandant 12 Feb. 1842 to 11 Nov. 1851; A.D.C. to the
sovereign 21 Aug. 1835 to 11 Nov. 1851; general 6 Feb. 1857;
C.B. 26 Sept. 1831. _d._ Hythe, near Southampton 3 Sept. 1858.
PARKE, THOMAS HEAZLE (2 son of Wm. Parke, justice of the
peace). _b._ Clogher house, Drumsna, co. Roscommon 27 Nov.
1857; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1878, hon. F.R.C.S. 1890; L.K. and
Q.C.P. Ireland and licentiate in midwifery 1879; surgeon to the
Eastern dispensary at Bath; surgeon in army medical department
Feb. 1881; served in the Tel-el-Kebir campaign of 1882; senior
medical officer at the Helouan cholera camp near Cairo 1883;
served in the Nile expedition 1884–5, and went with the column
across the Bayuda desert to rescue Gordon; served at the battles
of Abu Klea and Gubat; went with H. M. Stanley as a volunteer to
the Congo forest for the relief of Emin Pasha 1887–8, returned
to England May 1890; hon. D.C.L. Durham 1890; granted the gold
medals of royal geographical societies of London and Antwerp
1890; received the orders of the Medjidie and the Brilliant
star of Zanzibar; attached to the 2 lifeguards in London 1890;
employed at royal Victoria hospital, Netley 1891; author of
Report to the war office on the cholera outbreak in Egypt 1883;
Evidence before the vaccination commission 1890; My experiences
in Equatorial Africa 1891; A guide to health in Africa, with
notes on the country and its inhabitants 1893; and of articles
in periodicals. _d._ while on a visit to the duke of St.
Albans at Alt-na-Craig in Argyleshire 10 Sept. 1893. _bur._ at
Kilmessan, co. Leitrim 16 Sept. _Graphic 16 Sept. 1893 p._ 351
_portrait_; _Westminster Budget 15 Sept. 1893 p._ 29 _portrait_.
NOTE.--An oil portrait by Miss Ffolliott is in the masonic lodge,
Boyle, co. Roscommon, but is to be removed to the Parke memorial, being
erected at Carrick-on-Shannon. A fund has also been opened to erect a
statue of Parke in Dublin.
PARKE, SIR WILLIAM (eld. son of Roger Parke of Dunally, co.
Sligo, lieut. col. of Sligo militia). _b._ March 1779; ensign
53 foot 14 Dec. 1791; major 2 foot 27 June 1811; major 66 foot
5 March 1812 to 25 Dec. 1817, when placed on h.p.; served in
the West Indies, Egypt, Holland, the Peninsula, Walcheren, and
St. Helena; wounded in battle of Corunna; sheriff of co. Sligo
twice; knighted by marquess of Normanby, lord lieut. of Ireland
1836. _d._ Dunally, Sligo 1 Sept. 1851. _G.M. xxxvi_ 453 (1851).
PARKE, WILLIAM (son of James Parke). _b._ Churchgates of
Brewood, Staffordshire 23 March 1797; educ. Brewood gram.
sch.; apprenticed to Mr. Smart, bookseller and printer, High
Green, Wolverhampton 1812–8, partner in the business 1828, sole
proprietor 1833 to death; part proprietor of Wolverhampton
chronicle 1831–2; a great friend of Harrison Ainsworth from
1872; exercised great hospitality to literary men; known as the
Murray of Wolverhampton; warden of Wolverhampton collegiate ch.
1856 to death. _d._ the Deanery, Wolverhampton 10 June 1876.
_bur._ Brewood 15 June. _W. Parke, a sketch by J. B. Brodhurst_,
_Wolverhampton_ (1876).
PARKER, CHARLES. _b._ 1800; pupil of sir Jeffrey Wyatville;
studied in Italy many years; architect in London about 1830;
designed Messrs. Hoare’s bank in Fleet st., the Italian Roman
Catholic church at Kingston, Surrey, and the chapel in Stamford
st. Blackfriars 1830–2; F.R.I.B.A. 1834, retired 15 Nov. 1869,
contributed many papers to the sessional meetings; F.S.A. 9
Jany. 1834, withdrew 1844; steward and surveyor to duke of
Bedford’s London property 1859–69; became totally blind;
author of Villa rustica, selected from the buildings and scenes
in the vicinity of Rome and Florence, and arranged for rural
and domestic dwellings 1832, 2 ed. 1848. _d._ 48 Park road,
Haverstock hill, London 9 Feb. 1881.
PARKER, SIR CHARLES CHRISTOPHER, 5 Baronet (3 son of
vice-admiral Christopher Parker, _d._ 1804). _b._ Harley st.
London 16 June 1792; entered navy June 1804; commander of the
Harlequin on the coast of Ireland 1819–22; captain 23 April
1822, retired R.A. 7 Oct. 1852, retired admiral 27 April 1863;
succeeded his brother, sir J. E. G. Parker, as baronet 18 Nov.
1835. _d._ Clifton 13 March 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_
387–8, 524 (1869).