lieut. colonel 13 Dec. 1852, colonel commandant 6 Feb. 1857;
retired on full pay as major general 24 Feb. 1858; war medal
with one clasp, and the cross of the Tower and sword of
Portugal. _d._ Park villa, Charlotte st. Park st. Bristol 8 June
1875.
PARKER, FRANKE. _b._ 1803; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1827,
M.A. 1831; C. of Sampford Peverell, Devon 1829–31; C. of
Starcross, Devon 1831–2; R. of Luffincott, near Launceston 30
Jany. 1838 to death; author of The church, with a chart 1851;
Chronology, 2 vols. 1858; The Parian chronicle subversive of the
common chronology 1859; Replies to the first and second part
of the bishop of Natal’s Pentateuch 1863, and Replies to the
third and fourth part 1864; A light thrown upon Thucydides to
illustrate the prophecy of Daniel 1865; The Athenian year and
its bearing on the eclipses of Thucydides and Ptolemy and the
metonic cycle 1866. _d._ Luffincott rectory 3 April 1883.
PARKER, SIR GEORGE, 3 Baronet (2 son of sir Wm. George Parker,
2 baronet, _d._ 1848). _b._ 1813; educ. at Addiscombe; cadet
Bengal army 1833; lieut. 74 Bengal N.I. 30 Jany. 1837, captain
3 Oct. 1845 to death; superintendent of Akbara and joint
magistrate at Meerut 10 June 1847 to June 1852; succeeded his
brother as 3 baronet 24 March 1848; returned to India Dec. 1854;
superintendent of Akbara and magistrate at Cawnpore 5 May 1856
to death; major in the army June 1857. _d._ of sunstroke during
the sortie from Cawnpore 6 July 1857. _Malleson’s History of the
Indian mutiny ii_ 228 (1889).
PARKER, GEORGE (3 son of Thomas Watson Parker of Lewisham, Kent
1772–1861). _b._ 1 April 1804; educ. Charterhouse 1818 etc.;
solicitor at Lewisham 1831–63; gave £2,000 towards restoration
of nave of Lewisham parish church; built at his own cost church
of St. George’s, Perry Hill, Greenwich 1878–80. _d._ Lewisham
house, 224 High st. Lewisham 10 March 1889.
PARKER, GEORGE CHARLES (son of a captain in the marines). _b._
Havant, Hants. 19 Feb. 1836; midshipman H.E.I.C.S. 3 April 1853
to 30 April 1863, retired as a lieut. and was transferred to the
Indian marine, captain 1883; served in the China wars 1856–7 and
1860; in naval brigade in Indian mutiny 1857–8; port officer at
Carwar 1863; master attendant at Karáchi 1873, where he aided
in improving the port; raised and formed the Karáchi brigade of
naval volunteers; A.I.C.E. 2 Dec. 1884; F.R.G.S. _d._ at sea on
his voyage to England 15 Nov. 1890. _Min. of Proc. of Instit.
C.E. civ_ 318–20 (1891).
PARKER, GEORGE HARGREAVE. Educ. St. Bees theol. coll.; C. of
Anstey, Leics. 1838; C. of Grooby 1841; V. of St. Andrew’s,
Bethnal Green, London 1843 to death; edited Juliana’s Sixteen
revelations of divine love 1843; J. Eaton’s The true doctrine of
baptism 1850; author of Letters on the great revolution of 1848,
1848. _d._ 3 Grove st. South Hackney, London 18 April 1864.
PARKER, HENRY PERLEE (son of Robert Parker of Devonport,
drawing master). _b._ Devonport 15 March 1795; a portrait
painter at Plymouth 1815, and at Newcastle 1816; secretary of
the Northumberland institution, Newcastle, for the promotion
of the fine arts 1822; became known as ‘Smuggler Parker’ from
his pictures of smugglers; gave his picture of the rescue of
John Wesley from the fire at Epworth in 1709 to the Wesleyan
conference 1840, to be placed in the centenary hall, London;
exhibited 23 pictures at R.A., 40 at B.I., and 23 at Suffolk
st. 1817–63; drawing master at Wesley college, Sheffield
1840–4; resided in London 1844 to death; author of Critiques
on paintings, together with a few slight etchings showing the
compositions, Newcastle 1835. _d._ 1 Blenheim villa, Goldhawk
road, Shepherd’s Bush, London 11 Nov. 1873. _Walford’s Men of
mark twixt Tyne and Tweed iii_ 249 (1895); _Newcastle Weekly
chronicle 22 Aug. 1891 portrait, and 3–8 Nov. 1894_; _I.L.N. 23
May 1874 p._ 493 _portrait_.
PARKER, HENRY PERROTT (son of Joseph Parker). _b._ Upton
Cheyney, Gloucestershire 21 Sept. 1852; educ. Trin. coll.
Camb., B.A. 1875; at Church missionary coll. Islington; C. of
Holy Trinity, Exeter 1876–8; sec. of Church missionary soc. and
chaplain to bishop of Calcutta 1878; missionary at Urgui, Africa
1882; bishop of the church of England in Eastern Equatorial
Africa Oct. 1886, consecrated 14 Oct. _d._ in the Unyoro country
to the south east of the Albert Nyanza 26 March 1888. _Times 15
Oct. 1886 p._ 9, _19 Oct. p._ 7, _2 May 1888 pp._ 7, 11.
PARKER, HENRY WALTER. _b._ 9 Oct. 1808; educ. Merchant Taylors’
sch. 1820 etc.; barrister G.I. 15 June 1832, went home circuit;
assistant sec. poor law board 9 April 1836 to 21 April 1839;
author of The rise, progress, and present state of Van Diemen’s
land 1833; Letters to sir James Graham on the proceedings
connected with Andover union 1845; A digest of the laws relating
to the relief of the poor 1849. _d._ Adelaide 1874.
PARKER, SIR HENRY WATSON (4 son of Thomas Watson Parker of
Lewisham, Kent). _b._ Lewisham 1808; private secretary to sir
George Gipps, governor of New South Wales 1838–46; member of
legislative council of N.S.W. 8 Dec. 1848 to 1856, chairman of
committees 17 May 1849; member for Paramatta of legislative
assembly 1856; contested the speakership 1856, when beaten by
one vote; premier 3 Oct. 1856 to 7 Sept. 1857; knighted at
Buckingham palace 7 May 1858; resided in England about 1859 to
death; contested Greenwich against W. E. Gladstone 18 Nov. 1868;
K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877; a comr. for the exhibitions held at Sydney
1880 and Melbourne 1881. _d._ Stawell house, Richmond, Surrey 2
Feb. 1881.
PARKER, SIR HENRY WATSON (son of John Goodhand Parker of
Kingston-upon Hull). _b._ 1825; admitted solicitor Nov. 1853;
partner with Fred. Clarke 1857–81; head of firm of Parker,
Garrett, and Parker, St. Michael’s rectory, Cornhill. London
1881 to death; a royal comr. on Loss of life at sea 1884–7;
member of council of Incorporated law society 20 Aug. 1873, V.P.
1885–6, and president 1886–7; knighted at Osborne 12 Aug. 1887.
_d._ 10 Rosslyn hill, Hampstead, London 31 May 1894. _bur._ St.
Mary’s R.C. cemetery, Kensal green 5 June. _Solicitor’s Journal
9 June 1894 p._ 527.
PARKER, HYDE (eld. son of admiral sir Hyde Parker 1739–1807).
_b._ about 1782; entered royal naval academy 5 Feb. 1796; a
volunteer on board the Cambrian, Sept. 1799; captain 13 Oct.
1807; extra naval aide-de-camp to Wm. 4, 5 Sept. 1831; C.B. 18
April 1839; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841; admiral superintendent Portsmouth
4 Aug. 1842 to 15 Dec. 1847; V.A. 4 June 1852; one of lords’
comrs. of the admiralty 30 Dec. 1852 to death. _d._ Ham, Surrey
25 May 1854. _G.M. xlii_ 76 (1854).
PARKER, SIR HYDE, 7 Baronet (2 son of sir Harry Hyde Parker, 5
Bart., _d._ 1812). _b._ 1785; succeeded his brother, sir William
Parker, 6 Bart. 21 April 1830; M.P. West Suffolk 1832–5. _d._
Government house, Devonport 21 March 1856. _G.M. xlv_ 519 (1856).
PARKER, SIR JAMES (son of Charles Steuart Parker of Blochairn,
near Glasgow). _b._ Glasgow 1803; educ. Glasgow gr. sch. and
college, and Trin. coll. Camb., seventh wrangler 1825; B.A.
1825, M.A. 1828; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1829. bencher 1844 to
death; went northern circuit; Q.C. July 1844; vice-chancellor
8 Oct. 1851 to death; knighted at Windsor castle 23 Oct. 1851;
member of the chancery commission 11 Dec. 1850; contested
Leicester 30 July 1847. _d._ Rothley Temple, Leics. 13 Aug.
1852. _Foss’s Judges ix_ 233–5 (1864); _Law Mag. xlviii_ 321–2
(1852).
PARKER, JOHN (2 son of Thomas Netherton Parker of Sweeney
hall, Shropshire, _d._ 1854). _b._ 3 Oct. 1798; educ. Eton and
Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1825; R. of Llanmarewic,
Montgomeryshire 1827–44, added a tower and south porch to his
church; designed the church and vaulted apse of Trinity church,
Oswestry 1835; V. of Llan-y-Blodwell, Shropshire 1844 to death,
rebuilt the church at his own cost and from his own designs
and carved the altar-piece himself; local secretary of the
Cambrian archæological association; author of The Passengers
[a dialogue between three tourists in North Wales] 1831. _d._
Llan-y-Blodwell vicarage 13 Aug. 1860. _G.M. Dec. 1860 pp._
675–8.
PARKER, JOHN (2 son of Wm. Parker of High Wycombe, Bucks.) _b._
1801; solicitor at High Wycombe 1823–80; town clerk 40 years;
clerk to the bench of magistrates many years; registrar of
Wycombe county court; author of A brief history of the church of
Christ in Crendon lane meeting house, Chipping Wycombe 1848; The
early history and antiquities of Wycombe 1878. _d._ High Wycombe
22 Dec. 1880. _Solicitor’s Journal xxv_ 183 (1881).
PARKER, JOHN (eld. son of Hugh Parker of Tickhill, near
Doncaster, _d._ 1861). _b._ Woodthorpe, near Sheffield 21 Oct.
1799; educ. Repton school and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820,
M.A. 1823; barrister L.I. 1 July 1824; M.P. Sheffield 15 Dec.
1832 to July 1852; a lord of the treasury 18 July 1837 to 23
June 1841; first secretary of the admiralty 9 June to 10 Sept.
1841, and 21 May 1849 to 3 March 1852; joint-secretary of the
treasury 7 July 1846 to 22 May 1849; P.C. 24 Oct. 1854. _d._
71 Onslow square, London 5 Sept. 1881. _bur._ Healaugh, near
Tadcaster 9 Sept. _Law Times lxxi_ 366 (1881); _Chapters in the
political history of Sheffield_ (1884).
PARKER, JOHN. _b._ 1822; huntsman of the Sinnington hunt, Malton
1853, retired 1890; subscription raised for him by editor of
Vanity Fair, April 1890. _d._ 14 Nov. 1890. _St. Stephens Review
24 May 1890 pp._ 15–16 _portrait_, _22 Nov. p._ 15 _portrait_;
_W. S. Dixon’s In the North countree_ (1889) 137–40 _portrait_;
_Blair Athol by Blinkhoolie_, 3 _vols._ 1881.
PARKER, JOHN BOTELER. Second lieut. R.A. 1 April 1802; lost his
left leg at Waterloo; lieutenant governor of royal military
academy, Woolwich; lieut. col. R.A. 10 Jany. 1837, retired on
full pay 20 July. 1840; C.B. 22 June 1815; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846.
_d._ Woolwich 25 March 1851. _G.M. xxxv_ 665 (1851).
PARKER, JOHN HENRY (son of John Parker of London, merchant).
_b._ London 1 March 1806; bookseller and publisher at the Turl,
Oxford 1832, retired 1863; secretary of Oxford architectural
society 1839; issued the libraries of the Fathers and of
Anglo-catholic theology and the series of Oxford pocket
classics; published Dr. Pusey’s works, also all John Keble’s
works 1832–73; F.S.A. 7 June 1849; went to Rome 1863, where
he excavated the walls, especially the gates, and took 3,300
photographs; hon. M.A. Oxf. 27 June 1867; endowed the keepership
of the Ashmolean museum, Oxford, with £250 a year 1869, keeper
of the museum 1870 to death; member of the Oxford architectural
society, vice-president; knight of Italian order of St. Maurice
and Lazarus, April 1879; awarded a gold medal by Pope Pius IX
for his researches in Rome; C.B. 30 Oct. 1871; author of A
glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic
architecture 1836, 4 ed. 1845; A handbook for visitors to Oxford
1847; An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture 1849,
6 ed. 1881; The mediæval architecture of Chester 1858; Mosaic
pictures in Rome and Ravenna 1866; Historical photographs
illustrative of the Archæology of Rome, 7 vols. 1872–5;
The archæology of Rome, 1874–6, second ed. 1878; Historical
photographs, a catalogue of 3,300 historical photographs
of antiquities in Rome and Italy 1879; A.B.C. of Gothic
architecture 1881, 2 ed. 1882. _d._ The Turl, Oxford 31 Jany.
1884. _bur._ St. Sepulchre’s cemetery, Oxford 5 Feb. _Proc. of
Soc. of Antiq._ (1884) 79–81; _Curwen’s Booksellers_ (1873)
312–24; _Bookseller March 1884 pp._ 247–50; _I.L.N. lxxxiv_ 157
(1884) _portrait_.
PARKER, JOHN WILLIAM (son of Mr. Parker of the royal navy).
_b._ 1792; apprenticed to William Clowes, printer, Duke st.
Blackfriar’s road, London 1806, became manager of the business;
worked on his own account; superintendent of the Cambridge
university press Feb. 1829, retired 1854; publisher at 445
Strand, London 1832–63; publisher to the Society for promoting
Christian knowledge; published and edited the Saturday Magazine
1832; printer to univ. of Cambridge 15 Nov. 1836; publisher
to the committee of council on education 1839; published
Fraser’s Mag. and the works of Buckle, Froude, Hare, Kingsley,
Lewes, Maurice, Mill, Whately Whewell, and others; partner as
publishers with Wm. Butler Bourn 1860, they sold the business to
Messrs. Longman 1863 for £20,000; partner with Thomas Richard
Harrison as printers in St. Martin’s lane 1863 to death, they
printed the London Gazette; author of Bibles, testaments, books
of common prayer and proper lessons, printed at the Cambridge
university press by J. W. Parker 1839. _d._ Warren corner
house, near Farnham, Surrey 18 May 1870. _Curwen’s History of
booksellers_ (1873) 317–24; _R. Bowes’ Biographical notes on the
university printers_ (1886) 329; _Bookseller 16 Jany. 1861 p._
2, _and 1 June 1870 pp._ 491–2.
PARKER, JOHN WILLIAM (son of the preceding). _b._ 1820; partner
with his father 1845 to death; edited Fraser’s Magazine about
1848 to death. _d._ 9 Nov. 1860. _G.M. Feb. 1861 pp._ 221–4.
PARKER, KENYON STEVENS. _b._ 1789; 2 lieut. R.M. 26 Oct. 1805; 1
lieut. on half pay 1 Sept. 1814 to death; barrister G.I. 27 Nov.
1819; migrated to Lincoln’s inn, bencher 1841 to death; Q.C.
Nov. 1841; examiner in court of chancery Jany. 1853 to death;
run over by a cab in Chancery lane and _d._ 49 Lancaster gate,
London 2 June 1866. _Law Times xli_ 607 (1866).
PARKER, RICHARD. _b._ 29 June 1803; cornet 1 life guards 2 Aug.
1822, lieut. col. 20 June 1854 to 24 Aug. 1861; colonel of 5
dragoon guards 7 Dec. 1871 to death; M.G. 24 Aug. 1861, L.G. 2
Jany. 1871; placed on retired list with rank of general 1 Oct.
1877. _d._ Castle Malwood, near Lyndhurst, Hampshire 15 March
1885.
PARKER, ROBERT (eld. son of Robert Parker comptroller of customs
in New Brunswick). _b._ 1796; educ. Bideford, Devon, and King’s
coll. Windsor, Nova Scotia; solicitor general of Nova Scotia
1828; acted as attorney general; puisne judge of New Brunswick
31 Oct. 1834; chief justice of supreme court Sept. 1865 to
death. _d._ St. John’s, New Brunswick 24 Dec. 1865.
PARKER, ROBERT TOWNLEY (only son of Thomas T. Parker, _d._
1794). _b._ 27 Aug. 1793; educ. Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf.
17 Oct. 1811; sheriff of Lancs. 1817; M.P. Preston 1837–41 and
1852–7; contested Preston 29 June 1841 and 29 July 1847; guild
mayor of Preston 1862; constable of Lancaster castle 1874. _d._
Cuerden hall, near Preston 11 Aug. 1879. _I.L.N. xli_ 285 (1862)
_portrait_.
PARKER, ROGER. Ensign 113 foot 30 June 1795; lieut. 39 foot 1
Oct. 1795, major 25 Feb. 1808, lieut. col. 18 May 1826, served
in the Peninsula 1809–12; silver medal for Albuera; lieut. col.
22 foot 6 March 1828, placed on h.p. 25 Nov. 1828; M.G. 9 Nov.
1846; granted distinguished service reward 26 July 1847; col. 86
foot 26 May 1852 to death. _d._ 28 April 1854.
PARKER, SAMUEL WILLIAM LANGSTON (son of Wm. Parker, surgeon).
_b._ Birmingham 1803; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital
and in Paris; M.R.C.S. 1828, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon in
Birmingham 1830 to death; professor of comparative anatomy at
Queen’s college, Birmingham 25 years, a college which with Sands
Cox he had established; surgeon to the Associated hospital
1840–65, and consulting surgeon 1865 to death; an authority
on syphilis, introduced new methods of treatment; author of
The stomach, in its morbid state 1838; The modern treatment
of syphilitic diseases 1839, 5 ed. 1871; Digestion and its
disorders 1849; The treatment of secondary syphilis 1850; On the
nature of some painful affections of bone 1852; The treatment
of cancerous diseases by caustic 1856; The mercurial vapour
bath 1868. _d._ Paradise st. Birmingham 27 Oct. 1871. _bur._
Ashton-juxta-Birmingham. _Literary remains of S. W. L. Parker_,
_edited by Josiah Allen_ (1876); _Medical times and gazette ii_
602, 605 (1871); _Proc. of Medical and Chirurgical soc. vii_
43–44 (1875).
PARKER, TASS, ring name of Hazard Parker. _b._ West Bromwich,
Staffs. 10 April 1811; fought Hammer Lane for £25 a side at
Kensale Corner 15 Sept. 1835, when Lane won in 48 rounds; fought
Lane again for £50 a side at Woodstock 7 March 1837, when Lane
won in 96 rounds lasting 2 hours; beat Harry Preston near Castle
Donnington in 13 rounds for £100 a side; fought Tom Britton
for £100 a side at Woore, Staffs. 8 May 1838 after 33 rounds
the fight was adjourned to 5 March 1839, when they met at Wem
in Shropshire, but Britton was arrested by the police; beat
Britton at Worksop, Notts. 9 June 1840 in 77 rounds lasting 110
minutes; fought Brassey for £100 a side at Brunt Lays, Worksop
10 Aug. 1841, when Parker won in 158 rounds; fought Wm. Perry
for £100 a side at Dartford Marshes 19 Dec. 1843, the police
interfered after 67 rounds; fought him again for same sum at
Horley 27 Feb. 1844, after 133 rounds Parker went down without
a blow; fought him again for same sum at Lindrick Common 4 Aug.
1846, beaten again in 23 rounds lasting 27 minutes; beat Con.
Parker for £100 a side at Trimley Green 26 Nov. 1849 in 27
rounds lasting 97 minutes; fought a drawn battle with Burton of
Leicester, £100 a side, 87 rounds in 100 minutes 19 May 1851;
employed by James Merry the great racing man. _d._ June 1884.
_Fistiana by the editor of Bells’s Life in London_ (1868) 95;
_W. Day’s Reminiscences_, _2 ed._ (1886) 319–23; _H. D. Miles’s
Pugilistica iii_ 187–99, 344–55 (1881); _J. Hannan’s British
boxing_ (1850) 29–30.
PARKER, THOMAS LISTER (eld. son of John Parker of Browsholme
hall, Yorkshire 1755–97). _b._ Browsholme hall 17 Sept. 1779;
educ. Clitheroe gr. sch. and Christ’s coll. Camb.; formed a
collection of antiquities and pictures; bought many engravings
and prints during a tour on the continent 1800 and 1801; F.S.A.
14 May 1801; F.R.S. 1 June 1815; sheriff for Lancashire 1804;
trumpeter to the queen; hereditary bow-bearer of the forest of
Bowland, Lancs. 1797; author of A description of Browsholme
hall and of the parish of Waddington 1815; some of his letters
are printed in F. R. Raine’s Miscellanies of rev. Thomas Wilson
(Chetham Soc. vol. xlv 1858) pp. 20, 159–64, 170, 205. _d._ the
Star inn, Deansgate, Manchester 2 March 1858. _bur._ in his
family chapel Waddington church, Yorkshire 9 March. _Whitaker’s
History of Wally i_ 336 (1872).
PARKER, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (3 son of George Parker of
Almington, Staffs. 1730–1819). _b._ Almington hall 1 Dec. 1781;
entered navy Feb. 1793; captain 9 Oct. 1801; commanded the
Amazon, 38 guns, Nov. 1802 to 16 Jany. 1812; commanded the
Warspite in the Mediterranean 1828; commanded the royal yacht
Prince Regent Dec. 1828 to 22 July 1830; R.A. 22 July 1830;
second in command of the channel squadron April to Sept. 1831;
commanded a squadron in the Tagus river Sept. 1831 to June 1834;
a lord of the admiralty July to Dec. 1834 and April 1835 to 12
May 1841; commanded a squadron on coast of China 10 Aug. 1841;
captured Amoy, Ningpo, Woosung, Shanghai, and Chin-kiang-foo;
concluded peace at Nankin 27 Aug. 1842; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B.
16 July 1834, G.C.B. 2 Dec. 1842; granted good-service pension
of £300 a year 26 April 1844; created baronet 18 Dec. 1844;
commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean 27 Feb. 1845 to 17 Jany.
1852; commanded the Channel fleet May 1846 to 28 April 1852;
principal A.D.C. to the queen 10 Dec. 1846 to death; admiral 29
April 1851; chairman of committee to inquire into the manning
of the navy, July 1852; commander-in-chief at Devonport 1 May
1854 to 4 May 1857; an elder brother of the Trinity house 1861;
R.A. of the United Kingdom 20 May 1862, admiral of the fleet 27
April 1863 to death. _d._ Shenstone lodge, near Lichfield 13
Nov. 1866. _bur._ Shenstone churchyard, monument in Lichfield
cathedral. _Sir A. Phillimore’s Life of Sir W. Parker_, 3
_vols._ (1876–80) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lv_, 233 (1869) _view of
monument_.
PARKER, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (eld. son of John Parker, principal
keeper of judicial records of Scotland). _b._ Edinburgh 4
Dec. 1818; educ. Edinb. academy and univ.; assistant keeper
of judicial records in general register house, Edinb. 1839;
advocate at Edinb. 1853; chief judge and member of legislative
council of the Gold Coast 1866; chief justice and judge in
admiralty of St. Helena 8 April 1869 to 1875; chief justice of
British Honduras 1 Nov. 1875, retired on a pension 1881; an
originator and first hon. sec. of Architectural Institute of
Scotland. _d._ Hillside, Gorey, Jersey 27 July 1886. _Journal of
jurisprudence xxx_ 495 (1886); _Law Times 14 Aug. 1886 p._ 283.
PARKER, WILLIAM KITCHEN (2 son of Thomas Parker, yeoman farmer).
_b._ Dogsthorpe, near Peterborough 23 June 1823; apprenticed to
a druggist at Stamford 1839; articled to Mr. Costal at Market
Overton 1842–4; studied at Charing Cross hospital 1844; L.S.A.
1849; a general practitioner at 124 Tachbrook st. Pimlico,
London 1849, at 18 Bessborough st. 1853, and at 36 Claverton
st. to 1883; M.R.C.S. 1873, Hunterian professor of comparative
anatomy at the college, 1873, gave ten courses of lectures;
wrote 99 scientific memoirs in Trans Palæontographical Soc.,
Trans. Ray Soc., Trans. Royal Irish academy, Annals and Mag. of
Natural history, and Trans. Microscopical Soc.; F.R.S. 1 June
1865, gold medallist 1866; Baly medallist of royal college of
physicians; president of royal microscopical society 1871–3;
a director of the Star life assurance soc. 1874; with T. H.
Huxley he made a minute study of the skull; differed from sir
R. Owen about the anatomy of animals; author of On mammalian
descent, the Hunterian lecture 1885; and with G. T. Bettany
The morphology of the skull 1877; in the Ray Society series he
printed A monograph on the structure of the shoulder-girdle
and sternum in the vertebrata 1868. _d._ in his son’s house 74
Llandaff road, Cardiff 3 July 1890. _bur._ Wandsworth cemet.
London 7 July. _T. J. Parker’s W. K. Parker_ (1893) _portrait_;
_Proc. of royal soc. xlviii pp. xv–xx_ (1890); _G. T. Bettany’s
Professor W. K. Parker_ (1891).
PARKER, WINDSOR (eld. son of William Parker of Hardwick court,
Gloucs.) _b._ 1802; cornet 6 Bengal light cavalry 24 Nov.
1820; lieut. 10 Bengal light cavalry 1 May 1824, captain 30
July 1829; served at siege of Bhurtpore 1825–6; aide-de-camp
to commander-in-chief 1827–8; brigade major Malwa field force
1829–35; brigade major in Oude 1835–6; sheriff of Suffolk 1854;
M.P. western division of Suffolk 1859–80; major west Suffolk
militia 9 Oct. 1852 to 6 May 1869; celebrated his golden wedding
1880. _d._ Clopton hall, Rattlesden, Suffolk Feb. 1892.
PARKES, ALEXANDER (son of a brass lock manufacturer). _b._
Suffolk st. Birmingham 29 Dec. 1813; in charge of the casting
department in the works of Messrs. Elkington; took out a patent
for the electro-deposition of works of art 1841; patented a
method of electro-plating flowers 1843; took out 66 patents in
46 years; superintended the erection of Elkington and Mason’s
copper-smelting works at Pembrey, South Wales 1850–3; his method
of using zinc for the desilverisation of lead, patented 1850,
is in universal use in America; showed articles made from the
compound of pyroxyline, named Parkesine, at exhibition of 1862,
when he received a medal, this compound is now known as zylonite
or celluloid. _d._ Rosendale road, West Dulwich 29 June 1890.
_Engineering 25 July 1890 p._ 111; _Birmingham Weekly Post 5
July 1890_.