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.