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).
PARKER, Edward Augustus. Second lieut. R.M. 23 Sept. 1811, 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.