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 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).