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.