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.
PARKES, Caroline. b. Islington, London 1 Jany. 1838; appeared as Bacchus in a ballet at Her Majesty’s 1842; a columbine at Sadler’s Wells 1849, and often from that time to 1865; acted many characters in Phelps and Greenwood’s revivals of Shakespeare’s dramas at Sadler’s Wells 1850–60; a great favourite at the Marylebone theatre; chief dancer at the Eagle tavern, danced in Jason and Medea there 28 Aug. 1851; columbine at the Surrey 1851, at Sadler’s Wells 1852–3, 1855, 1857, and 1859; acted Donaldbain in Macbeth at Her Majesty’s 19 Jany. 1858; had a character in Cock Robin pantomine, Lyceum 1867; played Joe Tiller in Poll and my Partner Jo burlesque, St. James’ 6 May 1871; acted Dicky Dilver in Little Dicky Dilver pantomime, Princess’s 26 Dec. 1871; Jack in Jack and the bean stalk pantomime, Adelphi 26 Dec. 1872; played in Crystal palace pantomime 20 Dec. 1873, and several succeeding years, when her songs and dances were very popular; was seen at the majority of the London theatres and music halls; a teacher of dancing; m. Charles Gill Fenton, actor and scene painter, d. 15 Feb. 1877. She d. 17 Medina road, Holloway, London 7 March 1887. Illustrated Sporting News 15 Nov. 1862 p. 308 portrait; Scott and Howard’s E. L. Blanchard i 86 etc., ii 397, 720 (1891).