(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
[a dialogue between three tourists in North Wales] 1831. _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).
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.