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_.
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