by duke of Connaught April 1890, memorial bust by T. Brock,
R.A. unveiled in St. Paul’s cathedral 1887. _S. Lane-Poole and
F. V. Dickins’s Life of sir Harry Parkes_, 2 _vols._ (1894)
_portrait_; _D. C. Boulger’s History of China iii_ 250 _etc._,
827 (1884); _Illust. times 19 Jany. 1861 p._ 31 _portrait_;
_I.L.N. xxxvii_ 587 (1860) _portrait_; _Times 23 March 1885 p._
7.
PARKES, JOSEPH (younger son of John Parkes, manufacturer).
_b._ Warwick 22 Jany. 1796; articled to a solicitor in London
1817–22; practised as a solicitor in Birmingham 1822–33; a
member of Birmingham political union 10 May 1832, made active
preparations for an armed rebellion; secretary of the commission
on municipal corporations 1833; parliamentary solicitor at 21
Great George st. Westminster 1833–47; taxing master to court
of exchequer Nov. 1847 to death; secretary to commission for
inquiry into public charities 1840; author of A history of
the court of chancery 1828; author with Herman Merivale of
Memoirs of sir Philip Francis, K.C.B., with correspondence and
journals, 2 vols. 1867. _d._ 17 Wimpole st. London 11 Aug. 1865.
_bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 17 Aug. _Law mag. and law review xx_
174 (1865).
PARKES, JOSIAH (brother of the preceding). _b._ Warwick 27 Feb.
1793; worked in his father’s mill at Warwick 1810–20; carried
out near Woolwich a new process for refining salt; A.I.C.E.
11 March 1823, M.I.C.E. 26 Dec. 1837; carried on business at
Puteaux-sur-Seine 1825–30; fought on the popular side in the
revolution 1830, after which he returned to England; a land
drainer 1830–54, employed 1,000 men; drained part of Chat
Moss, Lancs. for Mr. Heathcote of Tiverton, invented the deep
drainage system of not less than four feet; in 1846 sir Robert
Peel advanced four millions to be spent in draining on the
Parkesian principle; drained the fortifications at Yaverland and
Warden Point, Isle of Wight for the war office 1862–9; author
of Lecture on draining 1846; Essay on the philosophy and art of
land drainage 1848; Fallacies on land drainage exposed 1851.
_d._ Freshwater, Isle of Wight 16 Aug. 1871. _Min. of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. xxxiii_ 231–6 (1872).
PARKES, WILLIAM. _b._ Gloucester 6 Oct. 1822; in the office
of James Walker, C.E. 1845; resident engineer at the Alderney
harbour works 1847–9; a civil engineer in Parliament st. and
then at 23 Abingdon st. London from 1849; connected with the
lake Fucino, Italy, draining works 1853; reported on Kurrachee,
India, harbour 1854, and again in 1868, the breakwater, the
first constructed on the sloping-block system, completed 1873;
designed and erected lighthouses in the Red sea 1860; at Madras
in 1873 and 1876 in connection with the harbour works, which
were destroyed by a cyclone in 1882; A.I.C.E. 3 Feb. 1849,
M.I.C.E. 17 April 1860. _d._ 8 Grove road, Surbiton 1889. _Min.
of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcvi_ 328–30 (1889).
PARKIN, GEORGE LEWIS (son of George Patey Parkin of Woolwich).
_b._ 30 Sept. 1818; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school 1829;
admitted solicitor 1841; partner with H. W. Woodhouse many
years; partner with Frederick John Pagden, retired 1884;
one of the Antients and subsequently principal of Barnard’s
inn; a governor of Christ’s hospital; an early member of the
Solicitors’ Benevolent institution, _d._ 22 Park lane, London 23
April 1885. _Solicitors’ Journal 2 May 1885 p._ 442.
PARKINS, WILLIAM. _b._ Great Berkhampstead, Herts.; a
manufacturing stationer in Hanway st. London about 1842;
introduced cheap paper and envelopes; partner with Henry
Gotto at 25 Oxford st. 1851 to death, having a very large
establishment of fancy goods, especially of articles for
presents, employed nearly 500 people; published Parkins and
Co.’s Almanack and price list 1850 etc.; Parkins and Gotto’s
Rent book 1858; Parkins and Gotto’s Annual Diary 1861 etc. _d._
43 Abbey road, St. John’s Wood, London 19 Sept. 1872. _bur._
Kensal Green cemetery 25 Sept. _Colburn’s New monthly mag. cxx_
494–8 (1881); _Puseley’s Companies_ (1858) 167.
PARKINSON, EDWARD. Cornet 33 light dragoons 27 Feb. 1796;
captain 33 foot 3 July 1805, major 17 March 1814, placed on h.p.
11 Sept. 1817; C.B. 19 July 1831; granted distinguished service
reward 15 Nov. 1849; colonel 93 highlanders 10 Dec. 1852 to
death; L.G. 20 June 1854. _d._ Pall Mall, London 14 Jany. 1858.
PARKINSON, JOHN. _b._ 1779; practised as solicitor in London;
solicitor to the Grenadier guards 19 July 1831 to death. _d._
Gray’s Inn sq. London 30 Jany. 1855.
PARKINSON, JOSEPH (son of James Parkinson, proprietor of
a museum in London 1730–1813). _b._ 1783; articled to Wm.
Pilkington, the architect, London; designed the library to
the Surrey institution 1809; laid out Bryanston square 1811;
surveyor to the Union assurance society to 1854; directed
rebuilding of body of Streatham church 1831; had many
professional pupils. _d._ 41 Sackville st. London 17 May 1855.
_bur._ Kensal Green.
PARKINSON, RICHARD (son of John Parkinson of Fairsnape, Lancs.)
_b._ Woodgates, Admarsh near Lancaster 17 Sept. 1797; matric.
from St. John’s coll. Camb. Dec. 1815, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824,
B.D. 1838, D.D. 1852; master of Lea school, near Preston
1820; edited the Preston Sentinel newspaper 1821; C. of St.
Michael’s-on-Wyre, Lancs. 1823–6; theological lecturer at St.
Bees college, Cumberland 1826, principal of the college Sept.
1846 to death; F.S.A. 16 Dec. 1847; obtained Seatonian prize
at Cambridge 1830; P.C. of Whitworth, near Rochdale 1830–41;
fellow of the Manchester collegiate chapter 20 May 1833; Hulsean
lecturer at Cambridge 1837 and 1838; P.C. of St. Bees church
1846; P.C. of Northaw, Herts. 1847; a founder of the Chetham
society 1843, vice-president 1843 to death, edited for the
society The life of Adam Martindale 1845; The autobiography
of Henry Newcome, 2 vols. 1851–2; The private journal of
John Byrom, 4 vols. 1853–8; author of Sermons on points of
doctrine and rules of duty, 2 vols. 1825–32; Poems, sacred and
miscellaneous 1832, 2 ed. 1845; Rationalism and revelation:
Hulsean lectures 1838; The old church clock 1843, 5 ed. 1880.
_d._ the college, St. Bees 28 Jany. 1858, his portrait presented
to St. Bees college by his friends 1857. _R. Parkinson’s Old
church clock_, _5 ed._ (1880), _memoir pp. ix–xcvii_; _J.
Evans’s Lancashire authors_ (1850) 198–204; _G. Huntington’s
Random recollections_ (1893) 263–82; _Raines’s Fellows of the
collegiate church of Manchester ii_ 361 (1891); _G.M. iv_ 556–8
(1858).
PARKINSON, STEPHEN (7 child of a land agent). _b._ Keighley,
Yorkshire 1823; entered St. John’s coll. Camb. Oct. 1841, sizar
and scholar, senior wrangler, and 2 Smith’s prizeman 1845;
fellow of his college March 1845, lecturer on mathematics,
tutor 1864–82, had nearly a thousand pupils, president 1865 to
death; hon. fellow 1882; B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848, B.D. 1855, D.D.
1868; senior proctor 1864; member of the council of the senate
1866–78; F.R.S. 2 June 1870; author of An elementary treatise
on mechanics 1855, 6 ed. 1881; A treatise on optics 1859, 4 ed.