Chapter LXI: Part 61

PARDON, GEORGE FREDERICK. _b._ London 1824; sub-editor of the
Evening Star 1841–2; on staff of European mail 1870; projected
the Illustrated exhibitor 1852, a weekly description of the
exhibition; projected and edited the Popular educator and other
publications for John Cassell; he edited The people’s and
Howitt’s journal 1847–50; The quarterly magazine of the order
of Odd Fellows 1858; The Working man’s friend 1850; The family
friend and the home companion 1854–5; The literary gift book
1858; Tales from the opera 1858; B. Taylor’s A visit to India
1860; Hoyle’s Games modernized 1863; The London magazine, vols.
2 and 3 1876–7; author of The juvenile museum by Quiet George
1850; The Christmas tree 1856; The faces in the fire 1856; The
months 1858; Games for all seasons 1858, 2 ed. 1868; Stories
about animals and birds, 2 vols. 1858; Dogs, their sagacity,
instinct, and use 1857, 2 ed. 1877; Boldheart the warrior 1859;
Handbooks of chess, whist, draughts, and billiards, 4 vols.
1860–2; A guide to the international exhibition 1862, 20th
thousand 1862; The card player 1863; The popular guide to London
1862, 2 ed. 1866; Parlour pastimes 1868; Noble by heritage,
a novellette 1877; under the name of Rawdon Crawley he wrote
17 works, but many of these seem to be same as those under his
own name, Billiards, its theory and practice 1857, 10 ed. 1876;
Backgammon 1858; Cricket 1866; Croquet 1866; Gymnastics 1868;
The book of manly games for boys 1873; Bezique 1876. _d._ Fleur
de Lis hotel, Canterbury 5 Aug. 1884. _Bookseller Sept. 1884 p._
907; _Illust. sporting news v_ 381 (1866) _portrait_.

PARE, WILLIAM (son of John Pare cabinetmaker). _b._ Birmingham
1805; apprenticed to his father; became a reporter; kept a
tobacconist’s shop in New st. Birmingham; an original member of
council of the Political Union 1830; secretary of the Reformer’s
registration society 1835; the first registrar of Birmingham
under the act legalising civil marriages 1837–42; a member of
the first town council of Birmingham 1830; a founder of the
first Birmingham co-operative society 1828, presided at the
anniversary 28 Dec. 1829; lectured in support of co-operation at
Liverpool, Manchester, and other places, one of the secretaries
of the co-operative congresses 1830–8; vice-president of Robert
Owen’s society The Association of all classes of all nations
to 1840; acting governor of Owen’s community at Queenwood,
Hampshire 1842–4; a railway statist in London 1844–6; resided
near Dublin and managed ironworks at Clontarf, Liverpool,
and Chepstow 1846–65; literary executor of Robert Owen 1858,
presided at the Owen centenary 1871; edited Wm. Thompson’s
Inquiry into the principles of the distribution of wealth most
conducive to human happiness, 2 ed. 1850; author of The claims
of capital and labour, with a sketch of practical measures for
their conciliation 1854; A plan for the suppression of the
predatory classes 1862; Co-operative agriculture, a solution of
the land question as exemplified in the history of the Ralahine
co-operative association, co. Clare, Ireland 1870. _d._ at his
son’s house, Ruby lodge, Park hill, Croydon 18 June 1873. _bur._
Shirley churchyard, near Croydon 23 June. _Holyoake’s History
of Co-operation_ (1875) _passim_; _Holyoake’s Sixty years of an
agitator’s life i_ 40, 41, 77, 141 (1893); _Bunce’s History of
the corporation of Birmingham i_, 109, 113, 131, 145, 155, 158,
245, 289 (1878).

PAREPA-ROSA, EUPHROSYNE (dau. of baron Georgiades de Boyesku, a
Wallachian noble, _d._ about 1836, by Elizabeth Seguin, singer,
_d._ 14 Jany. 1870, aged 57). _b._ Edinburgh 7 May 1836; pupil
of her mother; made her début as Euphrosyne Parepa at Malta
1855 as Amina in La Sonnambula; sang at Naples, Rome, Florence,
Genoa, Madrid, and Lisbon 1855–6; first appeared in England at
the Lyceum 21 May 1857 as Elvira in I Puritani; played Camille
in Zampa at Covent Garden Aug. 1858, and sang there several
years; the original Victorine in Mellon’s Victorine 1859; La
reine Topaze in Massé’s opera of that name 1860, and Mabel in
Macfarren’s Helvellyn 1864; sang at Philharmonic concerts 1860
and at the Handel festivals 1862 and 1865; sang in the U.S.
of America 1865, where she was prima donna of the Parepa-Rosa
English opera company 1869–70; sang at the Peace jubilee in
Boston June 1869; sang at Covent Garden theatre 1872; resided
at Cairo winter of 1872–3, played Ruy Blas at the grand opera,
Cairo 11 Feb. 1873; had a soprano voice of two and a half
octaves in range, reaching to D in alt.; _m._ (1) Dec. 1863
captain Henry de Wolfe Carvell, of 17 Gloster crescent, Hyde
park, London, he _d._ Lima, Peru 26 April 1865; _m._ (2) in New
York 26 Feb. 1867 Carl August Nicolas Rosa, _b._ 22 March 1842,
he endowed a Parepa-Rosa scholarship at R.A. of music 1874 and
_d._ 30 April 1889; she _d._ 10 Warwick crescent, Maida Vale,
London 21 Jany. 1874. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 26 Jany. _The
Western monthly iii_ 213–21 (1870); _Musical World_ (1873) 113,
265, 607 (1874) 50, 54, 70, _&c._; _Graphic ix_ 124, 131 (1874)
_portrait_; _I.L.N. lxiv_ 129 (1874) _portrait_; _Orchestra 23
Jany. 1874 p._ 266, _30 Jany._ pp. 281–2.

PARES, THOMAS. _b._ Leicester 30 Oct. 1790; educ. Eton and Trin.
coll. Camb.; M.P. Leicester 1818–26; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1818;
sheriff of Derbyshire 1845. _d._ Hopwell hall, near Derby 26
April 1866.

PARFITT, EDWARD (son of Edward Parfitt 1800–75, gardener to lord
Hastings at Melton Constable, Norfolk). _b._ East Tuddenham,
Norfolk 17 Oct. 1820; gardener with his father; gardener
to Anthony Gwyn, Sennow lodge, Norfolk; while on a voyage
shipwrecked near Cape of Good Hope; gardener to John Milford,
Conver house, Exeter Nov. 1848 to 1860; studied plants, insects,
geology, and palæontology, and wrote in Trans. of Devonshire
association, Annals and mag. of natural history, Entomological
mag., the Naturalist, Trans. Royal microscopical soc., Bath and
West of England journal, and the Zoologist; curator of Somerset
Archæological and natural history soc. at Taunton 1860–1;
librarian of Devon and Exeter institute, Exeter 26 Jany. 1861
to death; published The fauna of Devon, 22 parts 1866–91; left
in M.S. The fungi of Devonshire, 12 vols., illustrated by 1,530
plates, drawn and painted by himself. d. at the Devon and Exeter
institution, Cathedral close, Exeter 15 Jany. 1893. _N. and Q.
30 Sept. 1893 p._ 262; _Natural Science_, _April 1893_.

PARHAM, BENJAMIN (eld. son of Benjamin Parham of Ashburton,
Devon 1769–1851). _b._ 1793; barrister M.T. 4 May 1827;
went Western circuit; judge of county courts, circuit 23,
Worcestershire March 1847, resigned Oct. 1859. _d._ Chelstone
manor house, Torquay 16 Aug. 1861. _County Court chronicle Oct.
1861 p._ 266; _Law Times xxxvi_ 523 (1861).

PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT D’ ORLEANS, Comte de (elder son
of Ferdinand, duc d’Orleans 1810–42). _b._ Pavilion Marsan,
the Tuileries, Paris 24 Aug. 1838; became heir to the French
throne 13 July 1842; a refugee in England 1849; confirmed by
cardinal Wiseman at French ch. Portman sq. London 1849; resided
in Devonshire 1852; visited the East 1860, and U.S. of America
1861; permitted to return to France 1872, and had some of his
estates restored to him; banished from France and returned to
England June 1886; conspired with general Boulanger in London
March 1889; leased Stowe house, Bucks. from trustees of duke of
Buckingham 1873; received large sum of money by will of duke de
Galliera; _m._ in R.C. chapel at Kingston 30 May 1864 his cousin
Marie Isabella, dau. of the duke de Montpensier; author of The
trades’ unions of England 1869; History of the civil war in
America 1875. _d._ Stowe house, Bucks. 8 Sept. 1894. _bur._ R.C.
chapel, Weybridge 12 Sept. _Illustrated Times 4 June 1864 p._
361, _view of marriage_; _Times 10 Sept. 1894 p._ 4; _Saturday
Review 26 Dec. 1891 pp._ 716–7; _A.R._ (1894) 178–81; _I.L.N. 15
Sept. 1894 pp._ 333, 339–47 _portraits and views of Stowe house_.

PARIS, JOHN AYRTON (son of Thomas Paris of Cambridge). _b._
Cambridge 7 Aug. 1785; entered Caius coll. Camb. 30 June 1803,
scholar Oct. 1803 to 1808; Tancred student in physic 3 Jany.
1804; M.B. 1808, M.D. 1813; physician to Westminster hospital
1809–13; practised at Penzance 1813–7, chief founder and
first secretary of the Royal Geological society of Cornwall
1814–17, contributed many papers to its Transactions; returned
to London 1817, practised at 27 Dover st. Piccadilly 1818 to
death; lectured on materia medica in Windmill st. 1818, etc.;
candidate of R.C.P. 30 Sept. 1813, fellow 30 Sept. 1814,
censor 1817, 1828, 1836 and 1843, lectured at the college on
materia medica 1819–26, Harveian orator 1833, president 20
March 1844 to death, Swiney prizeman 20 Jany. 1849; F.R.S. 21
June 1821; author of Pharmacologia 1812, 9 ed. 1843, by which
he made £5,000; A guide to Mount’s Bay and the Land’s End 1815,
2 ed. 1824; A memoir of the life and scientific labours of
the Rev. William Gregor 1818; Medical jurisprudence 1823; The
elements of medical chemistry 1825; A treatise on diet 1827,
5 ed. 1837; Philosophy in sport made science in earnest 1827,
8 ed. 1857; The life of Sir Humphry Davy 1831. _d._ 27 Dover
st. London 24 Dec. 1856. _bur._ Woking cemet. _Munk’s College
of physicians iii_ 120 (1878); _Lives of British physicians_
(1857) 369–87; _Munk’s Goldheaded cane_ (1884) 186–90, 196–219;
_The Bibliographer i_ 65–7 (1882), _this a key to Philosophy in
sport_.

PARISH, JAMES. Champion of the Thames; a member of Waterman’s
hall; the coxswain and trainer of the Leander club; kept the
Lion public house 1 Newcastle st. Strand, London 1852 to death.
_d._ 1861. _Diprose’s Parish of Saint Clement Danes i_ 110
(1868).

PARISH, JOHN EDWARD (2 son of succeeding). _b._ 1823; educ.
Naval coll. Portsmouth; entered R.N. 1836, commander 1857,
captain 25 March 1863, retired 11 July 1876, R.A. 11 Dec. 1878;
commander of the Ardent in Brazil 1859–61; refused to give up
the ex-president of the Argentine government when received on
board the Ardent in the Parana, the English government approved
of his conduct; captain of the Satellite 1862; commanded the
Sphinx on North American station 1873; good service pension of
£150, 1875; retired V.A. 30 Oct. 1884. _d._ Beech hill, Headley
22 Jany. 1894.

PARISH, SIR WOODBINE (eld. son of Woodbine Parish). _b._
14 Sept. 1796; educ. at Eton; entered foreign office 1812,
sent to Sicily 1814, to Naples 1815, then to Paris; was with
lord Castlereagh at meeting of the allied sovereigns at
Aix-la-Chapelle 1818; comr. and consul general at Buenos Ayres
1823; concluded a treaty of amity and commerce 2 Feb. 1825,
chargé d’ affaires 1825–32, when the government presented him
with letters of citizenship and a diploma to take and bear the
arms of the republic for himself and his descendants; K.C.H.
1832; knighted by Wm. IV at St. James’s palace 1 March 1837;
sent to Naples as chief comr. to settle the British claims
upon the Neapolitan government in consequence of the sulphur
monopoly 17 Nov. 1840; joint plenipotentiary with sir Wm.
Temple to make a new commercial treaty with the king of Naples
1842, treaty signed 1845; F.R.S. 4 March l824; F.G.S. 1832;
F.R.G.S., vice-president many years; author of Buenos Ayres and
the provinces of Rio de la Plata 1838. _d._ Quarry house, St.
Leonards-on-Sea 16 Aug. 1882. _bur._ Fairlight cemet. Hastings
22 Aug. _Quarterly journal of Geol. Soc. xxxix_ 39 (1883);
_Proc. of royal Geol. Soc. iv_ 612 (1882); _Conduct of the
consul-general Mr. Parish to J. Oughgan in Buenos Ayres_ (1824).

PARK, ALEXANDER ATHERTON (younger son of sir James Allan Park,
judge 1763–1838). _b._ 1802; educ. Harrow 1813–9, and at Balliol
coll. Oxf., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; barrister L.I. 22 May 1827;
went Midland circuit; prothonotary and master of court of common
pleas 1837 to death. _d._ Heddon house, Isleworth, Twickenham 21
Nov. 1871. _Law Times lii_ 90 (1871).

PARK, ANDREW. _b._ Renfrew 7 March 1807; educ. Glasgow univ.; in
a warehouse in Paisley 1826; salesman in a hat manufactory in
Glasgow 1827; began business on his own account 1828; resided
in London to 1840; a bookseller, Ingram st. Glasgow 1841 for a
short time; visited Egypt 1856; author of A vision of mankind,
Glasgow 1833; The bridegroom and the bride 1834; Blindness
1839; Miscellaneous poems 1844; Silent love. By James Wilson,
druggist, Paisley 1843, re-issued 1845; Veritas 1849; Beauty
1853; The poetical works of A. Park 1854; Egypt and the East
1857; The world 1862; several of his lyrics have been set to
music by Auber, Donizetti and others. _d._ Glasgow 27 Dec. 1863.
_bur._ Paisley cemet. 2 Jany. 1864, memorial monument erected
7 March 1867. _J. G. Wilson’s Poets and poetry of Scotland ii_
289–92 (1877); _C. Rogers’s Scottish minstrel v_ 248–57 (1857);
_Inglis’s Dramatic writers of Scotland_ (1868) 92.

PARK, JOHN (son of John Park, wine merchant). _b._ Greenock 14
Jany. 1804; educ. at Aberdeen and at Glasgow univ.; licensed as
a probationer 1831; assistant at West church, Greenock, and then
at Bonhill, Dumbartonshire; minister of Rodney st. presbyterian
church, Liverpool 1832–43; minister of Glencairn, Dumfriesshire
1843–54; minister at St. Andrews 1854 to death; D.D. St. Andrews
1854; composed O gin I were where Gadie rins, Montgomery’s
mistress, The miller’s daughter, and other popular airs; author
of Lectures and sermons, Edinburgh 1865; A Greenockian’s visit
to Wordsworth 1887. _d._ suddenly from paralysis at St. Andrew’s
8 April 1865. _bur._ in grounds of St. Andrew’s cathedral.
_Songs composed and in part written by the late Rev. John Park_,
_Leeds_ (1876), _with memoir and portrait_; _D. H. Edwards’s
Modern Scottish Poets_ (1889).

PARK, PATRIC (3 child of Matthew Park, mason and builder). _b._
Glasgow 12 Feb. 1811; apprenticed to Mr. Connell, a builder
1826–9; employed by Gillespie, the architect 1829–31; pupil
of Thorwalsden, the sculptor, in Rome 1831–3; executed the
full-length statue of Michael Thomas Sadler, exhibited at the
R.A. 1837 and erected in Leeds 1841, and the colossal statue of
Charles Tennant in the Glasgow necropolis; resided in Edinburgh
1848–52, and at Manchester 1852 to death; A.R.S.A. Nov. 1849,
R.S.A. Feb. 1851, exhibited nearly 90 works in the R.S.A.
1839–56; modelled a colossal statue of Wallace at Edinb. about
1850; executed a bust of Napoleon III in Paris 1854, which is
at South Kensington museum; exhibited 54 sculptures at R.A., 8
at B.I., and 29 at Suffolk st. 1836–55; author of On the use
of drapery in portrait sculpture, privately printed 1846. _d._
Warrington, Lancs. 16 Aug. 1855. _G.M. ii_ 451–8 (1884).

PARKE, THOMAS ADAMS. _b._ 1781; 2 lieut. R.M. 19 May 1795,
colonel commandant 12 Feb. 1842 to 11 Nov. 1851; A.D.C. to the
sovereign 21 Aug. 1835 to 11 Nov. 1851; general 6 Feb. 1857;
C.B. 26 Sept. 1831. _d._ Hythe, near Southampton 3 Sept. 1858.

PARKE, THOMAS HEAZLE (2 son of Wm. Parke, justice of the
peace). _b._ Clogher house, Drumsna, co. Roscommon 27 Nov.
1857; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1878, hon. F.R.C.S. 1890; L.K. and
Q.C.P. Ireland and licentiate in midwifery 1879; surgeon to the
Eastern dispensary at Bath; surgeon in army medical department
Feb. 1881; served in the Tel-el-Kebir campaign of 1882; senior
medical officer at the Helouan cholera camp near Cairo 1883;
served in the Nile expedition 1884–5, and went with the column
across the Bayuda desert to rescue Gordon; served at the battles
of Abu Klea and Gubat; went with H. M. Stanley as a volunteer to
the Congo forest for the relief of Emin Pasha 1887–8, returned
to England May 1890; hon. D.C.L. Durham 1890; granted the gold
medals of royal geographical societies of London and Antwerp
1890; received the orders of the Medjidie and the Brilliant
star of Zanzibar; attached to the 2 lifeguards in London 1890;
employed at royal Victoria hospital, Netley 1891; author of
Report to the war office on the cholera outbreak in Egypt 1883;
Evidence before the vaccination commission 1890; My experiences
in Equatorial Africa 1891; A guide to health in Africa, with
notes on the country and its inhabitants 1893; and of articles
in periodicals. _d._ while on a visit to the duke of St.
Albans at Alt-na-Craig in Argyleshire 10 Sept. 1893. _bur._ at
Kilmessan, co. Leitrim 16 Sept. _Graphic 16 Sept. 1893 p._ 351
_portrait_; _Westminster Budget 15 Sept. 1893 p._ 29 _portrait_.

NOTE.--An oil portrait by Miss Ffolliott is in the masonic lodge, Boyle, co. Roscommon, but is to be removed to the Parke memorial, being erected at Carrick-on-Shannon. A fund has also been opened to erect a statue of Parke in Dublin.

PARKE, SIR WILLIAM (eld. son of Roger Parke of Dunally, co.
Sligo, lieut. col. of Sligo militia). _b._ March 1779; ensign
53 foot 14 Dec. 1791; major 2 foot 27 June 1811; major 66 foot
5 March 1812 to 25 Dec. 1817, when placed on h.p.; served in
the West Indies, Egypt, Holland, the Peninsula, Walcheren, and
St. Helena; wounded in battle of Corunna; sheriff of co. Sligo
twice; knighted by marquess of Normanby, lord lieut. of Ireland
1836. _d._ Dunally, Sligo 1 Sept. 1851. _G.M. xxxvi_ 453 (1851).

PARKE, WILLIAM (son of James Parke). _b._ Churchgates of
Brewood, Staffordshire 23 March 1797; educ. Brewood gram.
sch.; apprenticed to Mr. Smart, bookseller and printer, High
Green, Wolverhampton 1812–8, partner in the business 1828, sole
proprietor 1833 to death; part proprietor of Wolverhampton
chronicle 1831–2; a great friend of Harrison Ainsworth from
1872; exercised great hospitality to literary men; known as the
Murray of Wolverhampton; warden of Wolverhampton collegiate ch.
1856 to death. _d._ the Deanery, Wolverhampton 10 June 1876.
_bur._ Brewood 15 June. _W. Parke, a sketch by J. B. Brodhurst_,
_Wolverhampton_ (1876).

PARKER, CHARLES. _b._ 1800; pupil of sir Jeffrey Wyatville;
studied in Italy many years; architect in London about 1830;
designed Messrs. Hoare’s bank in Fleet st., the Italian Roman
Catholic church at Kingston, Surrey, and the chapel in Stamford
st. Blackfriars 1830–2; F.R.I.B.A. 1834, retired 15 Nov. 1869,
contributed many papers to the sessional meetings; F.S.A. 9
Jany. 1834, withdrew 1844; steward and surveyor to duke of
Bedford’s London property 1859–69; became totally blind;
author of Villa rustica, selected from the buildings and scenes
in the vicinity of Rome and Florence, and arranged for rural
and domestic dwellings 1832, 2 ed. 1848. _d._ 48 Park road,
Haverstock hill, London 9 Feb. 1881.

PARKER, SIR CHARLES CHRISTOPHER, 5 Baronet (3 son of
vice-admiral Christopher Parker, _d._ 1804). _b._ Harley st.
London 16 June 1792; entered navy June 1804; commander of the
Harlequin on the coast of Ireland 1819–22; captain 23 April
1822, retired R.A. 7 Oct. 1852, retired admiral 27 April 1863;
succeeded his brother, sir J. E. G. Parker, as baronet 18 Nov.
1835. _d._ Clifton 13 March 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_
387–8, 524 (1869).

PARKER, EDWARD AUGUSTUS. Second lieut. R.M. 23 Sept. 1811,
lieut. colonel 13 Dec. 1852, colonel commandant 6 Feb. 1857;
retired on full pay as major general 24 Feb. 1858; war medal
with one clasp, and the cross of the Tower and sword of
Portugal. _d._ Park villa, Charlotte st. Park st. Bristol 8 June
1875.

PARKER, FRANKE. _b._ 1803; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1827,
M.A. 1831; C. of Sampford Peverell, Devon 1829–31; C. of
Starcross, Devon 1831–2; R. of Luffincott, near Launceston 30
Jany. 1838 to death; author of The church, with a chart 1851;
Chronology, 2 vols. 1858; The Parian chronicle subversive of the
common chronology 1859; Replies to the first and second part
of the bishop of Natal’s Pentateuch 1863, and Replies to the
third and fourth part 1864; A light thrown upon Thucydides to
illustrate the prophecy of Daniel 1865; The Athenian year and
its bearing on the eclipses of Thucydides and Ptolemy and the
metonic cycle 1866. _d._ Luffincott rectory 3 April 1883.

PARKER, SIR GEORGE, 3 Baronet (2 son of sir Wm. George Parker,
2 baronet, _d._ 1848). _b._ 1813; educ. at Addiscombe; cadet
Bengal army 1833; lieut. 74 Bengal N.I. 30 Jany. 1837, captain
3 Oct. 1845 to death; superintendent of Akbara and joint
magistrate at Meerut 10 June 1847 to June 1852; succeeded his
brother as 3 baronet 24 March 1848; returned to India Dec. 1854;
superintendent of Akbara and magistrate at Cawnpore 5 May 1856
to death; major in the army June 1857. _d._ of sunstroke during
the sortie from Cawnpore 6 July 1857. _Malleson’s History of the
Indian mutiny ii_ 228 (1889).

PARKER, GEORGE (3 son of Thomas Watson Parker of Lewisham, Kent
1772–1861). _b._ 1 April 1804; educ. Charterhouse 1818 etc.;
solicitor at Lewisham 1831–63; gave £2,000 towards restoration
of nave of Lewisham parish church; built at his own cost church
of St. George’s, Perry Hill, Greenwich 1878–80. _d._ Lewisham
house, 224 High st. Lewisham 10 March 1889.

PARKER, GEORGE CHARLES (son of a captain in the marines). _b._
Havant, Hants. 19 Feb. 1836; midshipman H.E.I.C.S. 3 April 1853
to 30 April 1863, retired as a lieut. and was transferred to the
Indian marine, captain 1883; served in the China wars 1856–7 and
1860; in naval brigade in Indian mutiny 1857–8; port officer at
Carwar 1863; master attendant at Karáchi 1873, where he aided
in improving the port; raised and formed the Karáchi brigade of
naval volunteers; A.I.C.E. 2 Dec. 1884; F.R.G.S. _d._ at sea on
his voyage to England 15 Nov. 1890. _Min. of Proc. of Instit.
C.E. civ_ 318–20 (1891).

PARKER, GEORGE HARGREAVE. Educ. St. Bees theol. coll.; C. of
Anstey, Leics. 1838; C. of Grooby 1841; V. of St. Andrew’s,
Bethnal Green, London 1843 to death; edited Juliana’s Sixteen
revelations of divine love 1843; J. Eaton’s The true doctrine of
baptism 1850; author of Letters on the great revolution of 1848,
1848. _d._ 3 Grove st. South Hackney, London 18 April 1864.

PARKER, HENRY PERLEE (son of Robert Parker of Devonport,
drawing master). _b._ Devonport 15 March 1795; a portrait
painter at Plymouth 1815, and at Newcastle 1816; secretary of
the Northumberland institution, Newcastle, for the promotion
of the fine arts 1822; became known as ‘Smuggler Parker’ from
his pictures of smugglers; gave his picture of the rescue of
John Wesley from the fire at Epworth in 1709 to the Wesleyan
conference 1840, to be placed in the centenary hall, London;
exhibited 23 pictures at R.A., 40 at B.I., and 23 at Suffolk
st. 1817–63; drawing master at Wesley college, Sheffield
1840–4; resided in London 1844 to death; author of Critiques
on paintings, together with a few slight etchings showing the
compositions, Newcastle 1835. _d._ 1 Blenheim villa, Goldhawk
road, Shepherd’s Bush, London 11 Nov. 1873. _Walford’s Men of
mark twixt Tyne and Tweed iii_ 249 (1895); _Newcastle Weekly
chronicle 22 Aug. 1891 portrait, and 3–8 Nov. 1894_; _I.L.N. 23
May 1874 p._ 493 _portrait_.

PARKER, HENRY PERROTT (son of Joseph Parker). _b._ Upton
Cheyney, Gloucestershire 21 Sept. 1852; educ. Trin. coll.
Camb., B.A. 1875; at Church missionary coll. Islington; C. of
Holy Trinity, Exeter 1876–8; sec. of Church missionary soc. and
chaplain to bishop of Calcutta 1878; missionary at Urgui, Africa
1882; bishop of the church of England in Eastern Equatorial
Africa Oct. 1886, consecrated 14 Oct. _d._ in the Unyoro country
to the south east of the Albert Nyanza 26 March 1888. _Times 15
Oct. 1886 p._ 9, _19 Oct. p._ 7, _2 May 1888 pp._ 7, 11.

PARKER, HENRY WALTER. _b._ 9 Oct. 1808; educ. Merchant Taylors’
sch. 1820 etc.; barrister G.I. 15 June 1832, went home circuit;
assistant sec. poor law board 9 April 1836 to 21 April 1839;
author of The rise, progress, and present state of Van Diemen’s
land 1833; Letters to sir James Graham on the proceedings
connected with Andover union 1845; A digest of the laws relating
to the relief of the poor 1849. _d._ Adelaide 1874.

PARKER, SIR HENRY WATSON (4 son of Thomas Watson Parker of
Lewisham, Kent). _b._ Lewisham 1808; private secretary to sir
George Gipps, governor of New South Wales 1838–46; member of
legislative council of N.S.W. 8 Dec. 1848 to 1856, chairman of
committees 17 May 1849; member for Paramatta of legislative
assembly 1856; contested the speakership 1856, when beaten by
one vote; premier 3 Oct. 1856 to 7 Sept. 1857; knighted at
Buckingham palace 7 May 1858; resided in England about 1859 to
death; contested Greenwich against W. E. Gladstone 18 Nov. 1868;
K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877; a comr. for the exhibitions held at Sydney
1880 and Melbourne 1881. _d._ Stawell house, Richmond, Surrey 2
Feb. 1881.

PARKER, SIR HENRY WATSON (son of John Goodhand Parker of
Kingston-upon Hull). _b._ 1825; admitted solicitor Nov. 1853;
partner with Fred. Clarke 1857–81; head of firm of Parker,
Garrett, and Parker, St. Michael’s rectory, Cornhill. London
1881 to death; a royal comr. on Loss of life at sea 1884–7;
member of council of Incorporated law society 20 Aug. 1873, V.P.
1885–6, and president 1886–7; knighted at Osborne 12 Aug. 1887.
_d._ 10 Rosslyn hill, Hampstead, London 31 May 1894. _bur._ St.
Mary’s R.C. cemetery, Kensal green 5 June. _Solicitor’s Journal
9 June 1894 p._ 527.

PARKER, HYDE (eld. son of admiral sir Hyde Parker 1739–1807).
_b._ about 1782; entered royal naval academy 5 Feb. 1796; a
volunteer on board the Cambrian, Sept. 1799; captain 13 Oct.
1807; extra naval aide-de-camp to Wm. 4, 5 Sept. 1831; C.B. 18
April 1839; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841; admiral superintendent Portsmouth
4 Aug. 1842 to 15 Dec. 1847; V.A. 4 June 1852; one of lords’
comrs. of the admiralty 30 Dec. 1852 to death. _d._ Ham, Surrey
25 May 1854. _G.M. xlii_ 76 (1854).

PARKER, SIR HYDE, 7 Baronet (2 son of sir Harry Hyde Parker, 5
Bart., _d._ 1812). _b._ 1785; succeeded his brother, sir William
Parker, 6 Bart. 21 April 1830; M.P. West Suffolk 1832–5. _d._
Government house, Devonport 21 March 1856. _G.M. xlv_ 519 (1856).

PARKER, SIR JAMES (son of Charles Steuart Parker of Blochairn,
near Glasgow). _b._ Glasgow 1803; educ. Glasgow gr. sch. and
college, and Trin. coll. Camb., seventh wrangler 1825; B.A.
1825, M.A. 1828; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1829. bencher 1844 to
death; went northern circuit; Q.C. July 1844; vice-chancellor
8 Oct. 1851 to death; knighted at Windsor castle 23 Oct. 1851;
member of the chancery commission 11 Dec. 1850; contested
Leicester 30 July 1847. _d._ Rothley Temple, Leics. 13 Aug.
1852. _Foss’s Judges ix_ 233–5 (1864); _Law Mag. xlviii_ 321–2
(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.
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_.

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).

PARKES, CHARLES HENRY. _b._ 1816; clerk in election office of
house of commons; clerk to Dyson and co., parliamentary agents
24 Parliament st. London, partner in the firm; a director of
the Eastern counties’ railway 1869, deputy chairman Aug. 1873,
chairman Nov. 1874 to July 1893, greatly improved the line,
increased the traffic, built and then enlarged Liverpool station
at a cost of £3,000,000, and developed the continental traffic
by a route from Harwich to the Hook of Holland, the quays at
Harwich are called after him, the main line was renamed the
Great Eastern 1862, was voted sum of £2,000 on retirement from
the chairmanship. _d._ Netherfield, Weybridge 9 May 1895. _bur._
Weybridge cemetery 14 May. _Times 17 May 1895 p._ 10; _I.L.N. 25
May 1895 p._ 638 _portrait_.

PARKES, EDMUND ALEXANDER (son of Wm. Parkes of the Marble-yard,
Warwick). _b._ Bloxham, Oxfordshire 29 March 1819, or Warwick
30 March 1819; educ. Christ’s hospital, and Univ. coll. and
hospital; M.B. London 1841, M.D. 1846; M.R.C.S. 1840; assistant
surgeon to 84 foot April 1842, served in Madras and Moulmein
1842–5, retired Sept. 1845; practised in London 1845; special
professor of clinical medicine at Univ. college 1849–60,
emeritus professor 1860; physician to Univ. coll. hospital
1849; edited British and foreign medico-chirurgical review
1852–5; sent to Turkey to select a site for and organize and
superintend a large civil hospital, he selected Renkioi on the
Asiatic bank of the Dardanelles and remained there till 1856;
professor of hygiene in army medical school at Fort Pitt,
Chatham 27 March 1860, the school was transferred to the royal
Victoria hospital, Netley 1863; invented the new military valise
which displaced the old knapsack; the founder of the science
of modern hygiene; wrote an annual review of the progress of
hygiene in the army medical department blue-book 1861–75; crown
member of general medical council 17 Nov. 1863 to death; F.R.S.
6 June 1861, member of council; member of senate of univ. of
London 1871 to death; author of Remarks on the dysentery and
hepatitis of India 1846; Researches into Asiatic or algide
cholera 1847; On self-training by the medical student 1856; The
composition of the urine in health and disease 1860; A manual of
practical hygiene for use in the army 1864, 8 ed. 1891; A scheme
of medical tuition 1868; On the issue of spirit ration during
the Ashanti campaign 1875. _d._ Sydney cottage, Bitterne, near
Southampton 15 March 1876. _bur._ Solihull, near Birmingham,
bust at Univ. coll. London. _Good Words_ (1879) 553–8; _Medical
times and gazette i_ 348–9 (1876); _I.L.N. lxviii_ 325, 326
(1876) _portrait_; _Saturday Review 2 June 1883 p._ 687.

NOTE.--The Parkes museum of hygiene was instituted 1876 at University college, London, in 1882 it was incorporated and removed to Margaret st. Cavendish sq. and opened by the duke of Albany 26 May 1883, it was incorporated with the Sanitary institute of Great Britain Aug. 1888. In Dec. 1894 Hermann Weber, M.D., M.R.C.P, gave the royal college of physicians the sum of £2,500 in trust for the purpose of founding a prize to be called the Weber-Parkes prize to be given at intervals for the best essay in tubercular consumption.

PARKES, GEORGE. _b._ 1827; a barber in Old Bridge court, Cannon
row, Westminster 1845; had a fine baritone voice, sang at
Vauxhall and Cremorne gardens and the Bower saloon, Stangate
st.; lessee with Wm. Tanner of the Alhambra music hall,
Shoreditch 1871–5, and of the Raglan music hall, Southwark;
in partnership with Wm. Tanner, lessee of the Elephant and
Castle theatre 1880, and alone 1881–3, produced Walter Burnot’s
burlesque of The German silver king 24 March 1883; proprietor
of Richardson’s theatre at the World’s fair at the Agricultural
hall, Islington Dec. 1883 to Feb. 1884; generally known as Baron
Parkes. _d._ 29 Hercules road, Lambeth, London 16 Oct. 1895.
_bur._ Brompton cemet. 21 Oct.

PARKES, SIR HARRY SMITH (youngest child of Harry Parkes
of Walsall, ironmaster, _d._ 1833). _b._ Birchill’s hall,
Bloxwich, near Walsall 24 Feb. 1828; educ. Birmingham gr. sch.
1838–41; joined his sisters in China 1841; attached to sir
Henry Pottinger’s suit 1842; interpreter at Foo-chow March
1845 to Aug. 1846; interpreter at Shanghai Aug. 1846 to 1850;
interpreter at Canton 21 Nov. 1851; consul at Amoy 10 Aug. 1854;
secretary to special mission to Siam March 1855, first treaty
signed 18 April 1855; acting-consul at Canton June 1856, city
stormed by sir Michael Seymour, who entered it with Parkes 29
Oct. 1856, Canton was bombarded 28 Dec. 1857, after which Parkes
tracked and arrested commissioner Yeh 5 Jany. 1858, who was
transported to Calcutta; British comr. of the allied commission
at Canton 9 Jany. 1858; attached as joint Chinese secretary to
earl of Elgin’s special embassy in China 1860 to Feb. 1861;
accompanied vice-admiral Hope when he advanced upon Tien-tsin
23 Aug. 1860; taken prisoner by the Chinese at Tungchow 18
Sept. 1860, released 8 Oct.; envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary and consul-general in Japan 28 March 1865,
obtained the ratification of the treaties of 1858 by the Mikado
24 Nov. 1865, left Japan Aug. 1883; minister plenipotentiary in
China July 1883; concluded a treaty with the Korean government
Nov. 1883; minister plenipotentiary to king of Korea 7 March
1884; C.B. 6 Dec. 1859, K.C.B. 19 May 1862. _d._ Peking 22 March
1885. _bur._ Whitchurch 26 June, statue at Shanghai unveiled
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.