Modern English biography

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,