Modern English biography

(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.