Modern English biography

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.