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PALMER, SAMUEL (son of Samuel Palmer, bookseller, _d._ Dec. 1848). _b._ Surrey sq. St. Mary’s, Newington 27 Jany. 1805; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school 1817 etc.; exhibited 57 landscapes at R.A., 20 at B.I., and 8 at Suffolk st. 1819–80; his first picture exhibited at the British institution sold 1819; resided at Shoreham, near Sevenoaks, Kent 1826–32; lived at Rome and Naples 1837–9; associate of Society of painters in water-colours Feb. 1843, member June 1854; member of the Etching society 1853; nearly the last of the ideal school of landscape painters; resided at Mead Vale, Redhill 1862 to death; his eight pictures, illustrating Milton’s poems L’Allegro and Il Pensoroso were exhibited at the Water-colour society 1868–82; seven of his plates were published by the Etching club 1872–80; author of English version of the Eclogues of Virgil, with illustrations 1883; he illustrated A. A. Procter’s Legends and lyrics 1866, and The shorter poems of John Milton 1889; _m._ 1837 Hannah, eld. dau. of John Linnell, the painter, she exhibited 8 Italian views at the R.A. and B.I. 1840–2, and _d._ Nov. 1892 in 76 year; he _d._ Furze hill house, Mead Vale, Redhill 24 May 1881. _bur._ Reigate old church 28 May; a collection of his works was exhibited by Fine Art Society 1881, and 17 of his drawings were lent to the winter exhibition of the R.A. 1893. _A. H. Palmer’s Life and letters of S. Palmer_ (1892) _portrait_; _S. Palmer, a memoir by A. H. Palmer_ (1882) _portrait_; _P. G. Hamerton’s Etching and etchers_ (1876) 325–38; _The Portfolio_ (1872) 161–9; _I.L.N. lxviii_ 616 (1881) _portrait_; _F. G. Stephens’ Notes on a collection of drawings by S. Palmer, with an account of the Milton series_ (1881).

PALMER, SHIRLEY (son of Edward Palmer, solicitor). _b._ Coleshill, Warws. 27 Aug. 1786; educ. Coleshill gr. sch. and Harrow; M.R.C.S. 1807; M.D. Glasgow 1815; practised at Tamworth, Staffs. 1807 to death, also at Birmingham from 1831; edited with Wm. Shearman and James Johnson the New medical and physical journal 1815–9; and with D. Uwins and S. F. Gray the London medical repository 1819–21; author of The Swiss exile, Lichfield 1804; Popular illustrations of medicine 1829; Popular lectures on the vertebrated animals of the British islands 1832; A pentaglot dictionary of the terms employed in anatomy, physiology, pathology, practical medicine, &c. 1845. _d._ Tamworth 11 Nov. 1852. _Simms’s Bibliotheca Staffordiensis_ (1894) 345.

PALMER, SILAS (son of Mr. Palmer of 47 regt.) _b._ Stirling castle 1815; educ. in medicine at Paris, Vienna, and Rome; M.D. Edinb. 1836; L.R.C.S. 1836; in practice at Speenhamland, Newbury, Berks. 1846 to death; a leading authority on archæological matters in Berks.; local sec. of congress of British Archæological assoc. at Newbury in 1859; a founder of the Newbury district field club 1870; contributed to Provincial medical journal, to the Lancet, and to British Archæol. journal. _d._ London road, Newbury 24 March 1875. _A rod taken out of pickle, correspondence between J. Taylor and S. Palmer during the late annual meeting at Newbury, Berks. 1860_; _Journal British Archæol. assoc. xxxii_ 282–3 (1876).

PALMER, THOMAS. Entered Bengal army 1803; lieut. 19 Bengal N.I. 28 Oct. 1804, capt. 11 Jany. 1818; major 39 N.I. 30 Sept. 1827, and lieut. col. 15 Oct. 1832 to 18 June 1834; lieut. col. of 21 N.I. 18 June 1834 to 1840, and of 27 N.I. 1840 to 16 April 1844; col. of 72 N.I. 16 April 1844 to death; commanded at Delhi 13 June 1846 to 14 July 1851; commanded Cawnpore division 9 April 1852 to death. _d._ Mussoorie 15 April 1854.

PALMER, WILLIAM (2 son of William Palmer of Rugeley, Staffs., timber merchant). _b._ Rugeley, _baptised_ there 21 Oct. 1824; educ. Rugeley gr. school; apprenticed to Evans and Sons, druggists, Liverpool, dismissed for opening letters; apprenticed to Dr. Tylecote at Heywood, near Rugeley 1842; studied at Stafford infirmary and St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1846, house surgeon 8 Sept. 1846, resigned Oct. 1846; M.R.C.S. 10 Aug. 1846; practised at Rugeley from 1846 for several years; owner and breeder of racehorses 1850; won the Liverpool autumn handicap with The Chicken Nov. 1855, this horse afterwards named Vengeance won the Cesarewitch; _m._ 7 Oct. 1847 Ann, dau. of colonel William Brookes, insured his wife’s life for £13,000, she died of bilious cholera 25 Sept. 1854, when he was paid the amount; insured his brother Walter Palmer’s life for £13,000, he died suddenly 16 Aug. 1855, when the insurance office refused to pay, on account of the suspicious circumstances; arrested 15 Dec. 1855 on the charge of poisoning his friend, John Parsons Cooke, a betting man from Lutterworth, who _d._ 21 Nov. 1855 at the Talbot arms, Rugeley; verdicts of wilful murder were found against Palmer at the inquests on the exhumed bodies of his wife and brother; tried at the Old Bailey before lord chief justice Campbell 14–27 May 1856, found guilty of murder 27 May; _hanged_ outside Stafford gaol 14 June 1856, in the presence of 20,000 people; he had poisoned many persons 1850–6. _Illustrated life of William Palmer_ (1856) _portraits_; _Central criminal court proceedings xliv_ 5–225 (1856); _A. S. Taylor On poisoning by strychnine_ (1856); _Browne and Stewart’s Reports of trials_ (1883) 84–232; _J. F. Stephen’s General view of the criminal law of England_ (1890) 231–72; _J. F. Stephen’s History of the criminal law iii_ 389–425 (1883); _Simms’s Bibliotheca Staffordiensis_ (1894) 345–6; _Reynolds’s Miscellany xvi_ 377–9, 391–2 (1856) _portrait_; _Sporting Review xxxvi_ 110–14 (1856); _Law Mag. and Law Review i_ 332–56 (1856); _I.L.N. xxviii_ 560–4, 554–5, 566–7, 598–9, 694 (1856); _A.R._ (1856) 13, 60–62, 387–529; _Griffith’s Newgate ii_ 432–9 (1884).

PALMER, WILLIAM (2 son of George Palmer of Nazeing park, Essex). _b._ 9 Nov. 1802; educ. St. Mary hall, Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; barrister I.T. 14 May 1830; had a large practice as a conveyancer; professor of civil law at Gresham college, city of London 1836 to death; author of An inquiry into the navigation laws 1833; Discourse on the Gresham foundation, two introductory lectures 1837; The law of wreck considered with a view to its amendment 1843; Principles of the legal provision for the relief of the poor 1844. _d._ 56 Eaton place, London 24 April 1858. _Law Times xxxi_ 87, 101 (1858).

PALMER, WILLIAM (eld. son of Wm. Jocelyn Palmer 1778–1853, R. of Mixbury, Oxfordshire). _b._ Mixbury 12 July 1811; educ. Rugby and Magd. coll. Oxf., demy 1826–32, fellow 1832–55, tutor 1838–43; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833; tutor and censor and member of the senate in univ. of Durham 1833–6; examiner in classical schools at Oxford 1837–9; resided in Russia examining oriental christianity 1840–1; sought admission to the Greek church, but was refused 1841–52; received into church of Rome in chapel of Roman college at Rome 27 Feb. 1855; resided at Rome 1855 to death; always known as Palmer of Magdalen; author of Aids to reflection on the foundation of a Protestant bishopric at Jerusalem, Oxford 1841; Short poems and hymns 1843; Harmony of Anglican doctrine with the doctrine of the Eastern church, Aberdeen 1846, translated into Greek 1851; An appeal to the Scottish bishops and clergy, and generally to the church of their communion. By N. N., deacon of the church of England, Edinburgh 1849; Dissertations on subjects relating to the orthodox or eastern-catholic communion 1853; Egyptian chronicles with a harmony of sacred and Egyptian chronology, 2 vols. 1861; Commentatio in Librum Danielis, Rome 1874; The Patriarch Nicon and the Tsar, 6 vols. 1871–6. _d._ Piazza di Santa Maria in Campitelli, Rome 5 April 1879. _bur._ cemet. of S. Lorenzo in Campo Verano 8 April. _J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalen college vii_ 297–318 (1881); _Life of Leon Papin Dupont_ (1882) 55–64; _Contemporary Review May 1883 pp._ 636–59; _H. P. Liddon’s Life of E. B. Pusey ii_ 287 (1893).

PALMER, WILLIAM (only son of Wm. Palmer of St. Mary’s, Dublin, _d._ 1865). _b._ 14 Feb. 1803; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824; M.A. Oxf. 1829; incorporated at Magd. hall, Oxf. Oct. 1828, removed to Worcester coll. 1831; always known as Palmer of Worcester; founded with Hurrell Froude and Hugh James Rose the Association of friends of the church 1833; he wrote No. 15 of the Tracts for the Times 13 Dec. 1833, On the apostolical succession in the English church, but it was revised and completed by J. H. Newman; V. of Monkton-Wyld, Devon and Dorset 1846–69; V. of Whitchurch-Canonicorum, Dorset, with Chideock, Marshwood and Stanton St. Gabriel, in Dorset and Wilts. 1846 to death; preb. of Salisbury 1849–58; claimed and assumed the title of baronet on his father’s death 1865; author of Origines liturgicæ, or antiquities of the English ritual, 2 vols. Oxford 1832, 4 ed. 1845; A treatise on the church of Christ, 2 vols. 1838, 3 ed. 1842; A letter to N. Wiseman, D.D. (calling himself bishop of Melipotamus) containing remarks on his letter to Mr. Newman, Oxford 1841; A narrative of events connected with the publication of Tracts for the times 1843, 4 ed. 1883; The doctrine of development and conscience considered in relation to the evidences of Christianity and of the Catholic system 1846; Results of the expostulations of W. E. Gladstone in their relation to the unity of Roman Catholicism. By Umbra Oxoniensis 1875. _d._ London Oct. 1885. _J. H. Newman’s Essays_, _2 ed. i_ 143–85, _ii_ 454 (1846); _H. P. Liddon’s Life of E. B. Pusey i_ 263, _ii_ 146, 524, _iii_ 137, 485 (1893–95).

PALMER, WILLIAM ISAAC. _b._ Manor house, Elberton, Gloucestershire 31 May 1824; educ. at a quaker school at Sidcot, Somerset; signed the temperance pledge 1836; an apprentice at Reading, then in Liverpool; one of the founders of the firm of Huntley and Palmer, Reading Biscuit factory, the most extensive manufactory in the United Kingdom, employing continuously 4,000 hands; gave £5,000 towards Reading municipal buildings; connected with and contributed liberally to all the Reading public institutions and libraries; presented with his portrait 19 March 1885; a great supporter of the Blue Ribbon movement and the first to wear the ribbon 1882; for many years he conducted a weekly gathering of the work people of Reading for a pleasant Saturday evening. _d._ Hillside, Reading 4 Jany. 1893. _bur._ Friends’ ground 9 Jany. _Reading Mercury 7 Jany. 1893 p._ 5, _14 Jany. p._ 2; _Daily Graphic 7 Jany. 1893 p._ 14 _portrait_.

PALMERSTON, HENRY JOHN TEMPLE, 3 Viscount (1 son of Henry Temple, 2 viscount Palmerston 1739–1802). _b._ Park st. Westminster 20 Oct. 1784, _bapt._ St. Margaret, Westminster 23 Nov.; educ. Eton, Edinb. univ. and St. John’s coll. Camb. M.A. 1806; LL.D. 1864; D.C.L. Oxford 1862; succeeded 17 April 1802; contested Cambridge univ. 7 Feb. 1806, Horsham 4 Nov. 1806, and Cambridge again 8 May 1807, when beaten by 2 votes; M.P. Newport, Isle of Wight 1807–11, the patron sir Leonard Holmes required him never to visit the town, not even for the election; M.P. Cambridge univ. 1811–31; M.P. Bletchingley 1831–2; M.P. South Hants 1832–4; M.P. Tiverton 1835–65; a lord of the admiralty 3 April 1807 to Oct. 1809; made his first speech 3 Feb. 1808; declined chancellorship of the exchequer Oct. 1809; sec. at war 28 Oct. 1809 to 26 May 1828; P.C. 1 Nov. 1809; shot at and slightly wounded at the war office 8 April 1818, by lieut. David Davies, who _d._ of apoplexy at Bethlehem hospital 30 Dec. 1861 aged 67; sec. for foreign affairs 22 Nov. 1830 to 15 Nov. 1834, 18 April 1835 to 31 Aug. 1841, and 3 July 1846 to 22 Dec. 1851; G.C.B. 6 June 1832; home sec. 28 Dec. 1852 to 30 Jany. 1855; first lord of the treasury and prime minister 20 Feb. 1855 to 20 Feb. 1858, and 30 June 1859 to 18 Oct. 1865; K.G. 12 July 1856, the first peer of Ireland upon whom it was ever conferred; lord warden of the Cinque ports 27 March 1861; lord rector of univ. of Glasgow 1862; master of the Trinity house 1862–6; author of Selections from private journals of tours in France (1871). _d._ Brocket hall, Herts. 18 Oct. 1865. _bur._ north transept of Westminster abbey 27 Oct., will proved 22 Dec. 1865 under £120,000. _Bulwer’s Life of viscount Palmerston to 1847_, 3 _vols._ (1870) _portrait_; _Ashley’s Life of viscount Palmerston_, 2 _vols._ (1879) _portrait_; _W. H. Bidwell’s Imperial Courts of France, England, etc._, _New York_ (1863) _pp._ 137–44; _The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages_, _1st series_ (1859) _portrait_; _Justin McCarthy’s A history of our own times ii_ 121–63 _and_ 259–94 (1879); _Rice’s History of the British turf i_ 319–22 (1879); _Opinions and policy of viscount Palmerston, with a memoir by George Henry Francis_ (1852); _The two great statesmen, a Plutarchian parallel between Earl Russell and Viscount Palmerston_ (1862); _Materials for the true history of Lord Palmerston_ (1866); _Memoir by Edward Walford_ (1865); _Lord Palmerston, a biography by John McGildrist_ (1865); _Life and times of Lord Palmerston by J. Ewing Ritchie_ (1867); _Saunders’s Portraits of reformers_ (1840) 163 _portrait_; _Orators of the age by G. H. Francis_ (1847) 124–41; _Illust. news of the world i_ (1858) _portrait_; _D. D. Maddyn’s Chiefs of parties_ (1859) 154–84; _H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed._ (1876) 143–53; _G. H. Jenning’s Anecdotal history of British parliament_ (1880) 268–78; _Baily’s mag. ii_ 229–35 (1861) _portrait_; _The betrayal of England by Wm. Coningham_; _The British cabinet in 1853 pp._ 70–113; _I.L.N. i_ 309 (1842) _portrait_, _xvi_ 457 (1850) _portrait_; _Representative statesmen by A. C. Ewald ii_ 294–355 (1879); _St. Stephens_. _By Mask_ (1839) 164–72; _Malmesbury’s Memoirs_, 2 _vols._ (1884) _passim_; _Sporting Review liv_ 317–20 (1865); _Sporting Times 9 May 1885 p._ 2; _W. Day’s Reminiscenses_, _2 ed._ (1886) 210–7; _Illust. Times 12 Nov. 1864 pp._ 312–3, _double page portrait_; _P. M. Thornton’s Foreign Secretaries ii_ 307–36 (1881).

NOTE.--Lord Palmerston was dismissed from the office of foreign sec. on 17 Dec. 1851 for recognising Louis Napoleon as president of the French republic, without first communicating with the queen on the subject. _Ashley’s Life ii_ 193–228.

He had race horses in training from 1815. He first raced at Winchester in 1816, with Luzborough he won small races in 1824, with Iliona he won the queen’s plate at Guildford in 1840 and the Cesarewitch in 1841, with Buckthorn the Ascot stakes in 1853. His horse Maidstone was a favourite for the Derby in 1860. A member of the Jockey club 1845, he frequently rode from London to the Derby race at Epsom, and in 1864 trotted from London to Harrow to hear the speeches, twelve miles in one hour.

At his funeral in Westminster Abbey the Rev. H. Sullivan threw into the grave several diamond and gold rings, as ‘a precious offering to the dead.’ _Times 28 Oct. 1865 p._ 9.

PALMERSTON, EMILY MARY, Viscountess (1 dau. of Penistar Lamb, 1 viscount Melbourne, _d._ 1828). _b._ 21 April 1787; _m._ 20 July 1805 Peter Leopold, 5 earl Cowper, who _d._ 27 June 1837; a leader of society; one of the first six patronesses of Almacks when quadrilles were introduced 1813; _m._ (2) 16 Dec. 1839 Henry J., 3 viscount Palmerston, who _d._ 1865; her houses at Panshanger park, Herts. and Cambridge house, London, were frequented by the élite of society, including diplomatists and politicians; resided later on at Brocket hall, Herts. and Broadlands; on death of her brother Frederick, 3 viscount Melbourne 1853, she inherited the family estates in Herts. and Derbyshire. _d._ Brocket hall 11 Sept. 1869. _bur._ Westminster abbey 17 Sept., will proved 22 Jany., resworn June 1870 under £170,000. _A. Hayward’s Essays ii_ 293–302 (1873); _A.R._ (1869) 101; _Register and Mag. of Biography Oct. 1869 pp._ 189–90; _Every Saturday viii_ 503 (1873).

PANIZZI, SIR ANTHONIO GENESIO MARIA (son of Luigi Panizzi of Brescello in duchy of Modena). _b._ Brescello 16 Sept. 1797; educ. Reggio and univ. of Parma 1814–8; practised as an advocate 1818; became a Carbonaro March 1820, arrested 22 Oct. 1822, escaped and fled to Lugano, was sentenced to death 6 Oct. 1823 in his absence, having published a pamphlet entitled I Processi di Rubiera, denouncing the Modenese government; came to London May 1823; taught Italian in Liverpool to 1828; professor of Italian at London univ. May 1828 to 1837, the univ. opened 1 Oct. 1828; assistant librarian in the British Museum 27 April 1831, keeper of the printed books 15 July 1837, principal librarian 6 March 1856, procured an annual grant of £10,000 for the library 1845; submitted a design for the new reading room to the trustees 5 May 1852, foundations were laid May 1854 and the building opened 2 May 1857; resigned librarianship 26 June 1866 on his full pay; naturalised 24 March 1832; received cross of the legion of honour 24 Dec. 1851; received Sardinian order of Saint Maurice and Lazarus Dec. 1855; a senator of the Kingdom of Italy 12 March 1868; a commander of the order of crown of Italy 22 April 1868; K.C.B. 27 July 1869; edited Works of Ariosto 1818, Bojardo 1830, and Dante 1858; author of An elementary Italian grammar for the use of students in the London university 1828; Extracts from Italian prose writers 1828; On the supply of printed books from the library to the reading room of the British museum 1846; On the collection of printed books at the British museum, its increase and arrangement 1845. _d._ 31 Bloomsbury sq. London 8 April 1879. _bur._ St. Mary’s catholic cemet. Kensal Green 12 April, bust by Marochetti and portrait by Watts at British Museum. _L. Fagan’s Life of sir A. Panizzi_, 2 _vols._ (1880) _portrait_; _R. Cowtan’s Biographical sketch of sir A. Panizzi_ (1873); _F. Espinasse’s Literary recollections_ (1893) 15–21; _L. Fagan’s reform club_ (1887) 125–6 _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxiv_ 369 (1879) _portrait_; _Graphic xix_ 396 (1879) _portrait_; _Leisure Hour xxx_ 344 _portrait_.

PANMURE, WILLIAM MAULE, 1 Baron (2 son of George Ramsay, 8 earl of Dalhousie, _d._ 15 Nov. 1787). _b._ 27 Oct. 1771; succeeded to the greater part of the Panmure estates on death of his great uncle Wm. earl of Panmure 4 Jany. 1782, when he assumed the name of Maule; cornet 11 dragoons 10 Oct. 1788; raised an independent company of foot, which was disbanded 1791; M.P. Forfarshire 25 April 1796 to 20 May 1796, and 24 June 1805 to 9 Sept. 1831, and was a great supporter of Fox; a boon companion of George IV; cr. baron Panmure of Brechin and Navar, co. Forfar, by letters patent 10 Sept. 1831, on coronation of William IV; his dinner parties were sometimes protracted to eighteen hours, when the consumption of claret was enormous; gave considerable sums in charity to Dundee and neighbouring towns. _d._ Brechin castle, Forfarshire 13 April 1852, portrait in Dundee town hall. _G.M. xxxvii_ 515 (1852); _I.L.N. xx_ 315 (1852); _Norrie’s Dundee celebrities_ (1873) 136–9; _Times 16 April 1852 p._ 8.

PANOFKA, HEINRICH. _b._ Breslau 2 Oct. 1807; a singer and violinist; gave concerts in Vienna, Munich, Berlin, and Paris 1827 etc.; came to London 1844; an assistant of Benjamin Lumley at Her Majesty’s opera 1847; resided in London as a teacher of music and singing to 1852; composer of The practical singing tutor, 24 studies 1849; Twelve two part studies for soprano and contralto 1850; Two romances for the violin and piano 1851; The dear old Linden tree, a song 1852; The mountain flower, a song 1872; his name is attached to upwards of 30 pieces of music 1830–85. _d._ Carlsruhe or Florence 18 Nov. 1887. _Allgemeine Deutsche biographie xxv_ 124 (1887).

PANTIN, THOMAS PINDEN (son of Thomas Pantin of St. Sepulchre’s, London). _b._ 1792; educ. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1827; R. of Westcote, Gloucs. 1828 to death; author of Observations on certain passages in Dr. Arnold’s Christian duty of granting the Roman Catholic claims, Lutterworth 1829; The novelty of popery in matters of faith and practice 1837; The church of England apostolical in its origin, episcopal in its government, and scriptural in its belief 1849; edited G. Bull’s The corruptions of the church of Rome 1836; and Stillingfleet’s Origines Britannicæ, 2 vols. Oxford 1842. _d._ Westcote rectory 2 Sept. 1866.

PANTON, CHARLES. _b._ 1802; educ. Westminster; clerk in the Pipe office in the exchequer 1819–33, when office was abolished; clerk in the Queen’s Remembrancer’s office 1833, and chief clerk 1855 to Nov. 1879. _d._ 18 Woburn square, London 27 Sept. 1882. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 29 Sept. _Law Times lxxiii_ 388 (1882).

PANTON, DAVID BROOKE. _b._ 1832; educ. Gonville and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1857, M.A. 1860; C. of Birnan Wood and St. Andrew’s parish ch. Jamaica to 1884; R. of Mandeville and acting archdeacon of Middlesex, Jamaica 1884 to death. _d._ Mandeville 14 Sept. 1891.

PANTON, WILLIAM. Surgeon Bengal army 23 June 1818; inspector general of hospitals 16 Feb. 1844; surgeon general 15 Feb. 1845; physician general 24 July 1848, retired 10 Feb. 1849. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 10 May 1858.

PAPAFFY, NICHOLAS. _b._ Hungary; alchemist; professed to have an invention by which he could convert base metals into silver; with bismuth, aluminium and other ingredients, a crucible and a furnace he manipulated, in the presence of Barnet, Cox, Cole, and co., and produced 10 pounds of silver; a company was formed to work the patent, with offices at 104 Leadenhall st. London, the inventor to receive £12 a week; having drawn £600 in advance and raised £10,000 on bills in the name of the company, he decamped 1860 and was not heard of afterwards. _Bell and Redwood’s Progress of pharmacy_ (1880) 297.

PAPE, C. First clarionet in Crystal palace band 1855 to death. _d._ 11 St. Hugh road, Anerley, Surrey 7 Sept. 1874.

PAPINEAU, LOUIS JOSEPH (son of Joseph Papineau, notary 1752–1841). _b._ Montreal 7 Oct. 1786; educ. Quebec seminary; member for Kent of legislative assembly of Lower Canada 1809, member for West ward of city of Montreal 1811; called to the bar 1811; served in the militia in the American war 1812; speaker of the legislative assembly of Lower Canada 1815–37; denounced the government in violent speeches 1837; attended the meeting held at St. Charles 23 Oct. 1837, when armed rebellion was decided on; fled to the U.S. of America 1837; resided in Paris 1839–47; member of the Lower house of Canadian legislature 1847–54, was paid £4,500 arrears of salary as speaker. _d._ Montebello, Quebec 28 Sept. 1871. _L. O. David’s Ls.-Jos. Papineau_ (1872) _portrait_; _H. J. Morgan’s Sketches of Canadians_ (1862) 327–30; _C. Lindsey’s Life of W. L. Mackenzie i_ 352 _etc._, _ii_ 13 _etc._ (1862); _S. Walpole’s History of England iii_ 413–35 (1880); _Appleton’s American biography iv_ 642 (1888) _portrait_.

PAPWORTH, EDGAR GEORGE (only son of Thomas Papworth of London, builder 1773–1814). _b._ 20 or 21 Aug. 1809; pupil of E. H. Baily, R.A.; student at the R.A. 15 Dec. 1826, silver medallist 1829 and 1831, and gold medallist 1833, travelling student 1834; exhibited a panorama of Rome at a gallery in Great Portland st. about 1844; published Original sculptural designs executed in Rome 1834–6, London 1840; exhibited 62 busts and statuettes at R.A., 1 at B.I., and 25 at Suffolk st. 1832–60; his best known works are Adam and Eve, The woman of Samaria, and The Moabitish maiden; executed Bunyan’s memorial tomb in Bunhill Fields; gained the third prize of £300 in the competition for the Wellington monument for St. Paul’s cathedral 1857. _d._ 90 Milton st. Dorset sq. London 26 Sept. 1866. _bur._ Highgate cemet.

PAPWORTH, GEORGE (3 son of John Papworth of London, builder 1750–99). _b._ 9 May 1781; exhibited 4 drawings at R.A. 1796–1803; an architect in Dublin 1812 to death; constructed the King’s bridge, Dublin 1822–7; designed two Roman Catholic churches in Dublin; built the Kilkenny lunatic asylum 1849, and the museum of Irish industry, Stephen’s Green, Dublin 1851; architect to the ecclesiastical comrs. for province of Connaught 1837–42; architect to Dublin and Drogheda railway and to the Royal bank, Dublin; member of royal Hibernian academy 1831, treasurer 1849; introduced into Ireland external decoration in architectural design especially in private houses. _d._ Dublin 14 March 1855.

PAPWORTH, JOHN WOODY (elder son of John Papworth, architect 1775–1847). _b._ 4 March 1820; secretary to the council of the government school of design, Somerset House, opened 1 June 1837; associate of Institute of British architects 1841, a fellow 1846; made designs for glass, pottery, terra cotta, paper hangings and other art manufactures; designed the carpet presented by 150 ladies to the queen, exhibited at great exhibition of 1851; designed the Albert Institution, Gravel Lane; exhibited 11 drawings at R.A. 1837–51; author of An alphabetical dictionary of coats of arms belonging to families in Great Britain and Ireland upon a new plan 1874; author with his brother, Wyatt A. Papworth, of Specimens of decoration in the Italian style, selected from the designs of Raffaello in the Vatican 1844; Museums, libraries, and picture galleries, their establishment, formation, arrangement, and architectural construction 1853; contributed papers to the Architectural Publication society. _d._ 13 Hart st. Bloomsbury sq. London 6 July 1870. _bur._ Highgate cemetery. _Dict. of architecture vi p._ 39 (1881); _Builder 16 July 1870 pp._ 559–60.

PAPWORTH, THOMAS. Wrote poetry; author of Letter of recommendation, a romance of the Levant by Frank P. Worth, 2 vols. 1870. _d._ Smyrna Feb. 1871.

PAPWORTH, WYATT ANGELICUS VAN SANDAU (brother of John Woody Papworth). _b._ London 23 Jany. 1822; employed by the comrs. of sewers for Westminster; assistant surveyor to the Alliance assurance company June 1866, sole surveyor, retired on a pension 1887, designed and erected a branch office at Ipswich; member of the clothworker’s company, junior and senior warden 1879–81, master 1889; founded the Architectural publication society for the production of detached essays and illustrations 1848; edited and compiled Dictionary of explanation and reference, brought out in parts May 1853 to April 1892, making 11 vols. at cost of nearly £10,000; F.R.I.B.A. 1860, member of council many years; curator of sir John Soane’s museum 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London Jany. 1893 to death, rewrote catalogue of the museum and brought out a new edition of the General description; edited Gwilt’s Encyclopædia of architecture, 2 ed. 1867, 3 ed. 1876 and 4 ed. 1889; author with his brother, J. W. Papworth, of Specimens of decoration in the Italian style 1844, and of Museums, libraries, and picture galleries 1853; author alone of J. B. Papworth, a brief record of his life and works 1879; Memoir of A. W. W. Morant 1881; The renaissance and Italian style of architecture in Great Britain 1883. _d._ the Soane museum, London 19 Aug. 1894. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 24 Aug.

PARADISE, JOHN. _b._ 1812; editor of Lincoln Rutland and Stamford Mercury. _d._ 24 St. Mary st. Stamford 29 Jany. 1887.

PARDEY, JOHN QUIN. _b._ 17 Feb. 1796; ensign 66 foot 18 July 1811; ensign royal staff corps 22 Oct. 1811, lieut. 17 Dec. 1812; in Spain 1813 in connection with quartermaster general’s department, engaged in constructing the rope bridge at Alcantara; present at Vittoria, San Sebastian and Toulouse 1813–4; aided in restoring French bridges 1814; war medal and clasp; received Decoration du Lis 1819; captain 53 foot 9 July 1830; paymaster 12 Feb. 1836, placed on h.p. 1 May 1844; served at Gibraltar, Malta, and Ionian islands; adjutant of auxiliary forces 29 Jany. 1846 to 6 Aug. 1858. _d._ 12 Sion hill, Bath 17 March 1887.

PARDOE, JULIA S. H. (2 dau. of Thomas Pardoe, captain royal waggon train, who sold out of the army 20 Jany. 1832). _b._ Beverley, Yorkshire 1806; visited Constantinople 1836; resided in Kent from 1846; author of Lord Morcar of Hereward, 4 vols. 1829, 2 ed. 1837; Traits and traditions of Portugal 1833; Speculation, 3 vols. 1834; The Mardens and the Daventrys, 3 vols. 1835; The city of the sultan and domestic manners of the Turks, 2 vols. 1837, reprinted in 3 vols. 1838, 1845, and 1854; The river and the desert, or recollections of the Rhine and the Chartreuse, 2 vols. 1838; The beauties of the Bosphorus 1839, reprinted under title of Picturesque Europe 1854 and 1874; The romance of the harem, 2 vols. 1839, 2 ed. 1857; The city of the Magyar, or Hungary and her institutions, 3 vols. 1840; The Hungarian castle, 3 vols. 1842; The confessions of a pretty woman, 3 vols. 1846; The jealous wife, 3 vols. 1847, 4 ed. 1858; Louis XIV and the court of France in the seventeenth century, 3 vols. 1847, 3 ed. 1849, reprinted 1886; The rival beauties, 3 vols. 1848, 2 ed. 1861; The court and reign of Francis, king of France, 2 vols. 1849, 3 vols. 1887; Flies in amber, 3 vols. 1850; The life of Marie de Medicis, queen of France, 3 vols. 1852, reprinted 1890; Reginald Lyle, 3 vols. 1854; Lady Arabella, or the adventures of a doll 1856; Abroad and at home, tales here and there 1857; Pilgrimages in Paris 1857; The poor relation, a novel, 3 vols. 1858; Episodes of French history during the consulate and the first empire, 2 vols. 1859; A life struggle, 2 vols. 1859; The rich relation 1862; translated La Peste 1834, an Italian poem by G. Sorello; edited Memoirs of the queens of Spain by A. George 1850; in Seven tales by seven authors 1849 she wrote The Will pp. 77–186; granted civil list pension of £100, 16 Jany. 1860. _d._ at her lodgings, Upper Montagu st. London 26 Nov. 1862. _Bentley’s Miscellany xxvi_ 323–4 (1849) _portrait_; _S. J. Hales’s Woman’s Record_, _2 ed._ (1855) 765 _portrait_; _Eclectic Mag. xlii_ 135–6 (1857) _portrait_; _Godey’s Lady book xlvii_ 344 (1853); _J. Pardoe’s Beauties of the Bosphorus_ (1839) _portrait_.

PARDON, CHARLES FREDERICK (eld. son of the succeeding). _b._ 28 March 1850; on staff of European mail 1870; connected with Press Association 112 Fleet st. London 1872, and sporting editor to his decease; established Pardon’s Cricket and sporting reporting agency 1880; a cricketer; edited Wisden’s Cricketer’s Almanack, under name of Merlin 1887–90; master of the Gallery lodge 1886; an original member of London press club and president Jany. 1890; wrote on cricket in Land and Water, the Evening News, and the Standard; with A. S. Wilks wrote How to play solo whist 1888. _d._ 5 Oxford mansions, Oxford market, Oxford st. London 18 April 1890. _Sell’s World’s Press_ (1891) 83 _portrait_; _London Figaro 26 April 1890 p._ 10 _portrait_.

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_.