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The point at which the axes of a graph intersect is called the:
Answer slope.
origin.
graph.
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The ________ of a curve shows the point at which the curve intersects an axis.
Answer slope
steepness
intercept
origin

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If two variables are positively related, on a graph they will always be represented by:
Answer a line or curve that slopes downward.
a straight line.
a horizontal line.
a line or curve that slopes upward.

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If two variables are negatively related, they will always be represented by:

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a straight line.
a horizontal line.
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If two variables are negatively related:
Answer as one goes up in value, the other must go up in value, too.
as one goes up in value, the other must go down in value.
there can never be a trade-off between the two.
one variable is always the reciprocal of the other.

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If two variables are positively related:
Answer as one goes up in value, the other must go up in value, too.
as one goes up in value, the other must go down in value.
there is always a trade-off between the two.
one variable is always the reciprocal of the other.

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The relation between two variables that move in the same direction is said to be:
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positive.
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The relationship between two variables that move in opposite directions is said to be:
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On a graph representing two variables:
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a negative slope of a curve means the two variables are positively related.
a line that is horizontal has a zero slope.
a line that is vertical has a zero slope.

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Figure: Cold Drinks Sold and Temperature

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Answer decreased by 30 degrees; decreased by 30 drinks
increased by 20 degrees; increased by 20 drinks
increased by 30 degrees; increased by 30 drinks
increased by 40 degrees; increased by 40 drinks

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islands; adjutant of auxiliary forces 29 Jany. 1846 to 6 Aug. 1858. d.
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train, who sold out of the army 20 Jany. 1832). b. Beverley,
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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,
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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, G F . 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, W (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, E (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, T . 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, E (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, B (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, L P A D’ O , 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, J A (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, J . 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, J E (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, S W (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, A A (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, A . 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, J (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, P (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, T A . 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, T H (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.
N .—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, S W (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, W (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, C . 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, S C C , 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, E A . 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, F . 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, S G , 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, G (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, G C (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, G H . 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, H P (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, H P (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, H W . 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, S H W (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, S H W (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, H (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, S H , 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, S J (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, J (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, J (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, J (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, J . 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, J B . 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, J H (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, J W (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, J W (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, K S . 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, R . 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, R (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, R T (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, R . 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, S W L (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, T , 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, T L (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, S W , 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, W A (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, W K (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, W (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, A (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, C . 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, C H . 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,