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Parker, Robert John, 1857-1918
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1857-1918
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PARKER, ROBERT JOHN, BARON PARKER OF WADDINGTON, son of Rev. Richard Parker, Rector of Claxby, Lincs., and his second wife Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Aston Coffin, Worthing, Sussex; b. 25 Feb 1857; adm. 2 Apr 1872 (James'), BB; left Whitsun 1872; went to Eton Coll.; KS 1872; Newcastle Medallist 1876; King’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. 13 Oct 1876, Eton scholar; Browne’s medal for Greek ode 1878; bracketed 5th Classic 1880; BA 1880; MA 1883; Fellow, King’s Coll. 1881; adm. Inner Temple 22 Jan 1881; migr. to Lincoln’s Inn 3 Nov 1883, called to bar 17 Nov 1883, Bencher [check date]; practised at Chancery bar; Junior Equity Counsel to Treasury 1900-6; Judge of High Court, Chancery Division 24 Oct 1906 – Mar 1913; knighted 18 Dec 1906; Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (Lord Parker of Waddington, Life Peer) from 4 Mar 1913; Privy Councillor 7 Mar 1913; Deputy High Steward, Cambridge Univ., from 1915; m. 9 Sep 1884 Constance, only dau. of John Trevor Barkley, civil engineer; d. 12 Jul 1918. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.