PARNELL, CHARLES; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1723; left 1724.
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PARKYNS, SIR THOMAS, BART., second son of Sir Thomas Isham Parkyns, Bart., and Anne, only dau. of Maj. Thomas Cressey, Fulsby on Bain, Lincs.; bapt. 10 Nov 1662; at school under Busby (Progymnasmata, 1714, 11); Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 13 Jun 1680, matr.1680 ; adm.Gray’s Inn 18 May 1682; succ. father as 2nd baronet Jul 1684; an amateur architect, building extensively on his estate at Bunny, Notts.; JP Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire 1684, High Sheriff Nottinghamshire 1689; passionately fond of wrestling and until middle age a vigorous runner and change-ringer; established an annual wrestling competition in Bunny Park; author, Progymnasmata, 1714, and other works; m.1st, 1686 Elizabeth, only dau. of John Sampson, Beraston [Breaston ?], Derbs.; m. 2nd, 7 Feb 1727/8 Jane, dau. of George Barnet, Alderman of York; d. 29 Mar 1741. DNB.
PARKYNS, SIR THOMAS, BART., elder son of Sir Thomas Parkyns, Bart. (bapt. 1662, qv) and his second wife; bapt. 8 Dec 1728; succ. father as 3rd baronet 29 Mar 1741; adm. (aged 14) Feb 1742/3 (Hawkins'); Queen’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 12 Nov 1744, matr. 1744; DL Leicestershire; DL JP Nottinghamshire, High Sheriff 1755-6; m. 1st, 7 Apr 1747 his cousin Jane, dau. of Thomas Parkyns (adm. 1717/8, qv); m. 2nd, 1765 Sarah, dau. of Daniel Smith, Bunny, Notts.; m. 3rd, 1 Sep 1796 Jane, dau. of Joseph Boultbee, Leicester; d. 17 Mar 1806.
PARKYNS, THOMAS, son of Sampson Parkyns (qv); b. 7 Dec 1709; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1717/8; in under school list 1721; m. 14 Sep 1728 Elizabeth, dau. of Daniel Woodroffe, St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster; d. 1 Jun 1735.
PARKYNS, THOMAS, son of Sir Thomas Parkyns, Bart. (bapt. 1662, qv), and his first wife; bapt. 1687; adm.; QS 1702; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 7 Jun 1703, aged 16, matr. 1704; adm. Middle Temple 18 Sep 1702, Gray’s Inn 4 Jul 1704; buried 19 Sep 1706, unm.
PARKYNS, SAMPSON, son of Sir Thomas Parkyns, Bart. (bapt. 1662, qv) , and his first wife; bapt. 28 Jul 1686; at schoool under Knipe (J. E. B. Mayor & R. F. Scott, Admissions to St. John’s Coll. Camb. , ii, 167); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 7 Jun 1703, aged 17, matr. 1704; adm. Middle Temple 18 Sep 1702, Gray’s Inn 27 Nov 1704; m. 4 Sep 1707 Alice, only dau. of Henry Middlemore, Inner Temple and Lusby, Lincs. ; d. 17 Apr 1713.
PARKYNS, JOHN; b. ; adm. ; KS 1542 (PRO, Exc. Aug. Office, Miscell. Books 24). [move to PERKYNS ?]
PARKYNS, GEORGE, son of Sir Thomas Parkyns, Bart. (bapt. 1662, qv), and his second wife; b. 30 Dec 1729; adm. Feb 1742/3 (Hawkins'); Queen’s Coll. Oxford, adm. fellow commoner 30 Oct 1746; Cornet, 15th Dragoons 15 May 1759; Lieut., 15 Jul 1761; Capt., 28 May 1770; [not in Army List 1773]; m. 16 Apr 1749 Anne, dau. of Elton Levett MD, Nottingham.
Parkyn, Roderick William, son of Percy Arthur William Parkyn of Alderley Edge, Cheshire, and Antoinette Emma Wilhelmina, d. of Dr Ludvig Lieblein of Teplitz-Schoncali, Czechoslovakia; b. 1 May 1911; adm. Apr. 1925 (R); left July 1929; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1929, BA 1932, MA 1936; MIMechE; chairman Daniel Adamson & Co., engineers, Dukinfield, Cheshire; JP 1958; m. 16 Aug. 1952 Patricia Anne, d. of Lieut.-Col. Charles Mytton Thorneycroft CBE DSO, of Breinton, Herefordshire; d. 29 Jan. 1977.