PARKER, JAMES; b.; adm. (aged 15) May 1738 (Majendie's); left 1740.
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.
PARKER, (WILLIAM) CHARLES, brother of Francis Newdigate (qv); b. 12 Aug 1754; adm. 10 Mar 1766; KS 1768; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1773, matr. 11 Jun 1773, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1773 – void 25 Jun 1784; BA 1778; MA 1780; Grand Tour (Italy) 1774-5, accompanying his relative Sir Roger Newdigate, Bart. (qv); again travelling in Italy 1782-4; of Harefield, Middlesex; m. 1785 Jean, dau. of Sir John Anstruther, Bart., MP; d. 24 Apr 1795.
PARKER, WILLIAM EDWARD, brother of Robert John Parker, Baron Parker (qv); b. 31 May 1859; adm. 2 May 1872 (James'), BB; QS 1874; left May 1876; d. 5 Mar 1910.
Parker, William, son of James and Margaret Jane Parker, of Brixton; b. Oct. 10, 1883; adm. Jan. 20, 1898 (A); left July 1901; 2nd Lieut. Grenadier Guards (S.R.) Nov. 17, 1915; served in Great War I; a company director; m. June 5, 1909, Mabel Jessie, daughter of George Shrubsall, of Reigate, Surrey; d. Nov. 28, 1947.
Parkington, Michael Wroughton, son of Gershom Parkington, musician; b. 26 Mar. 1923; adm. Sept. 1935 (G); left July 1939; Roy. Coll. of Science, BSc; RAFVR 1944-5 (Flt Lieut.); Pemb. Coll. Camb., matric. 1946, BA 1947 (1st class hons Law Trip. Pt 2), LLB 1948, MA 1962; called to the Bar (Middle Temple)June 1949; m. 18 July 1944 Peggy Livingstone of Dunkeld, Johannesburg.
Parkinson Smith, Ronald William, brother of Kenneth John Hamilton Smith (qv); b. 21 Apr. 1913; adm. May 1927 (A); left Apr. 1931; 2nd Lieut. RA (TA) May 1931, Lieut. 1934; since 1934 known as Norman Parkinson, with international reputation as photographer; worked for Vogue and Life magazines, since 1978 exclusively in New York for Town & Country magazine; officially photographed almost every member of British and European royalty, particularly HM the Queen Mother and the Princess Royal; hon. FRPS, hon. FIIP; CBE 1981; resident and pig farmer for many years in Tobago, W. Indies, perfecting his own variety of pork sausage, the "Parkinson Banger"; m. Jan. 1945 Wenda Rogerson, actress, d. of William Albert Rogerson MRCS, of Little Saling, Essex; d. in Malaysia 15 Feb. 1990.
PARKS, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 14) Jan 1735/6 (Heath's).
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.
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.