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854 to the Sea Fencibles on the coast of Lincolnshire – 20 May, 1805, as Senior, to the 28, Capt. Robt. Barrie, employed on the Irish station, whence he invalided 31 March, 1806 – and, 7 Jan. 1808, to the Impress service in Kent. In June, 1810, he was placed on half-pay. He accepted the rank of Retired Commander, on the Junior List, 24 Dec. 1830; and, on the Senior, 16 April, 1839. – Fred. Dufaur.

 PARISH. 

passed his examination 11 July, 1842; and from the close of that year until advanced to his present rank, 4 May, 1846, was employed on the Mediterranean and Home stations as Mate in the 78, Capt. Sir Jas. Stirling, gunnery-ship, Capts. Sir Thos. Hastings and Henry Ducie Chads, and 120, flagship of Sir Chas. Ogle. He has been since serving, again in the Mediterranean, on board the 80, Capts> Geo. Wickens Willes and Geo. Fred. Rich.

 PARK. 

was born 3 June, 1791. This officer entered the Navy, 1 April, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 18, Capt. Jas. Whitley Deans Dundas, fitting at Chatham. In the course of the same year he sailed for the East Indies as Midshipman in the 64, Capt. Edw. Durnford King; and on his return to England in Sept. 1808 he successively joined the 64, Capt. Wm. Cumberland, and 38, Capts. Chas. Dudley Pater and Hugh Downman. While in the latter ship we find him, 25 July, 1809, commanding one of the boats of a squadron under Capt. Thos. Forrest, in a long and desperate action with a Russian flotilla;, near Fredericksham, in the Gulf of Finland, which, with a loss to the British of 60 men killed and wounded, terminated in the total defeat of the enemy, 87 of whom met a similar fate. He continued in the, the last four months in the capacity of Acting-Lieutenant, until Sept. 1814; and after an intermediate servitude at Sheerness and Portsmouth as Master’s Mate, in the 74, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Williams and Sir Chas. Rowley, and 20, Capt. Buckland Stirling Bluett, was officially advanced to his present rank 16 Feb. 1815. He has since been on half-pay.

Lieut. Park married, 23 Aug. 1827, Sarah, eldest daughter of W. Clark, Esq., of the Triangle, Hackney.

 PARKER. 

is son of the late Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, Kt., by his second wife, Frances, daughter of Admiral Sir Rich. Onslow, Bart.; brother of Rich. Parker, Esq., Capt. in the Life Guards; and half-brother of the present

This officer entered the Navy, 16 July, 1812, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 38, commanded by his half-brother, under whom he was for three years very actively employed on the North American station, where he witnessed the surrender, in Jan. 1815, of the U.S. frigate President. From Aug. in the latter year until Oct. 1818 he served at Halifax, as Midshipman, in the 36,  38, and  40, all commanded by Capt. Sir John Louis. On 30 March, 1819, he rejoined Capt. Parker, as Acting-Lieutenant, in the 42, on the Jamaica station; and in the following Jane he was transferred, in a similar capacity, to the  46, Capt. Wm. Furlong Wise. After again acting as Lieutenant in the, and also in the 26, Capt. Henry Hart, he was confirmed in that rank 20 Jan. 1820, and re-appointed to the. He subsequently joined – 8 Dec. 1821, the 18, Capts. Geo. Tyler and Edw. Curzon, employed on the Mediterranean and Cork stations – 21 Feb. 1823, the 24, Capt. Sam. Roberts, whom he accompanied to Newfoundland – 28 May, 1825, the 104, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Martin at Portsmouth – 8 May, 1826, the 46, Capt. Chas. John Austen, in the West Indies – and, 23 May, 1828, as First, the 50, bearing the flag at Jamaica of Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming. On 8 Sept. 1829 he was advanced to the command of the sloop. He paid that vessel off 29 Jan. 1831; and has not been since afloat.

Commander Parker married, 16 June, 1835, Kate, widow of the Rev. Hely Hutchinson Smith, and third daughter of the late John Williams, Esq., of Elm Grove, Southsea, by whom he has issue. – Messrs. Chard.

 PARKER. 

(a) entered the Navy, in Nov. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 50, Capts. Mulloch, Mottley, and John Le Gros; in which ship he continued employed as Midshipman until transferred, in May, 1803, to the frigate, Capt. Rich. Henry Alex. Bennett. On 13 March, 1804, he had the misfortune to fall into the hands of the enemy, who carried him a prisoner to France. He there remained, we believe, until the close of 1810; when, being restored to liberty, he joined the 100, flag-ship in the Baltic of Sir Jas. Saumarez. He attained the rank of Lieutenant 21 March, 1812; and was afterwards employed, on Home service- – from Jan. to Aug. 1813, in the 10, Capt. Thos. Fife, and 98, flag-ship of Admiral Wm. Young and of H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence – and, from April to Sept. 1815, in the 38, Capt. Archibald Duff. He has since been on half-pay. We are informed that during part of 1813 he commanded a gun-boat on the River Elbe. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 PARKER. 

(b) was born 31 March, 1794. This officer entered the Navy, 20 Jan. 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the sloop, of 14 12-pounder carronades and 65 men; and on 14 March following was present in a gallant action of six hours, which terminated in that vessel beating off, on the coast of Norway, with a loss to the British of 2 men killed and 8 (including himself in the hand and stomach) wounded, the Danish man-of-war brig Lougen, of 20 18-pounder guns and 160 men. In consideration of the injury he sustained on the occasion he was voted by the Patriotic Society a sum of 15 guineas. In Nov. of the same year, after he had been for six months borne as a Supernumerary on the books of the 64 and, flag-ships of Admirals Vashon and Montagu at Leith and Spithead, he became Midshipman of the  sloop, successively commanded, on the Channel and Lisbon stations, by Capts. Anthony Abdy, Thos. Goldwire Muston, John Smith Cowan, A. Abdy, Thos. Hanloke, and Wm. Westcott Daniel. In that vessel, in 1809, he witnessed the destruction of three heavy French frigates under the batteries of Sable d’Olonne, and also of the shipping in Basque Roads. Quitting her in Dec. 1811 he served during the next three years off the Western Islands and in the West Indies on board the 36, Capt. Hon. Anthony Maitland. On his return to England in the spring of 1815 in the 38, Capt. Jas. Andrew Worth, he was received first on board the 98, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Thornbrough at Portsmouth, and then on board the 98, flagship of Lord Exmouth in the Mediterranean; where, on following that nobleman, as Master’s Mate, into the  100, he was afforded an opportunity of assisting in the bombardment of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816; for his conduct on which occasion, particularly in steering the explosion vessel under the lighthouse battery, he was rewarded with a commission bearing date 17 Sept. in the same year. His last appointments were – 4 Oct. 1817, for a few months, to the 10, Capt. John Gedge, on the Yarmouth station – and,