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Rh 8 Dec. 1821, as Senior-Lieutenant, to the 18, Capt. Hon. Geo. Rolle Walpole Trefusis, with whom, until superseded at his own request in March, 1814, he served off Milford, made a voyage to the Havana, and was employed off Jersey and Yarmouth. Lieut. Parker married 3 Dec. 1827, and has issue one daughter.

 PARKER, Bart. 

, born 16 June, 1792, is third and only surviving son of the late Christ. Parker, Esq., Vice-Admiral of the Blue, by Augusta Barbara Charlotte, daughter of Admiral Hon. John Byron, grand-daughter of the fourth Lord Byron, and aunt of the poet. Sir Charles is grandson of the late Sir Peter Parker, Bart., Admiral of the Fleet; great-grandson of Rear-Admiral Christ. Parker (1749), who entered the Navy towards the close of the seventeenth century, commanded the in 1712, and the  80 in 1739, and died in 1763; and cousin of the late Admiral Sir Geo. Parker, K.C.B. His eldest brother, Sir Peter Parker, Bart., after a gallant career, was killed on shore, while Captain of the 38, in a sanguinary affair with the Americans at Bellair, near Baltimore, 30 Aug. 1814; and his second brother, John Edm. Geo., whom he succeeded in the Baronetcy 18 Nov. 1835, was a Captain in the Royal Artillery. His nephew. Sir Peter Parker, Bart., only son of the last-mentioned Sir Peter, was a Commander R.N. (1834), and died 17 March, 1835. Sir Charles is brother-in-law of Colonel Chas. Parker Ellis, late of the Grenadier Guards.

This officer entered the Navy, 18 June, 1804, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the 98, Capt. Geo. Martin, whom he accompanied, towards the close of the same year, into the 98. In those ships he served with the Channel Fleet until June, 1805. Being then received on board the 18, commanded by his brother, Capt. Peter Parker, he proceeded, after having narrowly escaped shipwreck, to join Lord Nelson off Cadiz. On the departure of the enemy’s fleet from that harbour immediately prior to the battle of Trafalgar, the was the first vessel that observed their outward movement; and she was only prevented from acting a part in the glorious scene that followed by the mortifying circumstance of being forthwith despatched to communicate the event to the ships at Gibraltar. So chagrined was her brave Commander at this disappointment that he actually shed tears on the quarter-deck. Mr. Parker continued to serve with his brother in the 38 until March, 1806; in the course of which month he was transferred, as Midshipman, to the  74, Capt. Chas. Rowley. He bad been previously present in a violent storm, which had left the for five days without a rudder. On joining the, he soon became engaged in a variety of operations on the coast of Italy, where, in May, 1806, it was his fortune to witness the capture of the island of Capri and the defence of the fortress of Gaeta. On the return home of the in the spring .of 1809, Mr. Parker obtained a berth on board the  98, bearing the flag in the Baltic of Rear-Admiral Fras. Pickmore, under whom during the remainder of the year he was arduously employed; We may observe too that he suffered very severely from the effects of the climate, and that on one occasion while at the maintop he was so stiffened by the cold as to render it necessary for him to be lowered by a rope. In the early part of 1810 he returned with Sir Chas. Cotton to the Mediterranean in the 110; and in June of that year he accomplished his probationary term of servitude as Midshipman. Owing, however, to a recent Order in Council, retrospective in its operation, by virtue of which it was settled that no officer should be considered eligible for the receipt of a commission until he had attained the age of 19, Mr. Parker, being then only 18, was obliged to submit to the delay of another year before he could obtain leave to pass his examination. During the greater part of that period, although only holding the rating of Midshipman, he was allowed nevertheless to perform the duties of Lieutenant on board the 36, Capt. Patrick Campbell. While so attached, we find him frequently employed on boat-service on the coast of France and Italy, particularly on one occasion, when he took part, and gained the warmest approbation of his Captain for his conduct, in an attack upon a convoy under the batteries of Cape Talliat. At another time, while the was working in for the purpose of lowering her boats during some hostile operations against the town of Cotrone, he fell from the quarter-deck into the gun-room, and sustained so much injury in the head that the effects have since materially debilitated his constitution. On at length passing his examination, 17 June, 1811, Mr. Parker, then on board the 98, bearing the flag of his friend Rear-Admiral Pickmore, was by Sir Chas. Cotton made, the same day. Lieutenant into his own flag-ship the. In the following Aug. he went on half-pay for the recovery of his health; but in the spring of 1812 he resumed the active duties of his profession, and again joined his brother on board the 38; in which ship it appears he was present when, having pursued the French 40-gun frigate Pauline and 16-gun brig Ecureuil under the batteries of Toulon, she effected a masterly retreat from the fleet that had come out to their protection, by passing through its line ahead of one 74 and astern of another. This affair took place in May, 1812; and about the same period Mr. Parker removed to the 80, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Benj. Hallowell. In 1813 he assisted at the siege of Tarragona. He was next advanced to the rank of Commander 5 April, 1815, having been nominated by Admiral Pickmore to one of his hauling-down vacancies; and he was afterwards, from 17 July, 1819, until promoted to his present rank, 23 April, 1822, employed in the 18, on the Irish station. He has since been on half-pay.

Sir Chas. Christ. Parker married, 19 Sept. 1815 Miss Georgiana Ellis Parker, – Hallett and Robinson,

