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856 PARKER. 

entered the Navy, 18 March, 1799, as A.B., on board the 98, Capt. Joseph Bingham, bearing the flag of Sir Wm. Parker in the Mediterranean; whence, on removing with the same officer to the 64, he proceeded to Halifax and the West Indies. In Dec. 1800, the having struck upon the Formigas rocks and been rendered unfit for further service, he joined the  64, the new flag-ship of Sir Wm. Parker; on leaving which, in June, 1801, he was received as Midshipman on board the 32, Capt. Robt. Laurie. After a servitude of more than two years and a half in that frigate on the West India and North American stations, he removed, in Feb. 1804, to the 98, Capt. EliabElias [sic] Harvey, attached to the fleet in the Channel, where he remained until May, 1805. He was confirmed, 22 Jan. 1806, to the post of First-Lieutenant in the sloop, Capt. Wm. Wilkinson; and was afterwards appointed – 8 Dec. 1808, to the 32, Capt. Joseph Baker, which ship he left in Oct. 1809 – 16 June, 1810, again as First, to the  10, Capt. Sam. Clarke – 19 March, 1811, to the 64, Capt. Robt. Williams – and 5 Dec. 1811, a third time as Senior Lieutenant, to the 32, Capt. Robt. Cathcart. In the five ships last mentioned Mr. Parker was employed on the Home and Baltic stations. On, he commanded the boats of the , in conjunction with Lieut. Thos. Sykes, at the capture, near Felixberg, on the coast of Courland, of a Danish privateer of 4 guns, whose crew, 24 in number, had landed with their muskets, and, being joined by the country people, had posted themselves behind the sandhills close to the beach; and in July, 1813, he was present on board the when, in company with the  16, she drove from off her cruizing-ground, after a chase of 91 hours, the powerful U.S. frigate President, together with her consort the Scourge privateer, and thereby saved a large and valuable convoy from capture. He attained the rank of Commander 15 June, 1814; and has since been on half-pay.

 PARKER, K.C.B.

was born in 1767, and died 24 Dec. 1847. He was son, by Miss Gore, of the late Geo. Parker, Esq., elder brother of Admiral Sir Peter Parker, Bart.; and was cousin’of the present Sir Chas. Christ. Parker, Bart., Captain ll.N. His ancestor, the Rev. Dr. Parker, was Archbishop of Canterbury in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

This officer entered the Navy, 21 Dec. 1773, under the patronage of his uncle Sir Peter Parker, who promoted him, 13 March, 1782, to the rank of Lieutenant. He had then served throughout the whole of the American war. In 1786 he obtained an appointment to the sloop, on the Downs station; and on his removal, in 1788, to the  36, Capts. Geo. Byron and Rich. John Strachan, he sailed for the East Indies. While on that station he was actively employed, in the boats and on shore, in co-operation with the army under Sir Robt. Abercrombie during the war with Tippoo Saib; and he was also, 19 Nov. 1791, present, in company with the frigate, in an obstinate action (produced by a resistance on the part of the French Captain to a search being imposed by the British upon two merchant-vessels under his orders) with La Résolue of 46 guns, whose colours were not struck until she had herself sustained a loss of 25 men killed and 40 wounded, and had occasioned one to the  of 6 killed and 11 wounded. In Oct. 1792, having been sent home in charge of the despatches of Commodore Hon. Wm. , Mr. Parker, who on the occasion last named had played the part of First-Lieutenant, was appointed, in a similar capacity, to the of 36 guns and 257 men, Capt. Jas. Saumarez; under whom, whose gallantry in the affair procured him the honour of Knighthood, he assisted, 20 Oct. 1793, at the capture of the French frigate La Réunion of 40 guns and 300 men, of whom 120 were killed and wounded, without any casualty whatever to the British. For his own conduct on the occasion Lieut. Parker was promoted, 4 Nov. in the same year, to the command of the sloop, on the North Sea station, where he was posted, 7 April, 1795, into the  20. Removing, towards the close of 1796, to the 36, he contrived, during a cruize off the coast of Ireland and in the West Indies, to effect the capture of a variety of the enemy’s vessels, particularly of L’Adour of 16 guns, pierced for 20, and 147 men, and of La Victorine of 16 guns and 82 men, the San Francisco of 14 guns and 53 men, and Le Quatorze Juillet of 14 guns and 65 men. He was also much employed in convoying the trade to Quebec, the Mediterranean, and (the East India ships) past the Canary Islands; and on one occasion he received a letter of thanks from the masters and owners of a convoy, transmitted through the Admiralty, for his care and attention to them. At the close of the war, at which period the was serving on the Leeward Island station, Capt. Parker’s health obliged him to invalid. His next appointments were, in 1804-5, to the 44 and  64, both attached to the force in the North Sea; where, in the, he was for a time employed in blockading the enemy’s squadron in the Texel. Being sent, in Jan. 1808, on a particular service to the Baltic in command of three ships of the line, it was his fate, on reaching Gottenborg, to be frozen up in the ice; through which, however, in the ensuing March, he caused a canal to be cut, and thus extricated as well his own squadron as a large convoy of merchantmen bound to England. On 22 of the same month Capt. Parker, then in company with the 64, had the good fortune to fall in with, and, after an obstinate running fight, attended with a loss to the  of 4 men killed and 28 wounded, to enforce the surrender, on the coast of, of the Danish 74-gun ship Prindts Christian Frederic. The ’s loss in the engagement did not exceed 2 killed and 16 wounded; while that of the enemy (whose ship, having taken the ground, was fired and blown up by her captors) extended to as many as 55 killed and 88 wounded. Not long after this Capt. Parker was succeeded in his command by Rear-Admiral Sir Sam. Hood, who expressed his entire approbation of all the arrangements he had made, and of the able conduct he had manifested on every occasion. On the return of the to England he was appointed to the  74, in which ship (part of the Walcheren expeditionary force) he continued employed in the North Sea and Mediterranean until the end of 1813. He then returned home in the 74, and did not again go afloat. He became a Rear-Admiral 4 June, 1814; a Vice-Admiral 19 July, 1821; and a full Admiral 10 Jan. 1837. His nomination to the K.C.B. took place 6 June, 1833.

Sir Geo. Parker married a daughter of the late Peter Bult, Esq. – Hallett and Robinson.

 PARKER. 

entered the Navy, 27 Jan. 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capts. Wm. Domett, Chas. Boyles, John Whitby, and Wm. Hargood; In which ship he continued for a period of six years and a half. At first he was stationed in the Channel; he afterwards accompanied Lord Nelson to the West Indies and back in pursuit of the combined squadrons of France and Spain; and on 21 Oct. 1805 he was present as Midshipman (a rating he had attained in June, 1801) at the battle of Trafalgar. He next, 14 Sept. 1806, witnessed the destruction, off Cape Henry, of the French 74-gun ship L’Impétueux; and in Nov. 1807, on his return from a second visit to the West Indies, where he had removed with Capt. Hargood to the 74, he was ordered to join the  74, bearing the flag at Halifax of Sir