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Rh of Sir Edw. W. C. B. Owen, in the East Indies; where he was placed in command, 12 May, 1831, of the 18. That vessel being paid off about Jan. 1834, he was appointed, 11 April, in the same year, to the 74, hearing the flag at Lisbon of Sir Wm. Hall Gage, under whom he served for a period of three years and nine months. He attained his present rank 28 June, 1838, and was afterwards, 18 March, 1839, and 18 Aug. 1841, placed in command of the 50, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Harvey, and 26, both on the North America and West India station. Since the autumn of 1842, at which period the latter vessel was put out of commission, Capt. Parker has been on half-pay. – Goode and Lawrence.

 PARKER. 

, born 19 Aug. 1790, is eldest son of the late Edw. Parker, Esq., of Clithero, by Sarah, daughter of John Leaper, Esq., of Kellet House, co. Lancaster.

This officer entered the Navy, 22 Sept. 1808, as L.M., on board the 36, Capt. Wm. Granger, attached to the force on the Lisbon station, where he attained the rating of Midshipman in Sept. 1809, and in April, 1810, followed the same Captain into the 80. Removing, in May, 1811, to the 74, Capt. Sir Home Popham, he assisted in that ship, in the course of 1812, at the reduction of Lequeytio and Castro, on the north coast of Spain; also in the attacks made upon Puerta Galetta, Guetaria, and Santander; anii at the destruction of the fortifications of Bermeo, Plenoia, Galea, Algorta, Begona, El Campillo las Quersas, and Xebiles. In Aug. 1814, after having escorted Earl Moira to India in the 74, also commanded by Sir H. Popham, he joined the  74, Capt. Zachary Mudge, stationed in the Channel; whence, in the ensuing month, he sailed for North America, as a Supernumerary, in the  50,, Capt. Arthur Farquhar. Being nominated, on his arrival. Master’s Mate of the 80, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, he was afforded an opportunity, in consequence, of sharing in the operations against New Orleans. He returned to England in March, 1815, in the 38, Capt. Sir Edw. Thos. Troubridge; attained his present rank 20 Sept. following; was subsequently, between Feb. 1825 and the early part of 1827, employed in the 46, and, as First-Lieutenant, in the  26, Capts. John Maxwell and Adolphus FitzClarence; and since 21 June, 1843, has been officiating as Admiralty in a contract mail steam- vessel.

Lieut. Parker married, 19 June, 1816, Sarah, daughter of John Cundale, Esq., of Snab Green, near Lancaster, by whom he has issue two sons and two daughters. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 PARKER. 

was born 5 Feb. 1793. This officer entered the Navy, 2 Sept. 1804, as Third-cl. Vol., on board the gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander John Row Morris, under whom he was for three years actively employed, part of the time as Midshipman, on the Channel and Mediterranean stations. On his removal, in Aug. 1807, to the, another gun-brig, commanded in succession by Lieuts. John Price, Jas. Leach, Joshua Birks, Thos. Ellery, and Geo. Green, he was at first engaged in attendance on the Copenhagen expedition, and next in blockading the enemy’s ports and in destroying their trade on the coast of France; where, it appears, he took part in many hazardous cutting-out affairs, was on one occasion wounded in the head, and at times landed in charge of secret papers. After witnessing the operations in the Scheldt, whence he brought a gun-boat, No. 31, to England, Mr. Parker was received, in March, 1810, on board the 50, Capt. Wm. Hanwell. On his return home with convoy from China, whither he had also escorted the trade, he joined, in Nov. 1811, the 16, Capt. Geo. Gustavus Lennock; in which vessel, on 3 July, 1812, we find him, in face of the enemy’s fleet at Flushing, and under the very guns of that enemy’s forts, assisting in a dashing attack made by her on 14 brigs (each armed with 3 or 4 long 24-pounders), three of which were driven on shore. In Dec. of the same year he was sent in charge of a prize to North Yarmouth; but the vessel on her passage taking fire, he was under the necessity of abandoning her, and of remaining in consequence exposed, until picked up, to several hours of intense hardship. He afterwards went back to the, and continued in her until Sept. 1813. Becoming attached, in Feb. 1814, to the 50, armée en flûte, Capt. Chas. Montagu Fabian, he sailed in that ship for Quebec; from which place, in the ensuing June, he proceeded as a Volunteer to Lake Ontario, and there joined the 56, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo, by whom he was in succession transferred to various vessels, and for a time entrusted with the command of a gun-boat. On his arrival home in a transport in Dec. 1815, he was promoted for his services to the rank of Lieutenant by a commission bearing date 17 of the preceding March. His last appointment was, 31 Jan. 1833, to the Coast Guard, in which he remained nearly two years.

Lieut. Parker married, 3 Oct. 1819, Rachel, daughter of Wm. Smith, Esq., of Wickford Hall, co. Essex, by whom he has issue three children. – Messrs. Chard.

 PARKER, Bart., G.C.B.

is immediately descended from a younger son of Sir Thos. Parker, Kt., who held the office of Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer for a period terminating in Oct. 1772; and is a relative of the present Thos. Hawe Parker, Esq., of Park Hall, co. Stafford, a Deputy-Lieutenant for that shire. He is nephew of the late Earl St. Vincent.

This officer entered the Navy, 5 March, 1793, as Captain’s Servant, on board the 74, Capt. John Thos. Duckworth; in which ship he served for some time in the West Indies, and was present, as Midshipman, in the actions of 28 and 29 May and 1 June, 1794. Following Capt. Duckworth, in March, 1795, into the 74, he soon again sailed for the West Indies, where, besides assisting at the capture of a large number of the enemy’s vessels, he took part in the unsuccessful attack made in March, 1796, on the town of Leogane, St. Domingo. On 6 May and 24 June, 1798, he was successively nominated (after an unemployed interval of 18 months) Acting-Lieutenant, on the Jamaica station, of the frigate, Capts. Wm. Henry Bicketts and Wm. Ogilvy, and 98, flag-ship of Sir Hyde Parker; by whom, from 29 April, 1799, until the receipt of his first Admiralty commission bearing date 5 Sept. in the same year, he was entrusted with the command of the  22, and of the  and  sloops. Attaining the rank of Commander 10 Oct. 1799, Capt. Parker, after intermediately commanding the 54, was appointed, 11 Nov. following, to the  18; in which vessel, employed in the West Indies, North Sea, and Channel, he made prize of La Légère French packet, of 14 guns and 50 men, laden with a valuable cargo, and contributed, in company with  24, Capt. Zachary Mudge, to the capture of El Cantara Spanish privateer of 22 guns and 110 men, and of her consort a lugger mounting 10 guns. On the occasion of his promotion to Post rank, 9 Oct. 1801, Capt. Parker was appointed to 36; and on 8 Nov. 1802, after having held command for eight months of the  32, and conveyed a body of German troops to Holland, he joined the  38. In that ship, at the commencement of the late war with France