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Authorised form of nameParker; Thomas (? 1666 - 1732); 1st Earl of Macclesfield and Viscount Parker
Dates? 1666 - 1732
Place of birthNewcastle-under-Lyme or Leek, Staffordshire, England
Date of birth23 July 1666 or 1667
Place of deathHis son's house, Soho Square, London
Date of death28 April 1732
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Shirburn, Oxfordshire
OccupationBarrister
ActivityEducation:
School at Newport, Shropshire, and Mr Ogden's School at Derby; Trinity College, Cambridge (admitted 1685); Inner Temple (admitted 1684)
Career:
Called to the Bar (1691); MP for Derby (1705-1710); Serjeant-at-Law (1705-1710); Privy Councillor (1710); Lord Chief Justice (1710); Lord Chancellor (1718-1725); Custos Rotulorum of Worcestershire (1718); Teller of the Exchequer (1719); Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire (1719); High Steward of Staffordshire (1724-1726); impeached for corruption (1725), found guilty and fined £30,000; died of strangury
Honours:
Kt 1705; Baron Parker of Macclesfield 1716; Viscount Parker and Earl of Macclesfield 1721
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election20/03/1712
ProposerSir Isaac Newton
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
Council: 1730
RelationshipsSon of Thomas Parker, Attorney, of Leek, Staffordshire, and his wife, Anne, daughter of Robert Venables of Nuneham, Cheshire; married his second cousin, Janet, daughter of Robert Carrier of Wirksworth, Derbyshire, and his wife, Elizabeth; father of George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield (FRS 1722); uncle by marriage of Thomas Anson (FRS 1730)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
Gentleman's Magazine 1732, p724, 771, 776 (obituary)
London Magazine 1732, p43 (obituary)
P Quarrie 'The Scientific library of the earls of Macclesfield' in NR 2006 vol 60 pp 5-25
Notes:
Elected a Fellow simply as Sir Thomas Parker.
CodeNA5749
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