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Authorised form of nameParker; William Kitchen (1823 - 1890)
Dates1823 - 1890
NationalityBritish
Place of birthDogsthorpe, near Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England
Date of birth23 June 1823
Place of deathCardiff, Glamorgan
Date of death03 July 1890
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Wandsworth cemetery, London
ActivityEducation:
Charing Cross Hospital. LSA diploma (1849)
Career:
Assistant to a doctor in Little Queen Street, London; assistant to Richard Bentley Todd (FRS 1838), King's College, London; set up a practice in Pimlico; retired (1883); died of syncope
Memberships:
FZS; RMS (President)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election01/06/1865
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1866
Lectures:
Croonian 1879; Bakerian 1872
RelationshipsFather of Thomas Jeffery Parker (FRS 1888)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1890 vol 48 pp xv-xx signed by T R J and J E H
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/74593252
CodeNA6176
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
MS/787/1/1Letter from W[illiam] K[itchen] Parker, Bessborough Street, to H[enry] B[owman] Brady5 May 1860
NLB/2/640Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor [William Kitchen] Parker, [Fellow of the Royal Society]1 October 1888
NLB/2/602Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Kitchen Parker, Fellow of the Royal Society25 September 1888
NLB/2/756Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Kitchen Parker, Fellow of the Royal Society30 October 1888
NLB/4/252Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Kitchen Parker, University College Cardiff27 March 1890
NLB/2/275Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Kitchen Parker, Fellow of the Royal Society23 March 1888
NLB/4/442Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Kitchen Parker, Fellow of the Royal Society31 May 1890
NLB/3/727Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons24 September 1889
NLB/3/399Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Kitchen Parker, Fellow of the Royal Society1 June 1889
NLB/3/553Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Kitchen Parker, Fellow of the Royal Society10 July 1889
NLB/3/510Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to William Kitchen Parker, Fellow of Royal Society28 June 1889
NLB/3/715Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Kitchen Parker, Fellow of the Royal Society24 September 1889
NLB/7/320Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Thomas Jeffery Parker, Fellow of the Royal Society, care of Reverend F G M Powell, the Parsonage Dalkeith, N.B.20 January 1893
NLB/10/1055Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Newton Parker, Crowland, Cardiff1 April 1895
MC/11/352Letter from Jas [James] Budgett, Ealing Park, Middlesex, to Jno [John] Evans, Treasurer of the Royal Society1 May 1879
RR/7/130Referee's report by William Henry Flower, on a paper 'On the structure and development of the skull of the common frog' by William Kitchen Parker31 January 1871
RR/5/172Referee's report by William Henry Flower, on a paper 'On the structure and development of the skull in the ostrich tribe' by William Kitchen Parker25 October 1865
RR/6/216Referee's report by George Murray Humphry, on a paper 'On the structure and development of the skull of the common fowl (Gallus domesticus)' by William Kitchen Parker19 May 1869
RR/7/80Referee's report by William Kitchen Parker, on a paper 'On the formation of some of the subaxial arches in man' by George William Callender30 June 1871
RR/7/262Referee's report by William Henry Flower, on a paper 'On the structure and development of the skull in the pig (sus scrofa)' by William Kitchen Parker14 July 1873
RR/7/131Referee's report by Peter Martin Duncan, on a paper 'On the structure and development of the skull of the common frog' by William Kitchen Parker24 February 1871
RR/8/248Second letter from William Kitchen Parker, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper [attributed] 'On the structure and development of the skull in sturgeons (Acipenser ruthenus and A. sturio)' by William Kitchen Parker30 July 1880
RR/8/334Referee's report by William Henry Flower, on a paper 'On the structure and development of the skull in sturgeons (Acipenser ruthenus and A. sturio)' by William Kitchen Parker22 July 1881
RR/9/299Referee's report by William Henry Flower, on a paper 'On the structure and development of the skull in the mammalia.— Part II. Edentata' by William Kitchen Parker20 March 1885
RR/6/215Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the structure and development of the skull of the common fowl (Gallus domesticus)' by William Kitchen Parker28 April 1869
RR/9/122Referee's report by William Kitchen Parker, on a paper 'Researches on the foraminifera - supplemental memoir. On an abyssal type of the genus orbitolites - a study in the theory of descent' by William Benjamin Carpenter28 June 1883
RR/7/192Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the structure and development of the skull in the salmon' by William Kitchen Parker31 October 1872
RR/9/81Referee's report by William Henry Flower, on a paper 'On the development of the skull in lepidosteus osseus' by William Kitchen Parker18 February 1882
MS/427/73Copy letter from [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Miss H. E. Pipe16 December 1880
MS/427/435Note of a letter from [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Treasury25 June 1885
EC/1865/15Parker, William Kitchen: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/1/727Copy letter from George Gabriel Stokes, John Evans, Michael Foster, and Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to the Marquess of Salisbury, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil17 November 1887
NLB/2/665Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor [William Kitchen] Parker, [Fellow of the Royal Society]6 October 1888
RR/7/193Referee's report by William Henry Flower, on a paper 'On the structure and development of the skull in the salmon' by William Kitchen Parker2 December 1872
RR/8/130Referee's report by George Busk, on a paper 'On the structure and development the skull in the common snake (Tropidonotus natrix)' by William Kitchen Parker12 February 1878
RR/10/67Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the morphology of birds' by William Kitchen Parker15 March 1887
AP/64/12Unpublished paper, 'On the morphology of birds' by W K [William Kitchen] Parker1887
NLB/11/97Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr John Murray, 32 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh12 April 1895
RR/9/297Referee's report by Henry Nottidge Moseley, on a paper 'On the structure and development of the skull in the mammalia.— Part II. Edentata' by William Kitchen Parker6 December 1884
IM/000587Group lithograph of Royal Microscopical Society Presidentsnd
PT/72/5/5Plate, 'North-Atlantic foraminifera' by G West[1864]
RR/7/393Referee's report by William Henry Flower, on a paper 'On the structure and development of the skull in the batrachia. Part II' by William Kitchen Parker30 November 1875
PT/72/5/1Manuscript, 'On some foraminifera from the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, including Davis's Straits and Baffin's Bay' by W [William] Kitchen Parker and T [Thomas] Rupert Jones[1864]
PT/72/5/3Plate, 'Arctic foraminifera' by G West[1864]
PT/72/5/7Plate, 'Arctic foraminifera' by G West[1864]
PT/72/5/8Plate, 'Arctic foraminifera' by G West[1864]
PT/72/5/10Plate, 'Foraminifera of the North Atlantic' by G West[1864]
MC/7/369Letter from W K [William Kitchen] Parker, 18 Bessborough Street, to Dr [William] Sharpey, Secretary of the Royal Society5 November 1866
MC/7Volume 7 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1864-1866
PT/72/5/9Plate, 'Arctic foraminifera' by G West[1864]
RR/5/171Referee's report by George Busk, on a paper 'On some foraminifera from the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, including Davis Straits and Baffin's Bay' by William Kitchen Parker and Thomas Rupert Jones10 February 1865
RR/8/249Letter from Thomas Henry Huxley, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper [attributed] 'On the structure and development of the skull in sturgeons (Acipenser ruthenus and A. sturio)' by William Kitchen Parker30 July 1880
PT/72/5Paper, 'On some foraminifera from the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, including Davis's Straits and Baffin's Bay' by W [William] Kitchen Parker and T [Thomas] Rupert Jones[1864]
PT/72/5/2Plate, 'Arctic foraminifera' by G West[1864]
PT/72/5/4Plate, 'Arctic foraminifera' by G West[1864]
PT/72/5/6Plate, 'North-Atlantic foraminifera' by G West[1864]
PT/72/5/11Plate, 'Foraminifera of the North Atlantic' by G West[1864]
MC/11/358Letter from W K [William Kitchen] Parker, 36 Claverton Street, to Jno [John] Evans, Treasurer of the Royal Society12 May 1879
MC/11Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1877-1879
MC/12/131Letter from Hannah E [Elizabeth] Pipe, Laleham, Clarence Road, Clapham Park, to the Royal Society9 December 1880
MC/12Volume 12 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1880-1883
RR/6/45Referee's report by William Kitchen Parker, on a paper 'Description of Parkeria and Loftusia, two gigantic types of arenaceous foraminifera' by William Benjamin Carpenter and Henry Bowman Brady13 July 1869
RR/9/298Letter from Henry Nottidge Moseley, on a paper 'On the structure and development of the skull in the mammalia.— Part II. Edentata' by William Kitchen Parker to the Secretary of the Royal Society23 February 1885
RR/9/175Referee's report by William Henry Flower, on two papers 'On the skeleton of the marsipobrancli fishes. Part I - The myxinoids (Myxine, and Bdellostoma)' and 'On the skeleton of the marsipohranch fishes. Part II - Petromyzon' by William Kitchen Parker25 January 1883
RR/10/68Referee's report by Edwin Ray Lankester, on a paper 'On the morphology of birds' by William Kitchen Parker26 March 1887
RR/10/69Letter from Edwin Ray Lankester, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, regarding a paper 'On the morphology of birds' by William Kitchen Parker27 March 1887
PP/11/29Paper, 'On remnants or vestiges of amphibian and reptilian structures found in the skull of birds, both carinatae and ratitae' by William Kitchen Parker1888
PP/11/22/1Manuscript, 'True teeth in the young Ornithorhynchus paradoxus [platypus]' by Edward Bagnall Poulton1888
PP/11/22Paper, 'True teeth in the young Ornithorhynchus paradoxus [platypus]' by Edward Bagnall Poulton1888
PP/11/28Paper, 'Preliminary note on the development of the skeleton of the apteryx' by Thomas Jeffery Parker1888
PP/11/18Paper, 'On the secondary carpals, metacarpals, and digital rays in the wings of existing carinate birds' by William Kitchen Parker1888
PP/11/35Paper, 'Second preliminary note on the development of Apteryx' by Thomas Jeffery Parker1888
PP/11/34Paper, 'On the vertebral chain of birds' by William Kitchen Parker1888
PP/11/35/1Manuscript, 'Second preliminary note on the development of Apteryx' by Thomas Jeffery Parker1888
RR/5/170Referee's report by William Benjamin Carpenter, on a paper 'On some foraminifera from the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, including Davis Straits and Baffin's Bay' by William Kitchen Parker and Thomas Rupert Jones29 November 1864
RR/5/173Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the structure and development of the skull in the ostrich tribe' by William Kitchen Parker6 December 1865
RR/8/247Letter from William Kitchen Parker, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper [attributed] 'On the structure and development of the skull in sturgeons (Acipenser ruthenus and A. sturio)' by William Kitchen Parker26 July 1880
RR/10/66Referee's report by William Henry Flower, on a paper 'On the morphology of birds' by William Kitchen Parker8 March 1887
MC/14/32Letter from [John Samuel] Budgett, Stoke Park, Guildford, to the Treasurer of the Royal Society15 April 1885
PP/11/28/1Manuscript, 'Preliminary note on the development of the skeleton of the apteryx' by Thomas Jeffery Parker1888
MC/15/42Letter from [William Kitchen] Parker, Crowland, Trinity Road, Upper Tooting, to [Michael] Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society31 May 1889
MS/427/420Copy letter from [John Samuel?] Budgett to [John] Evans, Treasurer of the Royal Society15 April 1885
MC/14Volume 14 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1885-1888
MC/15Volume 15 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1889-1892
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