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Authorised form of nameParker; Thomas Lister (1779 - 1858)
Dates1779 - 1858
NationalityBritish
Place of birthBrowsholme Hall, Yorkshire, England
Date of birth17 or 27 September 1779
Place of deathThe Starr Inn, Deansgate, Manchester, Lancashire
Date of death02 March 1858
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Family chapel in Waddington Church, Yorkshire
ActivityCareer:
Spent large amounts of money laying out the grounds of Browsholme Hall (1797-1810); collected pictures and antiquities; Trumpeter to the Queen, a sinecure office; sold Browsholme estate (1824)
Memberships:
FSA (1801)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election01/06/1815
RelationshipsEldest son of John Parker of Browsholme Hall; succeeded to the estate; unmarried
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Notes:
Boase gives birth date as 17 September 1779.
CodeNA6565
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1815/11Parker, Thomas Lister: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/18/142Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Rev R B Raffles, 86 St Stephen's Avenue, Shepherd's Bush, W.23 January 1899
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