Person Parker; Thomas (? 1666 - 1732); 1st Earl of Macclesfield and Viscount Parker Parker Thomas ? 1666 - 1732 Male Newcastle-under-Lyme or Leek, Staffordshire, England 23 July 1666 or 1667 His son's house, Soho Square, London 28 April 1732 Burial: Shirburn, Oxfordshire

Serjeant's Inn, Fleet Streeet, London (1718); Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire

Barrister Education: 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 Son 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) Royal Society roles: Council: 1730 Fellow 20/03/1712 Sir Isaac Newton Sources: 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. International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 23 Jul 1666 - 28 Apr 1732 NA5749 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 4415d7ba-b41b-43d7-831f-82537ffd484d