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PARKER 121 PARKER hi which Frederick A. Cook accompanied him. He has written articles for sci- entific journals and published "A Sys- tematic Treatise on Electrical Measure- ments." PARKER, HORATIO WILLIAM, an American composer; born at Auburn- dale, Mass., in 1863. He was educated in the United States and Europe and studied music at the Royal Conserva- tory at Munich. From 1885 to 1887 he was professor of music at the Cathedral School of St. Paul and Garden City, L. I., and was organist of Trinity Church from 1888 to 1893. From the latter year he was organist of Trinity Church in Bos- ton. From 1894 he was professor of the theory of music at Yale University. His first opera, "Hora Novissima," was performed at Chester, England, Festi- val in July, 1899, and at other festivals in England, He was awarded the Metro- politan Opera prize of $10,000 for the opera "Mona," and the second prize of the same amount given by the National Federation of Women's Clubs for the opera "Fairyland," in 1914. He com- posed other operas and other music, sacred and secular. Died 1919. PARKER, JOSEPH, an English preacher and orator; born April 9, 1830, in Hexham, Northumberland; was edu- cated privately and at University College, London ; elected Chairman of the Congre- gational Union, 1884; minister of the City Temple, London, from 1869; author of "Ecce Deus," "The Paraclete," "The Peo- ple's Bible," a gigantic undertaking in 25 volumes, and "Weaver Stephens," a novel. In the autumn of 1887 Dr. Parker visited the United States, and delivered a me- morial eulogy of Henry Ward Beecher in the Academy of Music, Brooklyn. He died in 1902. PARKER, LOUIS NAPOLEON, mod- ern English dramatist; born in 1852 at Calvados, France, and first devoted him- self to the study of music in Freiburg and later at the Royal Academy in London. For nineteen years he was director of a famous English music school, the Sher- borne School. Since 1896 his work has been entirely literary, and his fame rests on this and not on his musical composi- tions. Among his most celebrated and successful dramas are: "Pomander Walk" (1910); "Disraeli" (1911); "Drake" (1912) ; and "Joseph and His Brethren" (1918). Perhaps his best dramas are his two patriotic ones of "Disraeli" and "Drake," the former made famous by the actor, George Arliss. PARKER, MATTHEW, Archbishop of Canterbury; born in Norwich in 1504; was educated at Cambridge, and after having been licensed to preach was ap- pointed dean of Stoke College in Suffolk, a king's chaplain and a canon of Ely. In 1544 he was appointed master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and elected later vice-chancellor. Queen Mary deprived Parker of his offices, and he remained in concealment till the ac- cession of Elizabeth in 1558, by whom he was appointed Archbishop of Canter- bury. While he held this office he had the Bible translated from the text of Cranmer, and published at his own ex- pense. He founded the Antiquarian So- ciety, and was editor of the "Chronicles of Walsingham," "Matthew Paris," and "Roger of Wendover." He died in 1575. PARKER, THEODORE, an American theologian; born in Lexington, Mass., in 1810. He entered Harvard College in 1830, continuing, however, for a time to THEODORE PARKER work on his father's farm; afterward teaching school at Boston. In 1834 he entered the Theological School. He was chosen, in 1837, minister of a Unitarian congregation at West Rrxbury. He had there leisure for study, and read exten- sively, enjoying the society of Dr. Chan- ning. His views of Christianity had diverged considerably from the standard of his sect, and great excitement was occasioned by his sermon "On the Transient and Permanent in Christi-