John Borlase Warren. Under that officer (with the exception of an interval between Nov. 1811 and May, 1813, passed on board the Dragon 74, Capts. Thos. Forrest, Fras, Aug. Collier, and Robt. Barrie) Mr. Parker, whose first commission bears date 28 April, 1808, continued almost uninterruptedly employed in the same ship and in the San Domingo 74, part of the time as Flag-Lieutenant, until advanced to his present rank, 27 June, 1814. His last appointment was to the Coast Guard, in which service he remained from 3 Feb. 1832 until the early part of 1835.
Commander Parker married, 10 April, 1822, Lady Frances Theophila Anne Hastings, eldest daughter of the late and sister of the present Earl of Huntingdon. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
PARKER. (Retired Commander, 1836. f-p., 19; h-p., 34.)
Henry Dickson Parker was born in 1778. This officer entered the Navy, in Nov. 1794, as Midshipman, on board the Stately 64, Capt. Billy Douglas, and in the summer of the following year was present at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope, where he served on shore with the second battalion of seamen under Capt. Temple Hardy. After co-operating in the capture of the island of Ceylon, and witnessing the surrender of the Dutch squadron in Saldanha Bay, he became Master’s Mate, in Sept. 1796, of the Crescent 36, Capts. John Wm. Spranger and Chas. Brisbane, flag-ship for some time of Rear-Admiral Thos. Pringle at the Cape. In the following Dec. he was detached in command, as Acting-Lieutenant, of the Euphrosyne cutter, employed as a cartel, for the purpose of conveying some prisoners taken at Foul Point, Madagascar, to the Isle of France; where, for the want of hands to assist in navigating his vessel back to the Cape of Good Hope, he was retained until Oct. 1797. On the return of the Crescent to England in the summer of 1798, Mr. Parker was ordered to join the Kent 74, flag-ship of Lord Duncan; in the North Sea. During the expedition of 1799 to Holland we find him employed on shore with a party of seamen under Lieut. Chas. Richardson, and attached to the army of Sir Ralph Abercromby. After the surrender of Admiral Story’s squadron he returned to England in one of the Dutch 68’s. In Dec. 1800 he was received on board the Foudroyant 80, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Lord Keith; and, on 10 Feb. 1801, he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Pegasus 28, armée en flûte Capt. John Pengelley. While in that ship, of which, in Jan. 1802, he became Acting-First-Lieutenant, he was present at the landing of the troops in Aboukir Bay, 8 March, 1801, and during the subsequent operations in Egypt was employed in a Turkish gun-boat and on shore. Being confirmed in the rank of Lieutenant 11 April, 1803, he removed in that capacity, in the course of the following month, to the Triumph 74, Capt. Sir Robt. Barlow, with whom he cruized for 18 months off Toulon. From Dec. 1804 to May, 1805, Mr. Parker remained on half-pay in consequence of a severe liver complaint. He then joined the Elephant 74, Capt. Geo. Dundas, in the North Sea; and he was afterwards appointed, on the Home and Baltic stations – 21 May, 1806, to the Nassau 64, Capt. Robt. Campbell, part of the force employed in the attack upon Copenhagen – 6 Oct. 1807, to the Prince of Wales 98, bearing the flag of Admiral Jas. Gambier – 21 Jan. and 14 May, 1808, to the Hyperion 36, and Venerable 74, Capts. Thos. Chas. Brodie and Andrew King – 5 Feb. 1810 (after nine months of half-pay) to the Scipion 74, Capt. Chas. Philip Butler Bateman – and, 17 March and 27 Nov. following, as Senior-Lieutenant, to the Stately 64 and Tremendous 74, both commanded by Capt. Robt. Campbell. From June, 1811, to Nov. 1814, Mr. Parker had charge of a signal-station in the counties of Essex and Kent. He accepted his present rank 23 Jan. 1836. The Commander married, 4 May, 1839, Josephine Maria, eldest daughter of Capt. Rich. Lyle Hornbrook, R.M. (1833.) He had had a daughter by a former marriage.
PARKER, C.B. (Rear-Admiral of the White, 1841. f-p., 31; h-p., 20.)
Hyde Parker is son of the late Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, Kt.,[1] by his first wife, Anne, daughter of John Palmer Boteler, Esq., of Henley; half-brother of Commander Chas. Parker, R.N.; and grandson of the late Vice-Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, Bart.[2] One of his brothers, John, a Colonel in the Army, married a daughter of the late Rear-Admiral Sir Home Popham, K.C.B.; and another, Harry, a Lieutenant in the Guards, was killed at Talavera. The Rear-Admiral is uncle of Capt. Harry Eyres, R.N., C.B.
This officer entered the Royal Naval Academy 5 Feb. 1796; and embarked, in Sept. 1799, as a Volimteer, on board the Cambrian 40, Capts. Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge and Geo. Henry Towry, employed at first in the Channel and then in cruizing among the Western Islands. In Nov. 1801 he re-
- ↑ Admiral Sir Hyde Parker was born in 1739. After serving with his father (the late Vice-Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, Bart.) as Midshipman in the Lively, Squirrel, and Brilliant, he was promoted, 25 Jan. 1758, to the rank of Lieutenant. Accompanying his parent, subsequently, into the Norfolk, Grafton, and Panther, he was present, in the Grafton, at the siege of Pondicherry, and in the expedition of 1762 against the Manilla Islands; and in the Panther, at the capture of the Santissima Trinidad galleon. He attained Post-rank 18 July, 1763, and he afterwards, between 1770 and 1790, commanded, in succession, the Boston 32, Phoenix 44, Latona 38, and Goliath, Orion, and Brunswick 74’s. For his services in the Phoenix during the war with America, where he took part in the attack upon New York, accompanied the expedition against Philadelphia, and conducted the naval part of the operations on the Coast of Georgia, he was rewarded with the honour of Knighthood 21 April, 1779, In the Goliath Sir Hyde sailed with Lord Howe, in 1782, for the relief of Gibraltar, and in the action with the combined forces which followed the accomplishment of that object, had the honour of leading the van division of the fleet. In 1790 he was nominated a Colonel of Marines. On attaining, in 1793, the rank of Rear-Admiral, he became Captain of the Mediterranean fleet under Lord Hood, with whom he served in that capacity at the occupation of Toulon, and at the reduction of Corsica. In 1795, having in the preceding year acquired the rank of Vice-Admiral and hoisted his flag on board the St. George 98, he was afforded an opportunity of sharing in Admiral Hotham’s two partial actions with the French. He was afterwards, for three years, Commander-in-Chief on the Jamaica station; and on his return to England he was appointed to the chief command of the Channel fleet. He had risen to the rank of full Admiral in Feb. 1799. He closed his naval career by commanding in chief the famous expedition which, in the battle of 2 April, ISOl, broke the Northern Confederacy. For that service he received the thanks of both Houses of Parliament. He died an Admiral of the Red 16 March, 1807.
- ↑ Vice-Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, Bart., served as Midshipman under Commodore Anson in 1739-40, was made a Lieutenant about 1744, and a Post-Captain in the Lively frigate about 1747. Between 1757 and the period of his promotion to Flag rank, which took place 23 Jan. 1778, he commanded the Squirrel, Brilliant, Norfolk, Grafton, Panther, and Invincible. In the Brilliant he served under Rear-Admiral Rodney at the destruction of Havre-de-Grace in 1759; in the Nobfolk he assisted at the siege of Pondicherry, and at the capture of the Manilla Islands in 1762; and in the Panther, in Nov. of the latter year, he made prize, after a close action of two hours, of the Santissima Trinidad Spanish galleon, pierced for 60 guns, carrying between 700 and 800 men, and valued at upwards of 500,000l. In 1778 Rear-Admiral Parker succeeded to the chief command in the West Indies, where his exertions in protecting the commerce of England, and in distressing that of the enemy, were highly successful. On 17 April, 1780, he bore a distinguished part in Sir George Rodney’s partial engagement with the French fleet under Admiral de Guichen, off Ste, Lucie; and in the following Sept. he was advanced to the rank of Vice-Admiral. Being soon afterwards invested with the chief command in the North Sea, he there, on 5 Aug. 1781, with 7 sail of the line, 4 frigates, and a cutter, fell in, near the Doggerbank with a Dutch squadron, under Admiral Zoutman, consisting of 6 line of battle ships, two of 44 guns each, and 4 frigates; the whole of which, after a brilliant and most obstinate conflict of three hours and forty minutes, were compelled to retire into the Texel, with the loss of one ship of the line. On 13 Oct. 1782, Sir Hyde sailed for the East Indies with his flag in the Cato 50, but he was never heard of after leaving Rio de Janeiro on 12 Dec.
