the East Indies until 1832 – and, 3 May, 1834, to the Hastings 74, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Wm. Hall Gage at Lisbon. While attached to the Cruizer, of which vessel he held the command for a short period, Lieut. Parkin was actively employed on the Swan River. He was advanced to his present rank, on the return home of the Hastings, 23 Dec. 1837; and has since been on half-pay. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
PARKIN. (Captain, 1841. f-p., 16; h-p., 26)
John Pengelly Parkin entered the Navy, 31 March, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Achille 74, commanded by the late Sir Rich. King; and on 21 of the following Oct. was present as Midshipman in the action off Cape Trafalgar. He was afterwards in the same ship at the blockade of Ferrol and Cherbourg, and at the defence of Cadiz. In March, 1811, he followed Sir Rich. King into the San Josef 110, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Cotton in the Mediterranean; on his return whence he joined, in March, 1812, the Hermes 20, Capt. Philip Browne. He removed, in the following Oct., to the Salvador del Mundo, bearing the flag of Sir Robt. Calder at Plymouth, where he remained until March, 1813. Being then again placed under the orders of Sir Rich. King, whose flag was flying in the Mediterranean on board the San Josef, he continued employed with him, alternately in the capacities of Master’s Mate and Acting-Lieutenant, until again transferred, in Aug. 1814, to the Salvador del Mundo, flag-ship at the time of Admiral Wm. Domett. On 15 Sept. in the latter year he was confirmed in the rank of Lieutenant. His next appointments were – 25 Oct. and 8 Dec. 1815, to the St. George and Impregnable 98’s, flag-ships of Sir John Thos. Duckworth at Plymouth – and, 6 March, 1816, to the Magicienne 36, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Rich. King in the East Indies; on which station he was made Commander, 12 Dec. 1816, into the Bacchus 18. He returned to England about 1820; and was lastly, from 11 Feb. 1840 until advanced to his present rank 28 Aug. 1841, employed as Second-Captain in the Cambridge 78, Capt. Edw. Barnard; under whom he took part in the operations on the coast of Syria and was present at the blockade of Alexandria. He has since been on half-pay. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
PARKINSON. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
William Frederick W. Parkinson passed his examination 2 March, 1837; was for some time Mate of the Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir Graham Moore at Plymouth; and for his services in that capacity in China on board the Cambrian 36, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 23 Dec. 1842.[1] His next and last appointment was, 20 Jan. 1844, to the Volage 26, Capt. Sir Wm. Dickson; under whom he was employed on particular service until paid off in 1845. He was awarded a pension for wounds 22 Dec. 1846.
PARKMAN. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 19; h-p., 34.)
John Parkman, born at Portsea, co. Hants, is son of the late Mr. John Parkman, an old and well-known Pilot for the coast of France.
This officer entered the Navy, 11 Nov. 1794, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Robust 74; in which ship, successively commanded by Capts. Edw. Thornbrough, Geo. Countess, Wm. Brown, John Acworth Ommanney, and Wm. Henry Jervis, he continued until July, 1802. In 1795 he was present in Lord Bridport’s action, and in the expedition to Quiberon; he assisted afterwards at the blockade of Brest, L’Orient, and La Rochelle; and on 12 Oct. 1798 he contributed, off the coast of Ireland, to the capture, with a loss to the Robust of 10 killed and 40 wounded, of the French 74-gun ship Le Hoche, one of a squadron commanded by Commodore Bompart. Previously to the latter affair he had aided in landing a body of troops at Wexford. At the commencement of 1802 he made a voyage to the West Indies. After an attachment of a few months, as Admiralty-Midshipman, to the Diamond 38, Capt. Thos. Elphinstone, he was nominated, in June, 1803, Master’s Mate of the Magnificent 74, commanded by his former Captain W. H. Jervis; under whom he was wrecked during a gale of wind off Brest 25 March, 1804. He was in consequence detained a prisoner in France until the end of the war. His promotion to the rank of Lieutenant took place 20 Nov. 1812.
He married, 10 Aug. 1810, at Verdun, and has issue 12 children. Agents – Pettett and Newton.
PARKS. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 21; h-p., 20.)
Abraham Parks entered the Navy, 24 Dec. 1806, as Clerk, on board the Sandwich, Lieut.-Commander Emanuel Hungerford, lying in the River Medway, where he attained the rating of Midshipman in April, 1808, and in the following Sept. removed to the Irresistible prison-ship, Lieut. -Commander Poynter Crane. Becoming attached, in Jan. 1809, to the Sirius 36, Capt. Sam. Pym, he assisted in that vessel at the reduction, in the ensuing Sept., of the town of St. Paul’s, in the Ile de Bourbon. On his return to England in July, 1810, in the Raisonnable 64, Capt. John Hatley, he joined the Melpomène troop-ship, Capts. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave, Gordon Thos. Falcon, and Robt. Rowley; under whom he continued employed until Feb. 1815 on the Lisbon and Mediterranean stations, and also in the Chesapeake, where he was severely burnt by an explosion of gunpowder. On 7 of the month last mentioned he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Portia 14, Capt. Henry Thomson; and in the following Nov., after having again served on board the Melpomène as Master’s Mate, and as Admiralty-Midshipman in the Julia 14, Capt. John Wyatt Watling, he took up a commission bearing date 15 March in the same year. His appointments have since been – 18 May, 1835, to the Coast Guard – 7 Feb. 1839, to the Victory 104, flag-ship of Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie, Admiral-Superintendent at Portsmouth – and, 21 July, 1839, 3 Sept. 1841, and 20 Oct. 1847, to the successive command of the Pike, Cuckoo, and Dasher steam-packets. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
PARLBY. (Commander, 1836. f-p., 26; h-p., 11.)
James Edward Parlby entered the Navy, 27 Aug. 1810, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the Armide 38, Capt. Rich. Dalling Dunn, attached to the force on the Home station; where he continued employed as Midshipman, until Aug. 1815, in the Dublin 74, Capts. R. D. Dunn and Thos. Elphinstone, Centaur 74, Capts. John Chambers White and Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, and Rhin 38, Capt. Chas. Malcolm. While on board the latter ship he witnessed the cutting out of several vessels from the harbour of Corrijou, near Abervrach, 18 July, 1815. On leaving her he joined the Superb 74, Capt. Chas. Ekins; under whom, in Aug. 1816, he accompanied the expedition against Algiers. He continued to serve in the Superb at Plymouth until Oct. 1818; and he was next, between that date and March, 1823, employed as Admiralty-Midshipman in the Révolutionnaire 46, Capt. Hon. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew, Impregnable 104, flag-ship of Lord Exmouth, Révolutionnaire again, Capt. Pellew, Albion 74, Capt. Sir Wm. Hoste, and Créole 42, Commodore Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy, on the Mediterranean, Home, and South American stations. He was then nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Doris 42, Capt. Fred. Edw. Vernon (now Harcourt); and on 7 June following he was confirmed into his former ship the Créole. His succeeding appointments were – in Feb. 1824, to the Albion 74, Capts. Sir Wm. Hoste and John Acworth Ommanney, in which ship he remained until Sept. 1825 – 25 May, 1830, to the Dryad 42, Capt. John Hayes, fitting for the coast of Africa – and, 11 Oct. 1832, to the command (a short time after the Dryad had been paid off) of the Griffon brigan-
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1843, p. 2950.
