to advance the scientific knowledge of the disease.
Parker had a cultivated musical taste, was an enthusiastic playgoer, an accomplished French and a good Italian scholar. He died in Paradise Street on Friday, 27 Oct. 1871, and was buried at Aston.
He was author of: 1. ‘The Stomach in its Morbid States,’ 8vo, 1837. This work was subsequently condensed into 2. ‘Digestion and its Disorders,’ 8vo, 1849. 3. ‘The Modern Treatment of Cancerous Diseases,’ 4to, 1857. 4. ‘Clinical Lectures on Infantile Syphilis,’ 1858. 5. ‘The Treatment of Secondary Syphilis,’ 8vo, which reappeared in 1868 as 6. ‘The Mercurial Vapour Bath,’ 8vo. 7. ‘The Modern Treatment of Syphilitic Diseases,’ 1st edit. 1839, 2nd edit. 1845, 3rd edit. 1854, 4th edit. 1860, 5th edit. 1871.
[Obituary Notice in the British Medical Journal, 1871, ii. 540; a Biographical Memoir by William Bates prefixed to the Literary Remains of S. W. Langston Parker, Birmingham, ed. Josiah Allen, 1876; additional facts communicated to the writer by Adams Parker, esq., L.D.S., London.]
PARKER, THOMAS (fl. 1581), Roman catholic divine, educated at Cambridge, graduated B.A. 1535–6, commenced M.A. 1541, and in 1541 was named a fellow of Trinity College in the foundation charter. He proceeded B.D. in 1548. Being a theologian of considerable learning, he took part, on the Roman catholic side, in 1549 in the disputation on the sacrament before King Edward's visitors (Cooper, Annals, ii. 31). In July 1555 he signed the articles of religion imposed by Queen Mary's visitors, and in October of the same year was present at the trial for heresy of Wolsey and Pigot. On 26 Feb. 1555–6 he was made one of Lady Margaret's preachers, and in 1558 was re-elected. In the records of Cardinal Pole's visitation of the university in 1556–7 his name frequently appears. In April 1556 he was presented by the crown to the vicarage of Mildenhall, Suffolk. After Elizabeth's accession he went abroad, where he obtained the degree of D.D., and was alive at Milan in 1581.
Henry Mason, an English spy, who had taken the oath of allegiance to the king of Spain, refers in January 1576 to a ‘Dr. Parker and the other English Louvainists,’ whose secrets he undertook to discover and report to Burghley; but it is not possible to establish his identity with certainty; his name does not appear in the published records of Louvain (cf. Andreas, Fasti Acad. Lov. 1635).
[Cooper's Athenæ Cantabr. i. 452; Lamb's Collection of Letters, Statutes, and other Documents … illustrative of the History of the University of Cambridge, xxvii. 114, 116, 175, 205, 216, 226.]
PARKER, THOMAS (1595–1677), New England divine, born probably at Stanton St. Bernard, Wiltshire, 8 June 1595 (New England Hist. and Gen. Register, October 1852, p. 352), was the only son of Robert Parker (1564?–1614) [q. v.], 'one of the greatest scholars in the English nation . . . who was driven out . . . for his nonconformity to its unhappy ceremonies' (Mather, Magnalia Christi, Hartf. 1853, i. 480). He was admitted into Magdalen College, Oxford, but left when his father was obliged to remove to Dublin, where he studied under Archbishop Ussher. He went to Leyden University, became acquainted with William Ames (1571-1633) [q. v.], and received the degree of M.A. in 1617. The series of seventy theses defended by him may be found appended to some editions of Ames's answer to Grevinchovius. The theses were published in London in 1657 as 'Methodus Divinae Gratiae in traductione hominis peccatoris ad viam,' sm. 8vo. They were objected to at the synod of Dort, and by the theological faculty at Heidelberg, and were criticised in 'Parkerus Illustratus, authore Philo-Tileno,' London, 1660, sm. 8vo, and 'The Examination of Tilenus before the Triers, by N. H.,' London, 1658, sm. 8vo.
Parker returned to England and settled at Newbury in Berkshire, where he applied himself to 'school divinity,' taught in the free school, and was assistant preacher to Dr. Twisse. His puritan opinions caused him to embark for New England, with a number of Wiltshire men, in the Mary and John of London, 26 March 1634, and they landed in the course of the following May (New England Hist. and Gen. Register, July 1855, p. 267). About a hundred settled at Agawam, afterwards Ipswich, Massachusetts (Winthrop, Hist. of New England, 1853, i. 158), where Parker remained a year as assistant to Mr. Ward (Hubbard, Gen. Hist. of New England, 1848, p. 193). Parker, together with his cousin James Noyes, his nephew John Woodbridge, and some others, obtained leave of the general court to remove to Quascacunquen at the mouth of the Merrimac, and the settlement was incorporated as a township under the name of Newbury or Newberry in the spring of 1635 (Coffin, Sketch of Newbury, Boston, 1845, pp. 14-15). Noyes was chosen teacher and Parker first pastor of the church, the tenth established in the colony (Morse and Parish, Hist. of New England, 1808, p. 44). The river was named after Parker in 1697
