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- Frontmatter
- PLATES IN VOLUME XX. From Original Designs
- PREFACE TO THE TWENTIETH VOLUME
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE CAPTAIN WILLIAM HENRY JERVIS, OF THE ROYAL NAVY
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF SIR CHARLES BRISBANE, KNT. CAPTAIN IN THE ROYAL NAVY
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE JOHN BENBOW, ESQ. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF GEORGE NICHOLAS HARDINGE, ESQ. LATE CAPTAIN OF THE SAN FIORENZO
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE SIR HYDE PARKER, BART. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE SIR CHARLES SAXTON, BART. COMMISSIONER OF THE NAVY AT PORTSMOUTH
- INDEX
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MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE SIR HYDE PARKER, BART. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- PLATES IN VOLUME XX. From Original Designs
- PREFACE TO THE TWENTIETH VOLUME
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE CAPTAIN WILLIAM HENRY JERVIS, OF THE ROYAL NAVY
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF SIR CHARLES BRISBANE, KNT. CAPTAIN IN THE ROYAL NAVY
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE JOHN BENBOW, ESQ. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF GEORGE NICHOLAS HARDINGE, ESQ. LATE CAPTAIN OF THE SAN FIORENZO
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE SIR HYDE PARKER, BART. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE SIR CHARLES SAXTON, BART. COMMISSIONER OF THE NAVY AT PORTSMOUTH
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
“The waves have spent their fury;
The sea-nymphs in their pearly caves
From future storms secure you.”
Cumberland.The gentleman, to whom the following particulars relate, was the father of Sir Hyde Parker, Knt. whose services are recorded in the fifth volume of the Naval Chronicle; and who, having attained the rank of admiral of the red squadron, died on the 16th of March, 1807.
Mr. Parker was the descendant of an ancient and highly respectable family, which is understood to have settled at Hoberton, in Devonshire, early in the fifteenth century. He was the second son of the Rev. Hyde Parker, rector of Tredington, in Worcestershire, who married the daughter of a Mr. Reeves; and grandson of Sir Henry Parker, Bart. by Margaret, the daughter of Dr. Alexander Hyde, bishop of Salisbury.
His earlier services are unrecorded; but, on the 16th of Jan. 1744-5, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. The time of his holding the intermediate rank of commander must have been short; as, on the 24th of March, 1747-8, he was made post, in the Lively frigate. It was on board the Lively, that his son first entered the service.
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- The Naval ChronicleContaining a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects, pp. 337 - 424Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1808