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British peer and politician

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Thomas Parker, 3rd Earl of Macclesfield FRS (12 October 1723 – 9 February 1795), styled Viscount Parker between 1732 and 1764, was a British peer and politician.

Background

Macclesfield was the son of George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, and Mary, daughter of Ralph Lane.

Political career

Macclesfield was returned to Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1747, a seat he held until 1754, and then represented Oxfordshire between 1754 and 1761 and Rochester between 1761 and 1764. The latter year he succeeded his father in the earldom and entered the House of Lords. The family seat was Shirburn Castle in Oxfordshire.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in November 1747.

Family

Lord Macclesfield married his first cousin, Mary, daughter of Sir William Heathcote, 1st Baronet, and Elizabeth Parker, in 1749. They had four children:

  • Lady Elizabeth Parker (29 June 1751 – 10 June 1829), who married John Fane, son of Henry Fane MP and Charlotte Luther. They had six children.
  • Lady Mary Parker (b. 16 March 1753).
  • George Parker, 4th Earl of Macclesfield (24 Feb 1755 – 20 March 1842).
  • Thomas Parker, 5th Earl of Macclesfield (9 June 1763 – 31 March 1850). He married firstly a daughter of Lewis Edwards and had four daughters of which one, Amelia, married William Montgomery, grandson of Bernard Ward, 1st Viscount Bangor. He married secondly Eliza Wolstenholme, daughter of William Breton Wolstenholme, and with her had a son Thomas (later succeeding him as Earl), and two daughters Lavinia who married the Hon. John Dutton, son of John Dutton, 2nd Baron Sherborne and Laura who married Hugh Seymour McDonnell, 4th Earl of Antrim.

He died in February 1795, aged 71, and was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son, George. Lady Macclesfield died in May 1812.

References

  1. Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.723
  2. Lundy, Darryl. "p. 2739 § 27386". The Peerage.
  3. leighrayment.com
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  6. "Lists of Royal Society Fellows 1660-2007". London: The Royal Society. Retrieved 12 November 2010.
  7. The Register of Births & Baptisms in the Parish of St James within the Liberty of Westminster Vol. IV. 1741-1760. 9 July 1751.
  8. The Register of Births & Baptisms in the Parish of St James within the Liberty of Westminster Vol. IV. 1741-1760. 27 March 1753.
  9. Lundy, Darryl. "p. 2739 § 27386". The Peerage.
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded byHon. Baptist Leveson-Gower
Randle Wilbraham 		Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme
1747–1754
With: Hon. Baptist Leveson-Gower 		Succeeded byHon. Baptist Leveson-Gower
Hon. John Waldegrave
Preceded bySir James Dashwood, Bt
Norreys Bertie 		Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire
1754–1761
With: Sir Edward Turner, Bt 		Succeeded byLord Charles Spencer
Sir James Dashwood, Bt
Preceded byNicholas Haddock
Isaac Townsend 		Member of Parliament for Rochester
1761–1764
With: Isaac Townsend 		Succeeded byIsaac Townsend
Sir Charles Hardy
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded byGeorge Parker Earl of Macclesfield
1764–1795 		Succeeded byGeorge Parker
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