Background
Parker, Frederick Hardyman was born on December 8, 1856. Son of late W. A. Parker, Advocate Scots Bar, one of His (or Her) Majesty Colonial Chief Justices, and Sophia Amelia Alfonsina, daughter of Robert M’Clintock of Ballyarten.
Parker, Frederick Hardyman was born on December 8, 1856. Son of late W. A. Parker, Advocate Scots Bar, one of His (or Her) Majesty Colonial Chief Justices, and Sophia Amelia Alfonsina, daughter of Robert M’Clintock of Ballyarten.
Studied at Isleworth College, and Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Cranbrook. Edinburgh and London Universities, Matric (honours 8th), 1874. Watson Prizeman in History and Political Economy.
Honours in Law (Edinburgh).
Middle Temple Scholarship in Real Property Law, 1879. Master of Arts (Edinburgh).
Called to English Bar, 1880. Employed in Canada; admitted to Bar, British Honduras, 1881. Practised as Solicitor, Supreme Court.
Deputy Attorney General, Corosal Circuit, 1882.
Notary, and Standing Conveyancing Counsel, 1883. Registrar, Supreme Court.
Keeper of the Public Records, and ProvostMarshall, Honduras, 1884. Also Registrar in Admiralty.
Lands and Titles; Companies, et cetera
A Prison-Justice Justice of the Peace of Colony. Commissioner of Supreme Court, et cetera Member of Board of Agriculture.
Secretary of Crownlands Board, and of Commission for Codification of Laws (thanked by Government).
Chairman of the Commission on Tenures and Titles to Lands. Acted as District Magistrate and Coroner, Belize.
Acted Attorney General, with seat in Legislative and Executive Councils, seven times, 1883-1887. Acted Chief Justice, twice, 18S6, 18S7.
As Chief of Alcaldes of Honduras.
Received the Jubilee Medal, 1887. President, District Court, Papho, Cyprus, 1890. Acting President, Limmassol, 1892, and Larnaka, 1893-1895.
President, Famagusta, 1892.
Passed in Modern Greek, 1894. President, Limassol, 1897.
President, Nikosia, 1902. Acting President, Kyrenia.
Acted Puisne Judge, Supreme Court, Cyprus, 1903, 1904, 1905.
Has passed in Turkish. Attached to Bow Street Police Court, London, 1905-1906. Acted Chief Justice of Cyprus, 1906.
Puisne Judge, Leeward Islands, and Judge of Supreme Court of Appeals, since 1907.
Acting Chief Justice, Keeper of the Records, Leeward Isles, 1909.
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Member of Royal Asiatic Society. Club: Royal Societies.