Background
Born on 24 May 1888, George Parker was the only child of Viscount Parker (the heir of Thomas Parker, 6th Earl of Macclesfield), by his marriage to Carine Agnes, the daughter of Pryse Loveden, of Gogerddan, Cardiganshire.
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Born on 24 May 1888, George Parker was the only child of Viscount Parker (the heir of Thomas Parker, 6th Earl of Macclesfield), by his marriage to Carine Agnes, the daughter of Pryse Loveden, of Gogerddan, Cardiganshire.
He was among the last to serve simultaneously as Lord Lieutenant of an English county and as chairman of its county council. His father died in 1895. The next year, his mother married secondly Captain L. West. Matthews, of the 5th Dragoon Guards, providing the young earl with a stepfather.
In 1909 Macclesfield married Lilian Joanna Vere Boyle, the daughter of Major Charles Boyle, of Great Milton, Oxfordshire.
They had three sons, the marriage lasting until his wife"s death in 1974. He became a Justice of the Peace for Oxfordshire in 1911, was elected to the Oxfordshire County Council, of which he was chairman from 1937 to 1970, was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant in 1935, and was Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire from 1954 to 1963.