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He was the son of James Parkinson and his wife, Jane Birch.
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James Parkinson
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James Parkinson (baptised 28 February 1730, Street Mary"s Church, Shrewsbury – 1813) was an English land agent and museum proprietor. His first training was as a law stationer, but he then became a land agent and accountants In 1769 he helped in the settlement of Sir Thomas Robinson"s tangled estates at Rokeby, Yorkshire.
This success made his reputation.
He later became involved in the Ranelagh Gardens. The formation of the collection had bankrupted Lever.
Parkinson spent nearly two decades trying to make a success of its display, at the Blackfriars Rotunda. In the end he put it up for auction in 1806, and the collection was dispersed.
