Background
Parker, John William Robinson was born in 1857 in Browsholme Hall. 2nds. of late Colonel Thos. Goulborne Parker, Justice of the Peace D.L.
Parker, John William Robinson was born in 1857 in Browsholme Hall. 2nds. of late Colonel Thos. Goulborne Parker, Justice of the Peace D.L.
Bradlield; Sandhurst.
Sub-Lieutenant (19th) The Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regiment 1876. Captain 1SS1; Major 1890. Retired when 2nd in command.
1896.
Major, 3rd (Militia) Battalion East. Lancashire Regiment 1899. Lieutenant-Colonel 1901. Commanded the Battalion in South Africa (despatches).
A member of the Harleian, Pipe Roll, Yorkshire Archaeological, Chetham, Lancashire and Cheshire Record, and other Antiquarian Societies, and has calendared and edited two volumes of Early Lancashire Assize Rolls.
Doctorate.L.,1910; F.S;A., Justice of the Peace.
Clubs: New, Royal Societies.
Spouse 1896, c. Gertrude Marion Beatrice, y.daughter of Canon J. M. Burn-Murdoch.