Background
Parker was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, the son of Robert Parker and Jane Hatch, and was educated in Saint John and Windsor, Nova Scotia.
Parker was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, the son of Robert Parker and Jane Hatch, and was educated in Saint John and Windsor, Nova Scotia.
He represented Saint John County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1826 to 1830. He went on to study at King"s College, then studied law with Ward Chipman, Junior. and was called to the bar in 1820. Parker served as attorney general in 1828 following the death of Thomas Wetmore and became solicitor general later that year after Charles Jeffery Peters was named attorney general.
He was also named judge commissary in the vice admiralty court.
In 1834, he was named puisne judge in the province"s Supreme Court. In 1865, he was named Chief Justice but died a few months later in Saint John.