Education
He attended Elmfield College and was then a master there.
He attended Elmfield College and was then a master there.
He qualified as a doctor from the University of Leeds and was commissioned Lieutenant in the Territorial Army Royal Army Medical Corps in 1927, eventually reaching the rank of Colonel. Farmer and director of family wool business, B Parkinson & Company
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He was Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Pudsey and Otley from 1945 to 1950, and after that constituency was abolished in boundary changes for the 1950 general election, he was Member of Parliament for Ripon from 1950 until his death in 1973.
He served as Chairman, British group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, 1951-1959 and as a member of the Church Assembly.