Charles Parke (10 June 1791 – 1860) was an English landowner and Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset.
Life
editHe was the son of William Parke of the Thickets, Jamaica, and his wife Eleanor Baldwin Crosse.[1] In 1810 he was HBM Commissioner to Mexico where he was tasked with purchasing bullion for the British Government.[2] The family were slave-owners in Jamaica. The compensation money paid to them on emancipation was shared between Charles's brother William Parke (1784–1863) and his mother.[3]
Parke's father died in 1813. In 1847 Charles Parke purchased the Henbury estate in Dorset, and resided there.[4][5]
Family
editIn 1820 Parke married Letitia Alcock, daughter of Joseph Alcock of Roehampton.[4] Letitia's brother was Thomas Alcock (MP). Their children included Charles Joseph Parke;[6] and William Parke, at Eton College with him.[7] Charles' great-niece Alice Katherine Parke, married Henry James Grasett, a Canadian militia and army officer who became the longest serving police chief in the history of the Toronto police force.[8]
References
edit- ^ "Summary of Individual Eleanor Baldwin Parke, Legacies of British Slave-ownership". www.ucl.ac.uk.
- ^ "Parke family". Retrieved 23 June 2018.
- ^ "William Parke Profile Legacies Summary". Archived from the original on 8 August 2020.
- ^ a b Burke, Bernard (1898). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Harrison & sons. p. 1145.
- ^ The county families of the United Kingdom, P 494, E Walford, 1882
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ Eton school lists from 1791 to 1877, with notes and index. London, Simpkin, Marshall, and co. 1884. pp. 164 and 167.
- ^ http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/
