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Mungo Park, 

 British explorer 



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 reserved. In the late 10th and 

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 other hipje .in.-, ;tud towns, much 

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 tin- mi. unit being increased yearly. 

 8 Hyde Park. 



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 i-:go of military stores, puns, 

 etc. The it mi U also used for 

 the actual material in the park. 

 I'm kiim vehicles is massing them in 

 formation preparatory to a halt. 



Park, M i. NGO (1771-1806). Brit- 

 ish explon-r. Born at Foulshiels, 

 in Selkirkshire. Sept. 20, 1771. he 

 was educated 

 at Edinburgh, 

 and became a 

 surgeon. In 

 that capacity 

 he went on a 

 voyage tolndia 

 in the service 

 of the East 

 India Company 

 in 179 In 

 1795 he was 



employed by the African association 

 to explore the Niger, and proceeded 

 to Gambia,where, crossing the Sene- 

 gal, he followed the Niger to within 

 a short distance of Timbuktu. 



Hi-; adventures, described in his 

 Travels in the Interior of Africa, 

 1799, awakened great interest, 

 and he was commissioned by the 

 government to make another 

 expedition in 1805. The attempt 

 was disastrous. He had started 

 with Anderson, his brother-in-law, 

 and 45 British soldiers. Of this 

 party only three soldiers were left 

 when, after a canoe voyage of 

 over 1,000 m., he reached the lower 

 Niger. The end came near Yuri, 

 where the canoe was upset and Park 

 and his companions were drowned. 

 One native rower escaped, from 

 whom the facts were learned in 

 1812. See his Journal of a Mission 

 to the Interior, 1815 ; Mungo Park 

 and the Niger, J. Thomson, 1890. 



Parker, SIR GILBERT (b. 1862), 

 British novel- 

 ist. Born at 

 Camden East, 

 Addington, 

 Ontario, Nov. 

 23, 1862, he was 

 educated a t 

 Trinity Col- 

 lege. Toronto. 

 He was for 

 some time 



Sir Hyde Parker. 

 British sailor 



Afltr W. Etoni 



in the East and through Canada. 



Tiimiin; definitely to literature, 

 he drew largely upn the l.tml . .f hi- 

 1'iitl, in hn novels, which iiu -lud 

 Pierre and Hw People. 1802 ; The 

 Trail of th- Sword. 1895; The 

 Seats of the Mighty (dramatised 

 by ita author). isUO; The Pomp of 

 the Lavillottes, 1807; The i 

 of Way, 1001 ; Northern I 

 1000; Mtd The Judgment House, 

 1913. The World in the Crucible, 

 1015, is a book dealing with tin- 

 Great War. Sir <;ill,ert 1'iirker has 

 also written poems, and an excel- 

 lent history of Old Quebec, 1903. 

 He was Conservative .M.I', for 

 Gravesend, 1000-18. Knighted in 

 1002, he was created a baronet in 

 1015, and privy councillor in 1916. 

 Parker, SIR HYDE (1714-82). 

 British sailor. Born at Tredington, 

 Worcestershire, Feb 25, 1714, he 

 entered the 

 navy at the 

 age of 24, 

 after many 

 years in the 

 merchant 

 service. As a 

 captain his 

 most notable 

 feat was the 

 capture in 

 1762 of a Span- 

 ish ship which 



brought him about 30,000 in 

 prize money. He served long in 

 the West Indies, and commanded 

 the van in Rodney's action in 1780. 

 In August, 1781, he met the Dutch 

 admiral Zoutman off the Dogger 

 Bank, and fought a fierce but in- 

 decisive action for nearly four 

 hours. In Dec.. 1782, while pro- 

 ceeding to the East Indies, Parker 

 was lost in the 60-gun ship Cato. 



Parker, SIR HYDE (1739-1807). 

 British sailor. Second son of Sir 

 Hyde Parker, he was commissioned 

 in the navy in 1758. During the War 

 of Independence he forced the 

 entrance to the North River, 1776, 

 and cut off the American supplies 

 a feat for which he was knighted 

 three years later. Made a rear- 

 admiral in 1793, he was Hood's cap- 

 tain of the fleet in the Mediter- 

 ranean, and in 1796 went to Ja- 

 >^: maica ta governor. In 1801 he 



mmanded 

 the Baltic fleet 

 a g Bin s t the 

 Northern Con- 

 f ederation, 

 with Nelson 

 as second in 

 command. 

 The victory of 

 the latter at 

 Copenhagen, 

 where Nelson 

 put his blind 



Sir Hyde Parker, 

 British sailor 



Afltr Kommrn 



eye to the telescope that he might 

 not see Hyde Parker's signals to 

 retire, led to Parker's recall He 



died M.nch I-.. ! 



Parker, JOHKPII (1830-1902). 

 .livine. The son of a stone- 

 in anon, he was bom at Hexham, 

 Apnl ' lv;n 

 He soon won 

 local fame as 

 a speaker, 

 and in 1852 

 n*l the 

 CongregatK.ii 

 a 1 ministry, 

 r being in 

 London at 

 Moorfields for 

 a short time, 

 he went in 

 1853 to I 

 bury, and in 1808 to Manchester. 

 In 1869 the historic Independent 

 church in the Poultry, London, 

 invited him to become its minister, 

 and when there he secured the erec- 

 tion of a new building in Holborn 

 Viaduct called the City Temple, 

 opened in 1874. Here Parker was 

 one of the most popular preachers 

 of the day; there was thought 

 behind his unconventional utter- 

 ances and strange mannerisms. He 

 died Nov. 28, 1902. He published 

 a large number of books, including 

 The People's Bible, 25 vols., 1885- 

 05 ; and The Paraclete. 1874. See. 

 City Temple ; consult also My Life 

 and Teaching, J. Parker, new ed. 

 1889 ; A Preacher's Life, J. Parker, 

 1899; J. Parker, D.D., Life and 

 Ministry, A. Dawson, 1001 ; Dr. 

 ParkerandhisFriends,G.Pike,1904. 



Parker, Louis NAPOLEON (b. 

 1852). British dramatist and or- 

 ganizer of pageants. Born at Cal- 

 vados, France, Oct. 21, 1852, he 

 was educated abroad and at the 

 Royal Academy of Music, of which 

 he became a fellow in 1898. From 

 1873-92 he was director of music 

 in Slierborne School. The pageant 

 which he organized at Sherborne 

 in 1905 was followed by similar and 

 equally successful spectacles. He 

 was also responsible as author, part 

 author.or translator of many notable 

 plays, including Pomander Walk, 

 1910; Chantecler, 1011 : Disraeli. 

 1011; Drake, 1912; Joseph and 

 His Brethren, 1913; and David 

 Copperfield, 1914. He wrote the 

 article Pageant (q.v.) for this En- 

 cyclopedia. See Portrait Gallery of 

 Contributors. 



Parker, MATTHEW (1504-73). 

 English prelate. Born at Nor- 

 v\ich. Aug. 6, 1504, the son of a 

 cloth presser, he was educated 

 at Corpus Christi College, Cam- 

 bridge, where he associated with 

 Latimer and other reformers. Or- 

 dained in 1527, he became chap- 

 lain to Anne Boleyn in 1535, 



