MR. JOHN PARKER - 117 



It is somewhat sad to have to relate that his ser- 

 vices as a sportsman to his county did not win for 

 him in his retirement the pecuniary aid which his 

 circumstances were in need of, and I find that at the 

 age of seventy-six he was admitted into the Worces- 

 tershire County Asylum at Powick, where he spent 

 the last six years of his life. The governor of the 

 Asylum tells me that he was described as a " reduced 

 gentleman," and that he was in a very feeble state of 

 health, showing marked signs of senility. He was 

 very much lost and had little memory of recent 

 events. He was continually talking about hunting 

 and shooting. He died on January 28th, 1875, 

 having been in the Asylum nearly six years. 



