Earl of Macclesfield

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Earldom of Macclesfield

Arms of Parker, Earl of Macclesfield: Gules, a chevron between three leopard's faces, or[1]
Creation date1721
CreationSecond
Created byGeorge I
PeeragePeerage of Great Britain
First holderCharles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield
Present holderRichard Parker, 9th Earl of Macclesfield
Heir apparentHis Rt Hon, (Jonathan) David Geoffrey Parker
Subsidiary titlesViscount Parker
Baron Parker of Ewelme
Seat(s)Shirburn Castle
MottoSapere aude (Dare to be wise)[2]
Arms of Parker, Earls of Macclesfield (second creation): Gules, a chevron between three leopard's faces or; Supporters (here shown "off-duty"): Two leopards reguardant proper ducally gorged gules; Crest: A leopard's head erased affrontée or ducally gorged gules[3] (some tinctures shown incorrectly)

Earl of Macclesfield is a title that has been created twice. The first creation came in the

House of Commons
. When he died in 1702 the titles became extinct.

Jacobite Peerage in or about 1716. The title, such as it was, became extinct in 1841.[4]

The second creation came in the

Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench from 1710 to 1718 and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1718 to 1725. Parker had already been created Lord Parker, Baron of Macclesfield, in the County Palatine of Chester, in 1716. This title is also in the Peerage of Great Britain. In contrast to the barony the viscountcy and earldom were created with remainder, in default of male issue, to his daughter Elizabeth, wife of Sir William Heathcote, 1st Baronet of Hursley Park, and her issue male. In 1725 Lord Macclesfield was convicted of corruption and forced to pay a £30,000 fine. He was succeeded by his son George, the second Earl, who was a distinguished astronomer and served as president of the Royal Society
for many years.

On George's death the titles passed to his son Thomas, the third Earl. He had sat as

Lord-Lieutenant of Oxfordshire from 1954 to 1963. As of 2010
the titles are held by his grandson, the ninth Earl, who succeeded his father in 1992.

remainder to the earldom and its subsidiary titles. Another member of the family was the Right Reverend Wilfrid Parker
(1883–1966), son of the Hon. Cecil Thomas Parker, second son of the sixth Earl. He served as Bishop of Pretoria (1933–1950).

The family seat of the Parker family is Shirburn Castle, near Oxford, but the castle and estate is held by the Beechwood Estates Company, the Macclesfield family estate management company. Following a long-running and acrimonious court battle, the ninth Earl was evicted from the family seat at the end of 2004.

Earls of Macclesfield, first creation (1679)

Earls of Macclesfield, second creation (1721)

The heir presumptive is the present holder's younger brother, the Hon. (Jonathan) David Geoffrey Parker (b. 1945)
The heir presumptive's heir apparent is his son, Timothy George Parker (b. 1969)

Line of succession

[5]

Ancestry

See also

References

  1. ^ Debrett's Peerage, 1876, p.314
  2. ^ Debrett's Peerage, 1876, p.314
  3. ^ Debretts Peerage, 1968, p.723
  4. ^ Melville de Massue de Ruvigny, The Jacobite Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Grants of Honour (Edinburgh: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1904), 83-84
  5. ISBN 978-1-999767-0-5-1
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