Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley

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Henry Parker, Lord Morley (Albrecht Dürer, 1523)

Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley (1476/1480/1481 – 3 December 1553/1556), (notes to Parliamentary records show this as 25 November 1556) was an English peer and translator,[1] Lord of Morley, Hingham, Hockering, &c., in Norfolk.

Life

He was the son of

Sir William Parker, who was Privy councillor and standard bearer to King Richard III.[2]

He married Alice St John, granddaughter of Sir John St John (1426–1498) and his wife Alice Bradshaigh, and thus a descendant of Sir Oliver St John and his wife

.

In 1523, he was sent as an ambassador to Germany to present the Order of the Garter to Archduke Ferdinand (later Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor).[5] He was a man of literary attainments and translated some of the writings of Plutarch, Seneca, Cicero and others into English.[6] He was appointed Knight of the Bath on September 29, 1553.[3]

Henry Parker served on the jury for various treason trials during the reign of Henry VIII, including the trial of his son-in-law, George Boleyn, and that of George's sister, Queen Anne Boleyn. Of the six people executed in Anne Boleyn's downfall, Henry Parker had links with half of them.[7]

References

  1. ^ Lee, Sidney (1895). "Parker, Henry (1476-1556)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 43. pp. 238–240.
  2. ^ Cokayne, G.E. "Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant", vol. 5, G. Bell & Sons, 1893. p. 372 Google Books
  3. ^ a b William Arthur Robarts - University of Toronto et George Dames Burtchaell, The Knights of England. A complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of knights bachelors, incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland, London Sherratt and Hughes, 1906 [1]
  4. ^ Burke's Dormant & Extinct Peerage, p417-8
  5. ) p. 1
  6. ^  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Morley, Barons and Earls of". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 840.
  7. ^ Catherine M. Helm-Clark, The Parker Family Tomb, The Tudor Society, 2016. p. 2