Thomas Parker, 6th Earl of Macclesfield

Thomas Augustus Wolstenholme Parker, 6th Earl of Macclesfield (17 March 1811 – 24 July 1896) was a British peer. Before inheriting the earldom, he sat in the House of Commons as Conservative Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire from 1837 until 1841.

Lord Macclesfield, 1864
Arms of Parker, Earls of Macclesfield: Gules, a chevron between three leopard's faces or[1]

Marriage and family

He married Lady Mary Frances Grosvenor (1821–1912), daughter of Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster and sister of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster.

The couple had fifteen children.

Their oldest son George Augustus, Viscount Parker, died on 24 September 1895 at age 51. As he predeceased his father, the earldom passed to his eldest son George Loveden (1888-1975).

The second son of Thomas Parker, 6th Earl, and his wife Mary Frances Grosvenor, was Hon. Cecil Thomas Parker, who married Rosamond Esther Harriet Longley, daughter of Charles Thomas Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury.[2] Hon. Cecil Parker was the brother-in-law of Major Edward Levett of Rowsley, Derbyshire, whose first wife was Caroline Georgina Longley, also a daughter of Archbishop Longley.[3] When Edward Levett died in Pau, France, in December 1899, he named his former brother-in-law Parker as his executor. His great-great grandson is Andrew Parker Bowles[4]

Two sons became clergymen: Algernon served as rector of Bix in Oxfordshire and Malpas in Cheshire, while Archibald was rector of Wem in Shropshire.

Another son Francis served as MP for Henley-on-Thames.

The 6th Earl died at the age of 85.

Notes
  1. Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.723
  2. The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, Marquis of Ruvigny, reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Company, 1994 p. 287
  3. Levett's second wife at his death was Susan Alice Arkwright, a descendant of Sir Richard Arkwright.
  4. Visitation of England and Wales, Joseph Jackson Howard, Frederick Arthur Crisp, Vol. 8, Privately Printed, 1900

References
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Richard Weyland
Lord Norreys
George Harcourt		 Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire
1837–1841
With: Lord Norreys
George Harcourt		 Succeeded by
Joseph Warner Henley
Lord Norreys
George Harcourt
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by
Thomas Parker		 Earl of Macclesfield
1850–1896		 Succeeded by
George Parker


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