Parker (III)
GILBERT, GILBERT, a Canadian novelist; born in Ontario, in 1862. Among his works are: "Pierre and His SIR GILBERT PARKER People"; "Tales of the Far North"; "An Adventurer of the North"; "A Romany of the Snows"; "A Lover's Diary" (1894); "The Trail of the Sword" (1894); "When Valmond Came to Pontiac"; "The Seats of the Mighty"; "Ladder of Swords" (1904); "The Judgment House" (1913); "World in the Crucible" (1915); "Wild Youth and Another" (1919). He served for several years in Parliament. Knight, 1902; baronet, 1915.
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Parker (IV)
HERSCHEL CLIFFORD, American mountain climber. He was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1867, and graduated from the Columbia School of Mines in 1890. Some years later he explored the Canadian Alps, prospecting, surveying, and studying mineralogy and general physics. He began to teach physics in Columbia University in 1903, and at intervals explored the mountains of Alaska, ascending to the summit of Mt. McKinley, after a previous attempt in which Frederick A. Cook accompanied him. He has written articles for scientific journals and published "A Systematic Treatise on Electrical Measurements."
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Parker (JOSEPH an English preacher)
JOSEPH, an English preacher and orator; born April 9, 1830, in Hexham, Northumberland; was educated privately and at University College, London; elected Chairman of the Congregational Union, 1884; minister of the City Temple, London, from 1869; author of "Ecce Deus," "The Paraclete," "The People's Bible," a gigantic undertaking in 25 volumes, es, and "Weaver Stephens," a novel. In the autumn of 1887 Dr. Parker visited the United States, and delivered a memorial eulogy of Henry Ward Beecher in the Academy of Music, Brooklyn. He died in 1902.
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Parker (V)
HORATIO WILLIAM, an American composer; born at Auburndale, Mass., in 1863. He was educated in the United States and Europe and studied music at the Royal Conservatory at Munich. From 1885 to 1887 he was professor of music at the Cathedral School of St. Paul and Garden City, L. I., and was organist of Trinity Church from 1888 to 1893. From the latter year he was organist of Trinity Church in Boston. From 1894 he was professor of the theory of music at Yale University. His first opera, "Hora Novissima," was performed at Chester, England, Festival in July, 1899, and at other festivals in England. He was awarded the Metropolitan Opera prize of $10,000 for the opera "Mona," and the second prize of the same amount given by the National Federation of Women's Clubs for the opera "Fairyland," in 1914. He composed other operas and other music, sacred and secular. Died 1919.
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Parker (VI)
LOUIS NAPOLEON, modern English dramatist; born in 1852 at Calvados, France, and first devoted himself to the study of music in Freiburg and later at the Royal Academy in London. For nineteen years he was director of a famous English music school, the Sherborne School. Since 1896 his work has been entirely literary, and his fame rests on this and not on his musical compositions. Among his most celebrated and "Pomander successful dramas are: (1911); Walk" (1910); "Disraeli" "Drake" (1912); and "Joseph and His Brethren" (1913). Perhaps his best dramas are his two patriotic ones of "Disraeli" and "Drake," the former made famous by the actor, George Arliss.
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Parker (VII)
MATTHEW, Archbishop of Canterbury; born in Norwich in 1504; was educated at Cambridge, and after having been licensed to preach was appointed dean of Stoke College in Suffolk, a king's chaplain and a canon of Ely. In 1544 he was appointed master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and elected later vice - chancellor. Queen Mary deprived Parker of his offices, and he remained in concealment till the accession of Elizabeth in 1558, by whom he was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury. While he held this office he had the Bible translated from the text of Cranmer, and published at his own expense. He founded the Antiquarian Society, and was editor of the "Chronicles of Walsingham," "Matthew Paris," and "Roger of Wendover." He died in 1575.
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Parker, Sir Horatio Gilbert
Sir Horatio Gilbert (1862-), a Canadian novelist, known usually as Gilbert Parker. He was born in Ontario and received his education in Toronto. Soon after leaving college he went to Australia, where he became associate editor of the Sydney Morning Herald. He began to write plays, but produced nothing of note for some time. He traveled widely and in 1892 began to publish novels. The Seats of the Mighty, The Trespasser, The Stolen Bonds, The Battle of the Strong, and The Right of Way are among his best known books.
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Parker, Theodore
Theodore (1810-1860), a Massachusetts clergyman. He was born in Lexington. He took his degree at Harvard College, studying chiefly at home. In 1837 he accepted the pastorate of the Roxbury Unitarian church. His discourses were of so radical a nature that even the Unitarians, then recently separated from the Congregationalists, looked askance at him. He was never formally expelled from the Unitarian church. He always claimed to be a member of it, but, as a matter of fact, he was for twenty years an independent clergyman and lecturer. His first independent charge was what was known as the Twenty-eighth Congregational Society of Boston. It met in the Melodeon and in the Music Hall. He was one of the most popular preachers in the city. An audience of 3,000 gathered frequently to hear him of a Sunday morning. He was also a favorite public lecturer. He took an active part in the anti-slavery agitation of the day. His name is connected with those of Garrison and Wendell Phillips. He took a personal interest in runaway slaves and openly aided their escape. He was hated thoroughly by the people of the South. He was for a number of years editor of the Massachusetts Quarterly Review. He left several volumes of his sermons and other works, including Historic America and Views of Religion.
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Parkersburg
a city and countyseat of Wood co., W. Va., on the Ohio river at the mouth of the Little Kanawha, and on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, the Baltimore and Ohio, and the Little Kanawha railroads; 96 miles S. W. of Wheeling. The Ohio river is crossed here by a railroad bridge constructed in 1869-1871. It is 17/½ miles long and has six spans. Here are waterworks, a high school, Academy of the Visitation, a seminary, United States Government building, electric light and street railroad plants, National and State banks and daily and weekly newspapers. Its manufactories include lumber mills, barrel factories, machine shops, iron foundries, veneer and panel works, furniture factories, and an oil refinery. The assessed valuation is over $6,000,000. Pop. (1910) 17,842; (1920) 20,050.
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