George Parker, 8th Earl of Macclesfield
George Roger Alexander Thomas Parker, 8th Earl of Macclesfield (6 May 1914 – 7 December 1992), of Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire, was a British peer and landowner. He was a member of the House of Lords from 1975 until his death.
The son of George Parker, 7th Earl of Macclesfield, and his wife Lilian Joanna Vere Boyle, a daughter of Major Charles Boyle, of Great Milton, Oxfordshire, he was educated at Stowe School. In the Second World War, he was commissioned into the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.[1]
In 1955, he was appointed as a Justice of the Peace for Oxfordshire and in 1965 as a Deputy Lieutenant for the county. In 1975 he succeeded his father as Earl of Macclesfield, as Viscount Parker of Ewelm, and as Baron Parker of Macclesfield.[2]
On 18 June 1938, he married Valerie Mansfield, daughter of Ralph Mansfield, 4th Baron Sandhurst. They had two sons:
- Richard Timothy George Mansfield Parker, 9th Earl of Macclesfield (born 1943)
- Jonathon David Geoffrey Parker (born 1945).[1]
Arms
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The arms of the head of the family are blazoned: Gules, a chevron between three leopard's faces or.[3]
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition, volume 2, page 2459.
- ^ 'MACCLESFIELD, 7th Earl of', in Who Was Who (London: A. & C. Black); online edition (subscription required) by Oxford University Press, December 2007. Accessed 30 November 2011.
- ^ Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p. 723