Sir James Parker (28 March 1803 – 1852) was a British barrister who became Vice Chancellor of the High Court.
He was educated at Glasgow Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he stood seventh wrangler in the Tripos in 1825.
He contributed Arithmetic and Algebra [1] in fours parts (1827–1830) to the Library of Useful Knowledge (authorship by a Mr. Parker, AM, is identified in an edition in 1847,[2] and clinched, for example, in advertisements on 16 January and 17 July 1860 in Publishers' Circular and Bookseller's' Record [3]).
[4] Parker purchased the estate of Rothley Temple from his father-in-law Thomas Babington in 1845.
However he died the following year at the age of 49 from angina pectoris and was buried in the chapel at Rothley.