John Allen Parkinson CBE (15 October 1870 – 7 December 1941) was a British Labour Party politician and former coal miner.
[1] Parkinson was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for Wigan at the 1918 general election supported by the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, replacing the Conservative MP Reginald Neville.
[2] He served as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald's second and third ministries.
[1] Parkinson was re-elected at each subsequent general election until his death in Orrell at the age of 71 in 1941, when he became the first of four Wigan MPs to die in office in the 20th century.
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