John Parker (Whig politician)

John Parker (21 October 1799 – 5 September 1881) was an English politician and barrister.

He was born in Tickhill, West Riding of Yorkshire and educated at Repton and Brasenose College, Oxford.

When the Sheffield constituency was finally created as a Parliamentary borough in 1832 he was elected alongside James Silk Buckingham as its first MPs.

[2] He died at 71 Onslow Square, London, on 5 September 1881, and was buried at Healaugh, near Tadcaster, West Riding of Yorkshire, on 9 September, having married, on 8 February 1853, Eliza Charlotte, second daughter of George Vernon of Clontarf Castle, Dublin, Ireland.

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