John William Robinson Parker CB JP DL FSA FRHistS (6 October 1857 – 24 February 1938) was a British soldier, antiquarian, owner of Browsholme Hall and Honorary Bowbearer of the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire.

[5] He was later supreme commander of the 800 men of the 3rd Battalion of the East Lancashire Regiment serving in the Second Boer War in South Africa.

[6] He was also considered as a potential Conservative Parliamentary candidate in the 1902 Clitheroe by-election.

[7] He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB), served as a Justice of the Peace and was also Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire and High Sheriff of Yorkshire (1913–14).

[8] On 11 April 1896, Parker married his first cousin, Gertrude Marion Beatrice Burn-Murdoch (1865–1927), a daughter of Reverend Canon James McGibbon Burn-Murdoch and Maria Hannah Carr (a descendant of John Carr (1723–1807)).