Montagu Edmund Parker

Portraits of him by Sir Joshua Reynolds (educated at Plympton Grammar School and a friend of the Parker family) and John Downman survive at Saltram House.

The Parker family had risen to prominence in the mid-16th century as the bailiff of the manor of North Molton, Devon, under Baron Zouche of Haryngworth.

[9] The public house in Collaton St Mary is called the "Parkers Arms" (sic) after his tenure.

It displays the arms of Parker (with a crescent for the difference of a second son) impaling Azure, a fox statant on grass proper in chief a sun in spendour or (Ourry, the last two words being canting).

Above is the crest of Parker: A cubit arm erect vested azure cuffed argent the hand holding a stag's antler proper.

Montagu Edmund Parker (1737-1813), miniature portrait 1780, by John Downman (1750-1824). Collection of National Trust , Saltram House , ref: NT 872210
Arms of Parker: Sable, a stag's head cabossed between two flaunches argent
Charity Ourry (1752-1786) wife of Montagu Edmund Parker (d. 1831). Portrait by John Downman (1750-1824), Collection of Parker family, Saltram House, Plympton (now National Trust)
Funerary hatchment of Montagu Edmund Parker (d. 1831) of Whiteway and Blagdon, St John's Church, Paignton, showing the arms of Parker, with a crescent for the difference of a second son, impaling: Azure, a fox statant on grass proper in chief a sun in spendour or (Ourry)