Richard Parker, 9th Earl of Macclesfield

Richard Timothy George Mansfield Parker, 9th Earl of Macclesfield (born 31 May 1943), is a British hereditary peer.

The son of George Parker, 8th Earl of Macclesfield, and his wife Valerie Mansfield, he was educated at Stowe School and Worcester College, Oxford.

[2][3] However, the contents of the castle had been given to Macclesfield in 1967 by his grandfather, including three important libraries.

[7] The receipts came to more than £16 million, "the highest total ever for any sale of scientific books and manuscripts".

By his first wife he has three daughters:[1] As he has no male issue, the heir presumptive is his younger brother, the Hon.