Richard Thomas Parker (1834 – 10 August 1864) was an English murderer who was the last person to be publicly executed in Nottingham.
Richard Thomas Parker of Fiskerton, a butcher, was publicly declared bankrupt in November, 1862 at Newark.
The scaffold was surrounded by boarding 4 feet high to prevent the public seeing the prisoner after the drop.
The acting under-sheriff Mr JT Brewster, the chaplain, Reverend W Howard, the prisoner and the hangman appeared on the scaffold at 8:00 am.
As the chaplain uttered the words "In the midst of life we are in death" the bolt was drawn and Parker hung.