Thomas Lister Parker

Thomas Lister Parker FSA FRS (27 September 1779 – 2 March 1858) was an English antiquary, landowner, Trumpeter to the Queen and Honorary Bowbearer of the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire.

Born at Browsholme Hall, Yorkshire (now in Lancashire), England on 27 September 1779, he was the eldest of the eight sons of John Parker of Browsholme, by his wife Beatrix, daughter of Thomas Lister (1723–61) of Gisburne Park, then in Yorkshire (but now in Lancashire) and sister of Thomas Lister, 1st Lord Ribblesdale.

Parker had a taste for landscape gardening, and between 1797 and 1810 spent large sums in laying out his grounds.

He had the sinecure post of "Trumpeter to the Queen", and also claimed the office, as hereditary in his family for many generations, of "Bowbearer of the Forest of Bowland".

[1][2] Parker retired from society, and lived at the Star Inn in Deansgate, Manchester, where he died, unmarried, on 2 March 1858.

[1] The views of Browsholme in Thomas Dunham Whitaker's Parish of Whalley were prepared at Parker's expense, one of them, signed "Wm.

Browsholme Hall.