Sir Thomas Parkyns, 2nd Baronet

Sir Thomas Parkyns, 2nd Baronet (1664 – 29 March 1741) was an English writer, landowner, architect and engineer who was a prominent figure in British wrestling during the Georgian era.

[1][2] At the end of the reign of Charles II, his father became involved in the local politics of Nottingham, opposing as a Whig the surrender of the town's charter.

He rebuilt all the farmhouses, planted the hills with woods, founded an aqueduct and a decoy[clarification needed], and erected a tower at Bunny Hall.

[1] Howard Colvin called Bunny Hall "a highly eccentric building dominated by a castellated tower which interpenetrates with a hugh segmental pediment.

[1][5] He built also a park wall three miles in length, the first of the kind in England supported wholly on arches.

In the course of the work he acknowledged obligations to Isaac Newton, for attendance at his lectures at Trinity; and to Mr. Cornish, his wrestling master at Gray's Inn.

In connection with his duties as Justice of the Peace, he published pamphlets and A Method proposed for the Hiring and Recording of Servants in Husbandry, Arts, Misteries, &c. Also a Limitation and Appointment of the several Rates of Wages (Nottingham, 1721).