General Sir William Parke KCB (17 May 1822 – 29 March 1897) was a British Army officer.

[4] He became Brigadier-General of Field Forces in India in March 1858, Commandant, School of Military Engineering at Fleetwood in August 1861, and colonel on the staff of South-Eastern District in October 1871.

[2] He went on to be Brigadier-General at Aldershot in July 1872, and General Officer Commanding South-Eastern District in October 1874.

Somerset Sherston was killed in the Battle of Aubers (9 May 1915), and Dorothy and Edric became active members of the British Union of Fascists and were interned at the outbreak of the Second World War.

Both however later rejected fascism and Dorothy returned to Otley Hall where she lived until her death on 9 July 1950.