Montagu Edmund Parker (1737-1813), portrait dated 1768 by Sir
Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), who was born in Plympton and painted many pictures for his friends the Parker family of Saltram. Collection of
National Trust,
Saltram House, ref:NT 872086
He served as
Sheriff of Devon in 1789.[7] He inherited various of his father's secondary estates including
Blagdon, Paignton[8] and adjoining
Collaton Kirkham (now Collaton St Mary), which his father had inherited from his younger brother Francis Parker of Blagdon.[9] The
public house in Collaton St Mary is called the "Parkers Arms" (sic) after his tenure.[10]
Marriage and progeny
In 1772 he married Charity Ourry (1752–1786), daughter of Admiral
Paul Henry Ourry (1719–1783),[11] of
Plympton House in the parish of Plympton St Maurice, Devon, MP for
Plympton Erle 1763–1775 and Commissioner for
Plymouth Dockyard. Paul Ourry was the second son of Louis Ourry, a
Huguenot refugee from
Blois in France who had obtained British citizenship in 1713 and a commission in the British army.[12] Charity Ourry's mother was Charity Treby, daughter of George II Treby of Plympton House. By his wife he had two sons:
Montagu Edmund Parker II (d.1831), who survived his father, having in 1806 married Harriet Newcombe, a daughter of John Newcombe of Starcross.[13] He left progeny 2 sons and 1 daughter:
John Parker (d.1847),[15] 2nd son,[16] who in 1841 married Lady Catherine Caroline Leslie, daughter of George Leslie and Henrietta Leslie, 14th Countess of Rothes. Lady Catherine died in 1844.[17] Left one daughter, Louisa Harriet,[18] who died in 1852[19] at age 9.
Francis Parker (b. 1782),[21] likely died before 1823.[22]
Death
He died in January 1813. There is a will listed for probate in 1814 in Chudleigh.[23] His funeral appears to have taken place at St John's Church, Paignton, then the parish church of his secondary residence at
Blagdon, as his
funerary hatchment survives in that church, affixed high up on the south wall of the nave. It displays the arms of Parker (with a crescent for the
difference of a second son) impaling Azure, a fox statant on grass proper in chief a sun in spendour or (Ourry, the last two words being
canting). Above is the crest of Parker: A cubit arm erect vested azure cuffed argent the hand holding a stag's antler proper. Below is the Latin
epitaphIn Caelo Salus ("Salvation is in Heaven"). Below is a skull. The frame is decorated with skulls and crossbones.[24] The
public house in
Collaton St Mary (next to Blagdon and also owned by Parker) is called the "Parkers Arms" (sic) after the tenure of the Parker family.[25]
References
^1831 death per Vivian, p.588; (son died 1831; incorrectly attributed to father)
^A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, Volume 2; Page 1233; Sir Bernard Burke; 1882
^Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the
Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.588, pedigree of Parker
^The early genealogy of the Parker family as given in the
heraldic visitations of Devon appears unreliable. A deed exists which records that in 1550 Edmund Parker, "gent" the son and heir apparent of John Parker of North Molton, Esquire, was granted by
John la Zouche, 8th Baron Zouche (of Haryngworth), 9th Baron St Maur (c. 1486–1550), by deed of gift, the office of bailiff of the manor of North Molton and lands called "Legh" for the term of his life.(Plymouth & West Devon Record Office 69/M/2/93, dated 28 March 1550
[2])