Vice-Admiral Hyde Parker CB

Order of the Bath

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 (1784 – 26 May 1854) was a senior British

Great Britain

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 naval officer who started to serve during the Napoleonic Wars

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 and who was appointed First Naval Lord

First Sea Lord

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 of the Admiralty

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 in 1852. He is generally known as "Hyde Parker III".

Naval career

Born the son of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker and grandson of Sir Hyde Parker, 5th Baronet

Sir Hyde Parker, 5th Baronet

Vice-Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, 5th Baronet was a British naval commander.Parker was born at Tredington, Gloucestershire. His father, a clergyman, was a son of Sir Henry Parker. His paternal grandfather had married a daughter of Alexander Hyde, Bishop of Salisbury. He began his career at sea in the...

 Hyde Parker III joined the Royal Navy

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 in 1796.

He commanded HMS Monmouth

HMS Monmouth (1796)

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 from 1811, HMS Tenedos from 1812, HMS Iphigenia from 1818, HMS St Vincent

HMS St Vincent (1815)

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 from 1830, HMS Asia

HMS Asia (1811)

HMS Asia was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 2 December 1811 at Frindsbury.In 1828 Asia was reduced to a 50-gun ship, and was eventually broken up in 1865....

 from 1831, HMS Victory

HMS Victory

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 also from 1831 and HMS Rodney

HMS Rodney (1833)

HMS Rodney was a two-deck 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 18 June 1833 at Pembroke Dockyard.Rodney was the ship where William Hall , later to become the first Black man and one of the first Canadians to win the Victoria Cross, began his naval career in 1852.Rodney...

 from 1835.

He went on to be Admiral Superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard in 1842, Commander of the Experimental Squadron in 1845 and First Naval Lord

First Sea Lord

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 in 1852. He died in office in 1854.

Family

In 1821 he married Caroline Eden. Their son, Hyde Parker IV, was a captain in the Black Sea

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 during the Crimean War

Crimean War

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 and was killed on 8 July 1854 when storming a Russian fort at Sulina

Sulina

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