Admiral Sir Charles Christopher Parker, 5th Baronet (16 June 1792 – 13 March 1869) was a British

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 naval officer, the son of Christopher Parker and Augusta Byron, and grandson of Admirals Sir Peter Parker, 1st Baronet

Sir Peter Parker, 1st Baronet

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Peter Parker, 1st Baronet was a British naval officer.-Naval career:Peter Parker was born probably in Ireland. He became a lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1743 and captain in 1747. In 1761, he took command of HMS Buckingham and helped cover operations on Belle Île...

 and John Byron

John Byron

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.

He entered the Royal Navy

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 in June 1804, aboard HMS Glory

HMS Glory (1788)

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. He followed his captain to Barfleur

HMS Barfleur (1768)

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, and in June 1805, went with his brother Peter

Sir Peter Parker, 2nd Baronet

Captain Sir Peter Parker, 2nd Baronet was an English naval officer, the son of Vice-Admiral Christopher Parker and Augusta Byron....

 to the sloop

Sloop

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 Weazel

HMS Weazel (1805)

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. In March 1806, he went aboard Eagle

HMS Eagle (1804)

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, and was engaged in active service off Italy

Italy

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. By 1809, he was aboard St George

HMS St George (1785)

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, the flagship of Rear-Admiral Francis Pickmore

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 in the Baltic Sea

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. He later served on the massive San Josef

HMS San Josef

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 (captured at Cape St. Vincent

Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797)

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 in 1797) and from May 1810, aboard the frigate

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 Unité

HMS Imperieuse (1793)

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. Promoted lieutenant

Lieutenant

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 on 17 June 1811, he was badly injured not long afterwards in a fall from the quarterdeck

Quarterdeck

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, and was invalided out in August 1811 to recover.

Parker was able to return to the service in early 1812, under his brother Peter in the frigate Menelaus. In May 1812, Charles moved to Malta

HMS Malta (1800)

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, wherein he served until 5 April 1815, when he was promoted commander

Commander

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. From 1819 to 1822, he served in Harlequin

HMS Harlequin

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 off the coast of Ireland

Ireland

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, and was promoted to post-captain

Post-Captain

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 on 23 April 1822, but saw no further service after that year. On the retired list, he was promoted rear-admiral in 1852, vice-admiral in 1857, and admiral in 1863.

Parker married Georgiana Ellis Pallmer, but had no children. He inherited the family baronetcy in 1835 from his brother John, a captain in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, and it became extinct upon his death at Clifton, Bristol

Clifton, Bristol

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in 1869.