Lord (Sir) Henry Parker

  General Notes:

Sir Henry Parker had 6 children with heis first wife Grace Newport - Henry, Charles, Edmund, Mary, Margaret and Amy. Charles Parker became a bishop of Manchester.

Henry Parker was knighted on the day of Queen Anne Boyleyn coronation on 30 May 1533 and he became Lord Morley after his grandfather died in 1555.

In 1541 the under sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire was sued for abducting a 14 year-old ward, Jane Barenton, who had been contracted in marriage to the younger John Newport, presumably Parker's brother-in-law. Parker was apparently a party to the abduction, for his servants escorted the girl in her flight from her guardian and helped her to elude him in London.

His grandson, William Parker, Lord Monte and Morley, was the nobleman to whom the remarkable letter was addressed, which led to the discovery of the Gunpowder plot.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Marriage: to Grace Newport, 18 February 1523, Bletsoe, Bedfordshire.

• Marriage: to Elizabeth Calthorpe, Abt 1534, Ewarton, Suffolk.

Henry married Lady Elizabeth Calthorpe, daughter of Sir Phillip Calthorpe and Lady Jane Boleyn, in 1548 in Morley, Norfolk. (Lady Elizabeth Calthorpe was born in 1521 in Ewarton, Suffolk, died on 26 May 1578 in Norwich, Norfolk and was buried in 1578 in St Martin At Palace Church, Norwich.)