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Nicholas Parker (soldier)
Nicholas Parker may refer to: * Nick Parker (journalist), English journalist * Nicholas Parker (MP) (1547–1620), MP for Sussex * Nick Parker (born 1954), British Army officer {{hndis, Parker, Nicholas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Parker (journalist)
Nick Parker is an English journalist and chief foreign correspondent of London-based '' The Sun'' newspaper. He has covered major breaking news stories across the world as well as domestic stories for ''The Sun'' since 1988 and is not to be confused with the CNN reporter of the same name. His stories include the Piper Alpha disaster, the Lockerbie bombing, both Gulf Wars, the Balkans conflict, the Dunblane massacre, the Kosovo crisis, the return of Great Train Robber Ronald Biggs, 9/11, the Afghan war, the Beslan massacre, the Boxing Day tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, the Darfur crisis, the Israel v Hezbollah war in Lebanon, the Mumbai Massacre, the Haiti earthquake, the invasion of Gaza, the Sousse Sousse or Soussa ( ar, سوسة, ; Berber:''Susa'') is a city in Tunisia, capital of the Sousse Governorate. Located south of the capital Tunis, the city has 271,428 inhabitants (2014). Sousse is in the central-east of the country, on the Gulf ... beach massacre and the P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Parker (MP)
Sir Nicholas Parker (1547 – 9 March 1620), eldest son of Thomas Parker of Ratton and Eleanor, daughter of William Waller of Groombridge, was a military commander during the reign of Elizabeth I. He was Sheriff of Sussex in 1586-87, again in 1593-94, and was elected MP for Sussex in 1597. Career Parker is first mentioned as commanding the soldiers on board Henry Ughtred's galleon ''Leicester'' in Edward Fenton's voyage in 1582 and afterwards served in the army in the Low Countries. He was Sheriff of Sussex, in 1586-7 and 1593-4. He became deputy lieutenant of Sussex in 1587 and was knighted by Lord Willoughby in 1588. Parker was master of the ordnance for Willoughby's forces In France in 1589, and was dispatched to Brittany in 1594. He was elected MP for Sussex in 1597. In 1597 he commanded a company of troops in the islands' voyage under Essex, and in October of that year was appointed to command in Sussex, on threat of invasion. In 1598, he was appointed deputy li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |