George Loveden William Henry Parker, 7th Earl of Macclesfield (24 May 188820 September 1975), of

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, was a British peer and landowner. He was among the last to serve simultaneously as Lord Lieutenant of an English county and as chairman of its

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Life

Born on 24 May 1888, George Parker was the only child of Viscount Parker (the heir of Thomas Parker, 6th Earl of Macclesfield), by his marriage to Carine Agnes, the daughter of Pryse Loveden, of

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, Cardiganshire. His father died in 1895. On 24 July 1896, at the age of eight, Parker succeeded his grandfather as

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, a title he was to hold for seventy-nine years. The next year, his mother married secondly Captain L. W. Matthews, of the 5th Dragoon Guards, providing the young earl with a stepfather.'MACCLESFIELD, 7th Earl of', in ''

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, December 2007. Accessed 30 November 2011. In 1909, Macclesfield married Lilian Joanna Vere Boyle, the daughter of Major Charles Boyle, of

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, Oxfordshire. They had three sons, and the marriage lasted until his wife's death in 1974.Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition, volume 2, page 2459. Whereas his grandfather's public life had been principally in national affairs, Macclesfield was more concerned with those of his native county. He became a

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in 1911, was elected to the Oxfordshire County Council, of which he was chairman from 1937 to 1970, was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant in 1935, and was

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from 1954 to 1963. He died on 20 September 1975 and was succeeded by his son, Viscount Parker.

References

, - 1888 births 1975 deaths Deputy Lieutenants of Oxfordshire Lord-Lieutenants of Oxfordshire Councillors in Oxfordshire Members of Oxfordshire County Council English justices of the peace

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