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Henry Parker (c. 1849 – 4 December 1932) was an English swimmer. He won the amateur one-mile championship three consecutive times, from 1870 to 1872. These races were held on the River Thames, from Putney to
A Lady's Seven Miles' Swim
'' The New York Times''
Harry and his wife Ellen's son Henry Lloyd Parker was also an accomplished swimmer and escapologist.
Hammersmith
Hammersmith is a district of West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It is the administrative centre of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, and identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.
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By the 1890s Parker was the lessee of the bathing pools at the Tunnels Beaches at Ilfracombe, where he was billed as an "expert swimmer and instructor" and "one of the foremost professors of ornamental swimming."
Harry's younger sister Emily Parker was also an accomplished swimmer.(20 September 1875)A Lady's Seven Miles' Swim
'' The New York Times''
Harry and his wife Ellen's son Henry Lloyd Parker was also an accomplished swimmer and escapologist.
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English male swimmers British male long-distance swimmers People from Ilfracombe 1840s births 1932 deaths Sportspeople from Devon {{UK-swimming-bio-stub