Henry Parker, 11th Baron Morley (January 1533 – 22 October 1577) was an English peer, Lord of Morley, Hingham, Hockering, &c., in

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, the son of Sir Henry Parker and Grace Newport. His father was the son of Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley and Alice St. John. His father was knighted at the coronation of

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and died within his father's lifetime, therefore the title passed directly to him upon the death of his grandfather in 1556.

Career

He was made a

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at the coronation of Queen

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on 6 October 1553. In 1560, he became Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire. In 1561, he entertained Queen

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at his principal residence, Allington Morley, Great Hallingbury,

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. In 1569, he refused to sign the

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and the following year left the country without the Queen's permission. He was first based in

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and later in

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, where

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made him a gift of 600 ducats in 1574.

Personal life

He married Lady Elizabeth Stanley, daughter of

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and Lady Dorothy Howard, daughter of

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and his second wife Agnes Tilney.Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 1102. She was a Lady of Honour at the court and a prominent

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, being arrested at her house in

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, London, for attending a Catholic service on

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, 1574. She had joined her husband abroad by 1576. Henry's successor was his son, Edward Parker, 12th Baron Morley. He also had two daughters: Mary, who married Sir Edward Leventhorpe of Shingey Hall, Hertfordshire, and Anne, who married Sir Henry Brouncker,

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. Mary was the mother of the first of the Leventhorpe Baronets, and Anne was the mother of the first Viscount Brouncker.

Death

He died in Madrid on 22 October 1577.

References

1533 births 1577 deaths 16th-century English nobility

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