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Sir Philip Parker-a-Morley-Long, 3rd Baronet (1682 – 20 January 1741) was an
In 1710 he took the name of Long on inheriting the estate of Whaddon in
Inheriting the Earth: The Long Family's 500 Year Reign in Wiltshire; Cheryl Nicol
1682 births 1741 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of England Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Long family of Wiltshire British MPs 1715–1722 British MPs 1722–1727 British MPs 1727–1734 {{England-GreatBritain-MP-stub
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politician who sat in the House of Commons
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for Harwich
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from 1715 to 1734.
Early life
Parker was born atArwarton
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, Suffolk
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, the son of Sir Philip Parker, 2nd Baronet, and Mary Fortrey, daughter of Samuel Fortrey
Samuel Fortrey (1622–1681) was an English landowner and fen drainer, author of ''England's Interest and Improvement, consisting in the increase of the Store and Trade of this Kingdom'' (Cambridge, 1663).
Life
Fortrey, born on 11 June 1622, was ...
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Career
In 1710 he took the name of Long on inheriting the estate of Whaddon in Wiltshire
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from his great-uncle
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Sir Walter Long. The original Coat of Long was, through some error, allowed to him by the College of Arms
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. He successfully stood for parliament in the 1715 general election being returned as Member of Parliament
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(MP) for Harwich
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. He held the seat until 1734.
In 1740 he founded the Erwarton Almshouses close to his home in Erwarton
Erwarton or Arwarton is a small village and civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk, England. The parish includes the hamlet of Shop Corner. Located on the Shotley peninsula around south of Ipswich, in 2005 it had a population of 11 ...
.
Family
On 11 July 1715 Parker married in London, Martha East and they had four daughters: *Martha (1716–1775) married John Thynne Howe, 2nd Baron Chedworth *Elizabeth (1717–1757) *Katherine (b. 1719) *Dyonisia (b. 1722)Death
On 20 January 1741,John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont
John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont, PC, FRS (12 July 16831 May 1748), known as Sir John Perceval, Bt, from 1691 to 1715, as The Lord Perceval from 1715 to 1722 and as The Viscount Perceval from 1722 to 1733, was an Anglo-Irish politician.
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wrote in his diary:
"This morning died my brother-in-law Sir Philip Parker, at 3 o'clock, choked by one of those fits he has had for 12 weeks past at sundry times."
References
Further reading
Inheriting the Earth: The Long Family's 500 Year Reign in Wiltshire; Cheryl Nicol
1682 births 1741 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of England Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Long family of Wiltshire British MPs 1715–1722 British MPs 1722–1727 British MPs 1727–1734 {{England-GreatBritain-MP-stub