Henry Parker, lord Morley, by Albrecht Dürer

Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley (1476/1480/14813 December 1553/1556), (notes to Parliamentary records show this as 25 November 1556) was an

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peer and translator, Lord of

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, Hingham,

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. He was the son of

Alice Parker, 9th Baroness Morley Baron Morley is an abeyant title in the Peerage of England. On 29 December 1299 William de Morley, lord of the manor of Morley Saint Botolph in Norfolk, was summoned to parliament and was thereby deemed to have become Baron Morley. At the death o ...

, née Lovel (c. 1467–1518) and her husband Sir William Parker, who was Privy councillor and standard bearer to

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. He married Alice St John, granddaughter of Sir John St John (1426–1498) and his wife Alice Bradshaigh, and thus a descendant of Sir Oliver St John and his wife Margaret Beauchamp of Bletsoe, by whom he had one son, Sir Henry Parker, who was knighted at the coronation of

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and died in his father's lifetime. The son of Sir Henry Parker,

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, succeeded his grandfather as

Baron Morley Baron Morley is an abeyant title in the Peerage of England. On 29 December 1299 William de Morley, lord of the manor of Morley Saint Botolph in Norfolk, was summoned to parliament and was thereby deemed to have become Baron Morley. At the death of ...

. Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley, had three daughters: Margaret, who married John Shelton,

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, who married

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, the brother of Henry VIII's second wife,

, and Alice, who married Sir Thomas Barrington. In 1523, he was sent as an ambassador to Germany to present the

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to Archduke Ferdinand (later

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). He was a man of literary attainments and translated some of the writings of

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and others into English.

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