Thomas Parker, 5th Earl of Macclesfield

Thomas Parker, 5th Earl of Macclesfield (9 June 1763 – 31 March 1850), was a British peer.

Early life

He was the younger son of Thomas Parker, 3rd Earl of Macclesfield and the former Mary Heathcote, who were first cousins. Among his siblings were Lady Elizabeth Parker (who married John Fane, son of Henry Fane, MP), Lady Mary Parker, and George Parker, 4th Earl of Macclesfield. which he later leased for hunting parties. He graduated from Oxford University in 1834 with a Doctor of Civil Law.

Personal life

On 16 March 1796, he married Miss Edwards (died 1803), a daughter of Lewis Edwards of Talgarth, Merionethshire, Wales. Before her death on 9 April 1803, they were the parents of four daughters, including: Lady Matilda Anne Parker (died 1888), who married Arthur Hill Montgomery of Tyrells, County Down, Ireland, in 1825.

After the death of his first wife, he married secondly Eliza Wolstenholme (1781–1862), daughter of William Breton Wolstenholme, on 19 March 1807. Together, they were the parents of a son and two daughters, including: Thomas Augustus Wolstenholme Parker, 6th Earl of Macclesfield (1811–1896), an MP for Oxfordshire who married Henrietta Turnor, daughter of Edmond Turnor, in 1839. After her death four months later, he married Lady Mary Frances Grosvenor, daughter of Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster and sister of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster, in 1842.

Lord Macclesfield died on 31 March 1850. He was succeeded in the earldom by his only son, Thomas.

Descendants Through his daughter Lady Amelia, he was a grandfather of Hugh Montgomery, who married Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Herbert (the youngest daughter of Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis), in 1846.