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unusual facts about Sir Hyde Parker, 8th Baronet


Hyde Parker

Sir Hyde Parker, 8th Baronet (1785–1856), Tory Member of Parliament for West Suffolk 1832–1835


Arthur Benoni Evans

The Bishop of Lincoln, John Kaye, appointed Evans since in 1829 the 8th Baronet was only a child of 13.

James Brisbane

Cruizer was attached to Sir Hyde Parker's Baltic fleet on commissioning and Brisbane came under the direct command of Admiral Horatio Nelson, who used Cruizer to take soundings and make charts of the approaches to Copenhagen prior to the British attack on the city at the Battle of Copenhagen.


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