Earl of Macclesfield
(1811-1896)
16 May 1861

Volume 3, page 250, sitting number 3682.

Thomas Augustus Wolstenholme Parker, 6th Earl of Macclesfield was born on 17 March 1811. He married firstly Henrietta Turner on 11 July 1839. He married secondly, on 25 August 1842, Lady Mary Francis Grosvenor, daughter of Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster and Lady Elizabeth Mary Leveson-Gower.

He died, aged 85, on 24 July 1896. 

According to his obituary in the Dover Express (31 July 1896), 'The Earl of Macclesfield died at 3.30 on Friday afternoon of last week at 94, Eaton-square, London. Thomas Augustus Wolsenholme Parker, ninth Earl, was born in March, 1811, and was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford. He sat as a member of Parliament for Oxfordshire, in the Conservative interest, from 1837 to 1841, and succeeded his father in 1850. He was high steward of Henley, and a J.P. and D.L. and vice-lieutenant of Oxfordshire. He married, first, in 1839, Henrietta, daughter of Mr Edmond Turnor, of Stoke, Rochford, Lincolnshire, but lost his wife in the same year; secondly, in 1842, Lady Mary Frances Grosvenor, daughter of the late Marquis of Westminster, who survives him. The Countess  of Macclesfield has been a Lady of the Bedchamber to the Princess of Wales since 1863. Lord Macclesfield is succeeded in the title by his grandson, George Lovedon, Viscount Parker, son of George Augustus, Viscount Parker, who died last year. Lord Parker was born in 1888.'