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General Gervais Parker (also spelled Gervase; 1695 – 19 June 1750) was a British Army officer. He was the elder surviving son of the Jacobite Colonel John Parker by his first wife Johanna Rouse. His younger brother, Rear-Admiral Christopher Parker, was the father of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Peter Parker, 1st Baronet. The family went into exile in France following Colonel Parker's service at the Battle of the Boyne, but Gervais escaped from his father and joined the English army.〔Paul Hopkins, (Parker, John (b. c.1651, d. in or after 1719) ) in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (2004).〕 Parker was commissioned an ensign in the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards on 27 December 1690,〔Charles Dalton, ''English Army Lists and Commission Registers 1661–1714'', (volume III ) (1896) p. 137-138, note 16.〕 and his early career was assisted by his Williamite relatives.〔 He was made lieutenant in Brigadier-General William Steuart's Regiment of Foot on 1 December 1695,〔Dalton, ''English Army Lists'', (volume IV ) (1898) p. 77.〕 then lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers on 17 May 1697,〔Dalton, vol. IV, p. 176.〕 being appointed adjutant and quartermaster of the regiment on 17 November 1700.〔Dalton, vol. IV, p. 236.〕 He was made lieutenant of a company again on 21 April 1701,〔Dalton, vol. IV, p. 246.〕 and his commission was renewed by Queen Anne on 24 August 1702.〔Dalton, ''English Army Lists'', (volume V ) (1902) p. 58.〕 He was promoted to captain-lieutenant on 23 December 1702,〔Dalton, vol. V, p. 60.〕 and captain of a company on 15 March 1703.〔Dalton, vol. V, p. 59.〕 During the War of the Spanish Succession he served in Flanders and Spain.〔 On 24 December 1707 he was granted brevet rank as a colonel of Foot,〔Dalton, ''English Army Lists'', (volume VI ) (1904) p. 195.〕 and promoted to brigadier-general on 14 March 1727, major-general on 6 October 1735, lieutenant-general on 2 July 1739 and general of Foot on 25 March 1747.〔Robert Beatson, ''A Political Index to the Histories of Great Britain and Ireland'', (volume II ) (1806) p. 117.〕 Parker served as Governor of Cork, and was awarded the freedom of the city on 23 January 1726. In 1726 he was made Governor of Kinsale,〔C. M. Tenison, "Cork MPs 1559–1800" in ''Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society'', (volume II ) (1896) p. 137.〕 and on 22 October 1731 he was returned as Member for Kinsale in the Irish House of Commons, but he was declared not duly elected on 25 November.〔E. M. Johnston-Liik, ''MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament 1692–1800'' (2006) (p. 113 ).〕 On 2 June 1740 he was admitted to the Privy Council of Ireland,〔Leigh Rayment, (PRIVY COUNSELLORS – IRELAND ). Accessed 22 December 2012.〕 and he served as commander-in-chief of the forces in Ireland until 1750.〔''The Court and City Register for the Year 1751'' (1750) (p. 134 ).〕 Gervais Parker had a son, also named Gervais, who served under him as fort-major at Kinsale but predeceased him on 4 August 1739.〔Sylvanus Urban, ''The Gentlemen's Magazine'', volume IX (1739) (p. 439 ).〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gervais Parker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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