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John St Aubyn Parker, 6th Earl of Morley, KCVO DL (29 May 1923 –20 September 2015) was a British peer, a professional soldier, and county dignitary. Morley was a staunch monarchist and royal servant. John Parker was born at Saltram House on May 29, 1923, the son of Hon John Holford Parker (1886-1955) by his wife Hon Marjory Katherine Elizabeth St Aubyn, a daughter of the 2nd Baron St Levan. His grandfather was Albert, 3rd Earl Morley (1843-1905), and the 4th and 5th Earls, his uncles, had died without issue. The 5th Earl, known to the family as uncle Monty, was a soldier, and one of the original 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' on the Parker Expedition of 1911. The intrepid earl became an imperial hero, known for his derring-do. A trained archaeologist, he joined other civil servants in an excavation in Jerusalem on a very holy day in the city celebrated by all three great world religions. His courage did not prevent the street violence that erupted, forcing him to leave in a hurry, abandoning the tools of the trade ''in situ''. ==Military== John's military forebears were intrepid courtiers, and one of the foremost families on the isthmus in the south-west, connected so closely with the sea. Parker was educated at Sunningdale school, Berkshire before Eton. In 1941 he enlisted in the 60th Regiment of Rifles, initially as a private soldier. He was soon recognised and promoted to a commission as a lieutenant in the infantry. His aristocratic lineage attracted him to the call of royal service. In 1944 he was drafted onto the royal protection squad at Buckingham Palace. Then in April 1944 he was invited to Sandringham to celebrate Princess Elizabeth's 18th birthday party. His fellow officers invited the Heir Apparent to the officer's mess, situated in the extensive Norfolk parklands. Newly promoted Lieutenant Parker was sent to Germany with an anti-tank platoon. After the war he travelled across France and witnessed the scuttled French Fleet at Toulon. With Imperial decline still far from his mind, he was in Gaza as part of the British Mandate forces occupying Palestine. The infantry weapons training school employed Parker as an instructor, spending his free time duck shooting on the shores of Lake Huleh near Beersheba. In 1948, with India in abeyance, he was transferred with the Rifles into the Suez Canal Zone, where unrest threatened the security of the vital commercial ports. Already a Captain he was posted to Germany with the Royal Fusiliers, and thence to the Regimental depot in the Tower of London.〔''The Daily Telegraph'', Monday, 10 October 2015, Obituary (only ), p.27〕 After war broke out in Korea he was sent in 1952 attached to an Australian battalion. Four days before the conclusion of the ceasefire, Parker departed for Suez again to command a company at Gebelt in the hills behind the Red Sea in the hinterland occupied by Arabs. He rode a camel 450 miles from HQ, calling it ''Rhubarb'', reciting the famous popular ditty, Lloyd George knew my father, my father knew Lloyd George. As an aristocrat he was painfully aware of death duties, and what it was doing to many families, forced from their homes by the Labour government's tax policy. With order restored he returned to England in 1954. On 28 April 1962, the 5th earl died, and he inherited the title and deeds of Earl of Morley from his uncle. He was sent to Malta garrison during the period the island remained a British colony and protectorate before gaining full independence as a member of the Commonwealth. He was promoted to Lieutenant-colonel and took command of 1st battalion Royal Fusiliers 1965-7. Going through staff college at Camberley her was appointed GOC 1 East Midlands District in 1967 for three years. He retired from the army in 1970 with the rank of lieutenant-colonel from the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. 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「John Parker, 6th Earl of Morley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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