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Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield
Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield (23 July 1666 – 28 April 1732) was an English Whig politician.
==Youth and early career==
He was born in Staffordshire, the son of Thomas Parker, an attorney at Leek. He was educated at Adams' Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was married to Janet Carrier, whose sister was married to William Anson, 1st Baron Anson's father . He was called to the bar in 1691, and became a Member of Parliament and was knighted in 1705. In 1710 he refused the office of Lord Chancellor, but was made a Privy Counsellor. He was Lord Chief Justice from 1710 to 1718 and was involved in the prosecution of Dr Sacheverell. He made a vehement attack on Sacheverell and the high church clergy.() He was also a friend of Bernard de Mandeville, whose satirical ''Fable of the Bees'' became highly controversial in the 1720s.
He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1713. He also had a grammar school built at Leek, his home town. In 1714 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Parker of Macclesfield.
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