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Mon 29 Apr 2002 21.43 EDT. The business mantras about singlemindedness - focus, commitment, sticking to your knitting - seemed, happily, to have passed by Sir Peter Parker, who has died aged 77.

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Sir Peter Parker KBE LVO (30 August 1924 - 28 April 2002) was a British businessman and chairman of the British Railways Board from 1976 to 1983. Early life. Parker was born in France on 30 August 1924 but spent part of his childhood in Shanghai where his father worked for an oil company.

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Richard Allen April 12, 2012. Sir Peter Parker, chairman of British Rail from 1976 to 1983, has died while on holiday with his family in Turkey. His death yesterday is understood to have been from.

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Sir Peter Parker (1721-December 21, 1811) English Admiral. Parker is best remembered for commanding the ill-fated expedition against Charleston, South Carolina, in 1776. Intensely brave and a fine sailor, he overcame this defeat to serve as Admiral of the Fleet and was a patron of the famous Horatio Nelson.

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Other articles where Sir Peter Parker is discussed: The Mirror:.the paper was bought by Sir Peter Parker, a former British Railways chairman. Acquired in 1999 by Trinity Mirror PLC, The Mirror continues to be one of the leading mass-circulation papers in Britain.

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Sir William John Hyde-Parker, 13th Baronet (born 1983) The heir apparent is the present holder's son Edward Richard Hyde Parker (born 2018). Parker baronets, of Bassingbourn (1783) Sir Peter Parker, 1st Baronet (1721-1811) Sir Peter Parker, 2nd Baronet (1785-1814) Sir Peter Parker, 3rd Baronet (1809-1835)

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Parker, Sir PeterPARKER, SIR PETER. (1721-1811). British admiral. A post-captain from 1747, in October 1775 Parker was appointed commodore with orders to escort Charles Cornwallis's transports to America. Unable to sail until February 1776, and delayed by storms en route, the convoy did not join Henry Clinton until May. Parker and Clinton then cooperated to attack the fort on Sullivan's.

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Parker died on 28 April 2002 from a suspected heart attack while on a trip to Turkey. Parker was the first former chairman of British Rail to have an engine named in his honour. At a ceremony at Old Oak Common TMD on 17 September 2003, Class 43 power car number 43127 was named "Sir Peter Parker 1924-2002 Cotswold Line 150" by Lady Parker.

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Sir Peter Parker, Bart, now Admiral of the fleet, is the son of the late Rear-Admiral Christopher Parker, descended from a very respectable and ancient family in Ireland. Of the period of his birth, or of his entering the service, we are not in possession; but we find his first appointment, as Lieutenant, to have taken place in the year 1743..

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A biographical memoir of the late Sir Peter Parker, baronet, captain of His Majesty's ship Menelaus, of 38 guns, killed in action while storming the American camp at Bellair, near Baltimore, on the thirty-first of August, 1814 by Dallas, George, Sir, 1st bart., 1758-1833

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Commodore Sir Peter Parker's breeches were literally blown away, leaving his buttocks bare. Governor William Campbell , the deposed royal governor of South Carolina, who volunteered to fight on the lower gun deck as if he were again a midshipman, took a painful splinter in the left side that contributed to his death in England two years later.

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American Revolutionary War. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Peter Parker, 1st Baronet (1721 - 21 December 1811) was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer, he was deployed with a squadron under Admiral Edward Vernon to the West Indies at the start of the War of Jenkins' Ear. He saw action again at the Battle of Toulon during the War of the.

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Cemetery Name: Born in Ireland, Peter Parker was the third son of Rear Admiral Christopher Parker and Margaret Nugent. Part of a naval lineage, Parker was the father of Vice-Admiral Christopher Parker, the grandfather of Captain Sir Peter Parker, and the uncle of Admiral Sir George Parker. His grandson and namesake served under Sir George.

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Sir Peter Parker 1st Baronet. 1721-1811. He was born in Ireland, the third son of Rear-Admiral Christopher Parker who died in Dublin in 1763, and of his wife, Margaret Nugent. He was the father of Vice-Admiral Christopher Parker, the grandfather of Captain Sir Peter Parker, and the uncle of Admiral Sir George Parker.

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The Battle of Caulk's Field was fought during the War of 1812 in Kent County, Maryland between a small British Army force commanded by Captain Sir Peter Parker and American militia forces commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Philip Reed.Parker, who was operating in the Chesapeake Bay region as part of the British campaign against Baltimore, Maryland, landed on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake.

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Battle of Caulk's Field, Kent County, Md. Matt Brant. Captain Peter Parker (1785-1814), by John Hoppner Royal Museums Greenwich. P anic and fear gripped the Chesapeake. For over a year, a British naval force led by Admiral George Cockburn raided at will along the waterways of Maryland and Virginia. Reinforced by a newly arrived army in the.