Introduction

Biography

Parker was the son of stone­ma­son Teas­dale Par­ker and Eli­za­beth Dodd. He mar­ried twice, to Ann Nes­bitt (No­vem­ber 15, 1851) and Em­ma Jane Com­mon (De­cem­ber 22, 1864).

Her was in­flu­enced by Chart­ist Tho­mas Coop­er and In­ter­na­tion­al­ist Ed­ward Miall, and was as­so­ci­at­ed with Jo­seph Cow­en in New­cas­tle.

A well known ora­tor, he spoke at Hay­don Bridge and Wall, and be­came a Con­gre­ga­tion­al min­is­ter, work­ing in Ban­bu­ry and Man­ches­ter. He was al­so one of the found­ers of the Ci­ty Tem­ple in Lon­don, which op­ened in 1874.

He twice served as chair­man of the Lon­don Con­gre­ga­tion­al Board and was twice chair­man of the Con­gre­ga­tion­al Un­ion of Eng­land and Wales.

Works

• Church Quest­ions
• Ecce De­us, 1868
• Springdale Ab­bey, 1869
• City Tem­ple Ser­mons, 1869–70
• The In­ner Life of Christ, 1881
• Tyne Childe: My Life and Teach­ing, 1883
• Apostolic Life, 1884
• The Peo­ple’s Bi­ble, 1885–95
• A Preach­er’s Life, 1899