Robert Parker, Baron Parker of Waddington
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Robert John Parker, Baron Parker of Waddington PC, (25 February 1857 – 12 July 1918) was a British judge and barrister.
The son of the Reverend Richard Parker was born at Claxby Rectory, Alford. He was educated in Eton College, Yorkshire as a pupil of Oscar Browning, and in King's College, Cambridge. Parker was called to the Bar in 1883. From 1903 to 1906, he was junior counsel to the Treasury, becoming a bencher afterwards.
He was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in 1913 and was made additionally a life peer as Baron Parker of Waddington, of Waddington in the County of Yorkshire. Parker died aged 61 in Haslemere.
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