Daniel Parke

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Daniel Parke (1669 – December 7, 1710) sat on the colonial Virginia governor's Council from 1695 until 1697. His elder legitimate daughter married John Custis, and his younger married William Byrd II. Parke served as an aide to John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough, and after the Battle of Blenheim carried news of Marlborough's victory to Queen Anne. Winning the queen's favor, Parke was the British governor of the Leeward Islands from 1706 to 1710. He was assassinated during a mutiny triggered by his self-enriching enforcement of Stuart imperialism.

[edit] References

  • Miller, Helen Hill. Colonel Parke of Virginia: "The Greatest Hector in the Town" (Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1989).
Government offices
Preceded by
John Johnson, acting		 Governor of the Leeward Islands
1706–1710		 Succeeded by
Walter Hamilton, acting


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