Henry Parker, 11th Baron Morley (1531/c. 1532 - 1577) was an English peer, Lord of Morley, Hingham, Hockering, &c., in Norfolk, the son of Sir Henry Parker (knighted at the coronation of Anne Boleyn and died in his father's lieftime) son of Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley and Grace Newport[1].
He was made a Knight of the Bath at Queen 6 October 1553. In 1560 he bacame Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire. In 1561 he entertained Queen Eizabeth at his principal residence, Allington Morley, Great Hallingbury, Essex. In 1569 he refused to sign the Act of Uniformity 1558 and the following year left the country without the queen's permission. He was based first in Brussels and later in Madrid, where Philip II of Spain made him a gift of 600 ducats in 1574. He died in Madrid on 22 October 1577.[2]
He married Lady Elizabeth Stanley, daughter of Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby and Lady Dorothy Howard, and had Edward Parker, 12th Baron Morley. She was a Lady of Honour at the court and a prominent recusant, being arrested at her house in Aldgate, London, for attending a Catholic service on Palm Sunday, 1574. She had joined her husband abroad by 1576.[3]