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About Daniel Parke
Colonel Daniel Parke Jr. was a British military officer, planter, politician and colonial administrator who served as the governor of the Leeward Islands from 1706 to 1710, when he was lynched by a mob in Antigua. Best known for his military service in Europe under the Duke of Marlborough during the War of the Spanish Succession, Parke was the only governor in British America to be murdered.
Everything about Daniel Parke →- Occupation
- politician, military personnel, governor, settler
- Position held
- Governor of the Leeward Islands
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- September 5, 1664
- Died
- December 7, 1710