John Parker

John Parker (fl. 1631–1680) was an English judge and an MP for Rochester during the Interregnum. Biography Parker was the son and heir of Richard Parker, of Shorne, Northfleet, Kent, and Priscilla, daughter of Robert Edolph of Hinxhill, Kent. For many years Parker lived at Gravesend and was recorder of that town by 1632, but he was not called to the bar until 8 June 1638. He continued to be the recorder and on 16 April 1649 the Council of State demanded his attendance as the recorder of Gravesend. During the Interregnum he was one of the gentlemen of the county of Kent trusted by the Council of State to carry out their wishes. In 1653 he was on the commission responsible selling estates of Royalists sequestrated for their actions in the Civil War. In the same year he was a trustee for the lands previously belonging to the Crown and oversaw the sale of property belonging to the royal family.