Hyde Parker (Sea Lord)

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Hyde Parker
1786 – 1854
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Vice-Admiral Rank Insignia
Allegiance Flag of the United Kingdom United Kingdom
Service/branch Royal Navy
Rank Vice-Admiral
Commands First Naval Lord
Battles/wars Napoleonic Wars
Awards CB

Vice-Admiral Hyde Parker CB (1786 – 26 May 1854) was a senior British naval officer who started to serve during the Napoleonic Wars and who was appointed First Sea Lord of the Admiralty in 1852. He is generally known as "Hyde Parker III".

He was the son of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker and grandson of Sir Hyde Parker, 5th Baronet.

He joined the Royal Navy in 1796. Between 1811 and 1840 he commanded successively HMS Monmouth, HMS Tenedos, HMS Iphigenia, HMS St Vincent, HMS Asia, HMS Victory and HMS Rodney.

He was appointed First Sea Lord in 1852 and died in office in 1854.

His son, Hyde Parker IV, was a captain in the Black Sea during the Crimean War and was killed on 8 July 1854 when storming a Russian fort at Sulina.


Military offices
Preceded by
Maurice FitzHardinge Berkeley		 First Sea Lord
1852–1854		 Succeeded by
Maurice FitzHardinge Berkeley
v • d • e
First Sea Lords of the Royal Navy

The Earl Howe • Sir Peter Parker • Prince William, Duke of Clarence • Sir George Cockburn • Sir Thomas Hardy • The Hon. George Heneage Dundas • Charles Adam • Sir George Cockburn • Sir Charles Adam • Sir George Cockburn • Sir William Parker • Sir Charles Adam • James Whitley Deans Dundas • The Hon. Maurice FitzHardinge Berkeley • Hyde Parker • The Hon. Maurice FitzHardinge Berkeley • The Hon. Sir Richard Saunders Dundas • William Fanshawe Martin • The Hon. Sir Richard Saunders Dundas • The Hon. Sir Frederick Grey • Sir Alexander Milne • Sir Sydney Dacres • Sir Alexander Milne • Sir Hastings Yelverton • George Wellesley • Sir Astley Cooper Key • Sir Arthur Acland Hood • Lord John Hay • Sir Arthur Acland Hood • Sir Richard Vesey Hamilton • Sir Anthony Hoskins • Sir Frederick Richards • Lord Walter Kerr • Sir John A. Fisher • Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson • Sir Francis Bridgeman • Prince Louis of Battenberg • The Baron Fisher of Kilverstone • Sir Henry Jackson • Sir John Jellicoe • Sir Rosslyn Wemyss • The Earl Beatty • Sir Charles Madden, Bt • Sir Frederick Field • The Lord Chatfield • Sir Roger Backhouse • Sir Dudley Pound • The Lord Cunningham of Hyndhope • Sir John Cunningham • The Lord Fraser of North Cape • Sir Rhoderick McGrigor • The Earl Mountbatten of Burma • Sir Charles Lambe • Sir Caspar John • Sir David Luce • Sir Varyl Begg • Sir Michael Le Fanu • Sir Peter Hill-Norton • Sir Michael Pollock • Sir Edward Ashmore • Sir Terence Lewin • Sir Henry Leach • Sir John Fieldhouse • Sir William Staveley • Sir Julian Oswald • Sir Benjamin Bathurst • Sir Jock Slater • Sir Michael Boyce • Sir Nigel Essenhigh • Sir Alan West • Sir Jonathon Band •


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