The late Capt. Parker lived in the Orient and Shanghai during those early thrilling days, arriving just after the Taiping Rebellion, and on his many voyages on the China coast and visits to Chinese ports, had seafaring adventures. As mate of a coast steamer he was one of the first to enter uncertain Korean ports shortly after their dubious opening to foreign trade.
Associated as he was with Mr.
E. D. Sassoon, as master of the opium hulk Wellington he was responsible for large quantities of the drug which were ever a lure to the lawless.
Capt. Parker had a wonderful memory and could tell the more recently arrived residents of Shanghai just where this or that building had stood, who lived on such cadastral lot and such details of early Shanghai that made him a favourite subject for writers of histon and essays on the port. It was only a few years ago that the deceased appeared Supreme Court to give evidence in ease in which property rights were involved when he described exactly what buildings had been on the spot in question in early days He was a member of the Race Club and the Masonic Club and in his younger days an active Mason. He was an Associate of the Institute of Naval Architects, a Board of 'Trade Surveyor and' a member of the Bureau Veritas, Tt will be recalled by readers that Capt, Parker's son, Br. B. W. Parl er, was presented' at Court at the time of his marriage in June 1922, to the niece of Sir Robert Morriss, Bu, of Sketty Park, Glamorgan, Captain Parker was in Shanghai eral weeks ago and seemed to be in the best of health und. spirits, returning to Mokanshan about 10 days ago. Letters received by friends and business associates gave no idea other than that he was feeling perfectly normal.
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