NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Parker, Richard, 1767-1797 DNB: Parker, Richard (1767–1797), seaman and mutineer LBT ID: RiParke1797 VIAF ID: 63543919 LOC ID: nb2008026395 | B/BAP: 1767-04-16 DIED: 1797-06-30 |
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English seaman and leader of the Nore mutiny of 1797, for which he hung from the yardarm.
His wife Anne smuggled his body to London where crowds assembled to see it. | |
REFERENCES TO Richard Parker: Robert Southey to C. W. W. Wynn, 17 January 1813 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1:
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