Paternal Family Tree: Parker of Devon
On 23rd July 1666 Thomas Parker 1st Earl Macclesfield was born to Thomas Parker [aged 32].
On 23rd April 1691 Thomas Parker 1st Earl Macclesfield [aged 24] and Janet Carrier Countess Macclesfield [aged 30] were married.
Around 1696 [his son] George Parker 2nd Earl Macclesfield was born to Thomas Parker 1st Earl Macclesfield [aged 29] and [his wife] Janet Carrier Countess Macclesfield [aged 35].
Around 1700 [his daughter] Elizabeth Parker Lady Heathcote was born to Thomas Parker 1st Earl Macclesfield [aged 33] and [his wife] Janet Carrier Countess Macclesfield [aged 39]. She married William Heathcote 1st Baronet and had issue.
Before August 1720 William Anson [aged 64] and Isabella Carrier were married by which he became the brother-in-law to her sister's husband Thomas Parker 1st Earl Macclesfield [aged 54].
In 1721 Thomas Parker 1st Earl Macclesfield [aged 54] was created 1st Earl Macclesfield.
In 1725 Thomas Parker 1st Earl Macclesfield [aged 58] impeached and unanimously, convicted of corruption for taking more than £100,000 in bribes (the equivalent of more than £11,000,000 today).
In 1725 Thomas Parker 1st Earl Macclesfield [aged 58] was imprisoned until payment of his £30,000 fine was received at Tower of London [Map].
On 28th March 1727 Isaac Newton [deceased] was buried in Scientist's Corner, Westminster Abbey [Map]; the first scientist to be buried there. The service was performed by the Bishop of Rochester [aged 74].
Before the funeral his body lay in state in the Jerusalem Chamber, Cheyneygates, Westminster Abbey [Map]. His coffin was followed by most of the Fellows of the Royal Society.
The Pall Bearers were the Lord Chancellor Peter King 1st Baron King [aged 58], James Graham 1st Duke Montrose [aged 44], Robert Ker 2nd Duke Roxburghe [aged 18], Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery [aged 71], Talbot Yelverton 1st Earl of Sussex [aged 36] and Thomas Parker 1st Earl Macclesfield [aged 60].
The Chief Mourner was Michael Newton 4th Baronet [aged 32]; his third cousin.
Voltaire observed, "He was buried like a king who had done well by his subjects.".
The inscription on his John Michael Rysbrack [aged 32] monument reads "Here is buried Isaac Newton, Knight, who by a strength of mind almost divine, and mathematical principles peculiarly his own, explored the course and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, the tides of the sea, the dissimilarities in rays of light, and, what no other scholar has previously imagined, the properties of the colours thus produced. Diligent, sagacious and faithful, in his expositions of nature, antiquity and the holy Scriptures, he vindicated by his philosophy the majesty of God mighty and good, and expressed the simplicity of the Gospel in his manners. Mortals rejoice that there has existed such and so great an ornament of the human race! He was born on 25th December 1642, and died on 20th March 1726."
On 28th April 1732 Thomas Parker 1st Earl Macclesfield [aged 65] died at Soho Square [Map]. His son George [aged 36] succeeded 2nd Earl Macclesfield.
On 23rd August 1733 [his former wife] Janet Carrier Countess Macclesfield [aged 72] died at Shirburn Castle [Map].
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Parker 
Great x 3 Grandfather: George Parker
Great x 2 Grandfather: George or William Parker
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Parker of Parwick
Grandfather: George Parker
father: Thomas Parker