Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley
Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley, was an English peer and translator, Lord of Morley, Hingham, Hockering, &c., in Norfolk. He was the son of Alice Parker, 9th Baroness Morley, née Lovel and her husband Sir William Parker, who was Privy councillor and standard bearer to King Richard III.
He married Alice St John, daughter of Sir John St John and his wife Alice Bradshaigh, and a descendant of Sir Oliver St John and his wife Margaret Beauchamp of Bletsoe, by whom he had one son, Sir Henry Parker, who was knighted at the coronation of Anne Boleyn and died in his father's lifetime. The son of Sir Henry Parker, Henry, succeeded his grandfather as Baron Morley. Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley, had three daughters: Margaret, who married John Shelton, Jane, who married George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, the brother of Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn, and Alice, who married Sir Thomas Barrington.
In 1523, he was sent as an ambassador to Germany to present the Order of the Garter to the Archduke Ferdinand. He was a man of literary attainments and translated some of the writings of Plutarch, Seneca, Cicero and others into English.
