Thomas Parker, 3rd Earl of Macclesfield

Macclesfield was the son of George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, and Mary, daughter of Ralph Lane.{{cite web |last=Lundy |first=Darryl |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p2739.htm#i27386 |title=p. 2739 § 27386 |publisher= The Peerage}}{{Unreliable source?|failed=y |date=September 2012}}

Macclesfield was returned to Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1747, a seat he held until 1754,{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20090810231441/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ncommons1.htm leighrayment.com]}} and then represented Oxfordshire between 1754 and 1761{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20090810231452/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ocommons.htm leighrayment.com]}} and Rochester between 1761 and 1764.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20091220041534/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Rcommons2.htm leighrayment.com]}} The latter year he succeeded his father in the earldom and entered the House of Lords. The family seat was Shirburn Castle in Oxfordshire.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in November 1747.{{cite web|url=http://royalsociety.org/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=4294972811|title=Lists of Royal Society Fellows 1660-2007|publisher=The Royal Society|accessdate=12 November 2010|location=London}}

Lord Macclesfield married his first cousin, Mary, daughter of Sir William Heathcote, 1st Baronet, and Elizabeth Parker, in 1749. They had four children:

• Lady Elizabeth Parker (29 June 1751 – 10 June 1829),The Register of Births & Baptisms in the Parish of St James within the Liberty of Westminster Vol. IV. 1741-1760. 9 July 1751. who married John Fane, son of Henry Fane MP and Charlotte Luther. They had six children.
• Lady Mary Parker (b. 16 March 1753).The Register of Births & Baptisms in the Parish of St James within the Liberty of Westminster Vol. IV. 1741-1760. 27 March 1753.
• George Parker, 4th Earl of Macclesfield (1755–1842).
• Thomas Parker, 5th Earl of Macclesfield (1763–1850), who married firstly a daughter of Lewis Edwards and had four daughters of which one, Amelia, married William Montgomery, grandson of Bernard Ward, 1st Viscount Bangor. He married secondly Eliza Wolstenholme, daughter of William Breton Wolstenholme, and with her had a son Thomas (later succeeding him as Earl), and two daughters Lavinia who married the Hon. John Dutton, son of John Dutton, 2nd Baron Sherborne and Laura who married Hugh Seymour McDonnell, 4th Earl of Antrim.

He died in February 1795, aged 71, and was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son, George. Lady Macclesfield died in May 1812.{{cite web |last=Lundy |first=Darryl |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p2739.htm#i27386 |title=p. 2739 § 27386 |publisher= The Peerage}}{{Unreliable source?|failed=y |date=September 2012}}

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