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The subject of this memoir was eldest son of Samuel Parkes and Hannah his wile , of Bewdley in the county of Worcester , and
grandson of Samuel and'Hannah Paikes , of Stourbridge ., in the same county . If it be allowable to say any thing of the ancestors of the deceased , it might be briefly re . marked , that the grandfather , who had established a small
manufactory of a peculiar kind of soap , near Stourbridge , was a man of considerable ingenuity , and acquired large sums of money , for the times in which he lived ; but , being addicted to associate with
the gay and the licentious , he spent his money as fast as he acquired it , without seeming to have any regard for the support or welfare of his family . But having some fear of God in his mind ,
he always resolutely avoided all his companions on the Sunday , and on those days spent the whole of his time at home , reading the Kible , partly by himself and partly with his family . An example this , of one of those vagaries of the human mind , which enables
it m one instance to break through habit and temptation , although it allows it to submit to be shamefully overthrown and conquered in every other . His wife , however , was a person of a different character , who had virtue and
good sense enough to bring up her children so as to be a credit to themselves and an ornament to society . Her sons , Samuel and flKnt * . - _
Daniel , as they grew up , and while they were still boys , beinp tired of depending upon the uncertain and capricious support which they received from their father , determined to begin business on their own accounts : and
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casting lots for the choice of totms after imploring the Divine direc ! tion , the one fixed at Bewdle / and the other at Stourbvid ge , and were both blessed with lono- life and prosperity .
Of these boys , Samuel , the fa . ther of the deceased , attached himself to a body of Protestant Dissenters at Bewdley , irnmedL ately on his going to reside amort * them , and continued a zealous
supporter of the society till the time of his death . When young he married Hannah , the daughter of John Mayo ,
of Westbronawich , in the county of Stafford , clothier , a man ci high character and general merit , and who signalized himself by his valourous conductin taking nn valourous conductin taking
, , up fire-arms to defend the meeting * house at Westbromwich , at the time that several of the Dissenting places of worship in the
neighbourhood were demolished by a mob of enraged bigots , who were enfuriated by the preaching of Dr . Henry Sacheveral , who at that time travelled through scve . ral of the midland counties of
England , preaching against the Revolution , and against the toleration of any dissenters ; for which he was impeached by the House of Commons , and tried by the Lords , who censured his
conduct , and condemned his writings to be burnt by the common hangman in the city of London . Mr . Parkes had several
children by the daughter of Mr . Mayo , ( the eldest of whom is the subject of the present article , ) and thoug h , as has been remarked , he began
business without any pecuniary assistance from his father , indefatigable industry and an extend * trade , enabled him at length w
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432 Obituary . — SamueJ Parkes .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1811, page 432, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2418/page/48/
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