Arms of Parker, Earls of Macclesfield: Gules, a chevron between three leopard's faces or[1]In The Sketch, 4 November 1896Gatehouse of Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire, seat of the Earls of Macclesfield
George Loveden William Henry Parker, 7th Earl of Macclesfield (24 May 1888 – 20 September 1975), of Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire, was a British peer and landowner. He was among the last to serve simultaneously as Lord Lieutenant of an English county and as chairman of its county council.
Life
Born on 24 May 1888, George Parker was the only child of Viscount Parker (the heir of Thomas Parker, 6th Earl of Macclesfield), by his marriage to Carine Agnes, the daughter of Pryse Loveden, of Gogerddan, Cardiganshire. His father died in 1895.
On 24 July 1896, at the age of eight, Parker succeeded his grandfather as Earl of Macclesfield, a title he was to hold for seventy-nine years. The next year, his mother married secondly Captain L. W. Matthews, of the 5th Dragoon Guards, providing the young earl with a stepfather.[2]
In 1909, Macclesfield married Lilian Joanna Vere Boyle, the daughter of Major Charles Boyle, of Great Milton, Oxfordshire. They had three sons, and the marriage lasted until his wife's death in 1974.[2][3]