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Edward Parkes

Edward Parkes

British academic (1926–2019)

Sir Edward Walter Parkes DL FREng[1] (19 May 1926 – 25 September 2019) was Vice-Chancellor of City University London from 1974 to 1978 and of the University of Leeds from 1983 to 1991.

Life

Parkes was born in 1926.[2]

Parkes attended King Edward's School, Birmingham, and St John's College, Cambridge, where he obtained a first class degree in mechanical engineering.[3]

Other posts included Head of the Department of Engineering at Leicester University in the 1960s[4] and Chairman of the UK University Grants Committee in the early 1980s. From 1989 to 1991 he was Chairman of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals. He was also appointed a Fellow[1] of the Royal Academy of Engineering[1] in 1982.

Edward and Margaret Parkes commissioned Leicester based architect James Gowan to design them a holiday home on land they had bought above St David's Cathedral in Wales. The resulting Round House was listed after it was completed in 1967.[2]

Parkes was knighted in 1983.[5] There is a portrait in oils by Michael Noakes at City University.[6] Parkes died in September 2019 at the age of 93.[7]

Private life

He married the educationalist Margaret Parr[2] (1925-2007) and they had two children. Lady Parkes CBE died in 2007 having changed the UK's educational system to include Design and Technology.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "List of Fellows". Archived from the original on 8 June 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
  2. [2]
    Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B.; Goldman, L., eds. (23 September 2004). "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. ref:odnb/99042. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/99042. Retrieved 21 February 2023. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. [3]
    Burke's Peerage, accessed 24 July 2009
  4. [4]
    The Times 30 August 2007 Margaret Parkes.
  5. [5]
    The London Gazette 22 April 1983 page 5510
  6. [6]
    BBC Your Paintings Sir Edward Parkes (image and details)
  7. [7]
    "Who's Who: Parkes, Sir Edward (Walter)". Archived from the original on 30 June 2020. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
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