IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0064 PKS/1-5, 101-107
Held at: National Maritime Museum
Title: Parks, Murray Thomas, Commander, (1827-1877)
Date(s): 1843-1870
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent:
Name of creator(s): Parks | Murray Thomas | 1827-1877 | Commander
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Murray Thomas Parks joined the Navy in 1842. He was appointed to HMS COLUMBIA as a volunteer and was employed for five years in survey work in North America. He returned to England and was in the VICTORY and EXCELLENT and served on the coast of Africa for about a year as midshipman and acting mate. He passed his lieutenant's examination and was appointed to the ENTERPRISE under Captain Collinson (q.v.) on a Franklin search expedition. He returned to England in 1855 and was appointed Marine Surveyor at Liverpool. He served at Liverpool for twelve years before retiring due to ill health. He became a retired commander in 1870 and died in 1877.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
The papers for Commander Murray Thomas Parks include official service documents 1843 to 1870, but are made up mainly of papers relating to the ENTERPRISE and the Arctic expedition of 1851.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Please contact the Archive for further information.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Please contact the Archive for further information.
Finding aids:
Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The Parks family papers were presented to the Museum in two batches. The first batch were given by M T Parks in 1955, and the remainder of the collection was presented after Mr Parks' death by his cousin, Miss Rose Powell in 1973.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Edited by Sarah Drewery, Sep 2011.
Date(s) of descriptions: 2010-08-26