Montagu Edmund Parker

In 1772 he married Charity Ourry (1752–1786), daughter of Admiral Paul Henry Ourry (1719–1783),^[11] of Plympton House in the parish of Plympton St Maurice, Devon, MP for Plympton Erle 1763–1775 and Commissioner for Plymouth Dockyard. Paul Ourry was the second son of Louis Ourry, a Huguenot refugee from Blois in France who had obtained British citizenship in 1713 and a commission in the British army.^[12] Charity Ourry's mother was Charity Treby, daughter of George II Treby of Plympton House. By his wife he had two sons:

• Montagu Edmund Parker II (d.1831), who survived his father, having in 1806 married Harriet Newcombe, a daughter of John Newcombe of Starcross.^[13] He left progeny 2 sons and 1 daughter:
  • Montagu Edmund Newcombe Parker (1807-1858), eldest son and heir and heir to his grandfather, of Whiteway, MP for South Devon. He died without progeny and his monument survives in Exeter Cathedral.^[14]
  • John Parker (d.1847),^[15] 2nd son,^[16] who in 1841 married Lady Catherine Caroline Leslie, daughter of George Leslie and Henrietta Leslie, 14th Countess of Rothes. Lady Catherine died in 1844.^[17] Left one daughter, Louisa Harriet,^[18] who died in 1852^[19] at age 9.
  • Harriet Sophia Parker, who in 1842 married as her second husband Edmund Parker, 2nd Earl of Morley (1810–1864), her second cousin, and was the mother of Albert Parker, 3rd Earl of Morley.^[20]
• Francis Parker (b. 1782),^[21] likely died before 1823.^[22]

He died in January 1813. There is a will listed for probate in 1814 in Chudleigh.^[23] His funeral appears to have taken place at St John's Church, Paignton, then the parish church of his secondary residence at Blagdon, as his funerary hatchment survives in that church, affixed high up on the south wall of the nave. It displays the arms of Parker (with a crescent for the difference of a second son) impaling Azure, a fox statant on grass proper in chief a sun in spendour or (Ourry, the last two words being canting). Above is the crest of Parker: A cubit arm erect vested azure cuffed argent the hand holding a stag's antler proper. Below is the Latin epitaph In Caelo Salus ("Salvation is in Heaven"). Below is a skull. The frame is decorated with skulls and crossbones.^[24] The public house in Collaton St Mary (next to Blagdon and also owned by Parker) is called the "Parkers Arms" (sic) after the tenure of the Parker family.^[25]