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Colonel Daniel Parke Jr. (1664 – December 7, 1710) was an American-born military officer, planter, politician and colonial administrator who served as the governor of the Leeward Islands from 1706 to 1710, when he was lynched by a mob in Antigua.
The assassination on December 7, 1710, of Daniel Parke, governor of the English colony of the Leeward Islands, by a mob of his white constituents occupies only a few pages of Richard S. Dunn’s Sugar and Slaves, but he describes it as one of “the most lurid episodes in English Caribbean history.”
Parke was killed on December 7, 1710, along with most of his bodyguard, the grenadiers of the 38th Regiment, by the militiamen of Antigua. The incident was overheated by war. Parke tried to regulate the garrison regiment, modernize the island militia, and fortify the capital, St. John's.
Elegantly arrayed and wearing a miniature portrait of Queen Anne around his neck, Daniel Parke poses for a three-quarter-length oil portrait by the artist John Closterman sometime around 1705.
22 de dic. de 2021 · Daniel Parke was a Virginia politician who gained his first public office at age nineteen, when he was elected to the House of Burgesses for James City County (1688). By age twenty-six, he had acquired a seat on the governor’s Council (1695–1697). He relocated to England in 1697.
Daniel Parke. Elegantly arrayed and wearing a miniature portrait of Queen Anne around his neck, Daniel Parke poses for a three-quarter-length oil portrait by the artist John Closterman sometime around 1705.
When Daniel Parke was born in 1628, in England, his father, William Parke, was 29 and his mother, Sara Poss, was 49. He married Rebecca Evelyn on 18 February 1658. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 7 daughters.
