James Parkinson

James Parkinson FGS (11 April 1755  21 December 1824) was an English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, palaeontologist, and political activist. He is most famous for his 1817 work, An Essay on the Shaking Palsy in which he was the first to describe "paralysis agitans", a condition that would later be renamed Parkinson's disease by Jean-Martin Charcot.

Early life

James Parkinson was born in Shoreditch, London, England. He was the son of John Parkinson, an apothecary and surgeon practising in Hoxton Square in London. He was the oldest of three siblings, which included his brother William and his sister Mary Sedgewood. In 1784 Parkinson was approved by the City of London Corporation as a surgeon.

On 21 May 1783, he married Mary Dale, with whom he subsequently had eight children; two did not survive past childhood. Soon after he was married, Parkinson succeeded his father in his practice in 1 Hoxton Square. He believed that any worthwhile surgeon should know shorthand, at which he was adept.

James Parkinson (1730–1813)

James Parkinson (baptised 28 February 1730, St Mary's Church, Shrewsbury – 1813) was an English land agent and museum proprietor.

Life

He was the son of James Parkinson and his wife, Jane Birch. His first training was as a law stationer, but he then became a land agent and accountant. In 1769 he helped in the settlement of Sir Thomas Robinson's tangled estates at Rokeby, Yorkshire. This success made his reputation. He later became involved in the Ranelagh Gardens.

On 23 March 1786, Parkinson won the lottery for the disposal of the Holophusicon collection of Sir Ashton Lever. The formation of the collection had bankrupted Lever. Parkinson spent nearly two decades trying to make a success of its display, at the Blackfriars Rotunda. In the end he put it up for auction in 1806, and the collection was dispersed.

References

  • Torrens, H. S. "Parkinson, James (bap. 1730, d. 1813), land agent and museum proprietor". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/21370.  (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  • James Parkinson (footballer)

    James Parkinson was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Bolton Wanderers.

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    James Parkinson (Irish politician)

    James Joseph Parkinson (died 16 September 1948) was an Irish politician. He was a member of Seanad Éireann from 1922 to 1936 and from 1938 to 1947. A veterinary surgeon, bloodstock breeder and company director, he was first elected to the Free State Seanad as a Cumann na nGaedheal member in 1922.

    From 1938 onwards, he was elected by the Cultural and Educational Panel as a Fine Gael member. He resigned from the Seanad on 31 July 1947 due to poor health.

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    James Parkinson (controversialist)

    James Parkinson (1653–1722) was an English academic and schoolmaster, known as a polemical writer.

    Early life

    The son of James Parkinson, he was born at Witney, Oxfordshire, on 3 March 1653, and matriculated at Oxford on 2 April 1669 as a servitor of Brasenose College. He was admitted scholar of Corpus Christi College on 31 January 1671, but was expelled for abusing its President Robert Newlyn, in Lent 1674. Moving to Gloucester Hall, where he proceeded B.A. on 6 April 1674, and then to Hart Hall, he made a reputation by a speech at the Encænia, and was nominated fellow of Lincoln College by William Fuller the bishop of Lincoln, its visitor, in November 1674. He was admitted M.A. in November 1675, and took holy orders about the same time, though never holding any living.

    Expulsion from Oxford

    Parkinson was a successful college tutor, by his own account, but his Whig views made him unpopular with colleagues: Thomas Hearne wrote that he was "a rank stinking whigg, who us'd to defend ye Murther of King Charles 1st, and recommend Milton and such other Republican Rascalls to his Pupills". After Convocation, by decree of 21 July 1683, had condemned the tenets professed by the exclusion party, the fellows of Lincoln drew up a set of twelve articles against Parkinson, accusing him of advocating anti-monarchical and anti-Anglican principles, both in his private conversation, and from the pulpit of St. Michael's.

    James Parkinson (disambiguation)

    James Parkinson (1755–1824) was an English apothecary, surgeon, geologist, paleontologist and political activist.

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  • James Parkinson (controversialist) (1653–1722), English academic and schoolmaster, known as a polemical writer
  • James Parkinson (1730–1813), English land agent and museum proprietor
  • James Parkinson (Irish politician), Irish Cumann na nGaedheal and Fine Gael senator
  • James W. Parkinson
  • Jimmy Parkinson, of Barleyjuice
  • Jim Parkinson
  • Jimmy Parkinson (singer), Australian singer, popular in the 1950s
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