Michael Parker or Mike Parker may refer to:
Major Sir Michael Parker KCVO CBE is a leading producer of large scale military tattoos and large scale events in the United Kingdom and abroad.
Parker left the Army in 1971, and has since been responsible for over 70 official national occasions. Parker was producer of the Royal Tournament for 27 years, from 1974 to 1999. He also produced the Edinburgh Military Tattoo, from 1992-1994, as well as the Berlin Tattoo and Wembley Military Musical Pageant. In 2000 Parker produced the Royal Military Millennium Tattoo 2000 on Horse Guards Parade, as well as previously working on the Jubilee celebrations for HM The Queen in 1977, which included a nationwide chain of beacons throughout the country, the first being lit by The Queen at Windsor.
Parker also produced 'The Great event' in celebration of The Queen’s 40th Anniversary in 1992, and 'The Royal Fireworks' on the eve of the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer.
Internationally Parker has produced a variety of large scale events including celebrations in Jordan for the Royal wedding of King Abdullah II.
Clement George St Michael Parker (29 September 1900 – March 1980), usually known as Michael Parker, was a bishop in the Church of England.
Parker was born in Edgbaston in 1900 the son the of the Revd W.H. Parker. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. He died in 1980.
Parker was ordained deacon in 1923 and priest in 1924. He was an assistant curate at St Bartholomew & St Jude's Birmingham. He was vicar of All Saints' King's Heath, Birmingham (1939–57), rural dean of King's Norton (1943–57), honorary canon of Birmingham (1944–61) and Archdeacon of Aston (1946-54).
During his curacy at St Jude's he and his vicar, the Reverend Denis Tyndall, compiled Adoremus: A Book of Eucharistic Worship for the Young. The book was described as "primarily for use at what is known as the Children's Eucharist", but was also "to meet the need of the increasing number of parishes in which there is the 'Parish Eucharist'". It was regularly used for the children's Eucharist at All Saints' King's Heath and also for the Parish Eucharist instituted by Michael Parker to replace Matins as the main Sunday morning service.
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