Thomas Augustus Wolstenholme Parker, 6th Earl of Macclesfield (17 March 1811 – 24 July 1896), styled Viscount Parker from 1842 to 1850, was a British peer. Before inheriting the earldom, he sat in the House of Commons as Conservative Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire from 1837 until 1841.
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Early life
Thomas Augustus Wolstenholme Parker was born on 17 March 1811. He was the only son of Thomas Parker, 5th Earl of Macclesfield, and, his second wife, the former Eliza Wolstenholme. From his father's first marriage, he had several half-sisters, Lady Ellen Catherine Parker (who married Col. John William Fane, MP for Oxfordshire), Lady Amelia Parker (who married William Montgomery, a grandson of the 1st Viscount Bangor), and Lady Matilda Anne Parker (who married Arthur Hill Montgomery of Tyrells, County Down). From his parents' marriage, he had two sisters, Lady Lavinia Agnes Parker (who married the Hon. John Thomas Dutton of Hinton House, Alresford, son of the 2nd Baron Sherborne), and Lady Laura Cecilia Parker (who married Hugh Seymour McDonnell, 4th Earl of Antrim).
His paternal grandparents were Thomas Parker, 3rd Earl of Macclesfield and the former Mary Heathcote (a daughter of Sir William Heathcote, 1st Baronet). His maternal grandfather was William Breton Wolstenholme of Holly Hill, Sussex (who add the surname Wolstenholme to inherit from his mother's family, including his grandfather, Sir William Wolstenholme, 5th Baronet).