Portrait of Thomas Parker

Thomas Parker

Thomas Parker was a writer on law, finance and trade, knowledgeable about the various settlements and regions of the British Empire. He was a member of Lincoln’s Inn, one of four Inns of Court in London to which barristers of both England and Wales belonged. He had written extensively on the misdeeds of the East India Company in 1763 and had been a staunch critic on both moral and commercial grounds of imperial policies respecting native inhabitants of the regions colonized by Britain.

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