VENN: Adm. sizar at PEMBROKE, July 5, 1708. S. of William, of London, shoemaker. B. Jan. 1689-90. School, Merchant Taylors'. ' Matric. 1708; B.A. 1711-2; M.A. 1717. Ord. deacon (Ely) Sept. 25, 1715; priest, Sept. 23, 1716. R. of Boughton, Norfolk, 1717. R. of Oxburgh, 1717-65. Antiquary. Completed Blomefield's History of Norfolk. Benefactor; founder of a scholarship at Pembroke. Died Aug. 27, 1765, aged 75. (D.N.B.).
SEE OXFORD DNB (1690-1765), antiquary.
When ordained deacon in September 1715, Parkin was described as Curate of West Dereham, Norfolk.