Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Parker, Edward Melville

PARKER, EDWARD MELVILLE, an American Protestant Episcopal bishop; born in Cambridge, Mass., in 1885. He was educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., and at Keble College, Oxford, England. He was ordained priest in 1881. From 1879 to 1906 he was master of St. Paul's School. He was made bishop coadjutor of New Hampshire in 1906 and became bishop in 1914.