Daniel Parke

Daniel Parke II by John Closterman, oil on canvas, 1706, in the collection of the Virginia Historical Society

Daniel Parke (1664/5/9^[1] – December 7, 1710) sat on the colonial Virginia governor's Council from 1695 until 1697. His elder legitimate daughter married John Custis, and his younger married William Byrd II. Parke served as an aide to John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough, and after the Battle of Blenheim carried news of Marlborough's victory to Queen Anne. Winning the queen's favor, Parke was the British governor of the Leeward Islands from 1706 to 1710. He was assassinated during a mutiny triggered by his self-enriching enforcement of Stuart imperialism. His descendants included Daniel Parke Custis, first husband of Martha Washington, and Mary Custis Lee, wife of General Robert E Lee.

He was succeeded by Col Walter Douglas.

References

• "Antigua, 1632-1814" (World History at the Korean Minjok Leadership Academy)
• Miller, Helen Hill. Colonel Parke of Virginia: "The Greatest Hector in the Town" (Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1989).

Notes

1. ^ Christie's: See description of Portrait of Colonel Daniel Parke by Michael Dahl

Government offices
Preceded by John Johnson, acting	Governor of the Leeward Islands 1706–1710	Succeeded by Walter Hamilton, acting

Persondata
Name	Parke, Daniel
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Date of birth	1669
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Date of death	1710
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