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Darwin Correspondence Project

Alfred Traill Parker

1838–1900

West India merchant in Liverpool. A member of the Alpine Club, which promoted mountaineering in the Alps.

Sources

Census returns of England and Wales 1871 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG10/166/4/1)

ODNB s.v. Founders of the Alpine Club (www.oxforddnb.com/themes)

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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