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Sir Edward Walter Parkes DL FREng (19 May 1926 – 25 September 2019) was Vice-Chancellor of City University London from 1974 to 1978 and of the University of Leeds from 1983 to 1991.
Parkes attended King Edward's School, Birmingham, and St John's College, Cambridge, where he obtained a first class degree in mechanical engineering.Burke's Peerage, accessed 24 July 2009
Other posts included Head of the Department of Engineering at Leicester University in the 1960s and Chairman of the UK University Grants Committee in the early 1980s. From 1989 to 1991 he was Chairman of the Universities UK. He was also appointed a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1982.
Edward and Margaret Parkes commissioned Leicester based architect James Gowan to design them a holiday home on land they had bought above St David's Cathedral in Wales. The resulting Round House was listed after it was completed in 1967.
Parkes was knighted in 1983. The London Gazette 22 April 1983 page 5510
There is a portrait in oils by Michael Noakes at City University. BBC Your Paintings Sir Edward Parkes (image and details) Parkes died in September 2019 at the age of 93.
Private life
He married the educationalist Margaret Parkes (1925-2007) and they had two children. Lady Parkes CBE died in 2007 having changed the UK's educational system to include Design and Technology. The Times 30 August 2007 Margaret Parkes.
Categories: 1926 Births, 2019 Deaths, Academics Of The University Of Leicester, Alumni Of St John's College, Cambridge, Deputy Lieutenants Of West Yorkshire, English Mechanical Engineers, Fellows Of The Royal Academy Of Engineering, Knights Bachelor, People Educated At King Edward's School, Birmingham, Presidents Of City, University Of London, Vice-chancellors Of The University Of Leeds
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