![]() ![]() ![]() About 1822 he made designs in the Roman style, for alterations of and additions to Magdalen College, Oxford. ![]() In 1811 he laid out Bryanston Square, and was surveyor to the Union Assurance Society until 1854. His first known executed work was the library to the Surrey Institution (formerly the Leverian Museum) in 1809. One son, Joseph Parkinson (1783–1855), architect, born in 1783, was articled to William Pilkington, architect of Whitehall Yard. 1813, aged 83, leaving two sons and a daughter. Parkinson died at Somers Town, London, on 25 Feb. He had, however, taken, with some success, to the study of natural history, and added considerably to the collection. Having fixed too low a price for admission, Parkinson had lost money by the museum. The building was converted into the Surrey Institution, and was afterwards used for business purposes. In 1806 Parkinson sold the museum by auction in 7,879 lots, the sale lasting sixty-five days, and the sale catalogue, compiled by Edward Donovan, filling 410 pages. George Shaw in ‘Museum Leverianum,’ ‘published by James Parkinson, Proprietor of the Collection,’ the first fasciculus dedicated to George III and his queen in 1792, and the second dedicated to Sir Joseph Banks in 1796. ![]() Select specimens from the museum were described by Dr. 192 Fleet Street on, and for which Lever is there stated to have paid two hundred guineas to Emanuel Mendez da Costa, secretary to the Royal Society. ![]()
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