| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| Sir Jonathan Parker | |
| Office: | Lord Justice of Appeal |
| Term Start: | 2000 |
| Term End: | 2007 |
| Birth Name: | Jonathan Frederic Parker |
| Birth Date: | [1] |
| Birth Place: | Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England[2] |
| Nationality: | British |
| Children: | 4 |
| Education: | Winchester College |
| Alma Mater: | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
| Occupation: | Judge |
| Profession: | Barrister |
| Office1: | Justice of the High Court |
| Termstart1: | 1991 |
| Termend1: | 2000 |
Sir Jonathan Frederic Parker, PC (born 8 December 1937) is a retired British Lord Justice of Appeal.
Sir Jonathan was born in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, the son of Sir Edmund Parker (1908–1981) and Elizabeth Mary Butterfield (died 1984). His father was a distinguished accountant who was senior partner of Price Waterhouse & Co. and president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales from 1967–68.[3] He was educated at Winchester College and then Magdalene College, Cambridge.[1]
He was called to the Bar in 1962. He was appointed as Queen's Counsel in 1979. He became a Bencher of the Inner Temple in 1985, and served as head of chambers at 11 Old Square, Lincoln's Inn.
He became a High Court Judge in the Chancery Division in 1991 when he received the customary knighthood. He then became a Lord Justice of Appeal in 2000, whereupon he was appointed to the Privy Council in the usual way. He retired from the bench in 2007.[4]
He also served as the Attorney-General of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1989 to 1991 and as Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster from 1994 to 1998.
As a Lord Justice of Appeal and as a judge at first instance, Sir Jonathan Parker was involved a number of important judicial decisions, including:
Sir Jonathan is married to Maria-Belen Burns, daughter of publisher Thomas Ferrier Burns . He and Lady Parker have three sons: James (born 1968), Oliver (born 1969), and Peter (born 1971), and a daughter, Clare (born 1972).[1]