The arms are those of Parker quarterly with those of Townley and impaling those of Brooke, as borne by Robert Townley-Parker of Cuerden Hall, who served as High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1817. He sat as M.P. for Preston from 1837 to 1857. He married on December 16, 1816, Harriet, youngest daughter of Thomas Brooke of Church Minshull. The same arms appear on a toasted cheese dish by Storr of 1816 formerly in the Morrie Moss collection and illustrated in The Lillian and Morrie Moss Collection of Paul Storr Silver, 1972, p. 263, and on a tea tray of the same date, sold by Sotheby's, New York, April 7, 1987, lot 114.