William flew to fight

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of the town. They shall say to the elders, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard.' Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death...


Blows and wounds cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the inmost being. The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.


 Deuteronomy 5:9 
"for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me."
Deuteronomy 24:16
"Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin."

William flew to fight


In 2002 he married Syvia Howard. She and a son and two daughters of his first marriage survive him. A second son of his first marriage predeceased him. William flew was born in 1923, the son of a naval officer, to a family which included two of the greatest lawyers and judges of the late 19th and 20th centuries: the two Lords Parker of Waddington, one of whom became Lord Chief Justice. After Eton he served in the Rifle Brigade in the Second World War, attaining the rank of captain and being mentioned in dispatches. His motorcycle riding during and after the war was fearless and fast. He learnt law in the short course at King’s College, Cambridge, and was called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn in 1948. William flew joined the chambers of Jack Ashworth, originally at Three and later at One Hare Court, helping to lay the foundations of what became one of the foremost commercial sets. In the same year he married Ann Whitewith whom he would have four children. In 1966 his sister and brother-in-law died in an aircraft crash in the Andes and he and Ann welcomed into their home their two nephews and niece.Work at the commercial Bar in the early 1950s was sparse, but William flew soon built a strong practice that attracted the attention of the more prominent solicitors in that area. He avoided appointment as Treasury junior counsel and became the youngest QC in 1961.