for regular payments had ceased a few months after Parkinson died. Parkinson's daughter, Mary, was found dead at her home in Wandsworth on 10 December 2017, aged 57. Police did not treat the death as suspicious, and it was later reported that she had taken her own life. Charitable works He was one of the three Presidents of the UK-based charity Action on Addiction. In the media Parkinson's affair with Sara Keays was a running joke in the satirical magazine Private Eye for over a decade (and on the satirical TV programme Spitting Image for nearly as long), with the magazine seldom passing up an opportunity to portray Parkinson as having a voracious sexual appetite. He was interviewed about the rise of Thatcherism for the 2006 BBC TV documentary series Tory! Tory! Tory! Arms References Bibliography External links |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- 1931 births 2016 deaths Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge British Secretaries of State British accountants Chairmen of the Conservative Party (UK) Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Conservative Party (UK) life peers Deaths from cancer in England Deaths from colorectal cancer Freemasons of the United Grand Lodge of England Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom People educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School People from Carnforth Presidents of the Board of Trade Secretaries of State for Transport (UK) UK MPs 1970–1974 UK MPs 1974 UK MPs 1974–1979 UK MPs 1979–1983 UK MPs 1983–1987 UK MPs 1987–1992 United Kingdom Paymasters General 20th-century British businesspeople