Critchley Parker Jnr was born in Upper Beaconsfield in 1911 to Ernest Frank Critchley Parker and Kathleen Kerr. The Parkers were a prominent and wealthy family involved in publishing. In 1940 he developed a friendship with a Jewish journalist named Caroline Isaacson. As knowledge of the Jewish extermination during the second world war became public, he and many others rallied for the resettlement of those of Jewish faith to a new homeland state. The plan was for a massive group settlement with infrastucture in remote Australia. Parker advocated for the settlement to be in the Port Davey region. Critchley Parker Jnr died around Mount MacKenzie (South West Tasmania) in late March 1942, perishing from the elements. After his death, Mrs Kathleen Parker (Critchley Parker Jnr's mother) established a student loan fund, managed by the Department of Education, to help promising students in Tasmanian State Schools.