PARRY, Charles Henry (eld. son of Caleb Hillier Parry, physician 1755–1822). b. Bath 1779; studied medicine at Gottingen; travelled with S. T. Coleridge in the Harz 1799; M.D. Edinb. 24 June 1804; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1806; F.R.S. 20 Feb. 1812; practised at Bath some years; physician to general hospital, Bath 1818–22; resided at Brighton many years; author of De Græcarum atque Romanorum religionum ad mores formandos vi et efficacia commentatio, Gottingæ 1799; Additional experiments on the arteries of warmblooded animals 1819; The parliaments and councils of England chronologically arranged 1839; A memoir of the rev. Joshua Parry 1872. d. 5 Belgrave place, Brighton 21 Jany. 1860. bur. Weston, near Bath. Munk’s College of physicians ii 385–8, iii 45–6 (1878).
PARRY, Edward (son of sir Wm. Edward Parry 1790–1855). b. Government house, Sydney 14 Jany. 1830; educ. Cheam, Surrey 1840–3, and Rugby 1843–9, head of the school 1848–9; entered Balliol coll. Oxf. Oct. 1849, B.A. 1852, M.A. 1855, D.D. 1870; D.D. Durham 1870; tutor in univ. of Durham Jany. 1853 to 1856; C. of Sonning, Berkshire 1856–7; domestic chaplain to A. C. Tait, bishop of London 1857–9, and one of his examining chaplains Feb. 1859 to 1869; R. of St. Mary’s, Acton 1859–69, and rural dean of Ealing 1863–9; archdeacon and canon of Canterbury May 1869 to death; bishop suffragan of Dover 26 Jany. 1870, resigned Nov. 1889, consecrated in Lambeth chapel 25 March 1870; declined the bishopric of Sydney Nov. 1882; author of Memoirs of rear admiral Sir W. E. Parry 1857, 3 ed. 1857; Memorials of Charles Parry, R.N. 1870, new ed. 1879. d. St. Leonard’s-on-Sea 11 April 1890. bur. in churchyard of St. Martin’s, Canterbury, effigy in nave of Canterbury cathedral. Graphic 19 April 1890 p. 444 portrait; I.L.N. 19 April 1890 p. 483 portrait.
PARRY, Francis Charles (eld. son of Charles Henry Parry, V. of Speen, Berks., d. 1788). b. Speen 1780; educ. Winchester and Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1802, M.A. 1806; barrister M.T. 23 June 1806; a comr. of bankrupts 1810–31; deputy registrar in court of bankruptcy, London 1831–45; F.G.S.; contributed to the Edinburgh Review 1819–23. d. Alington, Devizes 18 Dec. 1878. Law Times lxvi 213 (1879).
Note.—He occupied a prominent place in the Collier Shakespeare controversy as having been the possessor of a folio which was for some time wrongly identified with the Perkins folio.
PARRY, George Frederick. b. India 8 Dec. 1794; first played at Lord’s E. H. Budd’s side against W. Ward’s side 1 June 1818; played 5 seasons 1818–20, 1828, and 1829; was abroad from 1820–28; the finest field of his day, occupying middle-wicket, a very fast runner and also a good bat; resided Egham park, Surrey; was at Cheltenham in 1860. d. Mentone 11 Jany. 1872. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores i 407 (1862).
PARRY, Henry Hutton (2 son of Thomas Parry 1795–1870). b. 18 Dec. 1827; educ. Rugby 1841–6, and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1859; D.D. Durham univ. 1886; C. of Holy Trinity, Trinidad 1851–5; tutor of Codrington theological college, Barbados 1855–60, and chaplain to the forces 1860–1; archdeacon of Barbados 1861–8; bishop-coadjutor to his father, the bishop of Barbados 10 May 1868–76; bishop of Perth, Western Australia 20 May 1876 to death. d. Bunbury, Western Australia 16 Nov. 1893.
PARRY, James (son of Joseph Parry, artist 1744–1826). Exhibited landscapes, portraits, and figure-pictures at the royal Manchester institution 1827–56; engraved most of the plates in Corry’s History of Lancashire 1825; engraved many plates from his own, his brother David Henry Parry’s and other artists’ work. d. Manchester about 1871, portrait painted by himself in royal Salford museum.
PARRY, John. b. Denbigh, North Wales 18 Feb. 1776; joined the Denbigh militia band 1793, leader 1797–1807; learned to play many instruments, also to play three flageolets at the same time; played at Covent Garden theatre 1805; a teacher of the flageolet in London 1807; wrote songs for Vauxhall gardens from 1809; wrote Fair cheating, a musical farce Drury Lane 15 June 1814, Oberon’s oath 21 May 1816, High notions 11 Feb. 1819, Helpless animals, Covent Garden 17 Nov. 1819; Two wives or a hint to husbands, English Opera house 7 Aug. 1821, My uncle Gabriel, an operatic farce 10 Dec. 1824; conducted the Eisteddvodau at Wrexham 1820, and at Brecon 1822; received degree of Bardd Alaw, master of song 1821; a chief promoter of the Cambrian society, became its registrar; treasurer to Royal society of musicians 1831–49; concert-music critic of the Morning Post 1834–48; musical editor of the Sunday Times for a time; gave a farewell concert Jany. 1837, when he sang his own song Jenny Jones; published An account of the royal musical festival held in Westminster Abbey in 1834; composer of Chevy Chase, the overture to the historical drama 1800; Harlequin Hoax, pantomime by T. Dibdin, music by J.P. 1814; Goulding & Co.s Collection of country dances 1815; The minstrel boy 1819; Scales and preludes for harps 1820; A selection of Welsh melodies 1820; The London collection of glees, duetts and catches 1825; A trip to Wales, an entertainment 1827; The vocal companion, songs, duetts, and glees 1829; The Parisian divertissements 1830; The Welsh harper, with observations on the antiquity of Welsh music and the rise and progress of the harp, 2 vols. 1839–48; Two thousand melodies, selected English and Foreign 1841; Complete scales for Wheatstone’s patent symphonion 1859; his name is attached to upwards of 170 compositions 1800–50. d. 31 Great Russell st. Bloomsbury, London 8 April 1851. Grove’s Dictionary of music i 484, 651, ii 248, iv 443 (1878).
PARRY, John (2 son of Thomas Sefton Parry, solicitor 52 Charlotte st. Portland place, London). b. London 1809; clerk in a ship broker’s office and in a bank; first acted at Leeds theatre 1827; appeared at Sheffield, Sunderland, and Pontefract 1827–33; acted at Victoria theatre, London under Glossop’s management 1833; appeared at most of the London houses; was good as Fag in farce of The three clerks; stage manager Victoria theatre 1838–9; stage manager of the Queen’s 1839–47. Actors by gaslight 8 Sept. 1838 pp. 161–2 portrait; Theatrical times 3 July 1847 pp. 201–2 portrait.
PARRY, John Billingsley (2 son of James Parry of Preston Montford hall, Salop). b. 1798; educ. Shrewsbury sch.; barrister L.I. 12 Nov. 1824; equity draftsman; Q.C. Feb. 1845; judge of county courts, circuit No. 36, Oxfordshire, March 1847, resigned Sept. 1874. d. Brighton 28 March 1876.