PARRY, Sir Thomas Love Duncombe Jones-, 1 Baronet (eld. son of sir Love Parry Jones-Parry 1781–1853). b. Llanbedrog, Carnarvon 8 Jany. 1832; educ. Rugby 1848–50; matric. from Univ. coll. Oxf. 15 May 1850; sheriff of Carnarvon 1854; captain royal Anglesey militia 29 May 1854 to 1867; M.P. co. Carnarvon 1868–74; M.P. Carnarvon district 1882–6; cr. a baronet 30 Aug. 1886; F.S.A. 1 Dec. 1853. d. Madryn park, Pwllheli 18 Dec. 1891. bur. Llanbedrog church 23 Dec.
PARRY, Sir William Edward (4 son of Caleb Hillier Parry, physician 1755–1822). b. Bath 19 Dec. 1790; entered navy 30 June 1803; commanded the Alexander in Ross’s expedition to the Arctic seas 1818; commanded the Hecla in an expedition to discover the north-west passage 1819–20, reached Melville island, a point which has never been passed; presented with the freedom of city of Bath 24 March 1821, and of Winchester 26 Dec. 1823; F.R.S. 15 Feb. 1821; commanded the Fury in another expedition 1821–3; captain 8 Nov. 1821; acting hydrographer 1 Dec. 1823; commanded the Hecla in a third expedition and wintered at Port Bowen 1824 to 1825; hydrographer to the admiralty 1825–6 and 1827–9; attempted to reach the pole from Spitzbergen by travelling with sledge boats over the ice 1827, reached latitude 82°45´ the farthest northern point attained until 1876; knighted at St. James’s palace 29 April 1829; comr. for the Australian agricultural company May 1829 to 1834; D.C.L. Oxford 1 July 1829; assistant poor law comr. in Norfolk 7 March 1835 to 3 Feb. 1836; controller of the steam-department of navy 19 April 1837 to Dec. 1846; captain superintendent of Haslar hospital 2 Dec. 1846 to 4 June 1852; R.A. 4 June 1852; lieutenant governor of Greenwich hospital 19 Dec. 1853 to death; author of Nautical astronomy by night 1816; Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific 1821; Journal of a second voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage 1824–5; Journal of a third voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage 1826; Journal of the first, second, and third voyages, 5 vols. 1828; Narrative of an attempt to reach the North Pole in boats fitted for that purpose and attached to H.M. ship Hecla 1828; Thoughts on the parental character of God 1841, 6 ed. 1878. d. Ems 8 July 1855. bur. in mausoleum of Greenwich hospital burial-ground 19 July, portrait in museum of royal naval college at Greenwich. E. Parry’s Memoirs of W. E. Parry (1857) portrait; Marshall’s Royal naval biography viii 315 (1833); G.M. ii 233–9 (1826); Proc. of Royal Soc. vii 603–12 (1855); Georgian era iii 87–91 (1833).
PARSELLE, John. b. 1820; educ. Marischall coll. Aberdeen; attended Mr. Rowhill’s Latin class Glasgow gram. sch 1834–9; acted the Chevalier de Bellevue in the Pride of the Market, Lyceum 18 Oct. 1847; at the Adelphi under Madame Celeste’s management 1853 etc.; acting manager Strand theatre, where he also played Mr. Bingley in Craven’s The Post boy 31 Oct. 1860, Max Altman in Wooller’s Silver wedding 24 Jany. 1861, Lieut. Hilliard in Troughton’s Unlimited confidence 1 Feb. 1864, Edward Hartwright in his own comedietta Cross purposes 27 March 1865; wrote My son’s a daughter, produced Strand theatre 15 Sept. 1862; stage manager for Fanny Joseph at Holborn theatre 13 April 1868; at the Globe acted in Craven’s Philomel 10 Feb. 1870; went to America with Charles Wyndham’s company in 1873; connected with the management of A. M. Palmer’s Union square theatre, New York 1873 to death. d. New York 17 Feb. 1885. bur. Evergreen cemetery. Entr’acte Annual (1882) 58 portrait; Scott and Howard’s E. L. Blanchard (1891) 105, 720.
PARSONS, Benjamin (son of Thomas Parsons, yeoman). b. Nibley, Gloucs. 16 Feb. 1797; apprenticed to a tailor at Frampton-on-Severn 7 years; studied at Cheshunt college 1821–5; congregational minister at Ebley, near Stroud Aug. 1826 to death; started a provident fund 1832 and a day-school 1840; has been called the Oberlin of Gloucestershire; author of Why have you become a Pædobaptist, a dialogue between Hezekiah Hastie, a baptist, and Simon Searche, a pædobaptist. By John Bull, Stroud 1835; Anti-Bacchus 1840, 11th thousand 1843; The wine question settled 1841; The mental and moral dignity of woman 1842; Tracts for fustian jackets and smock frocks, No. 1–18, 1848. d. at the Chapel house, Ebley 10 Jany. 1855. E. P. Hood’s The Earnest minister, the life of Benjamin Parsons (1856) portrait; The lamps of the temple, 3 ed. (1856) 520–41; S. Couling’s History of the temperance movement (1862) 339–40.
PARSONS, Daniel (son of John Parsons, vicar of Sherborne, Dorset). b. 1811; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; C. of Marden, Wilts.; C. of St. James’, Langton, Staffs. 1841–3; joined the church of Rome 1843; resigned his Anglican orders under Clerical disabilities relief act 22 Sept. 1870; edited The diary of sir H. Slingsby 1836; author of Plain parochial sermons 1838; a contributor to Notes and Queries. d. Stuart’s lodge, Malvern wells 5 July 1887.
PARSONS, Elizabeth (dau. of W. Rooker of Tavistock, Devon, congregational minister). b. Tavistock 5 June 1812; conducted a class for young people in her father’s chapel 1840–4, for whom she wrote hymns, 18 of which were printed by one of her pupils under the title of Willing class hymns, three have become popular, Saviour round thy footstool bending, Jesus we love to meet, and O happy land! O happy land!; also wrote a few hymns for adults; m. 1844 T. Edgcumbe Parsons; she d. Plymouth 1873. Julian’s Dictionary of hymnology (1892) 69, 834, 882, 996, 1267; W. Garrett Horder’s Hymn lover (1889) 442.
PARSONS, George Samuel. b. 1783; entered R.N. July 1795; signal midshipman of the Foudroyant under Nelson 1800–1, lieut. 1802; commanded the boats of the Valiant in cutting out a convoy from Basque Roads 1810; on h.p. 1810–41; admiralty agent on board a contract mail steamer 1 Nov. 1841; retired commander 15 Feb. 1850; author of Nelsonian reminiscences, leaves from memory’s log 1843, 2 ed. 1843. d. Holt hill, Cheshire 20 Jany. 1854. G.M. July 1854 p. 79.
PARSONS, Gertrude (4 dau. of John Hext of Trenarran, Cornwall, captain in 22 foot, d. 30 June 1838). b. Restormel near Lostwithiel, Cornwall 19 March 1812; joined church of Rome 1844; m. 8 April 1845 Daniel Parsons 1811–87; edited The Workman, or life and leisure: a magazine, 25 numbers 7 Jany. to 24 June 1865, and its continuation The literary workman 29 July to 30 Dec. 1865; author of Thornberry abbey, a tale of the established church 1846; The life of St. Ignatius of Loyola 1860; The romance of Cleaveside, 3 vols. 1867; Ursula’s love story, 3 vols. 1869; Sun and shade, 3 vols. 1871; Beautiful Edith, 3 vols. 1873; Major Vandermere, 3 vols. 1876; The life of Saint Colette, the reformer of the three orders of St. Francis 1879; Love knots, 3 vols. 1881; Thomas Rileton, his family and friends 1890. d. Teignmouth, Devon 12 Feb. 1891. bur. the Priory church, Little Malvern 17 Feb. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. (1874–82) 425–7, 1301; Tablet 28 Feb. 1891 p. 348.
PARSONS, James. Entered Bengal army 1805; ensign 25 Bengal N.I. 19 Dec. 1806, lieut. 13 Aug. 1812; captain 50 N.I. 1 May 1824, major 22 April 1836 to 7 July 1842; lieut. col. of 18 N.I. 7 July 1842 to 1 March 1846, and of 66 N.I. 1 March 1846 to 1851; deputy commissary general 12 April 1837 to 5 Jany. 1848; commanded Gwalior contingent 5 Jany. 1848 to 29 July 1853; lieut. col. of 50 N.I. 1851–1852, and of 48 N.I. 1852–53; col. of 57 N.I. 31 March 1853–54, and of 50 N.I. 1854 to death; commandant at Rohilcund 29 July 1853 to 23 Nov. 1855; L.G. 18 March 1863; C.B. 3 April 1846; at the capture of the Isle of France 1810, in the Nepaul campaign 1815, medal; in the Pindaree war 1817; wounded at capture of Ghuznee; in the Sutlej campaign and present at Modkee, Ferozeshur and Sobraon. d. Almorah, N.W. Province, India 9 Nov. 1868.
PARSONS, James (2 son of Edward Parsons, congregational minister 1762–1833). b. Leeds 10 April 1799; studied at the academy at Idle, Yorkshire 1820–2; congregational minister at Lendal chapel, York 1822–39; minister of Salem chapel, York, opened 25 July 1839, he retired to Harrogate 1870; chairman of the Congregational union 1849; the first president of the Yorkshire congregational union and home missionary society 1873; the most remarkable pulpit orator of his time; author of Excitements to exertion in the cause of God, York, 3 ed. 1827; Sermons, critical and explanatory 1830, 4 ed. 1837; many of his sermons were published in The Pulpit 1824–64. d. York 20 Oct. 1877. bur. York 26 Oct. The lamps of the temple, 3 ed. (1856) 282–323; Congregational year book (1878) 332–5; Congregational magazine (1831) 229–40; Congregationalist (1877) 748–53; The Pulpit v (1826) portrait and xvi 250–2, 365; E. J. Evans and W. Hurndall’s Pulpit memorials (1878) 343–80.