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PARRY, RICHARD (Gwalchmai; 1803 - 1897), Independent minister, poet, and man of letters Born 19 January 1803 at Llannerch-y-medd. His father, Richard Parry, was a currier and leather manufacturer; his mother (Margaret Williams) was from Gwalchmai, and had inherited a fairly considerable portion from her family; Thomas Parry (1809 - 1874) was his brother; all were Calvinistic Methodists. He received a sound elementary education at a local church school, but left at the age of 12 to
PARRY, ROBERT (fl. 1540?-1612?), author and diarist Son of Harry ap Robert (of the Parry family of Tywysog, in the parish of Henllan, Denbighshire), and Elin, daughter of Rhys Wynn ap Gruffydd ap Madog Fychan, of Ffynogion. He married Dorothy, daughter of John Wynn Panton. Parry owed friendly allegiance to the Salusbury family of Lleweni, Denbighshire; an English elegy written by him on the death of his cousin, Katheryn of Berain, mother of Sir
PARRY, ROBERT (Robyn Ddu Eryri; 1804 - 1892), poet Born at Caernarvon, 7 February 1804, son of a tailor who was also a bonesetter and a versifier. He was for a period a pupil at Evan Richardson's school and showed some signs of talent which won for him the patronage of Peter Bailey Williams. He failed to master any craft or trade and spent years of his life wandering from place to place in Wales and England; he once visited the United States, but
PARRY, ROBERT (fl. 1810-1863), poet Born probably at Llanbryn-mair, son of Robert Parry, curate of that parish, and Mary, his wife, daughter of John Jones of Esgair Ifan. While he was still a small child his father was given the living of Eglwys-bach, Denbighshire (1810-26) and the family went to live in that place (Thomas, A History of the Diocese of St. Asaph, ii, 311). He himself had originally intended to take orders, and was
PARRY, ROBERT IFOR (1908 - 1975), minister (Cong.) and school teacher Robert Ifor Parry was born at Holyhead, the son of Benjamin Parry and his wife, members at the Congregational Church at The Tabernacl, in the town, where the Rev. R. H. Davies was minister. His father was an engineer officer employed on the ships sailing between the port of Holyhead and Ireland. He went from the Holyhead County School as a very bright pupil in 1926 to the Bala-Bangor Theological
PARRY, ROBERT WILLIAMS (1884 - 1956), poet, university lecturer Born 6 March 1884 at Madog View, Tal-y-sarn, Caernarfonshire, son of Robert and Jane Parry (his father was a half-brother of Henry Parry-Williams). He received his education at Tal-y-sarn elementary school, Caernarfon county school, 1896-98, and the new Pen-y-groes county school for one year. He spent three years, 1899-1902, as a pupil-teacher. He entered the University College of Wales
PARRY, SARAH WINIFRED (1870 - 1953), writer, and editor of Cymru'r Plant from 1908 to 1912 , Hilda Alice Moore, arranged to have her buried in Croydon. Sioned was undoubtedly her masterpiece and it won high praise from time to time (see E.M. Humphreys, Yr Herald Cymraeg, 9 March 1953). It is said that R. Williams Parry thought highly of it and referred to it in his W.E.A. lectures (but see also Kate Roberts, Baner, 29 April 1953).
PARRY, Sir THOMAS (bu farw 1560), courtier , also of Brecknock, but he migrated to Glamorgan. It was to his distant kinship with the Cecil family, who had married into the Brecknock Vaughans, that Parry probably owed his introduction into the court of Edward VI. He attended princess Elizabeth at Hatfield, and was won over by Thomas, lord Seymour, brother of the protector and uncle to the king, to further his suit with her. When the plot was
PARRY, THOMAS (Llanerchydd; c. 1809 - 1874), poet son of Richard and Margaret Parry of Llannerch-y-medd, Anglesey, and a brother to Richard Parry (Gwalchmai). He was a saddler by trade, and played a prominent part in the social and cultural life of Llannerch-y-medd. He was also deacon and secretary of the Congregational chapel in the village for many years. But it is as a poet that he is chiefly remembered. After winning his first prize at
PARRY, THOMAS (bu farw 1709), minister with the Particular Baptists friendship with Vavasor Powell, but they do not rest on very good evidence. He is said also to have acted as pastor of the Baptists of north Breeknock and western Radnor, but it must be remembered that most of them were Arminians, and that Parry was a strict Calvinist. He is hardly ever referred to without a tag of verse comparing him most favourably as a preacher with Alexander Griffith, vicar of Glasbury.
PARRY, Sir THOMAS (1904 - 1985), scholar, Librarian of the National Library of Wales, University Principal, poet He was born on 4 August 1904, the eldest of the three sons of Richard Edwin Parry, quarryman and smallholder, and his wife Jane (née Williams) at Brynawel, Carmel, Caernarfonshire. Richard Parry's father had married three times: a son from the first marriage was Robert Williams Parry's father; a son from the second marriage was T. H. Parry-Williams's father. So Thomas Parry was a younger cousin
PARRY, WILLIAM (1719 - 1775?), civil servant, secretary of the first Cymmrodorion Society Born in 1719, fourth son of John Parry of Gwredog, Anglesey (of the family of Pen-dref, Rhodogeidio, near Llannerch-y-medd - see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 346), and his wife, Elizabeth (Thomas), of Trefor in Llansadwrn. The Morris brothers call him 'kinsman' (câr); proof of such relationship has not been found, but it is odd how closely Parry's fortunes (in the period during which we know

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