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PARRY, JOSEPH (1744 - 1826), painter and engraver of Macclesfield, and in May 1826 removed to London, where he died 15 September of the same year. He was buried in the churchyard of S. Martin-in-the-fields. Joseph Parry's younger son, JAMES PARRY (died 1871), who was also an artist, exhibited in Manchester. His work, too, includes many Manchester scenes; he excelled as an engraver and produced many plates from his own, his brother's, and other
PARRY, JOSEPH (1841 - 1903), musician
PARRY, JOSHUA (1719 - 1776), Nonconformist minister, and writer Austen's letters]. Caleb was a distinguished physician on account of his work on angina, and on exophthalmic goitre (of which he provided the first description). He was a great friend of Edward Jenner. The physician's son, Sir WILLIAM EDWARD PARRY (1790 - 1855), F.R.S., and rear-admiral, was a very famous Arctic explorer; and the admiral's son, EDWARD PARRY (1830 - 1890), became bishop-suffragan of Dover
PARRY, MORRIS (fl. 1661-1683), cleric and bard 3057D, Wynnstay MS. 6, NLW MS 11993A, and B.M. Add. MSS. 14891, 14892, 14975, and 14994. An elegy composed on his death by Siôn Dafydd of Penllyn is found in NLW MS 3027E. He appears to have been the possessor of a manuscript copy of Sir John Wynn of Gwydir's work, 'The history of the Gwydir family,' about 1674. He was buried at Llanelian, 26 September 1683.
PARRY, RICHARD (1560 - 1623), bishop and biblical translator Asaph and his livings of Gresford (until 1609) and Cilcain (until 1622). He also acquired the livings of Rhuddlan (1605-18), Cwm (1610-16), and Llanrwst (1616-23). In 1610, at the earl of Salisbury's request, he intervened, unsuccessfully, in the dispute between Sir John Wynn of Gwydir and his tenants at Dolwyddelan. Parry's report on his diocese in January 1611 shows his deep concern over lay
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, SARAH WINIFRED (1870 - 1953), writer, and editor of Cymru'r Plant from 1908 to 1912 she gave up writing altogether (though Cerrig y rhyd was reprinted in 1915 and Foyle's published Y ddau hogyn rheiny in 1928). She never married, and in London she served as secretary first to a company of engineers and also for a time to Sir Robert J. Thomas, M.P. for Anglesey, 1922-28. She adjudicated the short story at the 1932 national eisteddfod, but by then she had severed almost all
PARRY, Sir THOMAS (bu farw 1560), courtier was the son of Harry Vaughan and grandson of Sir Thomas Vaughan, who had been knighted but subsequently beheaded by Richard III and was himself an illegitimate son of Sir Robert Vaughan of Tretower (ancestor of Henry Vaughan, ' Silurist'), and a grandson, through Sir Dafydd Gam, of Sir Roger Vaughan of Bredwardine, slain at Agincourt (1415). His mother was Gwenllian, daughter of William ap Grono
PARRY, Sir THOMAS (1904 - 1985), scholar, Librarian of the National Library of Wales, University Principal, poet Rhys”. There also he met Enid, the only daughter of Mr and Mrs Picton Davies, whom he married 20 May, 1936. In 1929, on the death of Sir John Morris-Jones, Thomas Parry was appointed lecturer in his old Department at Bangor, now headed by [Sir] Ifor Williams. There, the vigorous and versatile young scholar flourished. His early publications include numerous articles on Siôn Dafydd Rhys and his
PARRY, WILLIAM (1743 - 1791), portrait-painter son of John Parry, ' the blind harpist ' (1710? - 1782). He was born on the 2 May 1743 in London, after his father's removal from Ruabon, and studied at Shipley's drawing school, the duke of Richmond's gallery, and the S. Martin's Lane academy, and eventually became a pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds. He was awarded several premiums by the Society of Arts and became a member of the Incorporated
PARRY-WILLIAMS, Sir THOMAS HERBERT (1887 - 1975), author and scholar lectures by Joseph Wright and Henry Sweet, scholars whose emphasis on spoken language and dialectology later came to influence Parry-Williams's literary style. At meetings of Cymdeithas Dafydd ap Gwilym, the Oxford Welsh Society, he began to air his opinions on Welsh literary and cultural issues of the day, venturing into print on the pages of Y Brython in a series of provocative articles published under
PASCOE, Sir FREDERICK JOHN (1893 - 1963), industrialist from a few hundred employees. Among its subsidiaries was Aberdare Holdings (which also included Aberdare Cables, Ltd., Aberdare Engineering, Ltd., and South Wales Switchgear) which Sir John founded in 1955 and which brought up to 4,000 jobs to a depressed area of south Wales. A forthright Conservative he was chairman of the Kettering Conservative and Unionist Association, 1948-53, and a Freeman of

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