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PARRY, EDWARD (1723 - 1786), Methodist exhorter, poet and hymn-writer built a chapel on his land at Tan-y-fron. In 1764 he published, with Twm o'r Nant and David James of Llansannan, Y Perl Gwerthfawr, and in 1767 Agoriad i Athrawiaeth y Ddau Gyfamod (2nd imp. in 1781). In 1774 a pamphlet of twelve pages, comprising an elegy and a few hymns, was published at Trevecka 'for Edward Parry.' In 1789 Ychydig Hymnau was published; this includes two hymns that have become
PARRY, GEORGE (1613? - 1678), cleric, and author of a Welsh metrical version of the Psalms Born c. 1613, the son of James Rhys Parry. Some details concerning the connection of the family with Herefordshire and Brecknock are given in the article on the translator's father, and, more fully, in Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society, ii, 276-301, and iii, 13-6-many of the details being taken from the prefaces to George Parry's version of the Psalms (in NLW MS 641C). George, the son
PARRY, GRIFFITH (1827 - 1901), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author Methodist preparatory department there. He died at Bala 4 September 1897. He was a man of conspicuous refinement and (though his academic career had not been distinguished) of wide culture. He edited (1895) some of the discourses of David Charles Davies, and in 1896 published a biography of Davies, with a selection of his sermons.
PARRY, HENRY (1766? - 1854), cleric and antiquary at Holywell. Letters written by him are preserved in the Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin), Thomas and David Pennant, and Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain) collections in N.L.W. - e.g. in NLW MS 165C, NLW MS 1807E, NLW MS 1893E, NLW MS 2590E, NLW MS 2591E, NLW MS 4877E and NLW MS 4878E. He died 17 December 1854.
PARRY, HUMPHREY (c. 1772 - 1809), schoolmaster, member of the Gwyneddigion and Cymreigyddion Societies of London Born about 1772 at Cwm-mawr, in Clynnog-fawr parish, Caernarfonshire. He went up to London to be a lawyer's clerk, but afterwards became assistant in the Brewers' Company's grammar school at Sadler's Wells, under David Davies. On Davies's death (1797), Parry opened a private school at Hackney; it seems to have been successful, for we find him in 1806 speaking of spending £700 on enlarging the
PARRY, IDRIS FREDERICK (1916 - 2008), scholar of German literature, writer and broadcaster Folk-tale (OUP 1972), Hand to Mouth and Other Essays (Carcanet Press 1981), Speak Silence (Carcanet Press 1989), The Trial (translation, Penguin 1994). During his time at Bangor he had met Eirwen Lloyd Jones from Penmaenmawr, Caernarfonshire (died 1992), and they married in 1941. They had two daughters. Idris Parry died in Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, on 25 January, 2008 and was cremated at Weeley (Essex).
PARRY, JAMES RHYS (fl. 1570?-1625?), poet and author of a Welsh metrical version of the Psalms He was a member of some branch of the old-established family of Parry of Poston, Herefordshire (cf. Parry, Blanche), and Llandefaelog-tre'r-graig, Brecknock - for pedigree, see Theophilus Jones, Brecknock [iv, 2-3, 155], and Llyfr Baglan. James Parry may be the James ap Rhys Parry mentioned in Llyfr Baglan, 37; at the time that his son George Parry went to Oxford (17 January 1633/4) the father
PARRY, JOSEPH (1744 - 1826), painter and engraver Manchester.' Another of his pictures, ' Eccles Wake,' contains 200 figures - all separate studies from nature. He was also a portrait painter and etched a fine portrait of himself, only ten impressions of which were taken. He died in Manchester in 1826. His son, DAVID HENRY PARRY, born in Manchester 7 June 1793, became a painter after studying in his father's studio. In 1816 he married Elizabeth Smallwood
PARRY, OWEN HENRY (1912 - 1956), jazz musician sextet which he formed were heard for the first time. Miff Ferrie heard of him and it was from that association that the group ' Jackdauz ' was formed. He held concerts in the Locarno, London, and shared platforms with musicians like Michael Flome, Louis Levy and Charles Shadwell. He joined the blind pianist, George Shearing, and the drummer, Ben Edwards, to form a trio which became very popular. It
PARRY, ROBERT IFOR (1908 - 1975), minister (Cong.) and school teacher ordained in June 1933, as the successor of the Revs. David Price (1843-78) and D. Silyn Evans (1880-1930). In 1940, he married Mona, the only daughter of Richard Morgan, a deacon at Siloa. The author of these words remembers staying in September 1959 at their home in Newlands, Aberdare, during a Collecting Journey towards the Bala-Bangor College – as was the custom in those days. The vicar of Aberdare
PARRY, WILLIAM (bu farw 1585), Roman Catholic conspirator was probably the son of Harry ap David, of Northop, Flintshire. To escape his creditors, he entered Burghley's service as a spy on Roman Catholics, and crossed to the Continent in 1571, 1579, and 1582. He himself became Roman Catholic in sympathy, and was convinced of the need for Elizabeth's assassination. His part in a proposed conspiracy against her life was betrayed by a fellow- conspirator
PARRY-WILLIAMS, DAVID EWART (1900 - 1996), musician him and heard professional organists in large churches for the first time. Following a period of service in the Navy at the end of the First World War he studied at the University College in Cardiff, graduating in chemistry and qualifying as a teacher; and he retained an interest in machinery throughout his life. At the age of 23 he won a scholarship to study music in Cardiff under Professor David

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