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PARROTT, HORACE IAN (1916 - 2012), teacher and composer a lecturer at Birmingham University, and in 1950 he succeeded to the Gregynog Chair of Music at the University College of Wales Aberystwyth, a post he held until his retirement in 1983. He oversaw considerable growth in the Music Department, and among his pupils there were the composers William Mathias and David Harries. Ian Parrott took a lively interest in the musical traditions of his adoptive
PARRY, BLANCHE (1508? - 1590) Welsh historiography at one point. Sir Edward Stradling, on William Cecil's suggestion, had written a tractate on the Norman conquest of Glamorgan, and had sent it to Cecil. It is clear that Cecil passed it on to Blanche Parry - perhaps for the queen, for Blanche kept the queen's books. But when David Powel was in London, probably to see about printing his Historie, Blanche Parry handed Stradling's
PARRY, BLANCHE (1507/8 - 1590), Chief Gentlewoman of Queen Elizabeth's most honourable Privy Chamber and Keeper of Her Majesty's jewels (commissioning the first map of Llangorse Lake in 1584) and in Yorkshire. Her estate at death was worth about £½ million to £1 million in modern values (substantial for an unmarried lady but a fraction of, for example, the Earl of Leicester's). Her name recurs very frequently in official records, and there are references to her in contemporary literature. In 1575 George Gascoigne wrote of her: For long and
PARRY, DAVID (1682? - 1714), scholar (below), 10 December according to Hearne (op. cit., v 2), who added: ' being a perfect sot he shortened his days, being just turned of thirty.' Foster gives his academic career correctly, but errs (wherein he is followed by W. Wales Hist. Records, i, 253; iii, 229) in identifying him with another David Parry, vicar of Nolton and Bridell, Pembrokeshire, whose will was proved in 1720.
PARRY, DAVID (1760 - 1821), Calvinistic Methodist minister
PARRY, DAVID (Dewi Moelwyn; 1835 - 1870), Independent minister, and poet
PARRY, DAVID (1794 - 1877), cleric Born 1794 at Llan-gan, near Whitland, Carmarthenshire, son of David Parry and Dorothy his wife. He was educated at Ystrad Meurig and Carmarthen grammar schools, and ordained deacon in March 1818 by bishop Burgess of S. Davids. He was licensed as curate to the parish of Crinow, near Narberth, and, in April 1819, to Llandisilio (near Clyndernwen) also. He received priest's orders in June 1819, and
PARRY, DAVID HENRY (1793 - 1826), artist - gweler PARRY, JOSEPH
PARRY, Sir DAVID HUGHES (1893 - 1973), lawyer, jurist, university administrator Benjamin Cherry, and Williams on Executors (1930). He was elevated to the Chair in English Law at the University of London in 1930. Although David Hughes Parry was engaged in legal authorship during the early part of his career (his monograph, The Law of Succession, was published in 1937) it was in the direction of university governance and administration that his future path was to lie. As head of the
PARRY, EDWARD (1798 - 1854), publisher and antiquary comforts of his countrymen in the city. At Chester Parry was associated with Evan Evans (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd) and Y Gwladgarwr. In 1836 he bought the publishing rights after Ieuan himself had suffered financial loss. Hugh Jones (Erfyl) was the editor from 1836 but in 1841 its publication was undertaken by Robert Lloyd Morris at Liverpool. Parry was responsible for the publication of several Welsh books
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

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