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PARRY, EDWARD (1798 - 1854), publisher and antiquary , e.g. Coffhad am y Parch. Daniel Rowlands, by John Owen, 1839, and The Poetical Works of Richard Llwyd, 1837. Parry wrote the memoir which forms the preface to this book, and he also edited and published Blodau Arfon, sef gwaith Dewi Wyn, 1842. He was a successful competitor on historical essays at eisteddfodau. He published Historical Researches on the Flintshire Castles, 1830, which was submitted
PARRY, RHISIART (1665? - 1749), poet stated to have been a native of Dyserth, Flintshire. Examples of his work are found in manuscripts, and also in Blodau-Gerdd Cymry and Y Cydymaith Diddan. Most of his poems are in free metre, and they include religious carols and various ballads. It is not clear whether he is the Richard Parry, school teacher of Ro Wen, who is represented in Bibliog. of Welsh Ballads. It is said that he died in
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, RICHARD (1710 - 1763) Newborough, poet, schoolmaster, and sexton His published work includes ' Araith Wgan ar Gân ' (Brython, 1863), and also a number of other poems (one of them at least a translation from English) which were published in the 18th century; a list of these is given by Myrddin Fardd in Y Traethodydd, 1886. A carol composed by him is found in NLW MS 1666B (209b); it is also probable that he is the Richard Parry whose poems are found in Bodewryd
PARRY, RICHARD (1560 - 1623), bishop and biblical translator Born in 1560, son of John ap Harri, of Pwllhalog, Cwm, Flintshire, and Ruthin, and his wife, Elen ferch Dafydd ap John, of Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd. Richard Parry was educated at Westminster School under Camden. In 1579 he entered Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. 5 February 1584. He was ordained a deacon by bishop Robinson of Bangor, 5 April 1584, and on 4 May was instituted to a
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, 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, 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 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 anything about him) coincide with those of Richard Morris. He was with Richard in the navy office in 1747-53, moved to the ordnance office, 1753-5, and thence to the Mint where he was ' Comptroller's Deputy and Clerk.' But in 1757, still retaining his post at the Mint, he returned to the navy office as ' Under Clerk for Foreign Accounts ' - this was in Richard Morris's department, and it is clear that
PARRY-WILLIAMS, HENRY (1858 - 1925), schoolmaster and poet Born 11 June 1858, the son of Thomas and Mary Parry, Gwyndy, Carmel, Caernarfonshire. He was a half-brother of Robert Parry, father of the poet R. Williams Parry and of Richard Parry, father of Thomas Parry (1904 - 1985). As a young man he adopted the surname of his paternal grandfather, Henry Williams, in addition to his own. He received his elementary education at Bron-y-foel school, and stayed
PARRY-WILLIAMS, Sir THOMAS HERBERT (1887 - 1975), author and scholar tradition of Welsh free-metre poetry, namely Carolau Richard White (1931), Llawysgrif Richard Morris o Gerddi… (1931), Canu Rhydd Cynnar (1932) and Hen Benillion (1940). Parry-Williams edited several further volumes of modern poetry and prose. His analysis of the craft of poetry, Elfennau Barddoniaeth (1935), does not always reflect his own subtler practice. He was a frequent adjudicator in the literary

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