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PARRY, DAVID (1682? - 1714), scholar Born at Cardigan, son of William Parry, ' a poor man.' About 1695, when (as it would seem) at Cardigan grammar school (and 'a good Latinist'), he was brought by William Gambold to the notice of Edward Lhuyd, who took him on as a helper, and as companion on his travels in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and Brittany (there, both were imprisoned as 'spies'). On their return to Oxford (April 1701), Parry
PARRY, Sir DAVID HUGHES (1893 - 1973), lawyer, jurist, university administrator lectureship in law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. With the guidance and encouragement of Sir William Beveridge, the director, and Sir Edward Jenks, the head of the law department, his career flourished. His principal interests were the laws of property and inheritance, and his publications included Wolstenholme and Cherry's Conveyancing Statutes (1927), which he co-wrote with Sir
PARRY, EDGAR WILLIAMS (1919 - 2011), surgeon and the naturalist who discovered it, Edward Lhwyd. He retired in 1984. Enid and Edgar had a long and happy marriage and they had a reputation for warm hospitality in their welcoming home. As well as medicine they shared interests in music and in art. They had two children: John (b. 1950) is a Urologist, now retired, and Jane Anne (Carr, b. 1955) is a musician who specialises in playing the harp
PARRY, EDWARD (1798 - 1854), publisher and antiquary Born in 1798 at Trelawnyd ('Newmarket'), Flintshire, the son of Edward and Mary Parry. At an early age he moved to Chester, settling in business as a bookseller, first at the Exchange, Northgate Street, and afterwards in Bridge Street Row. Here he had for sale Welsh books (including his own works and illustrations). He was prominently connected with the city's Welsh life and his services in
PARRY, EDWARD (1723 - 1786), Methodist exhorter, poet and hymn-writer Harris and Daniel Rowland, his zeal cooled and he returned to the fold of the Established Church. In 1761 he left Tan-y-fron and went to live at Bryn Bugad, where he rejoined the Methodists. When the South Wales exhorters resumed their visits to North Wales, Edward Parry, because of his zeal and ability, became the most outstanding local exhorter and was invited to evangelise in London. In 1773 he
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, JOHN (1770 - 1820), poet Born 29 June 1770 in a farm called Y Wern, near Llanelian, Denbighshire. He may be the John Parry, son of Edward and Catherine Parry, whose christening is recorded on 31 August 1770 in the bishops' transcripts for the parish of Llanelian. He received a good education, as is evident from the character of his poetry. At the age of 28 Parry married Elsbeth Hughes, Ffermnant, Llanelian, and there
PARRY, JOHN (The Blind Harpist; 1710? - 1782), harpist and publisher of music Born at Bryn Cynan, near Nevin, Caernarfonshire, c. 1710. Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) says that his harp teacher was Robert Parry, Llanllyfni, Caernarfonshire; Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) says that he received lessons from Stephen Shôn Jones, Penrhyndeudraeth. He became one of the best harpists in the kingdom and took part at concerts given in London, Cambridge, Oxford, and Dublin. He was family
PARRY, JOHN HUMFFREYS (1786 - 1825), antiquary His father, Edward Perry (1752 - 1805), cleric, was the son of Edward Parry, ' gent. ', of Nerquis, Flintshire; he went up to Jesus College, Oxford, in 1772, but Foster has no record of his graduation; W. D. Leathart attributes ' high literary attainments ' to him; he was rector of Llangar, 1784-9, and of Llanferres, 1789-1805 (Thomas, A History of the Diocese of St. Asaph), but lived at Mold
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, SARAH WINIFRED (1870 - 1953), writer, and editor of Cymru'r Plant from 1908 to 1912 . Shortly afterwards, her grandmother, Ellen Roberts, died and Winnie, in a letter to John Glyn Davies, states that she lived with her grandfather from the age of thirteen until her aunt came to live with them when she was nineteen. In 1893, at the prompting of O.M. Edwards and Edward Ffoulkes she began to contribute occasionally to Cymru, Cymru'r Plant, Y Cymro, and even The Cambrian (Utica) and Wales
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

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