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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, 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 , 212, to his being chairman at an eisteddfod of bards held at Holywell, 3 June 1834) and as an antiquary (there is a very brief obituary notice in Archæologia Cambrensis, 1855, 58). He edited the second edition (Oxford, 1809) of the Grammatica Britannica by Dr. John Davies (c. 1567 - 1644), of Mallwyd, first published in 1621; Parry's edition was on sale by Broster and Poole at Chester and by Carnes
PARRY, HUGH (Cefni; 1826 - 1895), Baptist minister, poet, littérateur, and theologian Rhos-y-meirch. He married (in 1847 or during his pastorate at Rhos-y-bol) Mary Ann Harding of Caernarvon. He was successful in the pryddest competition at the national eisteddfod at Swansea, 1863, and published articles and poetry of a high standard in the Welsh and American periodical press.
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, JOHN (1789 - 1868), stonemason and musician John Parry was born on 10 February 1789 in Newmarket in Flintshire, the son of Bernard Parry, farmer and singing master, and his wife Elizabeth (née Saunders). In the 1841 census John Parry and his wife Mary Williams Parry (1784-1849) were said to be living with their two youngest sons, William and Caleb, at Ochr-y-gop, to the northeast of the village. He was a stonemason by trade, employing
PARRY, JOSHUA (1719 - 1776), Nonconformist minister, and writer Born 17 June 1719 at Llan-gan, Pembrokeshire, of a family that had once been well-to-do, but the father was one of twenty-one children. Parry was educated at Haverfordwest under Evan Davies (1694? - 1770), but before Davies opened the Academy there; he was afterwards at Moorfields under John Eames. He became pastor at Midhurst (1741-2), and then at Cirencester, where he died 6 September 1776. He
PARRY, OWEN HENRY (1912 - 1956), jazz musician wife was Gwen Davies. After a divorce he married Jessie Bradbury, a professional singer, but that marriage failed. They were childless. He thought highly of his home town, but seldom had the opportunity to return there. Harry Parry died 11 October 1956 in his room in Adam's Row, Mayfair, London. His ashes were buried in Golders Green crematorium, London.
PARRY, RICHARD (1560 - 1623), bishop and biblical translator impropriation and the lack of a learned, resident, ministry. Parry is chiefly remembered for his revised versions of the Welsh Bible and Book of Common Prayer, published in 1620 and 1621. Though Parry received the credit, his brother-in-law, Dr. John Davies of Mallwyd (c. 1567 - 1644), was mainly responsible for the work. He married, c. 1598, Gwen ferch John ap Rhys Wyn, and had four sons and seven daughters
PARRY, ROBERT (Robyn Ddu Eryri; 1804 - 1892), poet did not stay long. He was at different times, a schoolmaster, a lawyer's clerk, a preacher, a lecturer on temperance, an advocate of Mormonism, and, between 1850 and 1852, editor of Y Wawr, a periodical published in Cardiff. He was best known as a speaker on temperance; many doubted his sincerity, in view of his own conduct, but John Davies (Gwyneddon), who knew him well, believed him to have been
PARRY, ROBERT (fl. 1810-1863), poet Born probably at Llanbryn-mair, son of Robert Parry, curate of that parish, and Mary, his wife, daughter of John Jones of Esgair Ifan. While he was still a small child his father was given the living of Eglwys-bach, Denbighshire (1810-26) and the family went to live in that place (Thomas, A History of the Diocese of St. Asaph, ii, 311). He himself had originally intended to take orders, and was
PARRY, ROBERT IFOR (1908 - 1975), minister (Cong.) and school teacher Robert Ifor Parry was born at Holyhead, the son of Benjamin Parry and his wife, members at the Congregational Church at The Tabernacl, in the town, where the Rev. R. H. Davies was minister. His father was an engineer officer employed on the ships sailing between the port of Holyhead and Ireland. He went from the Holyhead County School as a very bright pupil in 1926 to the Bala-Bangor Theological

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