as Bacchus in a ballet at Her Majesty’s 1842; a columbine
at Sadler’s Wells 1849, and often from that time to 1865;
acted many characters in Phelps and Greenwood’s revivals
of Shakespeare’s dramas at Sadler’s Wells 1850–60; a great
favourite at the Marylebone theatre; chief dancer at the Eagle
tavern, danced in Jason and Medea there 28 Aug. 1851; columbine
at the Surrey 1851, at Sadler’s Wells 1852–3, 1855, 1857, and
1859; acted Donaldbain in Macbeth at Her Majesty’s 19 Jany.
1858; had a character in Cock Robin pantomine, Lyceum 1867;
played Joe Tiller in Poll and my Partner Jo burlesque, St.
James’ 6 May 1871; acted Dicky Dilver in Little Dicky Dilver
pantomime, Princess’s 26 Dec. 1871; Jack in Jack and the bean
stalk pantomime, Adelphi 26 Dec. 1872; played in Crystal palace
pantomime 20 Dec. 1873, and several succeeding years, when her
songs and dances were very popular; was seen at the majority
of the London theatres and music halls; a teacher of dancing;
_m._ Charles Gill Fenton, actor and scene painter, _d._ 15 Feb.
1877. She _d._ 17 Medina road, Holloway, London 7 March 1887.
_Illustrated Sporting News 15 Nov. 1862 p._ 308 _portrait_;
_Scott and Howard’s E. L. Blanchard i_ 86 _etc._, _ii_ 397, 720
(1891).
PARKES, CHARLES HENRY. _b._ 1816; clerk in election office of
house of commons; clerk to Dyson and co., parliamentary agents
24 Parliament st. London, partner in the firm; a director of
the Eastern counties’ railway 1869, deputy chairman Aug. 1873,
chairman Nov. 1874 to July 1893, greatly improved the line,
increased the traffic, built and then enlarged Liverpool station
at a cost of £3,000,000, and developed the continental traffic
by a route from Harwich to the Hook of Holland, the quays at
Harwich are called after him, the main line was renamed the
Great Eastern 1862, was voted sum of £2,000 on retirement from
the chairmanship. _d._ Netherfield, Weybridge 9 May 1895. _bur._
Weybridge cemetery 14 May. _Times 17 May 1895 p._ 10; _I.L.N. 25
May 1895 p._ 638 _portrait_.
PARKES, EDMUND ALEXANDER (son of Wm. Parkes of the Marble-yard,
Warwick). _b._ Bloxham, Oxfordshire 29 March 1819, or Warwick
30 March 1819; educ. Christ’s hospital, and Univ. coll. and
hospital; M.B. London 1841, M.D. 1846; M.R.C.S. 1840; assistant
surgeon to 84 foot April 1842, served in Madras and Moulmein
1842–5, retired Sept. 1845; practised in London 1845; special
professor of clinical medicine at Univ. college 1849–60,
emeritus professor 1860; physician to Univ. coll. hospital
1849; edited British and foreign medico-chirurgical review
1852–5; sent to Turkey to select a site for and organize and
superintend a large civil hospital, he selected Renkioi on the
Asiatic bank of the Dardanelles and remained there till 1856;
professor of hygiene in army medical school at Fort Pitt,
Chatham 27 March 1860, the school was transferred to the royal
Victoria hospital, Netley 1863; invented the new military valise
which displaced the old knapsack; the founder of the science
of modern hygiene; wrote an annual review of the progress of
hygiene in the army medical department blue-book 1861–75; crown
member of general medical council 17 Nov. 1863 to death; F.R.S.
6 June 1861, member of council; member of senate of univ. of
London 1871 to death; author of Remarks on the dysentery and
hepatitis of India 1846; Researches into Asiatic or algide
cholera 1847; On self-training by the medical student 1856; The
composition of the urine in health and disease 1860; A manual of
practical hygiene for use in the army 1864, 8 ed. 1891; A scheme
of medical tuition 1868; On the issue of spirit ration during
the Ashanti campaign 1875. _d._ Sydney cottage, Bitterne, near
Southampton 15 March 1876. _bur._ Solihull, near Birmingham,
bust at Univ. coll. London. _Good Words_ (1879) 553–8; _Medical
times and gazette i_ 348–9 (1876); _I.L.N. lxviii_ 325, 326
(1876) _portrait_; _Saturday Review 2 June 1883 p._ 687.
NOTE.--The Parkes museum of hygiene was instituted 1876 at University
college, London, in 1882 it was incorporated and removed to Margaret
st. Cavendish sq. and opened by the duke of Albany 26 May 1883, it was
incorporated with the Sanitary institute of Great Britain Aug. 1888.
In Dec. 1894 Hermann Weber, M.D., M.R.C.P, gave the royal college of
physicians the sum of £2,500 in trust for the purpose of founding a
prize to be called the Weber-Parkes prize to be given at intervals for
the best essay in tubercular consumption.
PARKES, GEORGE. _b._ 1827; a barber in Old Bridge court, Cannon
row, Westminster 1845; had a fine baritone voice, sang at
Vauxhall and Cremorne gardens and the Bower saloon, Stangate
st.; lessee with Wm. Tanner of the Alhambra music hall,
Shoreditch 1871–5, and of the Raglan music hall, Southwark;
in partnership with Wm. Tanner, lessee of the Elephant and
Castle theatre 1880, and alone 1881–3, produced Walter Burnot’s
burlesque of The German silver king 24 March 1883; proprietor
of Richardson’s theatre at the World’s fair at the Agricultural
hall, Islington Dec. 1883 to Feb. 1884; generally known as Baron
Parkes. _d._ 29 Hercules road, Lambeth, London 16 Oct. 1895.
_bur._ Brompton cemet. 21 Oct.
PARKES, SIR HARRY SMITH (youngest child of Harry Parkes
of Walsall, ironmaster, _d._ 1833). _b._ Birchill’s hall,
Bloxwich, near Walsall 24 Feb. 1828; educ. Birmingham gr. sch.
1838–41; joined his sisters in China 1841; attached to sir
Henry Pottinger’s suit 1842; interpreter at Foo-chow March
1845 to Aug. 1846; interpreter at Shanghai Aug. 1846 to 1850;
interpreter at Canton 21 Nov. 1851; consul at Amoy 10 Aug. 1854;
secretary to special mission to Siam March 1855, first treaty
signed 18 April 1855; acting-consul at Canton June 1856, city
stormed by sir Michael Seymour, who entered it with Parkes 29
Oct. 1856, Canton was bombarded 28 Dec. 1857, after which Parkes
tracked and arrested commissioner Yeh 5 Jany. 1858, who was
transported to Calcutta; British comr. of the allied commission
at Canton 9 Jany. 1858; attached as joint Chinese secretary to
earl of Elgin’s special embassy in China 1860 to Feb. 1861;
accompanied vice-admiral Hope when he advanced upon Tien-tsin
23 Aug. 1860; taken prisoner by the Chinese at Tungchow 18
Sept. 1860, released 8 Oct.; envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary and consul-general in Japan 28 March 1865,
obtained the ratification of the treaties of 1858 by the Mikado
24 Nov. 1865, left Japan Aug. 1883; minister plenipotentiary in
China July 1883; concluded a treaty with the Korean government
Nov. 1883; minister plenipotentiary to king of Korea 7 March
1884; C.B. 6 Dec. 1859, K.C.B. 19 May 1862. _d._ Peking 22 March
1885. _bur._ Whitchurch 26 June, statue at Shanghai unveiled
by duke of Connaught April 1890, memorial bust by T. Brock,
R.A. unveiled in St. Paul’s cathedral 1887. _S. Lane-Poole and
F. V. Dickins’s Life of sir Harry Parkes_, 2 _vols._ (1894)
_portrait_; _D. C. Boulger’s History of China iii_ 250 _etc._,
827 (1884); _Illust. times 19 Jany. 1861 p._ 31 _portrait_;
_I.L.N. xxxvii_ 587 (1860) _portrait_; _Times 23 March 1885 p._
7.
PARKES, JOSEPH (younger son of John Parkes, manufacturer).
_b._ Warwick 22 Jany. 1796; articled to a solicitor in London
1817–22; practised as a solicitor in Birmingham 1822–33; a
member of Birmingham political union 10 May 1832, made active
preparations for an armed rebellion; secretary of the commission
on municipal corporations 1833; parliamentary solicitor at 21
Great George st. Westminster 1833–47; taxing master to court
of exchequer Nov. 1847 to death; secretary to commission for
inquiry into public charities 1840; author of A history of
the court of chancery 1828; author with Herman Merivale of
Memoirs of sir Philip Francis, K.C.B., with correspondence and
journals, 2 vols. 1867. _d._ 17 Wimpole st. London 11 Aug. 1865.
_bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 17 Aug. _Law mag. and law review xx_
174 (1865).
PARKES, JOSIAH (brother of the preceding). _b._ Warwick 27 Feb.
1793; worked in his father’s mill at Warwick 1810–20; carried
out near Woolwich a new process for refining salt; A.I.C.E.
11 March 1823, M.I.C.E. 26 Dec. 1837; carried on business at
Puteaux-sur-Seine 1825–30; fought on the popular side in the
revolution 1830, after which he returned to England; a land
drainer 1830–54, employed 1,000 men; drained part of Chat
Moss, Lancs. for Mr. Heathcote of Tiverton, invented the deep
drainage system of not less than four feet; in 1846 sir Robert
Peel advanced four millions to be spent in draining on the
Parkesian principle; drained the fortifications at Yaverland and
Warden Point, Isle of Wight for the war office 1862–9; author
of Lecture on draining 1846; Essay on the philosophy and art of
land drainage 1848; Fallacies on land drainage exposed 1851.
_d._ Freshwater, Isle of Wight 16 Aug. 1871. _Min. of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. xxxiii_ 231–6 (1872).
PARKES, WILLIAM. _b._ Gloucester 6 Oct. 1822; in the office
of James Walker, C.E. 1845; resident engineer at the Alderney
harbour works 1847–9; a civil engineer in Parliament st. and
then at 23 Abingdon st. London from 1849; connected with the
lake Fucino, Italy, draining works 1853; reported on Kurrachee,
India, harbour 1854, and again in 1868, the breakwater, the
first constructed on the sloping-block system, completed 1873;
designed and erected lighthouses in the Red sea 1860; at Madras
in 1873 and 1876 in connection with the harbour works, which
were destroyed by a cyclone in 1882; A.I.C.E. 3 Feb. 1849,
M.I.C.E. 17 April 1860. _d._ 8 Grove road, Surbiton 1889. _Min.
of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcvi_ 328–30 (1889).
PARKIN, GEORGE LEWIS (son of George Patey Parkin of Woolwich).
_b._ 30 Sept. 1818; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school 1829;
admitted solicitor 1841; partner with H. W. Woodhouse many
years; partner with Frederick John Pagden, retired 1884;
one of the Antients and subsequently principal of Barnard’s
inn; a governor of Christ’s hospital; an early member of the
Solicitors’ Benevolent institution, _d._ 22 Park lane, London 23
April 1885. _Solicitors’ Journal 2 May 1885 p._ 442.
PARKINS, WILLIAM. _b._ Great Berkhampstead, Herts.; a
manufacturing stationer in Hanway st. London about 1842;
introduced cheap paper and envelopes; partner with Henry
Gotto at 25 Oxford st. 1851 to death, having a very large
establishment of fancy goods, especially of articles for
presents, employed nearly 500 people; published Parkins and
Co.’s Almanack and price list 1850 etc.; Parkins and Gotto’s
Rent book 1858; Parkins and Gotto’s Annual Diary 1861 etc. _d._
43 Abbey road, St. John’s Wood, London 19 Sept. 1872. _bur._
Kensal Green cemetery 25 Sept. _Colburn’s New monthly mag. cxx_
494–8 (1881); _Puseley’s Companies_ (1858) 167.
PARKINSON, EDWARD. Cornet 33 light dragoons 27 Feb. 1796;
captain 33 foot 3 July 1805, major 17 March 1814, placed on h.p.
11 Sept. 1817; C.B. 19 July 1831; granted distinguished service
reward 15 Nov. 1849; colonel 93 highlanders 10 Dec. 1852 to
death; L.G. 20 June 1854. _d._ Pall Mall, London 14 Jany. 1858.
PARKINSON, JOHN. _b._ 1779; practised as solicitor in London;
solicitor to the Grenadier guards 19 July 1831 to death. _d._
Gray’s Inn sq. London 30 Jany. 1855.
PARKINSON, JOSEPH (son of James Parkinson, proprietor of
a museum in London 1730–1813). _b._ 1783; articled to Wm.
Pilkington, the architect, London; designed the library to
the Surrey institution 1809; laid out Bryanston square 1811;
surveyor to the Union assurance society to 1854; directed
rebuilding of body of Streatham church 1831; had many
professional pupils. _d._ 41 Sackville st. London 17 May 1855.
_bur._ Kensal Green.
PARKINSON, RICHARD (son of John Parkinson of Fairsnape, Lancs.)
_b._ Woodgates, Admarsh near Lancaster 17 Sept. 1797; matric.
from St. John’s coll. Camb. Dec. 1815, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824,
B.D. 1838, D.D. 1852; master of Lea school, near Preston
1820; edited the Preston Sentinel newspaper 1821; C. of St.
Michael’s-on-Wyre, Lancs. 1823–6; theological lecturer at St.
Bees college, Cumberland 1826, principal of the college Sept.
1846 to death; F.S.A. 16 Dec. 1847; obtained Seatonian prize
at Cambridge 1830; P.C. of Whitworth, near Rochdale 1830–41;
fellow of the Manchester collegiate chapter 20 May 1833; Hulsean
lecturer at Cambridge 1837 and 1838; P.C. of St. Bees church
1846; P.C. of Northaw, Herts. 1847; a founder of the Chetham
society 1843, vice-president 1843 to death, edited for the
society The life of Adam Martindale 1845; The autobiography
of Henry Newcome, 2 vols. 1851–2; The private journal of
John Byrom, 4 vols. 1853–8; author of Sermons on points of
doctrine and rules of duty, 2 vols. 1825–32; Poems, sacred and
miscellaneous 1832, 2 ed. 1845; Rationalism and revelation:
Hulsean lectures 1838; The old church clock 1843, 5 ed. 1880.
_d._ the college, St. Bees 28 Jany. 1858, his portrait presented
to St. Bees college by his friends 1857. _R. Parkinson’s Old
church clock_, _5 ed._ (1880), _memoir pp. ix–xcvii_; _J.
Evans’s Lancashire authors_ (1850) 198–204; _G. Huntington’s
Random recollections_ (1893) 263–82; _Raines’s Fellows of the
collegiate church of Manchester ii_ 361 (1891); _G.M. iv_ 556–8
(1858).
PARKINSON, STEPHEN (7 child of a land agent). _b._ Keighley,
Yorkshire 1823; entered St. John’s coll. Camb. Oct. 1841, sizar
and scholar, senior wrangler, and 2 Smith’s prizeman 1845;
fellow of his college March 1845, lecturer on mathematics,
tutor 1864–82, had nearly a thousand pupils, president 1865 to
death; hon. fellow 1882; B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848, B.D. 1855, D.D.
1868; senior proctor 1864; member of the council of the senate
1866–78; F.R.S. 2 June 1870; author of An elementary treatise
on mechanics 1855, 6 ed. 1881; A treatise on optics 1859, 4 ed.
1884. _d._ Newnham, Cambridge 2 Jany. 1889. _bur._ Madingley,
Camb. _Cambridge Review 24 Jany. 1889 pp._ 148–9; _The Eagle
March 1889 pp._ 356–62; _Proc. of royal soc. xlv pp. i–iii_
(1889).
PARKYNS, MANSFIELD (2 son of Thomas Boultbee Parkyns). _b._
Ruddington, Notts. 16 Feb. 1823; matric. from Trin. coll. Camb.
Oct. 1839; travelled in Abyssinia and Kordofan 1843–50, living
like a native, and was given up for dead by his relatives,
during the first part of the time he was in correspondence with
the Foreign office; attaché to embassy at Constantinople 15
Feb. 1850 to 1852; knew many languages and dialects; resided at
Woodborough hall, Notts. 1852; in the Sherwood forest militia;
lieut. col. of Nottinghamshire rifle volunteers; comptroller
of court of bankruptcy, London, Jany. 1870 to 1884; F.R.G.S.;
author of Life in Abyssinia, being notes collected during
three years’ residence in that country, 2 vols. 1853, new ed.
1868; carved the oak choir stalls for Woodborough church. _d._
Woodborough hall 12 Jany. 1894. _bur._ Woodborough church,
Notts. _Times 19 Feb. 1894 p._ 8.
PARLBY, BROOK BRIDGES (son of Samuel Parlby, C. of
Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk). _b._ 1 June 1783; educ. Rugby
1796–8; entered Madras army 1798; lieut. 7 Madras N.I. 15 Dec.
1800, major 15 April 1817; lieut. col. 19 N.I. 1823–28; lieut.
col. 13 N.I. 1828 to 13 Nov. 1829; col. 35 N.I. 13 Nov. 1829 to
5 July 1854; col. 20 N.I. 5 July 1854 to 1869; general 13 Oct.
1857; C.B. 26 Dec. 1826; in the battle of the Argaum; wounded
at storming of Gawilghur 1803, and at Lassoulgaum Oct. 1804;
commanded a division at Rangoon 8 Dec. 1824, and at Melloon
13 Jany. 1826; in Burmese war 1824; author of Revenge, or the
novice of San Martino, a tragedy 1818; A brief sketch of the
establishment of the Anglican church in India 1851. _d._ Upper
Norwood, Surrey 7 March 1873.
PARLBY, WILLIAM. _b._ 19 May 1801; cornet 8 dragoons 3 Oct.
1816; captain 4 dragoons 7 Dec. 1826, lieut. col. 30 Jany. 1846;
lieut. col. 10 hussars 7 Aug. 1846 to 10 Aug. 1856, when placed
on h.p.; col. 21 hussars 24 Oct. 1865 to 1 July 1880; general 22
May 1876; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; col. 4 hussars 1
July 1880 to death. _d._ Hubberston, Milford Haven 26 Oct. 1881.
PARNELL, CHARLES STEWART (2 son of John Henry Parnell of
Avondale, co. Wicklow, _d._ 1859). _b._ Avondale 27 June 1846;
educ. at Yeovil, Somerset; matric. as a pensioner from Magdalene
coll. Camb. 1 July 1865, left Cambridge May 1869; resided at
Avondale 1869–72; an officer in the Wicklow militia; travelled
in the U.S. of America 1872–3; sheriff of Wicklow 1874;
contested co. Dublin 19 March 1874; M.P. co. Meath 1875–80;
joined the Amnesty association 1876; his plan for obstructing
the business of house of commons caused the house to sit
continuously from 4 p.m. till 6 p.m. on the following evening
31 July to 1 Aug. 1877, this was then the longest recorded
sitting; president of the National land league of Ireland,
founded at a convention in Dublin Oct. 1879; went to U.S. of
America to obtain funds for the league 21 Dec. 1879, addressed
the house of representatives at Washington 2 Feb. 1880, also
addressed the legislatures of 5 states; M.P. Cork city 1880 to
death; chairman of the home rule party in the house of commons
17 May 1880; founded The Irish national newspaper and publishing
company, July 1881; held a great land league convention at
Dublin 15 Sept. 1881; arrested at Morrison’s hotel, Dublin 13
Oct. 1881, imprisoned in Kilmainham gaol, released 2 May 1882;
at a meeting of the Ladies’ land league at Dublin 2 Jany.
1882 Parnell was described as the uncrowned King of Ireland,
which title was adopted by his supporters; attended a national
conference in Dublin 17 Oct. 1883, when the Land League was
revived as the Irish national league; presented with sum of
£37,000 at a banquet at the Rotunda in Dublin 11 Dec. 1883;
elected chairman of the Irish parliamentary party 11 Jany.
1886, re-elected 25 Nov. 1890; the freedom of city of Edinburgh
was conferred on him 20 July 1889; his friend capt. Wm. Henry
O’Shea obtained a decree nisi for a divorce 17 Nov. 1890 with
costs against Parnell as co-respondent; on 25 June 1891,
Parnell married Mrs. Katherine O’Shea in the registry office at
Steyning, near Brighton; deserted by 45 of his followers in the
house of commons 6 Dec. 1890; repudiated by the Roman Catholic
archbishops and bishops 4 Dec. 1890. _d._ of inflammation of
the lungs at his residence 10 Walsingham terrace, Aldrington,
Brighton 6 Oct. 1891. _bur._ Glasnevin cemet. Dublin 11 Oct.
_T. P. O’Connor’s Life of C. S. Parnell_ (1891) _portrait_;
_R. F. Walsh’s Memorial volume, C. S. Parnell_ (1892), _memoir
pp._ 1–210 _four portraits_; _J. S. Mahoney’s C. S. Parnell_
(1886) _two portraits_; _T. Sherlock’s Life of C. S. Parnell_
(1887) _portrait_; _J. Connellan’s Life of C. S. Parnell_ (1888)
_portrait_; _A. Filon’s Profils Anglais_, _Paris_ (1893); _H.
Le Caron’s Twenty five years in the secret service_ (1892) 178
_portrait_.
NOTE.--In 1887 The Times published articles entitled Parnellism and
Crime, and on 18 April gave a facsimile of a letter said to be by C.
S. Parnell in which he extenuated the Phœnix park murders. On 22 Oct.
1888 three judges, forming a special commission, commenced inquiring
into all the charges which had been made against Parnell. On 1 March
1889 Richard Piggott, who had forged the letter, committed suicide at
Madrid. The report of the commission acquitted Parnell of any sympathy
with the Phœnix park murders 13 Feb. 1890. He brought an action for
libel against The Times claiming £100,000 damages, but the action was
compromised by a payment of £5,000 on 3 Feb. 1890. _Annual Register
1887 p._ 99 _etc._, 1888 _p._ 233 _etc._, 1889 _pp._ 477–507, 1890 _p._
7; _David Anderson’s Scenes in the house of commons_ (1884) 202–21;
_I.L.N. lxxix_ 389 (1881) _portrait_; _Graphic 10 Oct. 1891 p._ 424
_portrait_.
PARNELL, FANNY (sister of the preceding). _b._ Avondale, co.
Wicklow 3 Sept. 1854; contributed poems to the Irish People,
the Fenian newspaper, under signature of Alena or Alerta 1867,
and wrote poetry in the Nation and the Irishman; went with her
mother to America and settled at Bordentown, New Jersey;. wrote
much verse in the Boston Pilot and Dublin Nation 1879–82; made
many speeches during the land league agitation in America 1880;
organized in 1881 the despatch to Ireland of Irish-American
women to take the places of women who had helped to administer
the ladies’ land league in Ireland and had been imprisoned.
_d._ Bordentown, New Jersey 29 July 1882. _bur._ Mount Auburn
cemetery, near Boston. _R. F. Walsh’s Memorial volume_ (1892)
_p._ 3 _portrait_.
PARR, GEORGE. _b._ Radcliffe-on-Trent, Notts. 22 May 1826; first
played at Lord’s 1845; member of Clarke’s touring eleven 1847,
captain 1857; played for the Players against the Gentlemen
1846–65; played for Notts. 1846–70, made 130 runs against Surrey
1859; took a team to Canada 1859, winning all the five matches
against twenty-twos; coached the Harrow eleven 1859–62; captain
of a team in Australia 1863, winning ten matches; captain of
the All England eleven 1857–70; played his last match 1871;
the finest batsman in England, especially famous for his leg
hitting. _d._ Radcliffe-on-Trent 23 June 1891. _Baily’s Mag. ii_
215–20 (1860) _portrait_; _W. G. Grace’s Cricket_ (1891) 115
_portrait_; _Illust. sporting news iii_ 161 (1864) _portrait_,
_v_ 36 (1866) _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news i_ 161
(1874) _portrait_.
PARR, THOMAS. _b._ 1809; travelled in Dorset and Devonshire as
a dealer in tea; began racing 1839 with two horses, increased
his stud to about 20; ran second for the Cesarewitch with
Giselle; won 18 races with Rataplan 1854; won the St. Leger with
Saucebox 1855; won the Queen’s vase and 22 other races with
Fisherman 1856; won the Goodwood stakes and the Cesarewitch with
Weathergaze and the Cambridgeshire with Odd Trick and Malacca.
_d._ Manor house, Letcomb Regis 19 Jany. 1880. _W. Day’s
Reminiscences_, _2 ed._ (1886) 286–300; _W. Day’s The race horse
in training_ (1880) 19.
PARR, THOMAS CHASE (son of John Owen Parr of London). _b._
1802; entered Bombay army 1818; lieut. 4 Bombay N.I. 5 Feb.
1819; captain 7 N.I. 4 Sept. 1827, major 19 Oct. 1839 to 21
Jany. 1846; lieut. col. 1 European regiment right wing 21 Jany.
1846 to 15 Aug. 1847; lieut. col. of 10 N.I. 15 Aug. 1847 to
1850, of 7 N.I. 1850–1, of 2 N.I. 1851–3, and of 6 N.I. 1853–6;
commandant Kurrachee 28 March 1854 to 13 March 1856; col. of 2
European regiment 18 March 1856 to 1863, and of 12 N.I. 1863;
general 10 Feb. 1876. _d._ Powis lodge, Bickley, Kent 15 June
1883.
PARR, WILLIAM CHASE (2 son of rev. John Owen Parr, vicar of
Preston). _b._ 4 Dec. 1826; ensign 24 Bombay N.I. 27 Jany. 1844,
captain 23 Nov. 1856; lieut. col. Bombay staff corps 1 Sept.
1869; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 2 July 1885;
general 1 April 1894. _d._ King’s Holt, West Lyss, Hants. 6
March 1895.
PARRAVICINI, STEFANO ANNONI DE (only son of Carlo De
Parravicini, advocate, Milan). An officer in the Italian army;
joined an opera company in England; business manager to Willert
Beale to 1856; a musical and professional agent 49 Duke st.
St. James’, London 1856–86, in partnership with Wardle Corbyn
and then with J. F. P. Hyatt 1876–86; agent for Blondin; for
the Alhambra music hall, under F. Strange, where he introduced
Madame Pitteri, the dancer; he brought Pauline Virginie Déjazet
to the Charing Cross theatre Oct. 1870; agent for the circuses
at Covent garden, for Barnum’s show and Venice at Olympia; joint
lessee with W. Corbyn of Park theatre, London, opened Oct. 1875.
_d._ Addison road north, London 13 Jany. 1893. _bur._ St. Mary’s
R.C. cemetery, Kensal green 18 Jany. _The Era 21 Jany. 1893._