St. Marylebone, London 3 June 1793; learnt enamel painting and
metal chasing with Ray and Montague, the jewellers; entered
schools of the R.A. 1816; painted the panorama of London for
the Colosseum 1825–9; painted with W. Daniell, R.A. a panorama
of Madras; a fashionable portrait painter some years; many
of his pictures were engraved in the Keepsake, &c.; made a
sketch of queen Victoria on her first state visit to Drury
Lane theatre Nov. 1837, and from this painted a portrait, of
which an engraving was published April 1838; painted a picture
of the queen’s coronation 1838; gained a prize of £100 at the
cartoon competition in Westminster Hall 1843, for his Joseph
of Arimathea converting the Britons; repainted Thornhill’s
paintings in St. Paul’s cathedral 1853–6; historical painter
to queen Adelaide 1832; exhibited 26 pictures at R.A. 36 at
B.I. and 18 at Suffolk st. 1816–74; employed in decorating the
mansions of the nobility; carried on a life-drawing school at
his house in Grafton st. Bond st.; invented a medium which when
mixed with oil produced a dull fresco-like surface, this was
widely known as Parris’s medium; illustrated the Countess of
Blessington’s The confessions of an elderly gentleman 1836,
her Flowers of loveliness 1836, and her The confessions of an
elderly lady 1838; also Gems of Beauty 1838 etc. _d._ 27 Francis
st. Bedford sq. London 27 Nov. 1873. _I.L.N. 24 Dec. 1853
portrait xxix_, 145, 146 (1856) _portrait_, _lxiii_ 543, 564,
587 (1873) _portrait_.
PARROTT, THOMAS. _b._ 1796; admitted attorney 1826; practised
at Macclesfield, Cheshire 1826 to death; town clerk 27 Jany.
1830 to death; partner with Thomas Michael Colville and with
John May 1839, firm becoming Parrott, May and Sons; clerk to
the county and borough magistrates, also coroner; his portrait
was presented to the corporation of Macclesfield March 1879; a
successful proprietor of a dairy farm. _d._ Green bank, Higher
Sutton, Macclesfield 29 May 1879. _bur._ St. James’ ch. yard,
Sutton 6 June. _The Macclesfield courier 31 May 1879 p._ 5, _7
June p._ 5.
PARROTT, WILLIAM. _b._ 1814 or 1815; exhibited 25 landscapes at
the R.A., 19 at B.I., and 25 at Suffolk st. gallery 1835–69.
_d._ 3 Nether st. North Finchley, London 23 Sept. 1893.
PARRY, ALBERT WOODWARD (son of Richard Parry, builder). _b._
Salford 19 Jany. 1834; principal assistant to borough surveyor,
Bradford 1863–71; borough surveyor, Reading 1871–91, completed
the sewerage, enlarged the water works, and erected the sewage
farm buildings; consulting engineer for Reading 1891 to death; a
surveyor with his son Richard Parry at 27 Great George street,
Westminster 1893; A.I.C.E. 1 April 1873, A.M.I.C.E. 1878. _d._
Reading 13 July 1894. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cxviii_
462–3 (1894).
PARRY, CHARLES HENRY (eld. son of Caleb Hillier Parry, physician
1755–1822). _b._ Bath 1779; studied medicine at Gottingen;
travelled with S. T. Coleridge in the Harz 1799; M.D. Edinb.
24 June 1804; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1806; F.R.S. 20 Feb. 1812;
practised at Bath some years; physician to general hospital,
Bath 1818–22; resided at Brighton many years; author of De
Græcarum atque Romanorum religionum ad mores formandos vi et
efficacia commentatio, Gottingæ 1799; Additional experiments
on the arteries of warmblooded animals 1819; The parliaments
and councils of England chronologically arranged 1839; A memoir
of the rev. Joshua Parry 1872. _d._ 5 Belgrave place, Brighton
21 Jany. 1860. _bur._ Weston, near Bath. _Munk’s College of
physicians ii_ 385–8, _iii_ 45–6 (1878).
PARRY, EDWARD (son of sir Wm. Edward Parry 1790–1855). _b._
Government house, Sydney 14 Jany. 1830; educ. Cheam, Surrey
1840–3, and Rugby 1843–9, head of the school 1848–9; entered
Balliol coll. Oxf. Oct. 1849, B.A. 1852, M.A. 1855, D.D. 1870;
D.D. Durham 1870; tutor in univ. of Durham Jany. 1853 to
1856; C. of Sonning, Berkshire 1856–7; domestic chaplain to
A. C. Tait, bishop of London 1857–9, and one of his examining
chaplains Feb. 1859 to 1869; R. of St. Mary’s, Acton 1859–69,
and rural dean of Ealing 1863–9; archdeacon and canon of
Canterbury May 1869 to death; bishop suffragan of Dover 26
Jany. 1870, resigned Nov. 1889, consecrated in Lambeth chapel
25 March 1870; declined the bishopric of Sydney Nov. 1882;
author of Memoirs of rear admiral Sir W. E. Parry 1857, 3 ed.
1857; Memorials of Charles Parry, R.N. 1870, new ed. 1879. _d._
St. Leonard’s-on-Sea 11 April 1890. _bur._ in churchyard of St.
Martin’s, Canterbury, effigy in nave of Canterbury cathedral.
_Graphic 19 April 1890 p._ 444 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 19 April 1890
p._ 483 _portrait_.
PARRY, FRANCIS CHARLES (eld. son of Charles Henry Parry, V. of
Speen, Berks., _d._ 1788). _b._ Speen 1780; educ. Winchester and
Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1802, M.A. 1806; barrister M.T. 23 June
1806; a comr. of bankrupts 1810–31; deputy registrar in court of
bankruptcy, London 1831–45; F.G.S.; contributed to the Edinburgh
Review 1819–23. _d._ Alington, Devizes 18 Dec. 1878. _Law Times
lxvi_ 213 (1879).
NOTE.--He occupied a prominent place in the Collier Shakespeare
controversy as having been the possessor of a folio which was for some
time wrongly identified with the Perkins folio.
PARRY, GEORGE FREDERICK. _b._ India 8 Dec. 1794; first played
at Lord’s E. H. Budd’s side against W. Ward’s side 1 June 1818;
played 5 seasons 1818–20, 1828, and 1829; was abroad from
1820–28; the finest field of his day, occupying middle-wicket,
a very fast runner and also a good bat; resided Egham park,
Surrey; was at Cheltenham in 1860. _d._ Mentone 11 Jany. 1872.
_Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores i_ 407 (1862).
PARRY, HENRY HUTTON (2 son of Thomas Parry 1795–1870). _b._ 18
Dec. 1827; educ. Rugby 1841–6, and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A.
1851, M.A. 1859; D.D. Durham univ. 1886; C. of Holy Trinity,
Trinidad 1851–5; tutor of Codrington theological college,
Barbados 1855–60, and chaplain to the forces 1860–1; archdeacon
of Barbados 1861–8; bishop-coadjutor to his father, the bishop
of Barbados 10 May 1868–76; bishop of Perth, Western Australia
20 May 1876 to death. _d._ Bunbury, Western Australia 16 Nov.
1893.
PARRY, JAMES (son of Joseph Parry, artist 1744–1826). Exhibited
landscapes, portraits, and figure-pictures at the royal
Manchester institution 1827–56; engraved most of the plates in
Corry’s History of Lancashire 1825; engraved many plates from
his own, his brother David Henry Parry’s and other artists’
work. _d._ Manchester about 1871, portrait painted by himself in
royal Salford museum.
PARRY, JOHN. _b._ Denbigh, North Wales 18 Feb. 1776; joined
the Denbigh militia band 1793, leader 1797–1807; learned to
play many instruments, also to play three flageolets at the
same time; played at Covent Garden theatre 1805; a teacher of
the flageolet in London 1807; wrote songs for Vauxhall gardens
from 1809; wrote Fair cheating, a musical farce Drury Lane 15
June 1814, Oberon’s oath 21 May 1816, High notions 11 Feb.
1819, Helpless animals, Covent Garden 17 Nov. 1819; Two wives
or a hint to husbands, English Opera house 7 Aug. 1821, My
uncle Gabriel, an operatic farce 10 Dec. 1824; conducted the
Eisteddvodau at Wrexham 1820, and at Brecon 1822; received
degree of Bardd Alaw, master of song 1821; a chief promoter
of the Cambrian society, became its registrar; treasurer to
Royal society of musicians 1831–49; concert-music critic of
the Morning Post 1834–48; musical editor of the Sunday Times
for a time; gave a farewell concert Jany. 1837, when he sang
his own song Jenny Jones; published An account of the royal
musical festival held in Westminster Abbey in 1834; composer
of Chevy Chase, the overture to the historical drama 1800;
Harlequin Hoax, pantomime by T. Dibdin, music by J.P. 1814;
Goulding & Co.s Collection of country dances 1815; The minstrel
boy 1819; Scales and preludes for harps 1820; A selection of
Welsh melodies 1820; The London collection of glees, duetts
and catches 1825; A trip to Wales, an entertainment 1827; The
vocal companion, songs, duetts, and glees 1829; The Parisian
divertissements 1830; The Welsh harper, with observations on the
antiquity of Welsh music and the rise and progress of the harp,
2 vols. 1839–48; Two thousand melodies, selected English and
Foreign 1841; Complete scales for Wheatstone’s patent symphonion
1859; his name is attached to upwards of 170 compositions
1800–50. _d._ 31 Great Russell st. Bloomsbury, London 8 April
1851. _Grove’s Dictionary of music i_ 484, 651, _ii_ 248, _iv_
443 (1878).
PARRY, JOHN (2 son of Thomas Sefton Parry, solicitor 52
Charlotte st. Portland place, London). _b._ London 1809; clerk
in a ship broker’s office and in a bank; first acted at Leeds
theatre 1827; appeared at Sheffield, Sunderland, and Pontefract
1827–33; acted at Victoria theatre, London under Glossop’s
management 1833; appeared at most of the London houses; was good
as Fag in farce of The three clerks; stage manager Victoria
theatre 1838–9; stage manager of the Queen’s 1839–47. _Actors by
gaslight 8 Sept. 1838 pp._ 161–2 _portrait_; _Theatrical times 3
July 1847 pp._ 201–2 _portrait_.
PARRY, JOHN BILLINGSLEY (2 son of James Parry of Preston
Montford hall, Salop). _b._ 1798; educ. Shrewsbury sch.;
barrister L.I. 12 Nov. 1824; equity draftsman; Q.C. Feb. 1845;
judge of county courts, circuit No. 36, Oxfordshire, March 1847,
resigned Sept. 1874. _d._ Brighton 28 March 1876.
PARRY, JOHN HAYDN (son of Dr. Joseph Parry of univ. coll. of
South Wales, Cardiff). _b._ April 1864; musical instructor
Harrow school; professor of London Guildhall school of music
Sept. 1889 to death; composer of Gwen, a cantata produced by
students of Guildhall school of music 1890; Cigarette, an opera,
T.R. Cardiff 15 Aug. 1892, and Lyric theatre, London 7 Sept.
1892; Miami, a musical version of The green bushes, Princess’s
theatre 16 Oct. 1893; O Lord abide with me, a song 1894. _d._ 87
Broadhurst gardens, West Hampstead, London 29 March 1894. _bur._
West Hampstead cemet. 2 April.
PARRY, JOHN HUMFFREYS (son of John Humffreys Parry, Welsh
antiquary 1786–1825). _b._ London 24 Jany. 1816; employed in the
printed-book department of the British Museum, engaged on the
new catalogue Jany. 1839 to June 1843; barrister M.T. 9 June
1843, bencher 15 Nov. 1878 to death; obtained a large criminal
practice; sergeant-at-law 9 June 1856, obtained patent of
precedence 9 Feb. 1864; largely employed in compensation cases;
leader of the home circuit; retained in the trials of Manning
1849, Muller 1864, Overend and Gurney 1869, the Tichborne
claimant 1873–4, and Whistler _v._ Ruskin Nov. 1878; a founder
of the Complete suffrage association 1842; contested Norwich
30 July 1847 and Finsbury 30 March 1857; edited The National
association gazette, No. 1–28, 1841–2. _d._ 56 Holland park,
Kensington, London 10 Jany. 1880. _bur._ Woking cemet. 15 Jany.
_M. William’s Leaves of a life_ (1891) 39, 50, 58, 90, 127, 141,
143, 181, 218; _Law Times lxviii_ 211 (1880); _I.L.N. lxxvi_ 85
(1880) _portrait_; _Graphic xxi_ 93 (1880) _portrait_.
PARRY, JOHN ORLANDO (only son of John Parry 1776–1851). _b._
London 3 Jany. 1810; first appeared as a vocalist at Hanover sq.
rooms, London 7 May 1830; sang at the Antient and Philharmonic
concerts, and at musical festivals; pupil of Luigi Lablache
at Naples 1833; sang at St. James’s theatre in a burletta The
Sham prince 29 Sept. 1836, and in Charles Dickens’s Village
Coquettes 6 Dec.; sang at concerts and in the provinces 1842–9;
produced an entertainment by Albert Smith entitled Notes,
vocal and instrumental, at the Store st. music hall, Bedford
sq. London 25 June 1850, gave another entertainment there The
portfolio for children of all ages 17 Aug. 1852 to Aug. 1853;
was mentally deranged some time; organist at St. Jude’s church,
Southsea; gave musical monologues with Mr. & Mrs. German Reed at
Gallery of illustration, Regent st. London 1860–9; wrote his own
entertainments and composed his own music; received prizes for
songs from the Melodists’ club; his farewell benefit at Gaiety
theatre 7 Feb. 1877 realised £1,300; lost his 40 years’ savings
1877; author of Ridiculous things: scraps and oddities 1854;
composer of Wanted a governess, a song 1840; Charming Chloe
Cole 1854; Don’t be too particular 1868; Take a bumper and try
1874; his name is attached to upwards of 50 compositions. _d._
at his daughter’s residence Pembroke lodge, East Molesey, Surrey
20 Feb. 1879. _bur._ East Molesey cemet. 25 Feb. _Theatrical
times ii_ 201 (1847) _portrait_; _Dramatic and musical review
ii_ 541–3 (1843); _Pascoe’s Dramatic List_ (1879) 253–5; _I.L.N.
iv_ 389 (1844) _portrait_; _Illust. sporting news iv_ 657
(1865) _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news x_ 572, 574 (1879)
_portrait_; _Life of Ignatz Moscheles i_ 289, _ii_ 10, 107
(1873).
PARRY, LOUISA (3 dau. of Henry Hutton, rector of Beaumont,
Essex). Author of The young christian’s Sunday evening or
conversations on scripture history, the Old Testament 1836,
Second series, on the Four gospels 1837, Third series, on the
Acts of the Apostles 1840; _m._ 1824 Rev. Thomas Parry 1795–1870.
PARRY, SIR LOVE PARRY JONES- (eld. son of Thomas Jones of
Lwynen, Denbighshire, who took surname of Parry 1780). _b._
London 28 Nov. 1781; educ. Westminster sch.; elected to Trin.
coll. Camb. 1799; gentleman commoner Ch. Ch. Oxf. 8 May 1799;
B.A. 1803, M.A. 1811; student at Lincoln’s Inn 1802; ensign 105
foot April 1794; captain 112 foot 30 Oct. 1794, placed on h.p.
June 1795; captain 81 foot 9 July 1803; major 90 foot 28 Aug.
1804, placed on h.p. 16 June 1808; major 103 foot 5 Sept. 1811;
commanded a brigade on the Canadian frontier during the war
1812–4; major 6 garrison battalion 1 Sept. 1814, placed on h.p.
1814; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; knighted 1835; K.H. 1836; M.P. Horsham
1806, re-elected 1807 but unseated on petition; M.P. Carnarvon
1835–37; contested Shrewsbury 30 June 1841; sheriff of Anglesey
1840; chairman of quarter sessions of Carnarvon many years. _d._
Madryn park, Pwllheli, Carnarvonshire 23 Jany. 1853. _bur._ in
family vault, Llanbedrog church 1 Feb.
PARRY, ROBERT. _b._ Carnarvon Feb. 1804; a lecturer in the
Principality; a Welsh bard of great renown; known as Robyn Ddu
Eryri; received grant of £100 from Royal Bounty fund; author of
Awdl ar etholiad, Arglwydd Newborough yn aelod seneddawl dros
Swydd Caernafon 1826; Teithiau a barddoniaeth Robyn Ddu Eryri
1857. _d._ Ludlow, Salop Nov. 1892. _bur._ Ludlow 8 Nov.
PARRY, SEFTON HENRY. _b._ 1822; conducted dramatic performances
at Cape Town 1859; travelled with a small company in various
parts of the world; designed and built the Holborn theatre,
which he opened with Boucicault’s drama The flying scud 6 Oct.
1866, lessee of the house until 1872; built the Globe theatre,
which he opened with Byron’s Cyril’s success 28 Nov. 1868,
lessee until 1871; built the Avenue theatre, which he opened
with Offenbach’s Madame Favart 11 March 1882; proprietor of
theatres at Hull and Southampton; wrote The bright future, a
drama, produced at the opening of Grand theatre, Islington 4
Aug. 1883. _d._ Cricklewood lodge, Middlesex 18 Dec. 1887.
_bur._ Old Willesden churchyard 24 Dec. _E. L. Blanchard’s Life_
(1891) 283, 327, 364, 552, 613; _Era 24 Dec. 1887 p._ 14.
PARRY, THOMAS (brother of John Parry of the Britannia theatre).
_b._ 1806; first appeared at Covent Garden 22 Nov. 1830; he
wrote Damp Beds, a farce, Strand May 1832; P.P. or the Man and
the tiger, a farce, Adelphi 21 Oct. 1833; Meet me by moonlight,
a farce, Olympic theatre; The lucky horse shoe or woman’s
trials, a drama, Drury Lane 27 Dec. 1839; A cure for love, a
comedy, Haymarket 29 Nov. 1842; Eugenia Claircille, a drama,
Adelphi 17 Sept. 1846; The harvest home, a drama, Adelphi; The
First night or my own ghost, a drama Princess’ 1 Oct. 1849. _d._
Pigott’s hotel, 166 Westminster bridge road, London 5 Dec. 1862.
_The Era 7 Dec. 1862 p._ 11.
PARRY, THOMAS (4 son of Edmund Parry, R. of Llanferras,
Denbighshire). _b._ Llanferras 1795; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; fellow and tutor of Balliol coll. 1816;
R. of St. Leonard’s, Colchester 1817; archdeacon of Antigua
1824–40; archdeacon of Barbados 1840–2; bishop of Barbados
1842–69, consecrated in Westminster abbey 21 Aug. 1842; author
of Parochial sermons preached in the West Indies, Oxford, 1828;
A practical exposition of the epistle to the Romans 1832; The
apostleship and priesthood of Christ: an exposition of the
epistle to the Hebrews 1834; Ordination vows, a series of
sermons 1846. _d._ Malvern 16 March 1870. _bur._ West Malvern.
_I.L.N. lvi_ 386, 643 (1870).
PARRY, THOMAS GAMBIER (only child of Richard Parry, director
of H.E.I.C.) _b._ 22 Feb. 1816; educ. Eton and Trin. coll.
Camb., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1848; purchased estate of Highnam, near
Gloucester 1838, which he raised from a small hamlet to an
important parish; built and endowed Highnam church, adorned the
walls with frescoes of his own designing, for which he invented
and employed a process named by him spirit frescoe; painted from
his own designs the frescoes on the six eastern bays of the roof
of the nave of Ely cathedral 1862–5; painted frescoes in St.
Andrew’s chapel, Gloucester cathedral; reported officially on
Painting on glass in the Paris exhibition of 1867, and on Mosaic
and glass painting in the London exhibition of 1871; founded and
endowed in Gloucester the free hospital for children, the St.
Lucy’s home for orphans, and the Gloucester schools of science
and art; author of Spirit fresco painting, an account of the
process 1880, 2 ed. 1883; The ministry of fine arts to the
happiness of life 1886. _d._ Highnam court, near Gloucester 28
Sept. 1888.
PARRY, SIR THOMAS LOVE DUNCOMBE JONES-, 1 Baronet (eld. son
of sir Love Parry Jones-Parry 1781–1853). _b._ Llanbedrog,
Carnarvon 8 Jany. 1832; educ. Rugby 1848–50; matric. from Univ.
coll. Oxf. 15 May 1850; sheriff of Carnarvon 1854; captain
royal Anglesey militia 29 May 1854 to 1867; M.P. co. Carnarvon
1868–74; M.P. Carnarvon district 1882–6; cr. a baronet 30 Aug.
1886; F.S.A. 1 Dec. 1853. _d._ Madryn park, Pwllheli 18 Dec.
1891. _bur._ Llanbedrog church 23 Dec.
PARRY, SIR WILLIAM EDWARD (4 son of Caleb Hillier Parry,
physician 1755–1822). _b._ Bath 19 Dec. 1790; entered navy 30
June 1803; commanded the Alexander in Ross’s expedition to
the Arctic seas 1818; commanded the Hecla in an expedition
to discover the north-west passage 1819–20, reached Melville
island, a point which has never been passed; presented with the
freedom of city of Bath 24 March 1821, and of Winchester 26
Dec. 1823; F.R.S. 15 Feb. 1821; commanded the Fury in another
expedition 1821–3; captain 8 Nov. 1821; acting hydrographer
1 Dec. 1823; commanded the Hecla in a third expedition and
wintered at Port Bowen 1824 to 1825; hydrographer to the
admiralty 1825–6 and 1827–9; attempted to reach the pole from
Spitzbergen by travelling with sledge boats over the ice 1827,
reached latitude 82°45´ the farthest northern point attained
until 1876; knighted at St. James’s palace 29 April 1829; comr.
for the Australian agricultural company May 1829 to 1834;
D.C.L. Oxford 1 July 1829; assistant poor law comr. in Norfolk
7 March 1835 to 3 Feb. 1836; controller of the steam-department
of navy 19 April 1837 to Dec. 1846; captain superintendent of
Haslar hospital 2 Dec. 1846 to 4 June 1852; R.A. 4 June 1852;
lieutenant governor of Greenwich hospital 19 Dec. 1853 to death;
author of Nautical astronomy by night 1816; Journal of a voyage
for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to
the Pacific 1821; Journal of a second voyage for the discovery
of a north-west passage 1824–5; Journal of a third voyage for
the discovery of a north-west passage 1826; Journal of the
first, second, and third voyages, 5 vols. 1828; Narrative of an
attempt to reach the North Pole in boats fitted for that purpose
and attached to H.M. ship Hecla 1828; Thoughts on the parental
character of God 1841, 6 ed. 1878. _d._ Ems 8 July 1855. _bur._
in mausoleum of Greenwich hospital burial-ground 19 July,
portrait in museum of royal naval college at Greenwich. _E.
Parry’s Memoirs of W. E. Parry_ (1857) _portrait_; _Marshall’s
Royal naval biography viii_ 315 (1833); _G.M. ii_ 233–9 (1826);
_Proc. of Royal Soc. vii_ 603–12 (1855); _Georgian era iii_
87–91 (1833).
PARSELLE, JOHN. _b._ 1820; educ. Marischall coll. Aberdeen;
attended Mr. Rowhill’s Latin class Glasgow gram. sch 1834–9;
acted the Chevalier de Bellevue in the Pride of the Market,
Lyceum 18 Oct. 1847; at the Adelphi under Madame Celeste’s
management 1853 etc.; acting manager Strand theatre, where he
also played Mr. Bingley in Craven’s The Post boy 31 Oct. 1860,
Max Altman in Wooller’s Silver wedding 24 Jany. 1861, Lieut.
Hilliard in Troughton’s Unlimited confidence 1 Feb. 1864, Edward
Hartwright in his own comedietta Cross purposes 27 March 1865;
wrote My son’s a daughter, produced Strand theatre 15 Sept.
1862; stage manager for Fanny Joseph at Holborn theatre 13 April
1868; at the Globe acted in Craven’s Philomel 10 Feb. 1870; went
to America with Charles Wyndham’s company in 1873; connected
with the management of A. M. Palmer’s Union square theatre, New
York 1873 to death. _d._ New York 17 Feb. 1885. _bur._ Evergreen
cemetery. _Entr’acte Annual_ (1882) 58 _portrait_; _Scott and
Howard’s E. L. Blanchard_ (1891) 105, 720.
PARSONS, BENJAMIN (son of Thomas Parsons, yeoman). _b._
Nibley, Gloucs. 16 Feb. 1797; apprenticed to a tailor at
Frampton-on-Severn 7 years; studied at Cheshunt college 1821–5;
congregational minister at Ebley, near Stroud Aug. 1826 to
death; started a provident fund 1832 and a day-school 1840; has
been called the Oberlin of Gloucestershire; author of Why have
you become a Pædobaptist, a dialogue between Hezekiah Hastie, a
baptist, and Simon Searche, a pædobaptist. By John Bull, Stroud
1835; Anti-Bacchus 1840, 11th thousand 1843; The wine question
settled 1841; The mental and moral dignity of woman 1842; Tracts
for fustian jackets and smock frocks, No. 1–18, 1848. _d._ at
the Chapel house, Ebley 10 Jany. 1855. _E. P. Hood’s The Earnest
minister, the life of Benjamin Parsons_ (1856) _portrait_; _The
lamps of the temple_, _3 ed._ (1856) 520–41; _S. Couling’s
History of the temperance movement_ (1862) 339–40.
PARSONS, DANIEL (son of John Parsons, vicar of Sherborne,
Dorset). _b._ 1811; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1832, M.A.
1835; C. of Marden, Wilts.; C. of St. James’, Langton, Staffs.
1841–3; joined the church of Rome 1843; resigned his Anglican
orders under Clerical disabilities relief act 22 Sept. 1870;
edited The diary of sir H. Slingsby 1836; author of Plain
parochial sermons 1838; a contributor to Notes and Queries. _d._
Stuart’s lodge, Malvern wells 5 July 1887.
PARSONS, ELIZABETH (dau. of W. Rooker of Tavistock, Devon,
congregational minister). _b._ Tavistock 5 June 1812; conducted
a class for young people in her father’s chapel 1840–4, for
whom she wrote hymns, 18 of which were printed by one of her
pupils under the title of Willing class hymns, three have become
popular, Saviour round thy footstool bending, Jesus we love to
meet, and O happy land! O happy land!; also wrote a few hymns
for adults; _m._ 1844 T. Edgcumbe Parsons; she _d._ Plymouth
1873. _Julian’s Dictionary of hymnology_ (1892) 69, 834, 882,
996, 1267; _W. Garrett Horder’s Hymn lover_ (1889) 442.
PARSONS, GEORGE SAMUEL. _b._ 1783; entered R.N. July 1795;
signal midshipman of the Foudroyant under Nelson 1800–1, lieut.
1802; commanded the boats of the Valiant in cutting out a convoy
from Basque Roads 1810; on h.p. 1810–41; admiralty agent on
board a contract mail steamer 1 Nov. 1841; retired commander
15 Feb. 1850; author of Nelsonian reminiscences, leaves from
memory’s log 1843, 2 ed. 1843. _d._ Holt hill, Cheshire 20 Jany.
1854. _G.M. July 1854 p._ 79.
PARSONS, GERTRUDE (4 dau. of John Hext of Trenarran, Cornwall,
captain in 22 foot, _d._ 30 June 1838). _b._ Restormel near
Lostwithiel, Cornwall 19 March 1812; joined church of Rome 1844;
_m._ 8 April 1845 Daniel Parsons 1811–87; edited The Workman,
or life and leisure: a magazine, 25 numbers 7 Jany. to 24 June
1865, and its continuation The literary workman 29 July to 30
Dec. 1865; author of Thornberry abbey, a tale of the established
church 1846; The life of St. Ignatius of Loyola 1860; The
romance of Cleaveside, 3 vols. 1867; Ursula’s love story, 3
vols. 1869; Sun and shade, 3 vols. 1871; Beautiful Edith, 3
vols. 1873; Major Vandermere, 3 vols. 1876; The life of Saint
Colette, the reformer of the three orders of St. Francis 1879;
Love knots, 3 vols. 1881; Thomas Rileton, his family and friends
1890. _d._ Teignmouth, Devon 12 Feb. 1891. _bur._ the Priory
church, Little Malvern 17 Feb. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl.
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