Modern English biography

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._ PARRIS, EDMUND THOMAS (son of Edward Parris). _b._ parish of 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