Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PARRY family Madryn, Llŷn , another Love, did not grow to man's estate, and in 1780 his sister Margaret married her cousin THOMAS PARRY JONES -PARRY (1762 - 1835) of Llwyn Onn, near Wrexham. This gentleman brought new life to Madryn by his comprehensive care and his wide-awake business methods; he was at the head of the movement, helped by his ambitious fellow brother-in-law G. Ll. Wardle, to build a road from Portinllaen to the
PARRY, ABEL JONES (1833 - 1911), Baptist minister Born 21 November 1833 at Temperance Bach, Rhyl, son of Thomas and Susie Parry. The family moved to Abergele and later to Liverpool, where he joined the Calvinistic Methodists, but shortly afterwards became a Baptist. In 1854 he began to preach and was admitted to Pontypool College. In 1858 he was ordained at Zion chapel, Cefn-mawr, as successor to Ellis Evans (1786 - 1864), and became the first
PARRY, BLANCHE (1508? - 1590) Born in 1508 or 1507 at Newcourt, Bacton, in the Dore valley, Ewias, Herefordshire, daughter of Henry Parry and his wife Alice. The pedigree of this wide-branching family is given by Theophilus Jones in History of the County of Brecknock (3rd ed.), iv, 2-3. Guto'r Glyn sang (200-4 and 216-20 of the University of Wales edition of his poems) to 'Harri Ddu o Euas,' Blanche's great-grandfather; her
PARRY, BLANCHE (1507/8 - 1590), Chief Gentlewoman of Queen Elizabeth's most honourable Privy Chamber and Keeper of Her Majesty's jewels Penbeddel, de Barri, Whitneys and Knollys. Their connections were even wider and included nearly all the local gentry and the Devereux family (giving connections with the Earl of Leicester and Sir James Croft, Comptroller of the Queen's Household). Thomas Parry the 'queen's cofferer' (died 1560), son of Henry Vaughan of Tretower may have been a distant connection. John Dee claimed kinship but Blanche did
PARRY, DAVID (1682? - 1714), scholar appointed (19 July 1709) keeper of the Ashmolean - again without salary, however he may have supported himself. Hearne (Collectanea, ii, 224) avers that there was no one more competent, ' if he would set himself to work '; but Hugh Thomas describes him as ' capable … if he could spare time from his pots and companions; but out of the tipling [ sic ] house he cannot spare one minute even to common civility
PARRY, Sir DAVID HUGHES (1893 - 1973), lawyer, jurist, university administrator calling, he set his sights on academia, and took up a lecturing post at the law department in Aberystwyth in 1920. Working under the direction of his old tutor and head of the law department, Professor Thomas A. Levi, he remained there until 1924. In 1923, he married Haf, the only daughter of Sir Owen Morgan Edwards and his wife, Ellen. In 1924, a defining moment came in his career when he took up a
PARRY, EDGAR WILLIAMS (1919 - 2011), surgeon Edgar Parry was born on 1 May 1919 in the Post Office, Salem, Betws Garmon, Caernarfonshire, the second child of Gruffydd Henry Parry, a farmer of Hafod y Rhug, Llanrug, and his wife Helena Parry (née Williams). He had an elder sister Mary (Vaughan Jones) who became a Biology teacher and headmistress. The family subsequently moved to Plas Glanrafon, Waunfawr where Edgar was brought up. Edgar
PARRY, EDWARD (1798 - 1854), publisher and antiquary Hugh Jones (Erfyl) as president and Edward Parry as secretary, a post he held until 1839. A history of The Chester Cambrian Societies was written by Thomas Edwards in 1906. In 1826 Parry promoted a scheme for the establishment of a Sunday evening 'lecture' in Welsh at one of the churches, and the constant residence of a Welsh clergyman whose duties were to be exclusively devoted to the spiritual
PARRY, EDWARD (1723 - 1786), Methodist exhorter, poet and hymn-writer Born in 1723 at Llys Bychan, Llansannan, Denbighshire. He was a carpenter by trade, contemporary with Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) and one of Twm's most gifted actors. He was twice married and lived first at Cefn Byr and then at Tan-y-fron In 1747 he gave up acting in the interludes and welcomed the revivalists to his house. In 1749 he began to exhort but, when the split occurred between Howel
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, HUMPHREY (c. 1772 - 1809), schoolmaster, member of the Gwyneddigion and Cymreigyddion Societies of London premises. He was a member of the Gwyneddigion (vice-president 1807, president 1808) and of the Cymreigyddion. When in 1804 the periodical Y Greal was started by these societies, he was one of the committee of four placed in charge - W. O. Pughe and Thomas Jones (Bardd Cloff), representing the Gwyneddigion, Parry and John Jones (Glan-y-gors) the Cymreigyddion (correct the error on this point in Cymm
PARRY, IDRIS FREDERICK (1916 - 2008), scholar of German literature, writer and broadcaster . (1951) for a critical study of Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonette an Orpheus. Idris Parry had wide-ranging literary interests but his major contribution to literary criticism was probably his work on Goethe and Kleist, and some of the major figures of German modernism such as Thomas Mann, Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Kafka. He was a gifted translator: his acclaimed translation of Kafka's The Trial was

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