Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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) work over to him - Powel describes 'the right worshipfull Mistres Blanch Parry,' as 'a singular well willer and furtherer of the weale publike' of Wales. Powel printed the tractate in full in his Historie - on this matter, see G. J. Williams, Traddodiad Llenyddol Morgannwg, 197-9.
PARRY, BLANCHE (1507/8 - 1590), Chief Gentlewoman of Queen Elizabeth's most honourable Privy Chamber and Keeper of Her Majesty's jewels . J. Williams, Traddodiad Llenyddol Morgannwg (1948), 197-9. This adds further support to the circumstantial evidence that Blanche may have helped to finance the printing of the Welsh Bible in 1588. Blanche Parry was at the centre of the Elizabethan Court and was the person in closest contact with the queen for the longest period of time. Her position was unassailable and was recognised by everyone
PARRY, CALEB HILLIER (1755 - 1822), physician - see PARRY, JOSHUA
PARRY, CHARLES (1824 - 1894), artist - see PARRY, JOSEPH
PARRY, DAVID (1682? - 1714), scholar Born at Cardigan, son of William Parry, ' a poor man.' About 1695, when (as it would seem) at Cardigan grammar school (and 'a good Latinist'), he was brought by William Gambold to the notice of Edward Lhuyd, who took him on as a helper, and as companion on his travels in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and Brittany (there, both were imprisoned as 'spies'). On their return to Oxford (April 1701), Parry
PARRY, DAVID (Dewi Moelwyn; 1835 - 1870), Independent minister, and poet Born 1835, the son of John Parry, Ffestiniog, Meironnydd. He received some measure of education as a boy, and in 1850, at the age of 15, was successful at a Ffestiniog eisteddfod with a Welsh poem on 'The Printing Press.' He was received as a member of the church of Saron, Ffestiniog, but moved to Caernarvon in 1856. There he became a member of Pen-dref chapel, and in 1857 he began to preach. He
PARRY, DAVID (1760 - 1821), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 13 February 1760 at Llwyndiriad, Caeo, Carmarthenshire, son of Dafydd Parry. As a young man, he joined the Methodists and began to preach in 1778, after which he was a student at lady Huntingdon's college at Trevecka for a short time. In 1784 he married Margaret Evans of Llofft-wen, Llanwrtyd, and c. 1797-8 went to live at Cilfach, Llanwrtyd. He was one of the first batch of ministers
PARRY, DAVID (1794 - 1877), cleric Born 1794 at Llan-gan, near Whitland, Carmarthenshire, son of David Parry and Dorothy his wife. He was educated at Ystrad Meurig and Carmarthen grammar schools, and ordained deacon in March 1818 by bishop Burgess of S. Davids. He was licensed as curate to the parish of Crinow, near Narberth, and, in April 1819, to Llandisilio (near Clyndernwen) also. He received priest's orders in June 1819, and
PARRY, DAVID HENRY (1793 - 1826), artist - see PARRY, JOSEPH
PARRY, Sir DAVID HUGHES (1893 - 1973), lawyer, jurist, university administrator Benjamin Cherry, and Williams on Executors (1930). He was elevated to the Chair in English Law at the University of London in 1930. Although David Hughes Parry was engaged in legal authorship during the early part of his career (his monograph, The Law of Succession, was published in 1937) it was in the direction of university governance and administration that his future path was to lie. As head of the
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

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