Gertrude Gatty Parry

Gertrude [Gatty] Parry was born in 1788 in Bath, daughter of the eminent physician Caleb Hillier Parry and sister to the Arctic explorer William Edward Parry. After the death of William Edward Parry's wife, Isabella, in 1839, Gertrude moved into the family home in London, taking care of her brother's four children before his second marriage in 1841. She died in 1848.

From the guide to the Gertrude Parry collection, 1822, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge)