Parry, Edward

Epithet: of Add MS 38409

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Epithet: of Add MS 37951

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Epithet: of the East India Company

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Epithet: Bishop suffragan of Dover

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Edward Parry was born on 14 January 1830 in Sydney, Australia, where his father, the Arctic explorer William Edward Parry, was serving as commissioner of the Australian Agricultural Company for New South Wales. He was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with a doctorate in 1870. After accepting a post as tutor at Durham University in 1853, he was ordained deacon in 1854 and priest in 1855, later serving as curate at Norham and Sonning.

In 1857, he was appointed domestic chaplain to the bishop of London, taking up an appointment as rector at Acton two years later. In 1863, Parry became rural dean of Ealing, serving until 1869 when he was appointed archdeacon and canon of Canterbury. In 1870, he was consecrated bishop-suffragan of Dover, resigning his commission in 1889 due to deteriorating health. He died on 11 April 1890. His biography of his father was published in 1857, and a memoir of his brother, Charles, was published in 1870.

Published work Memoirs of Rear-Admiral Sir W. Edward Parry, Ktd., F.R.S., etc., late Lieutenant-Governor of Greenwich Hospital by (Rev.) Edward Parry, Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, London (1860) SPRI Library Shelf 92[Parry, W.E.]

From the guide to the Edward Parry collection, 1830-1859, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge)