Sarah Parry collection 1803-1818

Parry Sarah 1749-1831

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Parry, Caleb Hillier, 1755-1822

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Caleb Hillier Parry was born on 21 October 1755 at Cirencester. He was the eldest son of Joshua Parry a non-conformist minister. Caleb was educated at Cirencester Grammar School (where he met and became lifelong friends with Edward Jenner), and at the Dissenter's Academy in Warrington. He went on to study medicine at Edinburgh University, graduating in 1778, the year in which he married Sarah Rigby. In 1779, they settled in Bath where their son, William Edward Parry, the Arctic expl...

Sarah Parry (nee Rigby)

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Sarah Parry (nee Rigby) was born in 1749, the daughter of John Rigby who ran a hostel for the students of the Dissenter's Academy in Warrington, which Caleb Hillier Parry attended between 1770 and 1773. In 1778, she married Parry and they settled in Bath where Parry established a successful medical practice. They had nine children and their youngest son, William Edward Parry, the Arctic explorer, was born in 1790. She was widowed in 1822 and died in December 1831. From the guide to t...

Parry, William Edward, Sir, 1790-1855

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Sir (William) Edward Parry: b 1790; entered Royal Navy 1803; Lt 1810; in 1818 he commanded the ALEXANDER, a hired brig under the orders of Captain John Ross in his expedition to the Arctic; in 1819 he was appointed to the HECLA, in command of an expedition to discover the north-west passage; promoted Commander, 1820 and Captain 1821; led a further three expeditions to the Arctic, 1821-1825; Hydrographer to the Admiralty, 1825; led a further expedition to the North Pole, 1827, reaching further no...