PARKES, George. b. 1827; a barber in Old Bridge court, Cannon row, Westminster 1845; had a fine baritone voice, sang at Vauxhall and Cremorne gardens and the Bower saloon, Stangate st.; lessee with Wm. Tanner of the Alhambra music hall, Shoreditch 1871–5, and of the Raglan music hall, Southwark; in partnership with Wm. Tanner, lessee of the Elephant and Castle theatre 1880, and alone 1881–3, produced Walter Burnot’s burlesque of The German silver king 24 March 1883; proprietor of Richardson’s theatre at the World’s fair at the Agricultural hall, Islington Dec. 1883 to Feb. 1884; generally known as Baron Parkes. d. 29 Hercules road, Lambeth, London 16 Oct. 1895. bur. Brompton cemet. 21 Oct.

PARKES, Sir Harry Smith (youngest child of Harry Parkes of Walsall, ironmaster, d. 1833). b. Birchill’s hall, Bloxwich, near Walsall 24 Feb. 1828; educ. Birmingham gr. sch. 1838–41; joined his sisters in China 1841; attached to sir Henry Pottinger’s suit 1842; interpreter at Foo-chow March 1845 to Aug. 1846; interpreter at Shanghai Aug. 1846 to 1850; interpreter at Canton 21 Nov. 1851; consul at Amoy 10 Aug. 1854; secretary to special mission to Siam March 1855, first treaty signed 18 April 1855; acting-consul at Canton June 1856, city stormed by sir Michael Seymour, who entered it with Parkes 29 Oct. 1856, Canton was bombarded 28 Dec. 1857, after which Parkes tracked and arrested commissioner Yeh 5 Jany. 1858, who was transported to Calcutta; British comr. of the allied commission at Canton 9 Jany. 1858; attached as joint Chinese secretary to earl of Elgin’s special embassy in China 1860 to Feb. 1861; accompanied vice-admiral Hope when he advanced upon Tien-tsin 23 Aug. 1860; taken prisoner by the Chinese at Tungchow 18 Sept. 1860, released 8 Oct.; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary and consul-general in Japan 28 March 1865, obtained the ratification of the treaties of 1858 by the Mikado 24 Nov. 1865, left Japan Aug. 1883; minister plenipotentiary in China July 1883; concluded a treaty with the Korean government Nov. 1883; minister plenipotentiary to king of Korea 7 March 1884; C.B. 6 Dec. 1859, K.C.B. 19 May 1862. d. Peking 22 March 1885. bur. Whitchurch 26 June, statue at Shanghai unveiled by duke of Connaught April 1890, memorial bust by T. Brock, R.A. unveiled in St. Paul’s cathedral 1887. S. Lane-Poole and F. V. Dickins’s Life of sir Harry Parkes, 2 vols. (1894) portrait; D. C. Boulger’s History of China iii 250 etc., 827 (1884); Illust. times 19 Jany. 1861 p. 31 portrait; I.L.N. xxxvii 587 (1860) portrait; Times 23 March 1885 p. 7.

PARKES, Joseph (younger son of John Parkes, manufacturer). b. Warwick 22 Jany. 1796; articled to a solicitor in London 1817–22; practised as a solicitor in Birmingham 1822–33; a member of Birmingham political union 10 May 1832, made active preparations for an armed rebellion; secretary of the commission on municipal corporations 1833; parliamentary solicitor at 21 Great George st. Westminster 1833–47; taxing master to court of exchequer Nov. 1847 to death; secretary to commission for inquiry into public charities 1840; author of A history of the court of chancery 1828; author with Herman Merivale of Memoirs of sir Philip Francis, K.C.B., with correspondence and journals, 2 vols. 1867. d. 17 Wimpole st. London 11 Aug. 1865. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 17 Aug. Law mag. and law review xx 174 (1865).

PARKES, Josiah (brother of the preceding). b. Warwick 27 Feb. 1793; worked in his father’s mill at Warwick 1810–20; carried out near Woolwich a new process for refining salt; A.I.C.E. 11 March 1823, M.I.C.E. 26 Dec. 1837; carried on business at Puteaux-sur-Seine 1825–30; fought on the popular side in the revolution 1830, after which he returned to England; a land drainer 1830–54, employed 1,000 men; drained part of Chat Moss, Lancs. for Mr. Heathcote of Tiverton, invented the deep drainage system of not less than four feet; in 1846 sir Robert Peel advanced four millions to be spent in draining on the Parkesian principle; drained the fortifications at Yaverland and Warden Point, Isle of Wight for the war office 1862–9; author of Lecture on draining 1846; Essay on the philosophy and art of land drainage 1848; Fallacies on land drainage exposed 1851. d. Freshwater, Isle of Wight 16 Aug. 1871. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii 231–6 (1872).

PARKES, William. b. Gloucester 6 Oct. 1822; in the office of James Walker, C.E. 1845; resident engineer at the Alderney harbour works 1847–9; a civil engineer in Parliament st. and then at 23 Abingdon st. London from 1849; connected with the lake Fucino, Italy, draining works 1853; reported on Kurrachee, India, harbour 1854, and again in 1868, the breakwater, the first constructed on the sloping-block system, completed 1873; designed and erected lighthouses in the Red sea 1860; at Madras in 1873 and 1876 in connection with the harbour works, which were destroyed by a cyclone in 1882; A.I.C.E. 3 Feb. 1849, M.I.C.E. 17 April 1860. d. 8 Grove road, Surbiton 1889. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcvi 328–30 (1889).

PARKIN, George Lewis (son of George Patey Parkin of Woolwich). b. 30 Sept. 1818; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school 1829; admitted solicitor 1841; partner with H. W. Woodhouse many years; partner with Frederick John Pagden, retired 1884; one of the Antients and subsequently principal of Barnard’s inn; a governor of Christ’s hospital; an early member of the Solicitors’ Benevolent institution, d. 22 Park lane, London 23 April 1885. Solicitors’ Journal 2 May 1885 p. 442.

PARKINS, William. b. Great Berkhampstead, Herts.; a manufacturing stationer in Hanway st. London about 1842; introduced cheap paper and envelopes; partner with Henry Gotto at 25 Oxford st. 1851 to death, having a very large establishment of fancy goods, especially of articles for presents, employed nearly 500 people; published Parkins and Co.’s Almanack and price list 1850 etc.; Parkins and Gotto’s Rent book 1858; Parkins and Gotto’s Annual Diary 1861 etc. d. 43 Abbey road, St. John’s Wood, London 19 Sept. 1872. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 25 Sept. Colburn’s New monthly mag. cxx 494–8 (1881); Puseley’s Companies (1858) 167.

PARKINSON, Edward. Cornet 33 light dragoons 27 Feb. 1796; captain 33 foot 3 July 1805, major 17 March 1814, placed on h.p. 11 Sept. 1817; C.B. 19 July 1831; granted distinguished service reward 15 Nov. 1849; colonel 93 highlanders 10 Dec. 1852 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854. d. Pall Mall, London 14 Jany. 1858.

PARKINSON, John. b. 1779; practised as solicitor in London; solicitor to the Grenadier guards 19 July 1831 to death. d. Gray’s Inn sq. London 30 Jany. 1855.

PARKINSON, Joseph (son of James Parkinson, proprietor of a museum in London 1730–1813). b. 1783; articled to Wm. Pilkington, the architect, London; designed the library to the Surrey institution 1809; laid out Bryanston square 1811; surveyor to the Union assurance society to 1854; directed rebuilding of body of Streatham church 1831; had many professional pupils. d. 41 Sackville st. London 17 May 1855. bur. Kensal Green.

PARKINSON, Richard (son of John Parkinson of Fairsnape, Lancs.) b. Woodgates, Admarsh near Lancaster 17 Sept. 1797; matric. from St. John’s coll. Camb. Dec. 1815, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824, B.D. 1838, D.D. 1852; master of Lea school, near Preston 1820; edited the Preston Sentinel newspaper 1821; C. of St. Michael’s-on-Wyre, Lancs. 1823–6; theological lecturer at St. Bees college, Cumberland 1826, principal of the college Sept. 1846 to death; F.S.A. 16 Dec. 1847; obtained Seatonian prize at Cambridge 1830; P.C. of Whitworth, near Rochdale 1830–41; fellow of the Manchester collegiate chapter 20 May 1833; Hulsean lecturer at Cambridge 1837 and 1838; P.C. of St. Bees church 1846; P.C. of Northaw, Herts. 1847; a founder of the Chetham society 1843, vice-president 1843 to death, edited for the society The life of Adam Martindale 1845; The autobiography of Henry Newcome, 2 vols. 1851–2; The private journal of John Byrom, 4 vols. 1853–8; author of Sermons on points of doctrine and rules of duty, 2 vols. 1825–32; Poems, sacred and miscellaneous 1832, 2 ed. 1845; Rationalism and revelation: Hulsean lectures 1838; The old church clock 1843, 5 ed. 1880. d. the college, St. Bees 28 Jany. 1858, his portrait presented to St. Bees college by his friends 1857. R. Parkinson’s Old church clock, 5 ed. (1880), memoir pp. ix–xcvii; J. Evans’s Lancashire authors (1850) 198–204; G. Huntington’s Random recollections (1893) 263–82; Raines’s Fellows of the collegiate church of Manchester ii 361 (1891); G.M. iv 556–8 (1858).

PARKINSON, Stephen (7 child of a land agent). b. Keighley, Yorkshire 1823; entered St. John’s coll. Camb. Oct. 1841, sizar and scholar, senior wrangler, and 2 Smith’s prizeman 1845; fellow of his college March 1845, lecturer on mathematics, tutor 1864–82, had nearly a thousand pupils, president 1865 to death; hon. fellow 1882; B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848, B.D. 1855, D.D. 1868; senior proctor 1864; member of the council of the senate 1866–78; F.R.S. 2 June 1870; author of An elementary treatise on mechanics 1855, 6 ed. 1881; A treatise on optics 1859, 4 ed. 1884. d. Newnham, Cambridge 2 Jany. 1889. bur. Madingley, Camb. Cambridge Review 24 Jany. 1889 pp. 148–9; The Eagle March 1889 pp. 356–62; Proc. of royal soc. xlv pp. i–iii (1889).

PARKYNS, Mansfield (2 son of Thomas Boultbee Parkyns). b. Ruddington, Notts. 16 Feb. 1823; matric. from Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1839; travelled in Abyssinia and Kordofan 1843–50, living like a native, and was given up for dead by his relatives, during the first part of the time he was in correspondence with the Foreign office; attaché to embassy at Constantinople 15 Feb. 1850 to 1852; knew many languages and dialects; resided at Woodborough hall, Notts. 1852; in the Sherwood forest militia; lieut. col. of Nottinghamshire rifle volunteers; comptroller of court of bankruptcy, London, Jany. 1870 to 1884; F.R.G.S.; author of Life in Abyssinia, being notes collected during three years’ residence in that country, 2 vols. 1853, new ed. 1868; carved the oak choir stalls for Woodborough church. d. Woodborough hall 12 Jany. 1894. bur. Woodborough church, Notts. Times 19 Feb. 1894 p. 8.

PARLBY, Brook Bridges (son of Samuel Parlby, C. of Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk). b. 1 June 1783; educ. Rugby 1796–8; entered Madras army 1798; lieut. 7 Madras N.I. 15 Dec. 1800, major 15 April 1817; lieut. col. 19 N.I. 1823–28; lieut. col. 13 N.I. 1828 to 13 Nov. 1829; col. 35 N.I. 13 Nov. 1829 to 5 July 1854; col. 20 N.I. 5 July 1854 to 1869; general 13 Oct. 1857; C.B. 26 Dec. 1826; in the battle of the Argaum; wounded at storming of Gawilghur 1803, and at Lassoulgaum Oct. 1804; commanded a division at Rangoon 8 Dec. 1824, and at Melloon 13 Jany. 1826; in Burmese war 1824; author of Revenge, or the novice of San Martino, a tragedy 1818; A brief sketch of the establishment of the Anglican church in India 1851. d. Upper Norwood, Surrey 7 March 1873.

PARLBY, William. b. 19 May 1801; cornet 8 dragoons 3 Oct. 1816; captain 4 dragoons 7 Dec. 1826, lieut. col. 30 Jany. 1846; lieut. col. 10 hussars 7 Aug. 1846 to 10 Aug. 1856, when placed on h.p.; col. 21 hussars 24 Oct. 1865 to 1 July 1880; general 22 May 1876; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; col. 4 hussars 1 July 1880 to death. d. Hubberston, Milford Haven 26 Oct. 1881.

PARNELL, Charles Stewart (2 son of John Henry Parnell of Avondale, co. Wicklow, d. 1859). b. Avondale 27 June 1846; educ. at Yeovil, Somerset; matric. as a pensioner from Magdalene coll. Camb. 1 July 1865, left Cambridge May 1869; resided at Avondale 1869–72; an officer in the Wicklow militia; travelled in the U.S. of America 1872–3; sheriff of Wicklow 1874; contested co. Dublin 19 March 1874; M.P. co. Meath 1875–80; joined the Amnesty association 1876; his plan for obstructing the business of house of commons caused the house to sit continuously from 4 p.m. till 6 p.m. on the following evening 31 July to 1 Aug. 1877, this was then the longest recorded sitting; president of the National land league of Ireland, founded at a convention in Dublin Oct. 1879; went to U.S. of America to obtain funds for the league 21 Dec. 1879, addressed the house of representatives at Washington 2 Feb. 1880, also addressed the legislatures of 5 states; M.P. Cork city 1880 to death; chairman of the home rule party in the house of commons 17 May 1880; founded The Irish national newspaper and publishing company, July 1881; held a great land league convention at Dublin 15 Sept. 1881; arrested at Morrison’s hotel, Dublin 13 Oct. 1881, imprisoned in Kilmainham gaol, released 2 May 1882; at a meeting of the Ladies’ land league at Dublin 2 Jany. 1882 Parnell was described as the uncrowned King of Ireland, which title was adopted by his supporters; attended a national conference in Dublin 17 Oct. 1883, when the Land League was revived as the Irish national league; presented with sum of £37,000 at a banquet at the Rotunda in Dublin 11 Dec. 1883; elected chairman of the Irish parliamentary party 11 Jany. 1886, re-elected 25 Nov. 1890; the freedom of city of Edinburgh was conferred on him 20 July 1889; his friend capt. Wm. Henry O’Shea obtained a decree nisi for a divorce 17 Nov. 1890 with costs against Parnell as co-respondent; on 25 June 1891, Parnell married Mrs. Katherine O’Shea in the registry office at Steyning, near Brighton; deserted by 45 of his followers in the house of commons 6 Dec. 1890; repudiated by the Roman Catholic archbishops and bishops 4 Dec. 1890. d. of inflammation of the lungs at his residence 10 Walsingham terrace, Aldrington, Brighton 6 Oct. 1891. bur. Glasnevin cemet. Dublin 11 Oct. T. P. O’Connor’s Life of C. S. Parnell (1891) portrait; R. F. Walsh’s Memorial volume, C. S. Parnell (1892), memoir pp. 1–210 four portraits; J. S. Mahoney’s C. S. Parnell (1886) two portraits; T. Sherlock’s Life of C. S. Parnell (1887) portrait; J. Connellan’s Life of C. S. Parnell (1888) portrait; A. Filon’s Profils Anglais, Paris (1893); H. Le Caron’s Twenty five years in the secret service (1892) 178 portrait.

PARNELL, Fanny (sister of the preceding). b. Avondale, co. Wicklow 3 Sept. 1854; contributed poems to the Irish People, the Fenian newspaper, under signature of Alena or Alerta 1867, and wrote poetry in the Nation and the Irishman; went with her mother to America and settled at Bordentown, New Jersey;. wrote much verse in the Boston Pilot and Dublin Nation 1879–82; made many speeches during the land league agitation in America 1880; organized in 1881 the despatch to Ireland of Irish-American women to take the places of women who had helped to administer the ladies’ land league in Ireland and had been imprisoned. d. Bordentown, New Jersey 29 July 1882. bur. Mount Auburn cemetery, near Boston. R. F. Walsh’s Memorial volume (1892) p. 3 portrait.

PARR, George. b. Radcliffe-on-Trent, Notts. 22 May 1826; first played at Lord’s 1845; member of Clarke’s touring eleven 1847, captain 1857; played for the Players against the Gentlemen 1846–65; played for Notts. 1846–70, made 130 runs against Surrey 1859; took a team to Canada 1859, winning all the five matches against twenty-twos; coached the Harrow eleven 1859–62; captain of a team in Australia 1863, winning ten matches; captain of the All England eleven 1857–70; played his last match 1871; the finest batsman in England, especially famous for his leg hitting. d. Radcliffe-on-Trent 23 June 1891. Baily’s Mag. ii 215–20 (1860) portrait; W. G. Grace’s Cricket (1891) 115 portrait; Illust. sporting news iii 161 (1864) portrait, v 36 (1866) portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news i 161 (1874) portrait.

PARR, Thomas. b. 1809; travelled in Dorset and Devonshire as a dealer in tea; began racing 1839 with two horses, increased his stud to about 20; ran second for the Cesarewitch with Giselle; won 18 races with Rataplan 1854; won the St. Leger with Saucebox 1855; won the Queen’s vase and 22 other races with Fisherman 1856; won the Goodwood stakes and the Cesarewitch with Weathergaze and the Cambridgeshire with Odd Trick and Malacca. d. Manor house, Letcomb Regis 19 Jany. 1880. W. Day’s Reminiscences, 2 ed. (1886) 286–300; W. Day’s The race horse in training (1880) 19.

PARR, Thomas Chase (son of John Owen Parr of London). b. 1802; entered Bombay army 1818; lieut. 4 Bombay N.I. 5 Feb. 1819; captain 7 N.I. 4 Sept. 1827, major 19 Oct. 1839 to 21 Jany. 1846; lieut. col. 1 European regiment right wing 21 Jany. 1846 to 15 Aug. 1847; lieut. col. of 10 N.I. 15 Aug. 1847 to 1850, of 7 N.I. 1850–1, of 2 N.I. 1851–3, and of 6 N.I. 1853–6; commandant Kurrachee 28 March 1854 to 13 March 1856; col. of 2 European regiment 18 March 1856 to 1863, and of 12 N.I. 1863; general 10 Feb. 1876. d. Powis lodge, Bickley, Kent 15 June 1883.

PARR, William Chase (2 son of rev. John Owen Parr, vicar of Preston). b. 4 Dec. 1826; ensign 24 Bombay N.I. 27 Jany. 1844, captain 23 Nov. 1856; lieut. col. Bombay staff corps 1 Sept. 1869; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 2 July 1885; general 1 April 1894. d. King’s Holt, West Lyss, Hants. 6 March 1895.

PARRAVICINI, Stefano Annoni De (only son of Carlo De Parravicini, advocate, Milan). An officer in the Italian army; joined an opera company in England; business manager to Willert Beale to 1856; a musical and professional agent 49 Duke st. St. James’, London 1856–86, in partnership with Wardle Corbyn and then with J. F. P. Hyatt 1876–86; agent for Blondin; for the Alhambra music hall, under F. Strange, where he introduced Madame Pitteri, the dancer; he brought Pauline Virginie Déjazet to the Charing Cross theatre Oct. 1870; agent for the circuses at Covent garden, for Barnum’s show and Venice at Olympia; joint lessee with W. Corbyn of Park theatre, London, opened Oct. 1875. d. Addison road north, London 13 Jany. 1893. bur. St. Mary’s R.C. cemetery, Kensal green 18 Jany. The Era 21 Jany. 1893.

PARRIS, Edmund Thomas (son of Edward Parris). b. parish of St. Marylebone, London 3 June 1793; learnt enamel painting and metal chasing with Ray and Montague, the jewellers; entered schools of the R.A. 1816; painted the panorama of London for the Colosseum 1825–9; painted with W. Daniell, R.A. a panorama of Madras; a fashionable portrait painter some years; many of his pictures were engraved in the Keepsake, &c.; made a sketch of queen Victoria on her first state visit to Drury Lane theatre Nov. 1837, and from this painted a portrait, of which an engraving was published April 1838; painted a picture of the queen’s coronation 1838; gained a prize of £100 at the cartoon competition in Westminster Hall 1843, for his Joseph of Arimathea converting the Britons; repainted Thornhill’s paintings in St. Paul’s cathedral 1853–6; historical painter to queen Adelaide 1832; exhibited 26 pictures at R.A. 36 at B.I. and 18 at Suffolk st. 1816–74; employed in decorating the mansions of the nobility; carried on a life-drawing school at his house in Grafton st. Bond st.; invented a medium which when mixed with oil produced a dull fresco-like surface, this was widely known as Parris’s medium; illustrated the Countess of Blessington’s The confessions of an elderly gentleman 1836, her Flowers of loveliness 1836, and her The confessions of an elderly lady 1838; also Gems of Beauty 1838 etc. d. 27 Francis st. Bedford sq. London 27 Nov. 1873. I.L.N. 24 Dec. 1853 portrait xxix, 145, 146 (1856) portrait, lxiii 543, 564, 587 (1873) portrait.

PARROTT, Thomas. b. 1796; admitted attorney 1826; practised at Macclesfield, Cheshire 1826 to death; town clerk 27 Jany. 1830 to death; partner with Thomas Michael Colville and with John May 1839, firm becoming Parrott, May and Sons; clerk to the county and borough magistrates, also coroner; his portrait was presented to the corporation of Macclesfield March 1879; a successful proprietor of a dairy farm. d. Green bank, Higher Sutton, Macclesfield 29 May 1879. bur. St. James’ ch. yard, Sutton 6 June. The Macclesfield courier 31 May 1879 p. 5, 7 June p. 5.

PARROTT, William. b. 1814 or 1815; exhibited 25 landscapes at the R.A., 19 at B.I., and 25 at Suffolk st. gallery 1835–69. d. 3 Nether st. North Finchley, London 23 Sept. 1893.

PARRY, Albert Woodward (son of Richard Parry, builder). b. Salford 19 Jany. 1834; principal assistant to borough surveyor, Bradford 1863–71; borough surveyor, Reading 1871–91, completed the sewerage, enlarged the water works, and erected the sewage farm buildings; consulting engineer for Reading 1891 to death; a surveyor with his son Richard Parry at 27 Great George street, Westminster 1893; A.I.C.E. 1 April 1873, A.M.I.C.E. 1878. d. Reading 13 July 1894. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cxviii 462–3 (1894).

PARRY, Charles Henry (eld. son of Caleb Hillier Parry, physician 1755–1822). b. Bath 1779; studied medicine at Gottingen; travelled with S. T. Coleridge in the Harz 1799; M.D. Edinb. 24 June 1804; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1806; F.R.S. 20 Feb. 1812; practised at Bath some years; physician to general hospital, Bath 1818–22; resided at Brighton many years; author of De Græcarum atque Romanorum religionum ad mores formandos vi et efficacia commentatio, Gottingæ 1799; Additional experiments on the arteries of warmblooded animals 1819; The parliaments and councils of England chronologically arranged 1839; A memoir of the rev. Joshua Parry 1872. d. 5 Belgrave place, Brighton 21 Jany. 1860. bur. Weston, near Bath. Munk’s College of physicians ii 385–8, iii 45–6 (1878).

PARRY, Edward (son of sir Wm. Edward Parry 1790–1855). b. Government house, Sydney 14 Jany. 1830; educ. Cheam, Surrey 1840–3, and Rugby 1843–9, head of the school 1848–9; entered Balliol coll. Oxf. Oct. 1849, B.A. 1852, M.A. 1855, D.D. 1870; D.D. Durham 1870; tutor in univ. of Durham Jany. 1853 to 1856; C. of Sonning, Berkshire 1856–7; domestic chaplain to A. C. Tait, bishop of London 1857–9, and one of his examining chaplains Feb. 1859 to 1869; R. of St. Mary’s, Acton 1859–69, and rural dean of Ealing 1863–9; archdeacon and canon of Canterbury May 1869 to death; bishop suffragan of Dover 26 Jany. 1870, resigned Nov. 1889, consecrated in Lambeth chapel 25 March 1870; declined the bishopric of Sydney Nov. 1882; author of Memoirs of rear admiral Sir W. E. Parry 1857, 3 ed. 1857; Memorials of Charles Parry, R.N. 1870, new ed. 1879. d. St. Leonard’s-on-Sea 11 April 1890. bur. in churchyard of St. Martin’s, Canterbury, effigy in nave of Canterbury cathedral. Graphic 19 April 1890 p. 444 portrait; I.L.N. 19 April 1890 p. 483 portrait.

PARRY, Francis Charles (eld. son of Charles Henry Parry, V. of Speen, Berks., d. 1788). b. Speen 1780; educ. Winchester and Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1802, M.A. 1806; barrister M.T. 23 June 1806; a comr. of bankrupts 1810–31; deputy registrar in court of bankruptcy, London 1831–45; F.G.S.; contributed to the Edinburgh Review 1819–23. d. Alington, Devizes 18 Dec. 1878. Law Times lxvi 213 (1879).

PARRY, George Frederick. b. India 8 Dec. 1794; first played at Lord’s E. H. Budd’s side against W. Ward’s side 1 June 1818; played 5 seasons 1818–20, 1828, and 1829; was abroad from 1820–28; the finest field of his day, occupying middle-wicket, a very fast runner and also a good bat; resided Egham park, Surrey; was at Cheltenham in 1860. d. Mentone 11 Jany. 1872. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores i 407 (1862).

PARRY, Henry Hutton (2 son of Thomas Parry 1795–1870). b. 18 Dec. 1827; educ. Rugby 1841–6, and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1859; D.D. Durham univ. 1886; C. of Holy Trinity, Trinidad 1851–5; tutor of Codrington theological college, Barbados 1855–60, and chaplain to the forces 1860–1; archdeacon of Barbados 1861–8; bishop-coadjutor to his father, the bishop of Barbados 10 May 1868–76; bishop of Perth, Western Australia 20 May 1876 to death. d. Bunbury, Western Australia 16 Nov. 1893.

PARRY, James (son of Joseph Parry, artist 1744–1826). Exhibited landscapes, portraits, and figure-pictures at the royal Manchester institution 1827–56; engraved most of the plates in Corry’s History of Lancashire 1825; engraved many plates from his own, his brother David Henry Parry’s and other artists’ work. d. Manchester about 1871, portrait painted by himself in royal Salford museum.

PARRY, John. b. Denbigh, North Wales 18 Feb. 1776; joined the Denbigh militia band 1793, leader 1797–1807; learned to play many instruments, also to play three flageolets at the same time; played at Covent Garden theatre 1805; a teacher of the flageolet in London 1807; wrote songs for Vauxhall gardens from 1809; wrote Fair cheating, a musical farce Drury Lane 15 June 1814, Oberon’s oath 21 May 1816, High notions 11 Feb. 1819, Helpless animals, Covent Garden 17 Nov. 1819; Two wives or a hint to husbands, English Opera house 7 Aug. 1821, My uncle Gabriel, an operatic farce 10 Dec. 1824; conducted the Eisteddvodau at Wrexham 1820, and at Brecon 1822; received degree of Bardd Alaw, master of song 1821; a chief promoter of the Cambrian society, became its registrar; treasurer to Royal society of musicians 1831–49; concert-music critic of the Morning Post 1834–48; musical editor of the Sunday Times for a time; gave a farewell concert Jany. 1837, when he sang his own song Jenny Jones; published An account of the royal musical festival held in Westminster Abbey in 1834; composer of Chevy Chase, the overture to the historical drama 1800; Harlequin Hoax, pantomime by T. Dibdin, music by J.P. 1814; Goulding & Co.s Collection of country dances 1815; The minstrel boy 1819; Scales and preludes for harps 1820; A selection of Welsh melodies 1820; The London collection of glees, duetts and catches 1825; A trip to Wales, an entertainment 1827; The vocal companion, songs, duetts, and glees 1829; The Parisian divertissements 1830; The Welsh harper, with observations on the antiquity of Welsh music and the rise and progress of the harp, 2 vols. 1839–48; Two thousand melodies, selected English and Foreign 1841; Complete scales for Wheatstone’s patent symphonion 1859; his name is attached to upwards of 170 compositions 1800–50. d. 31 Great Russell st. Bloomsbury, London 8 April 1851. Grove’s Dictionary of music i 484, 651, ii 248, iv 443 (1878).

PARRY, John (2 son of Thomas Sefton Parry, solicitor 52 Charlotte st. Portland place, London). b. London 1809; clerk in a ship broker’s office and in a bank; first acted at Leeds theatre 1827; appeared at Sheffield, Sunderland, and Pontefract 1827–33; acted at Victoria theatre, London under Glossop’s management 1833; appeared at most of the London houses; was good as Fag in farce of The three clerks; stage manager Victoria theatre 1838–9; stage manager of the Queen’s 1839–47. Actors by gaslight 8 Sept. 1838 pp. 161–2 portrait; Theatrical times 3 July 1847 pp. 201–2 portrait.

PARRY, John Billingsley (2 son of James Parry of Preston Montford hall, Salop). b. 1798; educ. Shrewsbury sch.; barrister L.I. 12 Nov. 1824; equity draftsman; Q.C. Feb. 1845; judge of county courts, circuit No. 36, Oxfordshire, March 1847, resigned Sept. 1874. d. Brighton 28 March 1876.

PARRY, John Haydn (son of Dr. Joseph Parry of univ. coll. of South Wales, Cardiff). b. April 1864; musical instructor Harrow school; professor of London Guildhall school of music Sept. 1889 to death; composer of Gwen, a cantata produced by students of Guildhall school of music 1890; Cigarette, an opera, T.R. Cardiff 15 Aug. 1892, and Lyric theatre, London 7 Sept. 1892; Miami, a musical version of The green bushes, Princess’s theatre 16 Oct. 1893; O Lord abide with me, a song 1894. d. 87 Broadhurst gardens, West Hampstead, London 29 March 1894. bur. West Hampstead cemet. 2 April.

PARRY, John Humffreys (son of John Humffreys Parry, Welsh antiquary 1786–1825). b. London 24 Jany. 1816; employed in the printed-book department of the British Museum, engaged on the new catalogue Jany. 1839 to June 1843; barrister M.T. 9 June 1843, bencher 15 Nov. 1878 to death; obtained a large criminal practice; sergeant-at-law 9 June 1856, obtained patent of precedence 9 Feb. 1864; largely employed in compensation cases; leader of the home circuit; retained in the trials of Manning 1849, Muller 1864, Overend and Gurney 1869, the Tichborne claimant 1873–4, and Whistler v. Ruskin Nov. 1878; a founder of the Complete suffrage association 1842; contested Norwich 30 July 1847 and Finsbury 30 March 1857; edited The National association gazette, No. 1–28, 1841–2. d. 56 Holland park, Kensington, London 10 Jany. 1880. bur. Woking cemet. 15 Jany. M. William’s Leaves of a life (1891) 39, 50, 58, 90, 127, 141, 143, 181, 218; Law Times lxviii 211 (1880); I.L.N. lxxvi 85 (1880) portrait; Graphic xxi 93 (1880) portrait.

PARRY, John Orlando (only son of John Parry 1776–1851). b. London 3 Jany. 1810; first appeared as a vocalist at Hanover sq. rooms, London 7 May 1830; sang at the Antient and Philharmonic concerts, and at musical festivals; pupil of Luigi Lablache at Naples 1833; sang at St. James’s theatre in a burletta The Sham prince 29 Sept. 1836, and in Charles Dickens’s Village Coquettes 6 Dec.; sang at concerts and in the provinces 1842–9; produced an entertainment by Albert Smith entitled Notes, vocal and instrumental, at the Store st. music hall, Bedford sq. London 25 June 1850, gave another entertainment there The portfolio for children of all ages 17 Aug. 1852 to Aug. 1853; was mentally deranged some time; organist at St. Jude’s church, Southsea; gave musical monologues with Mr. & Mrs. German Reed at Gallery of illustration, Regent st. London 1860–9; wrote his own entertainments and composed his own music; received prizes for songs from the Melodists’ club; his farewell benefit at Gaiety theatre 7 Feb. 1877 realised £1,300; lost his 40 years’ savings 1877; author of Ridiculous things: scraps and oddities 1854; composer of Wanted a governess, a song 1840; Charming Chloe Cole 1854; Don’t be too particular 1868; Take a bumper and try 1874; his name is attached to upwards of 50 compositions. d. at his daughter’s residence Pembroke lodge, East Molesey, Surrey 20 Feb. 1879. bur. East Molesey cemet. 25 Feb. Theatrical times ii 201 (1847) portrait; Dramatic and musical review ii 541–3 (1843); Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1879) 253–5; I.L.N. iv 389 (1844) portrait; Illust. sporting news iv 657 (1865) portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news x 572, 574 (1879) portrait; Life of Ignatz Moscheles i 289, ii 10, 107 (1873).

PARRY, Louisa (3 dau. of Henry Hutton, rector of Beaumont, Essex). Author of The young christian’s Sunday evening or conversations on scripture history, the Old Testament 1836, Second series, on the Four gospels 1837, Third series, on the Acts of the Apostles 1840; m. 1824 Rev. Thomas Parry 1795–1870.

PARRY, Sir Love Parry Jones- (eld. son of Thomas Jones of Lwynen, Denbighshire, who took surname of Parry 1780). b. London 28 Nov. 1781; educ. Westminster sch.; elected to Trin. coll. Camb. 1799; gentleman commoner Ch. Ch. Oxf. 8 May 1799; B.A. 1803, M.A. 1811; student at Lincoln’s Inn 1802; ensign 105 foot April 1794; captain 112 foot 30 Oct. 1794, placed on h.p. June 1795; captain 81 foot 9 July 1803; major 90 foot 28 Aug. 1804, placed on h.p. 16 June 1808; major 103 foot 5 Sept. 1811; commanded a brigade on the Canadian frontier during the war 1812–4; major 6 garrison battalion 1 Sept. 1814, placed on h.p. 1814; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; knighted 1835; K.H. 1836; M.P. Horsham 1806, re-elected 1807 but unseated on petition; M.P. Carnarvon 1835–37; contested Shrewsbury 30 June 1841; sheriff of Anglesey 1840; chairman of quarter sessions of Carnarvon many years. d. Madryn park, Pwllheli, Carnarvonshire 23 Jany. 1853. bur. in family vault, Llanbedrog church 1 Feb.

PARRY, Robert. b. Carnarvon Feb. 1804; a lecturer in the Principality; a Welsh bard of great renown; known as Robyn Ddu Eryri; received grant of £100 from Royal Bounty fund; author of Awdl ar etholiad, Arglwydd Newborough yn aelod seneddawl dros Swydd Caernafon 1826; Teithiau a barddoniaeth Robyn Ddu Eryri 1857. d. Ludlow, Salop Nov. 1892. bur. Ludlow 8 Nov.

PARRY, Sefton Henry. b. 1822; conducted dramatic performances at Cape Town 1859; travelled with a small company in various parts of the world; designed and built the Holborn theatre, which he opened with Boucicault’s drama The flying scud 6 Oct. 1866, lessee of the house until 1872; built the Globe theatre, which he opened with Byron’s Cyril’s success 28 Nov. 1868, lessee until 1871; built the Avenue theatre, which he opened with Offenbach’s Madame Favart 11 March 1882; proprietor of theatres at Hull and Southampton; wrote The bright future, a drama, produced at the opening of Grand theatre, Islington 4 Aug. 1883. d. Cricklewood lodge, Middlesex 18 Dec. 1887. bur. Old Willesden churchyard 24 Dec. E. L. Blanchard’s Life (1891) 283, 327, 364, 552, 613; Era 24 Dec. 1887 p. 14.

PARRY, Thomas (brother of John Parry of the Britannia theatre). b. 1806; first appeared at Covent Garden 22 Nov. 1830; he wrote Damp Beds, a farce, Strand May 1832; P.P. or the Man and the tiger, a farce, Adelphi 21 Oct. 1833; Meet me by moonlight, a farce, Olympic theatre; The lucky horse shoe or woman’s trials, a drama, Drury Lane 27 Dec. 1839; A cure for love, a comedy, Haymarket 29 Nov. 1842; Eugenia Claircille, a drama, Adelphi 17 Sept. 1846; The harvest home, a drama, Adelphi; The First night or my own ghost, a drama Princess’ 1 Oct. 1849. d. Pigott’s hotel, 166 Westminster bridge road, London 5 Dec. 1862. The Era 7 Dec. 1862 p. 11.

PARRY, Thomas (4 son of Edmund Parry, R. of Llanferras, Denbighshire). b. Llanferras 1795; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; fellow and tutor of Balliol coll. 1816; R. of St. Leonard’s, Colchester 1817; archdeacon of Antigua 1824–40; archdeacon of Barbados 1840–2; bishop of Barbados 1842–69, consecrated in Westminster abbey 21 Aug. 1842; author of Parochial sermons preached in the West Indies, Oxford, 1828; A practical exposition of the epistle to the Romans 1832; The apostleship and priesthood of Christ: an exposition of the epistle to the Hebrews 1834; Ordination vows, a series of sermons 1846. d. Malvern 16 March 1870. bur. West Malvern. I.L.N. lvi 386, 643 (1870).

PARRY, Thomas Gambier (only child of Richard Parry, director of H.E.I.C.) b. 22 Feb. 1816; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1848; purchased estate of Highnam, near Gloucester 1838, which he raised from a small hamlet to an important parish; built and endowed Highnam church, adorned the walls with frescoes of his own designing, for which he invented and employed a process named by him spirit frescoe; painted from his own designs the frescoes on the six eastern bays of the roof of the nave of Ely cathedral 1862–5; painted frescoes in St. Andrew’s chapel, Gloucester cathedral; reported officially on Painting on glass in the Paris exhibition of 1867, and on Mosaic and glass painting in the London exhibition of 1871; founded and endowed in Gloucester the free hospital for children, the St. Lucy’s home for orphans, and the Gloucester schools of science and art; author of Spirit fresco painting, an account of the process 1880, 2 ed. 1883; The ministry of fine arts to the happiness of life 1886. d. Highnam court, near Gloucester 28 Sept. 1888.

PARRY, Sir Thomas Love Duncombe Jones-, 1 Baronet (eld. son of sir Love Parry Jones-Parry 1781–1853). b. Llanbedrog, Carnarvon 8 Jany. 1832; educ. Rugby 1848–50; matric. from Univ. coll. Oxf. 15 May 1850; sheriff of Carnarvon 1854; captain royal Anglesey militia 29 May 1854 to 1867; M.P. co. Carnarvon 1868–74; M.P. Carnarvon district 1882–6; cr. a baronet 30 Aug. 1886; F.S.A. 1 Dec. 1853. d. Madryn park, Pwllheli 18 Dec. 1891. bur. Llanbedrog church 23 Dec.

PARRY, Sir William Edward (4 son of Caleb Hillier Parry, physician 1755–1822). b. Bath 19 Dec. 1790; entered navy 30 June 1803; commanded the Alexander in Ross’s expedition to the Arctic seas 1818; commanded the Hecla in an expedition to discover the north-west passage 1819–20, reached Melville island, a point which has never been passed; presented with the freedom of city of Bath 24 March 1821, and of Winchester 26 Dec. 1823; F.R.S. 15 Feb. 1821; commanded the Fury in another expedition 1821–3; captain 8 Nov. 1821; acting hydrographer 1 Dec. 1823; commanded the Hecla in a third expedition and wintered at Port Bowen 1824 to 1825; hydrographer to the admiralty 1825–6 and 1827–9; attempted to reach the pole from Spitzbergen by travelling with sledge boats over the ice 1827, reached latitude 82°45´ the farthest northern point attained until 1876; knighted at St. James’s palace 29 April 1829; comr. for the Australian agricultural company May 1829 to 1834; D.C.L. Oxford 1 July 1829; assistant poor law comr. in Norfolk 7 March 1835 to 3 Feb. 1836; controller of the steam-department of navy 19 April 1837 to Dec. 1846; captain superintendent of Haslar hospital 2 Dec. 1846 to 4 June 1852; R.A. 4 June 1852; lieutenant governor of Greenwich hospital 19 Dec. 1853 to death; author of Nautical astronomy by night 1816; Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific 1821; Journal of a second voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage 1824–5; Journal of a third voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage 1826; Journal of the first, second, and third voyages, 5 vols. 1828; Narrative of an attempt to reach the North Pole in boats fitted for that purpose and attached to H.M. ship Hecla 1828; Thoughts on the parental character of God 1841, 6 ed. 1878. d. Ems 8 July 1855. bur. in mausoleum of Greenwich hospital burial-ground 19 July, portrait in museum of royal naval college at Greenwich. E. Parry’s Memoirs of W. E. Parry (1857) portrait; Marshall’s Royal naval biography viii 315 (1833); G.M. ii 233–9 (1826); Proc. of Royal Soc. vii 603–12 (1855); Georgian era iii 87–91 (1833).

PARSELLE, John. b. 1820; educ. Marischall coll. Aberdeen; attended Mr. Rowhill’s Latin class Glasgow gram. sch 1834–9; acted the Chevalier de Bellevue in the Pride of the Market, Lyceum 18 Oct. 1847; at the Adelphi under Madame Celeste’s management 1853 etc.; acting manager Strand theatre, where he also played Mr. Bingley in Craven’s The Post boy 31 Oct. 1860, Max Altman in Wooller’s Silver wedding 24 Jany. 1861, Lieut. Hilliard in Troughton’s Unlimited confidence 1 Feb. 1864, Edward Hartwright in his own comedietta Cross purposes 27 March 1865; wrote My son’s a daughter, produced Strand theatre 15 Sept. 1862; stage manager for Fanny Joseph at Holborn theatre 13 April 1868; at the Globe acted in Craven’s Philomel 10 Feb. 1870; went to America with Charles Wyndham’s company in 1873; connected with the management of A. M. Palmer’s Union square theatre, New York 1873 to death. d. New York 17 Feb. 1885. bur. Evergreen cemetery. Entr’acte Annual (1882) 58 portrait; Scott and Howard’s E. L. Blanchard (1891) 105, 720.

PARSONS, Benjamin (son of Thomas Parsons, yeoman). b. Nibley, Gloucs. 16 Feb. 1797; apprenticed to a tailor at Frampton-on-Severn 7 years; studied at Cheshunt college 1821–5; congregational minister at Ebley, near Stroud Aug. 1826 to death; started a provident fund 1832 and a day-school 1840; has been called the Oberlin of Gloucestershire; author of Why have you become a Pædobaptist, a dialogue between Hezekiah Hastie, a baptist, and Simon Searche, a pædobaptist. By John Bull, Stroud 1835; Anti-Bacchus 1840, 11th thousand 1843; The wine question settled 1841; The mental and moral dignity of woman 1842; Tracts for fustian jackets and smock frocks, No. 1–18, 1848. d. at the Chapel house, Ebley 10 Jany. 1855. E. P. Hood’s The Earnest minister, the life of Benjamin Parsons (1856) portrait; The lamps of the temple, 3 ed. (1856) 520–41; S. Couling’s History of the temperance movement (1862) 339–40.

PARSONS, Daniel (son of John Parsons, vicar of Sherborne, Dorset). b. 1811; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; C. of Marden, Wilts.; C. of St. James’, Langton, Staffs. 1841–3; joined the church of Rome 1843; resigned his Anglican orders under Clerical disabilities relief act 22 Sept. 1870; edited The diary of sir H. Slingsby 1836; author of Plain parochial sermons 1838; a contributor to Notes and Queries. d. Stuart’s lodge, Malvern wells 5 July 1887.

PARSONS, Elizabeth (dau. of W. Rooker of Tavistock, Devon, congregational minister). b. Tavistock 5 June 1812; conducted a class for young people in her father’s chapel 1840–4, for whom she wrote hymns, 18 of which were printed by one of her pupils under the title of Willing class hymns, three have become popular, Saviour round thy footstool bending, Jesus we love to meet, and O happy land! O happy land!; also wrote a few hymns for adults; m. 1844 T. Edgcumbe Parsons; she d. Plymouth 1873. Julian’s Dictionary of hymnology (1892) 69, 834, 882, 996, 1267; W. Garrett Horder’s Hymn lover (1889) 442.

PARSONS, George Samuel. b. 1783; entered R.N. July 1795; signal midshipman of the Foudroyant under Nelson 1800–1, lieut. 1802; commanded the boats of the Valiant in cutting out a convoy from Basque Roads 1810; on h.p. 1810–41; admiralty agent on board a contract mail steamer 1 Nov. 1841; retired commander 15 Feb. 1850; author of Nelsonian reminiscences, leaves from memory’s log 1843, 2 ed. 1843. d. Holt hill, Cheshire 20 Jany. 1854. G.M. July 1854 p. 79.

PARSONS, Gertrude (4 dau. of John Hext of Trenarran, Cornwall, captain in 22 foot, d. 30 June 1838). b. Restormel near Lostwithiel, Cornwall 19 March 1812; joined church of Rome 1844; m. 8 April 1845 Daniel Parsons 1811–87; edited The Workman, or life and leisure: a magazine, 25 numbers 7 Jany. to 24 June 1865, and its continuation The literary workman 29 July to 30 Dec. 1865; author of Thornberry abbey, a tale of the established church 1846; The life of St. Ignatius of Loyola 1860; The romance of Cleaveside, 3 vols. 1867; Ursula’s love story, 3 vols. 1869; Sun and shade, 3 vols. 1871; Beautiful Edith, 3 vols. 1873; Major Vandermere, 3 vols. 1876; The life of Saint Colette, the reformer of the three orders of St. Francis 1879; Love knots, 3 vols. 1881; Thomas Rileton, his family and friends 1890. d. Teignmouth, Devon 12 Feb. 1891. bur. the Priory church, Little Malvern 17 Feb. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. (1874–82) 425–7, 1301; Tablet 28 Feb. 1891 p. 348.

PARSONS, James. Entered Bengal army 1805; ensign 25 Bengal N.I. 19 Dec. 1806, lieut. 13 Aug. 1812; captain 50 N.I. 1 May 1824, major 22 April 1836 to 7 July 1842; lieut. col. of 18 N.I. 7 July 1842 to 1 March 1846, and of 66 N.I. 1 March 1846 to 1851; deputy commissary general 12 April 1837 to 5 Jany. 1848; commanded Gwalior contingent 5 Jany. 1848 to 29 July 1853; lieut. col. of 50 N.I. 1851–1852, and of 48 N.I. 1852–53; col. of 57 N.I. 31 March 1853–54, and of 50 N.I. 1854 to death; commandant at Rohilcund 29 July 1853 to 23 Nov. 1855; L.G. 18 March 1863; C.B. 3 April 1846; at the capture of the Isle of France 1810, in the Nepaul campaign 1815, medal; in the Pindaree war 1817; wounded at capture of Ghuznee; in the Sutlej campaign and present at Modkee, Ferozeshur and Sobraon. d. Almorah, N.W. Province, India 9 Nov. 1868.

PARSONS, James (2 son of Edward Parsons, congregational minister 1762–1833). b. Leeds 10 April 1799; studied at the academy at Idle, Yorkshire 1820–2; congregational minister at Lendal chapel, York 1822–39; minister of Salem chapel, York, opened 25 July 1839, he retired to Harrogate 1870; chairman of the Congregational union 1849; the first president of the Yorkshire congregational union and home missionary society 1873; the most remarkable pulpit orator of his time; author of Excitements to exertion in the cause of God, York, 3 ed. 1827; Sermons, critical and explanatory 1830, 4 ed. 1837; many of his sermons were published in The Pulpit 1824–64. d. York 20 Oct. 1877. bur. York 26 Oct. The lamps of the temple, 3 ed. (1856) 282–323; Congregational year book (1878) 332–5; Congregational magazine (1831) 229–40; Congregationalist (1877) 748–53; The Pulpit v (1826) portrait and xvi 250–2, 365; E. J. Evans and W. Hurndall’s Pulpit memorials (1878) 343–80.

PARSONS, John Meeson (youngest son of Thomas Parsons of Newport, Shropshire). b. Newport 27 Oct. 1798; a member of the Stock exchange, London; A.I.C.E. 5 Feb. 1839; a director of London and Brighton railway company 9 Feb. 1843 to 21 Aug. 1848, chairman 19 June 1843 to 11 April 1844; a director of the Shropshire union railway 1845–9; resided at 6 Raymond buildings, Gray’s inn to 1869; collected a gallery of pictures of the German and Dutch schools and of water-colour drawings by English artists; bequeathed 92 oil and 47 water-colour paintings to South Kensington museum 1870; he also gave three pictures to the National gallery, and many fine engravings to British Museum. d. 45 Russell sq. Bloomsbury, London 25 March 1870. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxi 252–3 (1871).

PARSONS, Needham Thompson. b. 1 Nov. 1826; ensign 1 European Bengal fusiliers 26 July 1845; captain 101 foot 12 March 1858, major 15 Sept. 1869; lieut.-col. 103 foot 24 July 1872, placed on h.p. 8 Dec. 1877; lieut.-col. regimental district 19 Dec. 1877 to 19 Dec. 1882; honorary M.G. 17 Nov. 1883; served in the Burmese war 1852–3, the Indian mutiny 1857, and the Indian north west frontier war 1863. d. Isle of Man 7 Aug. 1895.

PARSONS, Percival Moses (son of John Parsons of Seraptoft house, Leics.) b. London 1819; under chief engineer Portsmouth dockyard 1834–6; articled to Braithwaite, Milner & co. 1836–40; engaged laying out Eastern counties’ railway 1841–5; an engineer in London from 1850; invented improved switches and axle-boxes; connected with the Permanent way co.; designed a central railway station for London on north bank of the Thames, near Charing Cross 1853; patented an invention for rifled cannon which had occupied him 8 years; patented improved bolts Feb. 1867; engineer to the Bessemer steel and ordnance co. 1871; invented white brass for shaft bearings, and manganese bronze for propellers; M.I.C.E. 2 Dec. 1873; took out 52 patents 1851–89; author of Proposed London railway 1853; Guns versus armour plates 1863. d. Melbourne house, Blackheath, Kent 5 Nov. 1892. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cxi 385–9 (1893).

PART, James. b. Wigan 1809; apprentice to Christopher Morris of Wigan; educ. St. Bartholomew’s, Aldersgate sch. and Univ. coll.; L.S.A. 1832; M.R.C.S. 1832, F.R.C.S. 1854; F.M.C. and C.S. 1851; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1860; surgeon Artists’ annuity fund soc.; president North London medical soc.; author of Medical and surgical case book. d. 89 Camden road, London 1 Oct. 1875. Lancet 24 Dec. 1875 p. 931; Proc. of royal Med. and Chir. soc. viii 71 (1875).

PARTINGTON, Charles Frederick. Lecturer on modern improvements in mechanics and on other subjects at mechanics’ institutions; published Lectures on select subjects in mechanics and hydrostatics by J. Ferguson, F.R.S., adapted to the present state of science 1825; The century of inventions by the Marquis of Worcester, with notes and a biographical memoir 1825; edited The scientific gazette July 1825 to 4 Feb. 1826; edited with Wm. Newton the second series of The London journal of arts and sciences, 9 vols. 1834–42; edited with other authors The British cyclopædia of arts and sciences, 10 vols. 1835–8; author of An historical and descriptive account of the steam engine 1822, 3 ed. 1826; A brief account of the royal gardens, Vauxhall 1822; A manual of natural and experimental philosophy, 2 vols. 1828; The builder’s complete guide 1852; he was living in 1857.

PARTON, James. b. Canterbury 9 Feb. 1822; taken to America 1827; a teacher in Philadelphia and New York; a contributor to the Home journal 3 years; a public lecturer; resided in New York to 1875, then at Newbury Port, Massachusetts; m. Jany. 1856 Sarah Payson Willis (1811–72) widow of Charles H. Eldredge, she became a well known author under the name of Fanny Fern; he was the author of The life of Horace Greeley 1855; General Butler in New Orleans 1864; The life of Aaron Burr 1861; Life of Benjamin Franklin, 2 vols. 1864; Life of J. J. Astor 1865; Famous Americans of recent time 1867; Eminent Women of the age 1868; People’s Book of biography 1869; Life of Thomas Jefferson 1874; Caricature and other comic art in all times 1877; The humorous poetry from Chaucer to Saxe 1881; Life of Voltaire, 2 vols. 1881; Life of Andrew Jackson, 3 vols. 1883. d. Newbury port, Massachusetts 17 Oct. 1891. Appleton’s American Biog. iv 665–6 (1888) portraits of J. and S. P. Parton.

PARTRIDGE, John (son of Samuel Partridge). b. Glasgow 28 Feb. 1790; pupil of Thomas Phillips, R.A. about 1814; studied in France and Italy 1823–7; a fashionable portrait painter in London 1827; painted portraits of the queen and prince Albert 1840; portrait painter extraordinary to the queen 1842; exhibited 72 pictures at R.A. and 58 at B.I. 1815–61; presented to the National portrait gallery 1872 his picture entitled Meeting of the fine art commission at Gwydyr house, Whitehall in the year 1846; author of On the constitution and management of the royal academy 1864. d. 60 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 25 Nov. 1872. Art Journal (1873) 44.

PARTRIDGE, Richard. b. 19 Jany. 1805; apprenticed to his uncle W. H. Partridge of Birmingham 1821–7; entered St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1827; M.R.C.S. 1827, F.R.C.S. 1843, member of council 1852, examiner 1854, Hunterian orator 1865, and president 1866; L.S.A. 1827; demonstrator of anatomy at Kings’ college, London 1831–6, professor of descriptive and surgical anatomy 1836 to death; assistant surgeon to Charing Cross hospital 23 Dec. 1836, surgeon 8 Jany. 1838 to 13 April 1840; surgeon to Kings’ college hospital 13 April 1840 to 1870; F.R.S. 23 Feb. 1837; professor of anatomy at the royal academy 1853 to death; fellow of royal Med. and Chir. soc. of London 1828, secretary 1832–6, member of council 1837–8 and 1861–2, vice-pres. 1847–8, president 1863–4. d. 18 Wimpole st. London 25 March 1873. Illust. times 4 Oct. 1869 p. 369 portrait; Lancet 29 March 1873 pp. 456, 464.