Edward Abbott Parry

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Sir Edward Abbott Parry (2 October 1863 – 1 December 1943) was a British judge and dramatist. [1]

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Parry was born in London into a prominent Welsh family, the second son of barrister John Humffreys Parry [2] [3] and grandson of antiquary John Humffreys Parry, a leader of the Welsh literature movement in the early 19th century. His great-uncle Thomas Parry was bishop of Barbados and his great-grandfather Edward Parry was Rector of Llanferres, Denbighshire. [1]

Parry himself studied at the Middle Temple and was called to the Bar in 1885. He was Judge of Manchester County Court 1894-1911 [4] and became Judge of Lambeth County Court in 1911. He wrote several histories, plays and books for children. [5] He was appointed to sit on a Pensions Appeal Tribunal in the summer of 1917, which dealt with appeals against governmental decisions on military pensions, and later published a book on War Pensions: Past and Present, co-authored with Sir Alfred Codrington, another member of the Tribunal. [6]

He died in Sevenoaks, Kent, aged 80. [1]

Parry's autobiography, My Own Way, as published in 1932. [7] To cite one anecdote, he took a summer holiday, probably in 1895 or 1896, in the tiny village of Rhoscolyn on Anglesey and became a great friend of the Revd. John Hopkins, the Rector. When Hopkins died in 1901, Parry was instrumental (with others) in erecting a fine copper memorial tablet in the church. He also published an appreciation in the Cornhill Magazine. [8] There was mutual empathy and warmth of the friendship between two men of very different backgrounds: the London-educated judge, son of a barrister and the iron miner (before his ordination) and son of a Merthyr publican, [9] fined for selling beer during the time of divine service. [10]

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  1. 1 2 3 "Obituary: Edward Parry – Judge and Author". The Times . 3 December 1943. p. 7.
  2. ↑ Wikisource-logo.svg   Foster, Joseph (1885). "Parry, Edward Abbott"  . Men-at-the-Bar  (second ed.). London: Hazell, Watson, and Viney. p. 353.
  3. ↑ "Abbott - North Wales Genealogy Extracts". Archived from the original on 23 December 2010. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
  4. ↑ Resident of Burlington Road, Withington--Lejeune, C. A. (1964) Thank You for Having Me. London: Hutchinson; p. 36
  5. ↑ The Green Room Book, and Who's Who on the Stage. 1907
  6. ↑ Parry, Edward Abbott; Codrington, Alfred Edward (1918). "War pensions, past and present". London, Nisbet – via Internet Archive.
  7. ↑ Parry, Edward (1932). My Own Way, An Autobiography. Cassell.
  8. ↑ Parry, Edward (1905). "A Welsh Rector of the Last Century". The Cornhill Magazine. XVIII: 32–43.
  9. ↑ Census of England and Wales. 1851.
  10. ↑ The Welshman. 24 December 1841.{{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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