Glyndwr John Robert Parry (GJR Parry) FRHistS [1] was born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire on 31 October 1953.[ citation needed ] He matriculated at St John's College Cambridge in September 1972 and graduated BA from the University of Cambridge in June 1975, where he was also awarded a PhD in History in 1982. In 1987 he published A Protestant Vision: William Harrison and the Reformation of Elizabethan England with Cambridge University Press. As of 2010 [update] , he was a senior lecturer in history at Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand. [2]