Edward Parry (14 January 1830 – 11 April 1890) was a Bishop of Dover .[ 1]
Parry was the son of William Parry , Arctic explorer, and Isabella Louisa, his wife, fourth daughter of the John Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley .[ 2]
Parry was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford [ 2] and began his ordained ministry as a curate in Norham .[ 3] After time as chaplain to the Bishop of London, Archibald Campbell Tait ,[ 4] he became Rural Dean of Ealing. In 1869 he was appointed Archdeacon of Canterbury and on the Feast of the Annunciation , 25 March 1870, was consecrated at Lambeth Palace chapel[ 5] the fourth Bishop of Dover (suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Canterbury ), 273 years after the death of the third bishop.[ 6] A monument to him is in Canterbury Cathedral .[ 7] In 1882 he was chosen by the Australian bishops to succeed the late Frederic Barker as Bishop of Sydney and Metropolitan of Australia , but he declined the nomination.[ 2]
Parry's sons, Edward and Sydney were, respectively, Bishop of Guyana (1900–1921) & Archbishop of the West Indies (1917–1921),[ 8] and a senior British civil servant . Sydney wrote the article about his father in the Dictionary of National Biography . Another son was Admiral Sir John Franklin Parry , Hydrographer of the Navy during the First World War.
References
^ "The Late Bishop Of Dover", The Times , 16 April 1890, p. 9.
^ a b c Mennell, Philip (1892). "Parry, Right Rev. Edward" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography . London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource .
^ The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory , London, Hamilton & Co 1889
^ F. S. Parry , ‘Parry, Edward (1830–1890)’, rev. H. C. G. Matthew, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 31 Dec 2008
^ "Church news: col. 4, The Suffragan Bishop of Dover" . Church Times . No. 373. 1 April 1870. p. 143. ISSN 0009-658X . Retrieved 25 June 2016 – via UK Press Online archives.
^ Faith, History and Practice of the Church of England , W.E. Eaton, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1957
^ "Photo of monument" . Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 31 December 2008 .
^ Who was Who 1897-1990 , London, A & C Black , 1991, ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
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