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Parlby is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Irene Parlby (1868–1965), Canadian women's farm leader, activist, and politician * Joshua Parlby (1855–?), English football manager * Thomas Parlby (1727–1802), British civil engineering contractor * William Hampton Parlby General William Hampton Parlby was a senior British Army officer, who served in British cavalry regiments in India and the Crimean War. Family background William Parlby was born in India in what was known as the Bengal Presidency in 1801; his p ...

Irene Parlby
Mary Irene Parlby ( Marryat; 9 January 186812 July 1965) was a Canadian women's farm leader, activist and politician. She served as Minister without portfolio in the Cabinet of Alberta from 1921 to 1935, working to implement social reforms that helped farm women and children. As a member of the Famous Five, she was one of five women who took the Persons Case first to the Supreme Court of Canada, and then to the British Judicial Committee of the Privy Council for the right of women to serve in the Senate of Canada. From 1930 to 1934, she was one of three Canadian representatives at the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Parlby's accomplishments have garnered her many honours, both before and after her death. In 1935, the University of Alberta granted her an honorary Doctorate of Laws, making her the first woman in its history to receive such a distinction. In 1966, a year after her death, she was named a Person of National Historic Significance, and in 2009, the Sen ...
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Joshua Parlby
Joshua Parlby (1855 in Longton, Staffordshire – ?) was an English football manager who managed Manchester City in the 1890s. Details of Parlby's life before he moved to Manchester are unclear, though some sources indicate he played for Stoke in the pre-professional era. p234 Parlby moved to Manchester to run a public house. His links with the brewing trade led to a role on the committee of Ardwick Association Football Club, who used a public house, the Hyde Road Hotel, as their headquarters. Parlby advocated employing a full-time secretary-manager, and in 1893 became the club's first paid secretary. p158 A larger than life character, Parlby had a reputation for wrangling the club out of financial trouble by whatever means possible. Contemporary accounts tell of him sneaking players onto trains when the club struggled to afford travel expenses for away matches At the end of Parlby's first season as manager Ardwick finished thirteenth in the Second Division In sport, the Seco ...
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Thomas Parlby
Thomas Parlby (1727–1802) Stone Hall, Stonehouse, in Plymouth "the big house overlooking Stonehouse Pool" (since demolished), was a civil engineering contractor described in his obituary in the Gentleman's Magazine as "Master Mason of HM Docks". Origins Parlby was born in 1727 of humble origin, the youngest son of John Parlby (died 1766) of Gravesend, or Chatham, in Kent, by his wife Anne. His father was a ship's carpenter as were his two brothers, who also served as warrant officers in the Royal Navy. In 1745 his sister Mary Parlby married James Templer (1722–1782) at Greenwich and moved to Rotherhithe. Career Parlby and his brother-in-law James Templer operated as a partnership known as "Templer & Parlby"; they were civil engineering contractors and contractors to the Navy Board. They were working at a time of major expansion in the royal dockyards of Great Britain due to the frequent wars with Spain and France which occurred between 1739 and 1815. Templer died unex ...
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