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Tom Parry (author)
Thomas Parry may refer to: * Thomas Parry (Comptroller of the Household) (c. 1515–1560), serving Queen Elizabeth I of England * Thomas Parry (ambassador) (1541–1616), English MP, ambassador to France and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster * Thomas Parry (author) (1904–1985), Welsh language literary scholar and author * Thomas Parry (Chennai merchant) (1768–1824), Welsh merchant in Chennai, India * Thomas Parry (bishop) (1795–1870), Bishop of Barbados, 1842–1869 * Thomas Parry (Boston MP) (1818–1879), MP for Boston three times * Thomas Gambier Parry (1816–1888), English artist and art collector * Tom Parry (politician) Thomas Henry Parry, DSO, DL (1881 – 8 October 1939) was a Welsh Liberal politician, lawyer and soldier. Date of birth One usually reliable source shows Parry's date of birth as 21 April 1878, however The Times newspaper in its obituary of P ... (1881–1939), Welsh Liberal politician, lawyer and soldier * Tom Parry (economist), Australi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Parry (Comptroller Of The Household)
Sir Thomas Parry (c. 1515 – 15 December 1560) was a Comptroller of the Household to the English Queen Elizabeth I. He was knighted by Elizabeth at her accession in 1558, and held the offices of royal steward, Cofferer, Privy Counsellor, Comptroller of the Household (appointed November 1558), Master of the Court of Wards and Liveries (appointed 26 April 1559), Member of Parliament for Wallingford (elected 1547, 1552, 1555), Hertfordshire (elected 5 January 1558–9), and Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire (appointed 1559). Career Parry's father was Henry Vaughan of Tretower Court, Breconshire, Wales whose father, Sir Thomas Vaughan, had been knighted and later beheaded by King Richard III. He was a friend and kinsman of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, which may have afforded him his introduction to the court of King Edward VI. Parry was initially known as Thomas ap Harry (Thomas, son of Harry), later modified to Thomas Parry. He is first noticed attending Thomas Cromwell in 15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Parry (ambassador)
Sir Thomas Parry (1541 – 30 May 1616) was an English people, English politician and diplomat during the Tudor period. He was the son of Thomas Parry (Comptroller of the Household), Sir Thomas Parry Senior of Welford Park in Berkshire, the Comptroller of the Household, Controller of the Royal Household, by his wife, Anne, the daughter of Sir William Reade of Boarstall in Buckinghamshire. He was educated at Winchester School (1558). He first entered Parliament in 1571 as member for Bridport (UK Parliament constituency), Bridport. He was appointed High Sheriff of Berkshire for 1575–76 and 1587–88 and made a deputy lieutenant for Berkshire in 1593. From 1586 to 1587, during the reign of Elizabeth I of England, he was the Member of Parliament for Berkshire (UK Parliament constituency), Berkshire. and for St Albans (UK Parliament constituency), St Albans in 1610. In 1601, he was knighted and appointed List of ambassadors of the Kingdom of England to France, English ambassador t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Parry (author)
Sir Thomas Parry FBA (4 August 1904 – 22 April 1985) was a Welsh writer and academic. He was Professor of Welsh at the University College of North Wales, Bangor from 1947 to 1953, Librarian of the National Library of Wales from 1953 to 1958, Principal of the University College of Wales Aberystwyth from 1958 to 1969 and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales from 1961 to 1963 and 1967 to 1969. He was knighted in the 1978 Birthday Honours The Queen's Birthday Honours 1978 were appointments by many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The appointments were made to celebrate t .... The Thomas Parry Library located on Aberystwyth University's Llanbadarn Campus was named in his honour in 1995. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Parry, Thomas 1904 births 1985 deaths Academics of Aberystwyth University Fellows of the British Academy Knights Bachelor Welsh libra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Parry (Chennai Merchant)
Thomas Parry (1768 – 14 August 1824) was a Welsh merchant based in India. He was instrumental in establishing a trading company in Madras, India. Parry joined John William Dare to establish Parry & Dare in 1819 and this later became EID Parry company whose building gives the name of Parry's Corner, a well-known central business district of Chennai. Early life Parry was the third son and seventh child of Edward Parry and Anne Vaughan of Leighton Hall near Welshpool. The Parrys traced their ancestry to Elystan Glodrudd and Edward of Leighton Hall was a wealthy squire. Thomas's father Edward died when Thomas was five years old and his early life is untraced but for his sailing to India at the age of 19. A cousin and brother-in-law, Gilbert Ross Jr. (1755-1815), married to Thomas's sister Elizabeth (1759-1825) and son of an aunt Aunt Ann Ross (née Parry), had connections in Madras. Colonel Patrick Ross was Chief Engineer at Fort St. George. Gilbert Ross Sr. was a partner in Ros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Parry (bishop)
Thomas Parry (1794 – 16 March 1870) was a Welsh clergyman in the West Indies who rose to become Bishop of Barbados from 1842 to 1869. Background and education He was born on 27th November 1794 the fourth son of Edward Parry, a clergyman in North Wales, who at that time was rector of Llanferres, Denbighshire. Parry was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, matriculating in 1812 and graduating first-class in mathematics and second-class in classics four years later. He was appointed a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford in 1818 and obtained a Master of Arts in the following year. He was made deacon in 1819 and ordained priest in 1820, both times by the Bishop of Oxford. Career Parry became Archdeacon of Antigua in 1825HM Yacht Herald' The Morning Post (London, England), Wednesday, April 06, 1825; Issue 16940 and was transferred to Barbados in 1840. Two years later, he was nominated to be the second Bishop of Barbados. On 24 August 1842, Parry was consecrated a bishop at Westminster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Parry (Boston MP)
Thomas Parry (23 February 1818 − 23 December 1879) was a British Liberal Party politician from Sleaford in Lincolnshire. He sat in the House of Commons for three short periods between 1865 and 1874. Early life Parry was born in 1818 (according to his tombstone, on 23 February), son of William Parry (1786–1876), of Lincoln, and his wife, Mary Stanley (1799–1868), daughter of Henry Stanley. Business He became an articled clerk to Charles Kirk the elder (1791–1847), architect, of Sleaford, responsible for many new buildings in the town in the 1830s and 1840s. The men became partners, their firm being called Kirk and Parry. In 1841, Parry married Kirk's daughter, Henrietta Kirk. After Kirk's death, his son, Charles replaced him as partner in the business."Interment of a noted South Yorkshire coal owner" ''Sheffield Independent'' 7 February 1880 Parry was also a proprietor of the colliery in Strafford, near Barnsley, Yorkshire. Parliamentary career He was elected at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Gambier Parry
Thomas Gambier Parry, J.P., D.L., (22 February 1816 – 28 September 1888) was a British artist and art collector. He is best remembered for his development of the Gambier Parry process of fresco painting, and for forming the significant collection of early Italian paintings and objects that his heirs gave to the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, where many are displayed in the Courtauld Gallery. Thomas Gambier Parry is the father of composer Hubert Parry. Life Gambier Parry's parents, Richard and Mary Parry of Banstead, Surrey, died when he was young and he was raised by his maternal aunts and uncles, the Gambiers, among them James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier. His grandparents were Admiral Samuel Gambier, 1752-1813 and Jane Mathew, 1759-. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He moved to Highnam Court, Gloucestershire when he was 21 and, in 1839, he married, firstly, Anna Maria Isabella Fynes-Clinton, daughter of Henry Fynes Clinton. Only two of thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Parry (politician)
Thomas Henry Parry, DSO, DL (1881 – 8 October 1939) was a Welsh Liberal politician, lawyer and soldier. Date of birth One usually reliable source shows Parry's date of birth as 21 April 1878, however The Times newspaper in its obituary of ParryThe Times, 10.10.39 reported he was aged 58 at death making his date of birth 1881. This is also the date given in the publication ''Who was Who''. This date seems the more likely as it was reported at the time Parry was adopted as the Liberal candidate for the 1913 Flint Boroughs by-election that he was aged 32 years. His age at death was also given as 58 years in the ''Law Journal''. Birth and education Parry was born in Mold in Flintshire the son of Thomas Parry JP. He was educated at University College, Aberystwyth and Christ's College, Cambridge where he received his MA and LL.B degrees with honours. Law and the Army Parry was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple and practised as a member of Chester and North Wales Circuit. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Parry (economist)
Thomas Gregory Parry is an Australian economist and public servant from Sydney. Parry served as foundation chairman of the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal of New South Wales (IPART) for the 12 years to 2004. Career Parry was Foundation NSW Natural Resources Commissioner, an Associate Commissioner of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, a Director of South East Sydney Area Health Board, a Director of the Children's Medical Research Institute, a Director of the NSW Clinical Excellence Commission, and a member of the NSW Council on the Cost and Quality of Government. He has been an adjunct professor at the University of New South Wales and a former Dean of the Faculty of Commerce at the University of Wollongong. In 2002 and 2003, he conducted a Ministerial inquiry into sustainable public transport in New South Wales. The inquiry's final report has had a significant influence on transport policy in the state, including the corporatization of Sydney Ferries, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Parry (footballer)
Thomas David Parry was a Welsh international footballer. His brother Maurice was also a footballer, and they represented Wales together on four occasions. His nephew Frank Frank or Franks may refer to: People * Frank (given name) * Frank (surname) * Franks (surname) * Franks, a medieval Germanic people * Frank, a term in the Muslim world for all western Europeans, particularly during the Crusades - see Farang Curre ..., was also a professional footballer and made over 100 appearances in the Football League. References Year of birth missing Year of death missing Welsh men's footballers Wales men's international footballers Oswestry Town F.C. players Men's association football players not categorized by position {{Wales-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
