OF

NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY
 

EDITED BY

SIDNEY LEE
 

VOL. XV.

OWENS—POCKRICH
 

LONDON
SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE
1909
 

Here is a sneak preview of Parrs listed in Vol. XV.
 

Page(s)	PARR
page352-353	PARR, BARTHOLOMEW, M.D., (1750-1810), medical writer, born at Exeter in 1750, was the son of Bartholomew Parr (1713-1800) by his second wife, Johana Burgess.
page 353	PARR, ELNATHAN (d. 1632?), divine, was educated at Eton school, and was thence elected in 1593 to a scholarship at King's College, Cambridge, where he graduatd B.A. in 1597, M.A. in 1601, and B.D. in 1615.
page 353-354	PARR, GEORGE (1826-1891), cricketer, born at Radcliffe-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, on 22 May 1826, was the son of a gentleman farmer whose ancestors had farmed their own land for more than two hundred years. He died, unmarried, in the village of his birth, after a long and painful illness, on 23 June 1891.
page 354-355	PARR, JOHN (1633?-1716?), dissenting minister, born about 1633, was doubtless related to Dr. Parr, bishop of Man (J.E. BAILEY in the Antiquary, ix. 118; BAINES, Lancashire, ii. 718; Sir G. F. DUCKETT, Duchetiana, pp. 24 seq.)
page 355	PARR, REMIGIUS (fl.1747), engraver, is stated to have been born at Rochester in Kent in 1723 . . .
page 355	PARR, NATHANIEL (fl. 11730-1769), angraver, appears to have been either father or elder brother of the above.
page 355-356	PARR or PARRE, RICHARD (1592?-1644), bishop of Sodor and Man, was born about 1592 in Lancashire, probably at Wood, in the parish of Eccleston, near Chorley, a seat of the Parr family.
page 356	PARR, RICHARD, D.D. (1617-1691), divine, was born in 1617 at Fernoy, co. Cork, of which parish his father, Richard Parr, was perpetual curate. At his birth his mother was fifty-five years of age.
page 356-364	PARR, SAMUEL (1747-1825), pedagogue, born at Harrow-on-the Hill on 26 Jan. 1746-7, was the son of Samuel and Anne Parr. The Parrs traced their descent to Sir Thomas Parr (d. 1464), the great-grandfather of Catherine Parr, sixth wife of Henry VIII. . . Samuel, vicar of Hinckly, Leicestershire, married the daughter of Francis Brokesby [q.v.] . . .
page 364-366	PARR, THOMAS (1483?-1635), 'Old Parr' described by John Taylor, the water-poet, as the son of John Parr of Winnington, a small hamlet in the parish of Alberbury, thirteen miles west of Shrewsbury, is said to have been born in 1483.
page 366-367	PARR, SIR WILLIAM (1434-1483?), courtier and soldier, born in 1434, was the oldest son of Sir Thomas Parr (1405-1464), by Alice, daughter of Sir Thomas Tunstall of Thurland, Lancashire.
page 367-368	PARR, WILLIAM, Marquis of Northampton and Earl of Essex (1513-1571), was only son of Sir Thomas Parr, K.G. of Kendal and of Greens Norton, Northamptonshire by Maud (d. 1531), daughter and co-heiress of Sir Thomas Gree of Greens Norton and Boughton . . . and brother of Catherine Parr [q.v.]. Born probably at Kendal Castle, on 14 Aug. 1513. . .

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