PARRY
,
WILLIAM
(
1754
-
1819
),
Independent minister and tutor, and author
;
b.
25 Nov. 1754
at
Abergavenny
, where his father (who however soon afterwards moved to
London
) was a
deacon
among the
Baptists
. In
1774
, the son became an
Independent
. He went to
Homerton academy
, and was
minister
in
Essex
from
1780 till 1799
; there, he strove energetically to better the livelihood of the
Independent ministers
of the county, and further (though without effect in those days) to have the legal disabilities of
Dissenters
removed. In
1799
, he was appointed
tutor
in what had been
Coward's Academy
, on the occasion of its removal to
Wymondley, Herts.
In
1808
, he engaged in controversy against the ideas of
Edward
Williams
(
1750
-
1813
) (q.v.)
of
Rotherham
. He d.
9 Jan. 1819
. The
D.N.B.
has an article on him (with a list of his works), on which the present notice has been based.
Author:
Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, C.B.E., D.Litt., Ll.D.,
F.S.A., (1881-1969), Bangor
