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Rh , on the same station, where he remained nearly four years. He attained his present rank 28 Oct. 1836; and was lastly, from 22 March, 1838, until 1843, employed as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard.

Commander Parlby married, 14 Feb. 1825, Sophia Sylvester, daughter of the late Capt. Holland, 44th Regt. – Messrs. Halford and Co.

 PARR. 

was born 7 Oct. 1786. His father, a veteran Gunner, entered the service in 1777 and died in 1840 at the advanced age of 85. He had served in seven ships of war under 30 different Admirals and Captains; he had been on board the 74 when captured by the French in June, 1801; and on board the  74 when wrecked in Torbay in Nov. 1804. One of Lieut. Parr’s brothers died a Midshipman at Guadeloupe in 1790; two others were also in the R.N. – the first a Commander, the second a Lieutenant; and a fourth died as Deputy-Assistant-Commissary-General in the Army at George Town, Demerara.

This officer entered the Navy, 20 Oct. 1796, as Third-cl. Vol., on board the 74; in which ship (of which his father was at the time Gunner) he continued employed under Capts. Arthur Phillip, John Irwin, and Benj. Hallowell, until May, 1801. After participating in a sUght engagement with a fort at Teneriffe during an attempt made to cut some merchant-vessels out from that place, he proceeded off Lisbon and then to the Mediterranean. While on that station he shared as Midshipman in the glories of the Nile 1 Aug. 1798, and assisted in expelling the French from Naples, where he united in the siege of Fort St. Elmo. He was subsequently present off Cabritta Point, in the Gut of Gibraltar, when the, being becalmed, was attacked, severely cut up in her sails and rigging, and subjected to a loss of 2 men killed and 3 wounded, by a flotilla of 40 Spanish gun-boats. On 8 March, 1801, we find him aiding at the debarkation of the troops in Aboukir Bay. On leaving the as above, Mr. Parr joined the  36, Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood, with whom he returned home from the Mediterranean and was paid off in May, 1802. Being next, in June, 1803, received on board the 18, Capts. Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer, John Packwood, and John Simpson, he twice escorted convoy in that vessel to the coast of Portugal, served for some time off the port of Cadiz, and cruized in various parts of the Mediterranean, until his return to England in July, 1805, when he was discharged for the purpose of passing his examination. In the following Oct. he became attached to the 64, Capts. Sir Edw. Berry, Joseph Spear, and Jonas Rose; under the first-mentioned of whom, after having narrowly escaped capture by the enemy, he had the good fortune to enact a part in the action off Cape Trafalgar. Subsequently to the battle he was sent on board the 74, to ascertain the state of that ship, and so dilapidated did it prove to be that the  was under the necessity of taking her in tow. During the long and disastrous gale which shortly afterwards arose, the rope that connected the two vessels unfortunately broke, and the was in imminent danger of being driven on shore and utterly lost. In order to prevent if possible a catastrophe so awful, it was determined by Sir Edw. Berry, notwithstanding the risk, that a boat should be lowered for the purpose of passing a fresh rope to the distressed ship, and of thus again taking her in tow. We have only to add that the execution of the hazardous enterprise was confided to, and most ably accomplished by, Mr. Parr. Continuing in the, we find him, besides sharing in various pursuits after the enemy’s squadrons, present, 6 Feb. 1806, in the action off (for his conduct on which occasion he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 2 April following), and next at the capture of La Lutine national corvette, and in the operations connected with the expedition to Copenhagen. On the fall of the latter place (previously to which event he had assisted in escorting a large convoy home from the West Indies) Mr. Parr aided in navigating to England, as second in command, the Danish 74-gun ship Princess Caroline with the 95th Regiment on board. On again joining the, he sailed for South America, where, while filling the post of First-Lieutenant, he was wrecked, in the Rio de la Plata, 20 June, 1809. So great were the exertions he underwent on the occasion, that, on being received on board the 74, he sank into a state of complete exhaustion, and, from the effects of inflammation produced in the eyes, was for eighteen days deprived of the power of sight. Mr. Parr’s next appointment was, 26 Dec. 1809, to the 44, Capt. Fred. Warren; which ship, however, he did not join until July, 1810. Becoming soon her First-Lieutenant, he was employed in that capacity in protecting convoys to the river St. Lawrence, to the coasts of Spain and Portugal, and to the Mediterranean, also in conveying an ambassador to Constantinople and Algiers, and in accompanying another convoy from Malta to England. Being superseded from the at his own request in Nov. 1813, he was nominated, 18 May, 1814, Senior of the  36, Capt. Geo. Langford, fitting for the East Indies; whence he returned in Dec. 1816. Since 27 April, 1831, the Lieutenant has been attached to the Royal Hospital at Haslar.

When on board the, in 1798, Mr. Parr fell and broke the small bone of his left leg; while belonging, in Nov. 1804, to the , and on duty aloft, his right leg was so severely lacerated that he was for two months on the doctor’s list; and in 1808 an explosion of powder on board the occasioned him a severe wound in the forehead. He married 21 April, 1821.

 PARREY. 

is a relative of

This officer entered the Navy 20 Feb. 1809; and in the following summer was present, in the 74, Capt. Lord Amelius Beauclerk, in the expedition to the Walcheren. He was subsequently employed in the same ship on the coast of North America; where, on becoming attached to the Shannon of 50 guns, throwing a broadside weight of 538 lbs., and 306 men, Capt. Philip Bowes Vere Broke, he assisted, 1 June, 1813, at the capture of the American ship Chesapeake, of 50 guns, yielding a broadside of 590 lbs., and 376 men – an exploit achieved after a close and desperate action of 15 minutes, a loss to the British of 24 killed and 59 wounded, and to the enemy of 47 killed and 115 wounded. At the close of 1819, while acting as Lieutenant of the 50, Capt. Fras. Aug. Collier, he accompanied an expedition sent to the Persian Gulf for the purpose of crushing a race of notorious pirates whose head-quarters lay at Ras-al-Khyma, which place was in a short time destroyed, and all the vessels lying in its vicinity burnt or sunk. In an attack made on one of the latter in the ’s barge, Mr. Parrey was severely wounded. He was confirmed a Lieutenant in the same ship 28 Nov. 1820, and, returning home in 1822, was afterwards appointed, in the capacity of Senior Lieutenant – 20 Sept. 1824, to the 10, Capt. Chas. Jas. Hope Johnstone, fitting for the Mediterranean – and 9 Aug. 1827, to the 18, Capt. Thos. Saville Griffinhoofe, with whom he sailed for the coast of Africa. In the early part of 1829 Mr. Parrey, in command of a boat belonging to the latter vessel, boarded and took a Portuguese vessel (formerly the Saucy Jack American privateer) of 4 guns and 40 men, with 225 slaves. On proceeding up the river Noonaz he found two schooners, one French and one Spanish, quite ready for slaves; and he also discovered, in the same stream, an English brig, the Lochiel of Liverpool, without a living soul on board, the Captain, Mate,