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Rh appeared in London. Her voice was a soprano of immense volume, with a compass of two octaves and a half, reaching to D in alt, and her execution was good ; yet in opera her success was only moderate. She therefore turned to oratorio and concert sing- ing, achieving a pronounced success, and took part in the Handel revival in England. In 18(J3 she married Capt. Henry De Wolfe Carvell, a British army officer, who died sixteen months later. In 1866 she came to the United States on a concert- tour with Carl Rosa, making her first appearance in Boston, on 26 Sept., in concert. She sang oper- atic arias, songs of the great German composers, and English ballads, subsequently performed in Handel's " Messiah " and " Samson," and finally in Mozart's " Marriage of Figaro," Weber's " Oberon," and other operas, which were given with English words. With Carl Rosa, whom she married in New York in February, 1867, she established the Parepa- Rosa English opera company. She became popular with the American public, and did much to elevate its musical taste. In June, 1869, she sang at the Peace jubilee in Boston. In the winter of 1870 she appeared in Italian opera at Cairo, Egypt, being prevented by illness from fulfilling an engagement in London. In the autumn of 1871 she and her husband returned to the United States with their company, and in the following year she made a concert tour. She went to England in 1873, and was preparing to produce an English version of Wagner's " Lohengrin," when she died.

PARET, William, P. E. bishop, b. in New York city, 23 Sept., 1826. He was graduated at Hobart college in 1849, studied for orders under the personal supervision of Bishop William H. Delan- eey, was made deacon in 1852, and ordained priest in 1853. He was rector successively of churches in Clyde, N. Y., in 1852-'4, Pierrepont Manor, N. Y., 1854-'64, East Saginaw, Mich., in 1864-'6, Elmira, N. Y., in 1866-8, Williamsport, Pa., in 1868-'76, and Washington, D. C, in 1876-'84. In the last-named year he was elected to the see of Maryland to succeed Bishop William Pinkney, who died in 1883, and was consecrated in the Church of the Epiphany, Washington, D. C, 8 Jan., 1885. He received the degree of D. D. from Hobart in 1867, and that of LL. D. from the same institution in 1886. — His brother, Thomas Duukin, inventor, b. in New York city, 20 Dec, 1837, was educated first in classical schools in his native city, and from 1860 till 1865 studied at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, giving special attention to chemistry. While still a student he began a series of experi- ments, chemical and mechanical, the main object of which was the utilization of waste products, especially the transformation of animal substances, like hide, horn, tortoise-shell, and leather. He de- veloped processes for the treatment of waste leather which fitted it for the lining of petroleum-barrels and fire-proof safes, and for use, under the name of "tanite," as a substitute for jet and ebonite in the manufacture of jewelry and fancy articles, and as a base for solid emery-wheels. He has taken a leading part in the development and extension of grinding processes, and has been president of the Tanite company at Stroudsburg, Pa., which manu- factures emery-wheels, since its organization in 1867. He has contributed many technical articles to scientific periodicals.

PARISH, Elijah, clergyman, b. in Lebanon, Conn., 7 Nov., 1762 ; d. in Byfield. Mass., 15 Oct., 1825. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1785, studied theology, and on 20 Dec, 1787, was settled as pastor of the Congregational church at Byfield, with which he remained connected till his death. The degree of D. D. was given him by Dartmouth in 1807. He accepted the Hopkinsonian system of theology, and in politics was a strong Federalist. In 1810 he delivered the annual election sermon, in which he assailed the National administration with such acrimony that the legislature declined to print the discourse. It was published by subscription (Boston, 1810), and widely circulated and discussed. Some of his violent political sermons were quoted by Mathew Carey in his "Olive Branch " (Philadel- phia, 1814). Dr. Parish published eighteen occa- sional sermons and three orations, and, conjointly with Rev. Jedediah Morse, a " Gazetteer of the Eastern and Western Continents " (Charlestown, 1802); "Compendious Plistory of New England" (Newburyport, 1809) ; and " Sacred Geography, or Gazetteer of the Bible" (1813). He was the author also of " A New System of Modern Geography, or a General Description of all the Considerable Countries of the World " (Newburyport, 1810). In conjunction with Rev. David McClure he published " Memoirs of Eleazer Wheelock " (Newburyport, 1811). A volume of Dr. Parish's "Sermons, with a Brief Memoir," was issued after his death (1826).

PARISH, Sir Woodbine, English diplomatist, b. in England, 14 Sept., 1796 ; d. there, 16 Aug., 1882. He was British charge d'afi'aires at Buenos Ayres, and published " Buenos Ayres and the Prov- inces of the Rio de la Plata" (London, 1839).

PARK, Calvin, clergyman, b. in Northbridge, Mass., 11 Sept., 1774; d. in Stoughton, Mass., 5 Jan., 1847. He was graduated at Brown in 1797, taught for three years, while studying theology, became a tutor in the college in 1800, and in 1804 was elected professor of languages. In 1811 he was transferred to the chair of moral philosophy and metaphysics. While connected with the university he preached every Sunday. In 1825 he resigned his professorship, and in the following year he was in- stalled as pastor of the Evangelical Congregational church at Stoughton. He retired from the pastorate in 1840. The degree of D. D. was conferred on him by Brown in 1818. — His son, Edwards Amasa, theologian, b. in Providence, R. I., 29 Dec, 1808, was graduated at Brown in 1826, and at Andover theological seminary in 1831. For two years he was pastor of the Congregational church at Braintree, Mass. In 1835 he became professor of moral and intellectual philosophy and of Hebrew literature at Amherst, and in 1836 he was called to the professorship of sacred rhetoric in Andover seminary. In 1847 he exchanged this chair for the professorship of Christian theology, and in 1881 he was retired as emeritus professor. The degree of D. D., was conferred on him by Harvard in 1844 and by Brown in 1846. Dr. Park has been active as an exponent of the doctrines that are embodied in the Andover creed and called the New England system of theology. He began to write for reviews in 1828. In 1844 he established, with Bela B. Edwards, the "Bibliotheca Sacra," of which he was editor-in-chief till 1851, and one of the principal editors for forty years. In 1842, and again in 1862, he went to Gerniany, remaining about a year each time, and in 1869-'70 he travelled through Europe and the East. Besides numerous review articles and contributions to biblical and theological lexicons and cycloptedias. Dr. Park has published memorial sketches of Charles S. Storrs (Boston, 1833) ; Moses Stuart (Andover, 1852); Bela B. Edwards (1852) ; Joseph S. Clark (Boston, 1861) ; Richard S. Storrs (1874); Samuel C. Jackson (Andover, 1878); and Leonard Woods (1880) ; also memoirs of Samuel Hopkins, Bela B. Edwards, and Nathanael Emmons, which were prefixed to their works, that of Du