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 pulse which are now generally accepted. His views were defended and expanded by his son, Dr. C. H. Parry, in ‘Additional Experiments on the Arteries,’ London, 1819. After Parry's death his son brought out ‘Collections from the Unpublished Writings of Dr. Parry,’ 2 vols. London, 1825, which contain some valuable observations.

Parry also contributed to the ‘Philosophical Transactions,’ the ‘Transactions of the Medical Society of London,’ and other medical publications.

Parry also devoted a great deal of attention to the improvement of agriculture, and studied the subject experimentally on a farm he had acquired near Bath. He was especially interested in improving the breeds of sheep, and obtaining finer wool by the introduction of the merino breed. He wrote in 1800 a tract on ‘The Practicability and Advantage of producing in the British Isles Clothing-wool equal to that of Spain,’ and in 1807 an ‘Essay on the Merino Breed of Sheep,’ which obtained a prize from the board of agriculture, and was praised by Arthur Young. Several papers by him appeared in the ‘Transactions of the Bath and West of England Society of Agriculture,’ from 1786 onwards, and in the ‘Farmers' Journal’ for 1812, on such subjects as the cultivation of English rhubarb, the crossing of animals, observations on wool, &c.

Parry was also interested in natural history, especially in minerals and fossils, and projected a work on the fossils of Gloucestershire. He was a man of wide reading, and his special fondness for books of travel may have given an impulse in the direction of geographical research to his distinguished son, Sir William Edward Parry.

[The authority for Parry's life is the memoir (anonymous, but by his son, Dr. W. C. Parry) in Lives of the British Physicians (Murray's Family Library, 1830). See also Munk's Coll. of Phys. ii. 385, 2nd ed. 1878.] 

PARRY, CHARLES HENRY (1779–1860), physician, eldest son of Dr. Caleb Hillier Parry [q. v.], by his wife, a sister of Edward Rigby [q. v.] of Norwich, was born at Bath in 1779. He studied medicine at Göttingen—in 1799 he was one of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's companions in the Harz; later on he travelled in Scandinavia with Clement Carlyon [q. v.] He graduated M.D. at Edinburgh on 24 June 1804.

Parry was admitted licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians on 22 Dec. 1806, and elected F.R.S. in 1812. He practised for some years at Bath, where he was physician to the General Hospital from 1818 to 1822. He retired early from practice, and settled at Brighton, where he died at his residence, 5 Belgrave Place, on 21 Jan. 1860. His remains were interred at Weston, near Bath.

Parry was author of: 1. ‘De Græcarum atque Romanarum Religionum ad Mores formandos Vi et Efficacia Commentatio,’ Göttingen, 1799, 8vo. 2. ‘On Fever and its Treatment in General,’ translated from the German of G. C. Reich, 1801, 8vo. 3. ‘Commentatio inauguralis de synocho tropico, vulgo febre flava dicta,’ Edinburgh, 1804, 8vo. 4. ‘The Question of the Necessity of the existing Corn Laws, considered in their Relation to the Agricultural Labourer, the Tenantry, the Landholder, and the Country,’ Bath, 1816, 8vo. 5. ‘Additional Experiments on the Arteries of warm-blooded Animals: with a brief examination of certain arguments which have been advanced against the doctrines maintained by [Caleb Hillier Parry] the author of “An Experimental Enquiry,” &c.,’ London, 1819, 8vo. 6. ‘Introductory Essays to Collections from the unpublished Medical Writings of the late Caleb Hillier Parry, M.D.,’ &c., London, 1825, 8vo. 7. ‘Winchcombe: a poem,’ in T. D. Fosbroke's ‘Picturesque and Topographical Account of Cheltenham and its Vicinity,’ Cheltenham, 1826, 12mo. 8. ‘The Parliaments and Councils of England, chronologically arranged, from the reign of William I to the Revolution in 1688,’ London, 1839, 8vo. 9. ‘A Memoir of the Rev. Joshua Parry: with some original essays and correspondence’ (posthumous, ed. Sir J. E. E. Wilmot), London, 1872, 8vo. [For works edited by Parry, cf. , and .]

[Cross's Memoir of Edward Rigby, M.D., prefixed to An Essay on the Uterine Hæmorrhage which precedes the delivery of the Fullgrown Fœtus, 1822, p. liii; Gent. Mag. 1860, pt. i. p. 307; Munk's Coll. of Phys. ii. 385, iii. 45; Carlyon's Early Years and Late Reflections, i. 17, 32 et seq., 178, 186; Brit. Mus. Cat.] 

PARRY, EDWARD (d. 1650), bishop of Killaloe, was a native of Newry, but his father's name has not been ascertained. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated B.A. in 1620, and was elected a fellow in 1624. He acted for a time as pro-vice-chancellor. In November 1627 he was collated to one portion of the prebend of Tipperkevin in St. Patrick's, Dublin; but this was objected to by the college, and at a visitation held in the following February his fellowship was declared vacant