David Hughes Parry

Sir David Hughes Parry (3 January 1893 – 8 January 1973) was a university administrator, Professor of Law and Vice-Chancellor of the University of London from 1945 to 1948. He was also founder of the university's Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in 1947.

Early life He was born to a hill farming family in Llanaelhaearn, in the administrative county of Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), in the Llŷn Peninsula of north Wales. The family were Welsh-speaking and deeply religious. He learnt English only after he started school. He attended Pwllheli county school (now Ysgol Glan y Môr) from where he won a scholarship to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1910, graduating in 1914 with a first in Economics.

He was editor of the Solicitors Journal from 1925 to 1928.

Personal life In 1923 he married Hâf (1898–1965), only daughter of Sir Owen Morgan Edwards an inspector of education for Wales and briefly Liberal Member of Parliament for Merionethshire. They had no children. His wife inherited her father's house at Llanuwchllyn, which was their Welsh home from 1923. He died there in 1973.