About Thomas Parry
Lived 1795 – 1870 (aged 74–75). Thomas Parry was an anglican priest and bishop.
Thomas Parry (1794 – 16 March 1870) was a Welsh clergyman in the West Indies who rose to become Bishop of Barbados from 1842 to 1869.
Background and education He was born on 27 November 1794 the fourth son of Edward Parry, a clergyman in North Wales, who at that time was rector of Llanferres, Denbighshire. He was appointed a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford in 1818 and obtained a Master of Arts in the following year. He was made deacon in 1819 and ordained priest in 1820, both times by the Bishop of Oxford.
Career
Parry became Archdeacon of Antigua in 1825 and was transferred to Barbados in 1840. Parry died on 16 March 1870 in Malvern, Worcestershire.
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British bishop
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Thomas Parry was an anglican priest and bishop.
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