William Parry Yale

The memorial on Lt. Col. Yale at the "Yale Chapel", built by Dr. Thomas Yale during the Tudor period

Lieutenant Colonel William Parry Yale (1790 – 1867) was a military officer, magistrate and High Sheriff of Denbighshire. He became Justice of the Peace and a veteran of the Peninsular War during the Napoleonic Wars, serving under the Duke of Wellington. He was also severely wounded at the Siege of Pamplona, and was awarded the Peninsular Gold Medal after his campaign.

Biography Battle of Albuera during the Napoleonic Wars, where Capt. Yale was in command of the 48th Regiment of Foot

William Parry Yale, née Parry Jones, was born on March 12, 1790, to Thomas Parry Jones of Denbighshire. One of Yale's cousin was Cambridge reverend John Yale of Plas-yn-Yale, who married with the Bostock family of Bostock Hall. Other brothers-in-law included Lt. Col. Robert Browne Macgregor, of the 88th Regiment of Foot during the Napoleonic Wars, and Major-General William Clapham of Widcombe Manor. Following the end of the war, he became a magistrate for Denbighshire and other counties, including Justice of the Peace, and was elected High Sheriff of Denbighshire in 1833. Yale inherited the estate of Plas-yn-Yale from his cousin Sarah Yale, sister of Rev. John Yale, through the line of Osborne Fitzgerald, member of the Fitzgerald dynasty, and changed his name to William Parry Yale in agreement with the will.

William Parry Yale died on June 6, 1867, in Bath, England, aged 77 years old.