Edward Parry (Bishop of Dover) (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Edward Parry (14 January 1830 - 11 April 1890) was a Bishop of Dover. Parry was educated at Balliol College, Oxford and began his ordained ministry as a curate in Norham. After time as chaplain to the Bishop of London, Archibald Campbell Tait, he became Rural Dean of Ealing. In 1869 he was appointed Archdeacon of Canterbury and im 1870 became the the fourth suffragan Bishop of Dover, 273 years after the death of the third bishop. A monument to him is in Canterbury Cathedral. Parry's father William Edward Parry, was an Arctic explorer and his son, Frederick Sydney Parry, was the Bishop of Guyana from 1900 to 1921. His son wrote the article about him in the Dictionary of National Biography.