and all the crew being found dead below. With much praiseworthy exertion he brought the vessel down the river, a very dangerous one, to the Primrose, by whom she was carried to Sierra Leone, where her Agent allotted a salvage of 190l. Mr. Parrey subsequently made prize, in the pinnace, of a galliot (at one time a yacht belonging to Alderman Sir Wm. Curtis) with 38 slaves on board, lying in the river Cachao. On 10 Feb. 1830 he was advanced to the rank of Commander. He afterwards, from 26 June, 1835, until 1838, and from 4 July, 1839, until Dec. 1841, officiated as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard. On 22 of the month last mentioned he obtained command of the Sappho on the North America and West India station, whence, in the summer of the following year, he returned to England and was paid off. He has since been on half-pay. His advancement to Post-rank took place 7 July, 1843.
Capt. Parrey married, 7 Dec. 1830, at Abbot’s Rippon, Huntingdonshire, Miss Burn.
PARREY. (Lieut., 1829. f-p., 28; h-p., 3.)
Robert Parrey is son of the late Commander Robt. Parrey, R.N.; [1] and a relative of Capt. E. I. Parrey, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 15 May, 1816, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Scamander 42, Capt. Wm. Elliott, under whom he was for two years and a half employed in the West Indies, and suffered much from yellow fever. Becoming Midshipman, in Nov. 1818, of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Thos. Searle, he made a voyage in that frigate to Leith, and was then ordered to South America; whither, after having conveyed a large freight to England, he returned in 1821 in the Doris 42, Capts. Thos. Graham and Jas. Henderson; the latter of whom, in May, 1822, he accompanied into the Blossom 24, commanded next by Capts. Thos. Bourchier and Arch. Maclean. On the arrival home of the Blossom with a considerable amount of specie in the middle of 1824, Mr. Parrey (who had passed his first examination two years previously) was received on board the Wellesley 74, Capt. Graham Eden Hamond. In that ship he again sailed, as Mate, for South America, with the present Lord Stuart de Rothesay, then recently appointed Ambassador at the court of Brazil; whence at the close of 1825 he came home with the same officer in the Spartiate 74. After a servitude of nearly three years in the East Indies on board the Warspite 76, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Wm. Hall Gage, Tamar 26, Capt. Jas. John Gordon Bremer, and Java 52, also the flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Gage, he was promoted, 27 March, 1829, to a Lieutenancy in the Pandora 18, Capt. Hon. John Fred. Gordon (now Lord Hallyburton), with whom he returned to England and was paid off in Feb. 1830. His next appointments were – for a short time, to the Hyperion 42, Coast Blockade ship, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye – and 19 Dec. 1831, to the Asia 84, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Wm. Parker at Lisbon, where he remained until Oct. 1832. He has been in command, since 13 Dec. 1834, of a station in the Coast Guard – a service in which, in the execution of his duty, he has been severely wounded and otherwise injured.
Lieut. Parrey married, 20 Dec. 1831, Eliza, youngest daughter of the late J. B. Stone, Esq., Comptroller of Customs at Newhaven, by whom he has issue.
PARRY. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 29; h-p., 19.)
Henry Parry entered the Navy, in 1799, as a Volunteer, on board the Blanche troop-ship, Capt. John Ayscough; under whom, after having attended the expedition to the Helder, he was wrecked in the Texel 28 Sept. in the same year. Joining then the Eurus, Capt. Dan. Oliver Guion, he was afforded an opportunity of participating, in 1800-1, in the operations against the enemy at Ferrol and Cadiz and in Egypt. He returned to England with Capt. Guion, as Midshipman, in the Trusty 50, in April, 1802; and he was next, between March, 1803, and June, 1809, employed, on the Home, East India, and Mediterranean stations, in the Grampus 50, flag-ship of Lord Gardner, Arrogant 74, Capt. Lord Geo. Stuart, Fox 32, Capt. Wm. Hugh Dobbie, Tremendous 74, Capt. John Osborn, Blonde frigate, Capt. Volant Vashon Ballard, and Porcupine and Mercury, both commanded by Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan. While acting as First-Lieutenant of the Fox, Mr. Parry, in 1805-6, officiated as Second in command of an expedition sent against the pirates near the Indus, and at the bombardment of the Temple of Somnauth. As Master’s Mate of the Porcupine and Mercury he served in the boats in a variety of cutting-out affairs. On leaving the vessel last mentioned he was successively nominated, between June and Nov. 1809, Acting-Lieutenant of the Trident 64, flag-ship of Sir Alex. John Ball, Spartan 38, Capt. Jahleel Brenton, Trident again, and Kingfisher sloop, Capt. Ewell Tritton. Under Capt. Brenton he aided in effecting the capture of several islands in the Bay of Naples; and in the Kingfisher he contributed to the reduction of the Ionian Islands. He had previously served on shore at the capture of Capri, Rejoining Capt. Duncan, in Sept. 1810, on board the Impérieuse 38, Mr. Parry again saw much boat service, particularly in the neighbourhood of Toulon; where he was confirmed, 16 Aug. 1811, to a Lieutenancy in the Leviathan 74, Capts. Patrick Campbell, Adam Drummond, and Thos. Briggs. In the course of 1812 he lent his aid to the cutting-out of a brig from under the batteries in the same vicinity; and also to the capture of some batteries and of 18 sail of vessels near Genoa. He returned home from a visit to Jamaica in Oct. 1814; and was afterwards employed – from 19 Oct. 1825 until 1831, in the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye, and Ramillies and Talavera 74’s, both commanded by Capt. Hugh Pigot – and from 14 Oct. 1836 until the early part of 1847, in charge of a station in the Coast Guard.
PARRY. (Commander, 1832. f-p., 15; h-p., 29.)
Howard Lewis Parry entered the Navy, 23 Aug. 1803, on board the Niobe 40, Capt. Matthew Henry Scott, stationed in the Channel. He removed, in Dec. 1804, to the Hibernia 110; and he next, from Feb. 1805 until March, 1806, served on the Home and Mediterranean stations in the Tonnant 80, Capt. Chas. Tyler. In Nov. 1809 he became Midshipman of the Dolphin 44, armée en flûte, Capts. Christopher Watson and Alex. Milner, with whom he served until transferred, in Feb. 1811, to the Grasshopper 18, Capt. Henry Fanshawe. In the following Dec. he was on board the latter vessel when, in order to avoid sharing the fate of the unfortunate Hero, she was under the necessity of surrendering to the Dutch fleet in the Texel. He was in consequence taken prisoner and detained in captivitjr until the peace of 1814. He then successively joined the Amphion 32, Capt. Jas. Pattison Stewart, and Pandora 16, Capts. Jas. Kearny White, Sam. Malbon, Wm. Popham, and Hon. Fred. Noel; and in those vessels we find him employed on the North American, West India, and Home stations, until presented, in Oct. 1815, with a com-
- ↑ Commander Robt. Parrey entered the Navy in 1778, and was present on board the Yarmouth, commanded by his relative, Capt. Anthony Parrey, in Rodney’s celebrated action 12 April, 1782. Between 1793 and the date of his promotion to the rank of Commander, 36 Aug. 1808, he served as First Lieutenant in the Modeste frigate, Capt. Thos. Byam Martin, as also in the Duke and St. George 98’s, and San Josef 110; and officiated for several vears as Flag-Lieutenant to Admiral John Holloway. He afterwards, during the expedition of 1809 to the Walcheren, acted as an Agent for transports; and in the course of the following year he served in a similar capacity at the reduction of Guadeloupe. In 1814 he was nominated Flag-Captain to Rear-Admiral Rolles, who had been recently selected to fill the Office of Commander-in-Chief at Jamaica; but as the Admiral never sailed, he of course lost the appointment. In early life he had been a messmate of his late Majesty, King William IV. through whose recommendation his son was eventually promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. He died in 1832.
