mission bearing date 10 of the preceding March. His next appointments were – 10 Sept. 1825, to the Ramillies 74, Coast Blockade ship, Capts, Wm. M‘Cullooh and Hugh Pigot – and, 22 July, 1831, to the Coast Guard. “For gallant conduct and severe wounds” received in the latter service he was advanced to his present rank 10 Feb. 1832. He has since been on half-pay.
In consideration of his wounds Commander Parry was awarded, 19 April, 1833, a pension of 91l. 5s. per annum. He is the senior Commander on the list of 1832. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
JONES-PARRY. (Retired Captain, 1840. f-p., 15; h-p., 34.)
Thomas Parry Jones-Parry was born 14 April, 1784, and died 26 May, 1845. He was of very ancient Welsh extraction – was the son of Thos. Parry Jones-Parry, Esq., of Llwynon, co. Denbigh, by Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of Love Parry, Esq., M.P., of Peniarth and Madryn, co. Caernarvon – and brother (with Lieut.-Colonel Wm. Parry Jones-Parry) of the present Major-General Sir Love Parry Jones-Parry, K.H., of Madryn Castle, formerly M.P. for Horsham, in Sussex, and also for Caernarvonshire. One of his sisters was the wife of the late Robt. Browne Macgregor, Esq., Lieut.Colonel of the 88th Regt.; and another, of Major-General Clapham, of Widcombe House, co. Somerset.
This officer entered the Navy, 29 Oct. 1796, as Midshipman, on board the Triumph 74, Capts. Sir Erasmus Gower and Wm. Essington, under the latter of whom he fought in the action off Camperdown, 11 Oct. 1797. In Feb. 1798 he rejoined Sir E. Gower on board the Neptune 98, in which ship, commanded afterwards by Capts. Jas. Vashon, Herbert Sawyer, and Edw. Brace, he continued employed in the Channel and Mediterranean until transferred, in Nov. 1801, to the Theseus 74, Capt. John Bligh, fitting for the Jamaica station, where, after having acted as Lieutenant in the Ganges 74, Capt. Geo. McKinley, and Racoon 18, Capt. Austin Bissell, he was confirmed by commission dated 28 Jan. 1803, and appointed First of the Echo sloop, Capts. Edm. Boger and Rich. Henry Muddle. In that vessel he assisted, 1 Oct. 1804, at the capture of the 'Hazard', French privateer, of 16 guns and 50 men. Returning to Europe in 1807, he was next, in the course of that and of the following year, appointed to the Porcupine and Leveret, Capts. Hon. Henry Duncan and Robt. Evans. In the Leveret he was for several months employed in the Baltic. He was promoted (while again serving in the West Indies on board the Garland) to the command, 27 Dec. 1808, of the Musette sloop, in which he remained until Sept. 1810. His last appointment was, 7 June, 1814, to the Royalist 16, lying at Plymouth. He went on half-pay in the following Nov., and accepted the rank of Captain on the retired list 10 Sept. 1840.
Capt. Jones-Parry was a Magistrate for cos. Denbigh and Caernarvon, and a Deputy-Lieutenant for Caernarvonshire, for which county he served the office of High Sheriff in 1836. He married, 19 April, 1811, Margaret, only child of the late Vice-Admiral Robt. Lloyd, of Tregayan, co. Anglesey, by whom he has left issue three sons and five daughters.
PARRY, Kt, LL.D., F.R.S., L. & E. (Captain, 1822. f-p., 32; h-p., 12.)
William Edward Parry}}, born 19 Dec. 1790, at Bath, is fourth and youngest surviving son of the late Dr. Caleb Hillier Parry, F.R.S., an eminent physician in that city, by Miss Rigby, of Norwich, sister of the late Dr. Rigby. His brother-in-law, the Rev. Thos. Garnier, Dean of Winchester, is uncle of the present Lieut. Brownlow North Garnier, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 30 June, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Ville de Paris 110, Capt. Tristram Robt. Ricketts, bearing the flag of Hon. Wm. Cornwallis, in the Channel; where, and in the Baltic, he continued employed as Midshipman and Master’s Mate on board the Tribune 36 and Vanguard 74, Capts. Thos. Baker and Henry Rich. Glynn, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 6 Jan; 1810. In the Vanguard he commanded a gun-boat attached to the ship, and came into frequent action with the Danish flotilla. His first appointment after his promotion was, 9 Feb. 1810, to the Alexandria 32, Capts. John Quilliam and Robt. Cathcart; in which vessel, besides affording protection to the Spitzbergen whale fishery, he was much employed in making astronomical observations, and in preparing for the Admiralty charts, which were much prized, of Balta Sound, of the Voe, a harbour in the north-eastern part of the Shetland islands, and of various places on the coasts of Denmark and Sweden. At the commencement of 1813 Lieut. Parry proceeded in the Sceptre 74, Capt. Robt. Honyman, to North America, for the purpose of joining La Hogue 74, Capt. Hon. Thos. Bladen Capel. On 8 April, in the following year, having accompanied a detachment of boats under the orders of Capt. Rich. Coote, to the neighbourhood of Pettipague Point, on the river Connecticut, we there find him contributing to the destruction of 27 of the enemy’s vessels, three of which were heavy privateers, and the aggregate burden of the whole upwards of 5000 tons. In the course of 1814 Lieut. Parry furnished many of the junior officers on the Halifax station with copies of his ‘Practical Rules for observing at Night by the Fixed Stars,’ a treatise which was afterwards published in order to “facilitate the acquisition of a species of knowledge highly conducive to the welfare of the naval service.” In Aug. 1814 he exchanged into the Maidstone 36, Capt. Wm. Skipsey; and he next, in July, 1815, and Jan. and June, 1816, became in succession attached to the Ardent 64, Capt. Sir Wm. Burnaby, and Carron 20, and Niger 38, Capts. Nicholas Lechmere Pateshall and Saml. Jackson, all on the North American station, whence, in March, 1817, he returned to England. On 14 Jan. 1818 he obtained command of the Alexander brig, hired for the purpose of accompanying an expedition to the Arctic Regions under Capt. John Ross, with whom he returned home in the following Nov. Owing to the failure of the Enterprize, a new one was determined on and the conduct of it intrusted to Lieut. Parry, who was consulted in the choice both of his ships and officers. He accordingly assumed command, 16 Jan. 1819, of the Hecla bomb, and in the early part of the ensuing May sailed from Deptford in company with the Griper gun-brig, Lieut.Coramander Matt. Liddon, for the purpose of carrying out the object of his mission – the discovery of a north-west passage. In the course of the voyage, which, although not thoroughly successful, exceeded in its general results the most sanguine expectations of its projectors, Lieut. Parry penetrated to long. 113° 54' 43" W., within the Arctic circle, and thereby obtained for the expedition the sum of 5000l., the amount of a parliamentary reward which had been promised to such as should cross the meridian of 110° W. from Greenwich, in the latitude of 74° 44' 20". A full narrative of his proceedings will be found in a volume, published by him in 1822, entitled ‘Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage in 1819-20.’[1] The Hecla and Griper re-entered the Thames about the middle of Nov. 1820, and were paid off at Deptford on 21 of the ensuing Dec. On 4 of the former month Lieut, Parry was advanced to the rank of Commander; and on 19 Dec. the Bedfordean gold medal of the Bath and West of England Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce was unanimously voted to him. With the sum of 500 guineas subscribed for the purpose, “the Explorer of the Polar Sea” was afterwards presented with a silver vase highly embellished with devices emblematic of the arctic voyages; and on 24 March, 1821, the city of Bath presented its freedom to him in a box of oak, highly and appropriately ornamented. Encouraged by the discoveries made during the late expedition, and by the presumption it
- ↑ Vide also Gaz. 1820, p. 2064.
