Robert wynne parry biography

  • Born 11 June 1858, the son of Thomas and Mary Parry, Gwyndy, Carmel, Caernarfonshire.
  • Parry is a distinguished professor of chemistry at the University of Utah, a world authority on the element boron, former president of the American Chemical.
  • Name: Griffith Parry Date of birth: 1827.

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    PARRY-WILLIAMS, HENRY (1858 - 1925), schoolmaster and poet

    Name: Henry Parry-williams
    Date of birth: 1858
    Date of death: 1925
    Spouse: Ann Parry-Williams (née Morris)
    Child: Jennie Eurwen Parry-Williams
    Child: Mary Blodwen Parry-Williams
    Child: Richard Wynne Parry-Williams
    Child: John Oscar Parry-Williams
    Child: Willie Francis Parry-Williams
    Child: Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams
    Parent: Mary Parry
    Parent: Thomas Parry Williams
    Gender: Male
    Occupation: schoolmaster and poet
    Area of activity: Education; Eisteddfod; Poetry
    Author: Thomas Parry

    Born 11 June 1858, the son of Thomas and Mary Parry, Gwyndy, Carmel, Caernarfonshire. He was a half-brother of Robert Parry, father of the poet R. Williams Parry and of Richard Parry, father of Thomas Parry (1904 - 1985). As a young man he adopted the surname of his paternal grandfather, Henry Williams, in addition to his own. He received his elementary education at Bron-y-foel school, and stayed on for f

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    WYNNE, SARAH EDITH ('Eos Cymru '; 1842 - 1897), vocalist

    Name: Sarah Edith Wynne
    Pseudonym: Eos Cymru
    Date of birth: 1842
    Date of death: 1897
    Spouse: Aviet Agabeg
    Parent: Harriet Wynne
    Parent: Robert Wynne
    Gender: Female
    Occupation: vocalist
    Area of activity: Music; Performing Arts
    Author: Robert David Griffith

    Born 11 March 1842 in Panton Place, Holywell, Flintshire, the daughter of Robert and Harriet Wynne - (her name in the baptismal register is given as Sarah Wynne). She showed a special talent as a singer when a child - she was only 9 when she joined the Holywell choral society. When she was 12 she went on a concert tour to various parts of Wales with a Mr. Hulse, Bangor, her special contribution to the concerts being the singing of Welsh airs. She went to Liverpool at 14 to receive lessons in music from a Mr. Scarisbrook, staying there five years. Her first appearance in London as a soprano was in June 1862, in one of the annual concerts organised

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    PARRY, GRIFFITH (1827-1901), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author

    Name: Griffith Parry
    Date of birth: 1827
    Date of death: 1901
    Child: Edmund Wynne Parry
    Gender: Male
    Occupation: Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author
    Area of activity: Literature and Writing; Religion

    Born at Caernarvon in December 1827; his mother was sister to Robert Owen (Eryron Gwyllt Walia) and a niece of the famous Calvinistic Methodist preachers Robert Roberts of Clynnog and John Roberts of Llangwm - appropriately enough, Parry was to edit the poems of Robert Owen and the sermons of Robert Roberts.

    He went to Bala C.M. College (1847-1851), and began preaching. In 1851, while continuing to preach (he was ordained in 1856), he set up as printer and bookseller at Caernarvon, but at the end of 1861 he took to pastoral charges - at Llanrwst (1861-71), Salford (1871-6), Siloh, Aberystwyth (1876-83), and Carno, Montgomeryshire (1889-1901). He was moderator of the Calvinistic Methodist