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Authorised form of nameParry; Sir; William Edward (1790 - 1855)
Dates1790 - 1855
NationalityBritish
Place of birthBath, Somerset, England
Date of birth19 December 1790
Place of deathEms, Germany
Date of death08 or 09 July 1855
Dates and placesBurial:
Mausoleum of Greenwich hospital burial-ground, London
ActivityCareer:
Entered Royal Navy, reaching rank of Rear Admiral; arctic explorer; Controller of the Steam Department, Royal Navy
Honours:
Kt 1829
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election15/02/1821
RelationshipsSon of Caleb Hillier Parry (FRS 1800); younger brother of Charles Henry Parry (FRS 1812); brother-in-law of Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot (FRS 1812); uncle of Frederick Marow Eardley-Wilmot (FRS 1863)
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1854-1855 vol 7 pp 603-612
Notes:
Earlier date of death from DNB (index to BR says that this is the inaccurate one). Biography by A Parry (1963).
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/41830721
Royal Society codeNA7481
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1820/21Parry, Sir William Edward: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/003439Parry, Sir William Edwardnd
IM/003438Parry, Sir William Edwardnd
DM/3/124Letter from WE Parry, Admiralty, to Sir Humphry Davy, President, Royal Society25 July 1826
DM/3/122Letter from WE Parry, Admiralty, to John Barrow, Admiralty10 January 1826
DM/3/121Letter from WE Parry, Admiralty, to Sir Humphry Davy, President, Royal Society6 April 1826
DM/3/148'Should it be conversant to Captain Foster, the longitudes of the following points may be determined, in addition to those mentioned in the proposed track"1828
PT/73/7/12Drawings, improved machine for sampling seawater at depth by [TP and LFM][1819]
HS/13/222Letter, from William Edward Parry to Sir John Herschel, dated at Admiralty14 August 1839
HS/13/220Letter, from William Edward Parry to Sir John Herschel, dated at Admiralty9 May 1828
HS/13/221Letter, from William Edward Parry to Sir John Herschel, dated at Admiralty26 March 1839
HS/13/219Letter, from William Edward Parry to Sir John Herschel, dated at Admiralty6 April 1826
HS/13/218Letter, from William Edward Parry to Sir John Herschel, dated at Admiralty4 January 1824
HS/13/217Letter, from William Edward Parry to Sir John Herschel, dated at 3 Downing St.9 April 1821
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