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PARRAN, ROBERT, son of John Parran, Wyck Rissington, Gloucs.; bapt. Wyck Rissington 8 Jan 1676 (IGI); adm.; KS 1693; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1698, adm. pens. 27 Jun 1698, aged 19, scholar 28 Apr 1699; 5th in “ordo” 1701/2; BA 1701/2; MA 1705; BD 1712; DD 1728; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1704, Major Fellow 30 Mar 1705, Senior Fellow 1724; a supporter of Richard Bentley, Master of Trinity, in the various college disputes; ordained; Chaplain to Duke of Dorset; Vicar of Bottisham, Cambs.; Vicar of Kemsing, Kent, from 30 Jul 1720; d. 1738.

PAROTT, STEPHEN; b. “Waltham”, diocese of Hereford ; at school under Grant (Liber Primi Examinis, English College, Valladolid); went to Rome and sent from there by Father Parsons to Douai, where he remained eighteen months; left Douai 23 Oct 1598 for Valladolid, Spain; adm. English Coll. , Valladolid 21 Dec 1598, aged 30; expelled Dec 1599; applied to be readmitted to Douai Jan 1600, but was refused; returned to England.

PARNELL, JOHN JESSOPP; b. 11 May 1810; adm. 13 Jan 1823; adm. solicitor; practised at Clifford’s Inn, Fleet Street, London; d. 28 Dec 1857. [Evidently John Jesop (sic) Parnell, son of John Parnell and Catherine Louisa ---, bapt. Walsall, Staffs., 10 Oct 1810 (IGI)].

PARNELL, CHARLES; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1723; left 1724.

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PARKYNS, SIR THOMAS, BART., second son of Sir Thomas Isham Parkyns, Bart., and Anne, only dau. of Maj. Thomas Cressey, Fulsby on Bain, Lincs.; bapt. 10 Nov 1662; at school under Busby (Progymnasmata, 1714, 11); Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 13 Jun 1680, matr.1680 ; adm.Gray’s Inn 18 May 1682; succ. father as 2nd baronet Jul 1684; an amateur architect, building extensively on his estate at Bunny, Notts.; JP Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire 1684, High Sheriff Nottinghamshire 1689; passionately fond of wrestling and until middle age a vigorous runner and change-ringer; established an annual wrestling competition in Bunny Park; author, Progymnasmata, 1714, and other works; m.1st, 1686 Elizabeth, only dau. of John Sampson, Beraston [Breaston ?], Derbs.; m. 2nd, 7 Feb 1727/8 Jane, dau. of George Barnet, Alderman of York; d. 29 Mar 1741. DNB.

PARKYNS, SIR THOMAS, BART., elder son of Sir Thomas Parkyns, Bart. (bapt. 1662, qv) and his second wife; bapt. 8 Dec 1728; succ. father as 3rd baronet 29 Mar 1741; adm. (aged 14) Feb 1742/3 (Hawkins'); Queen’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 12 Nov 1744, matr. 1744; DL Leicestershire; DL JP Nottinghamshire, High Sheriff 1755-6; m. 1st, 7 Apr 1747 his cousin Jane, dau. of Thomas Parkyns (adm. 1717/8, qv); m. 2nd, 1765 Sarah, dau. of Daniel Smith, Bunny, Notts.; m. 3rd, 1 Sep 1796 Jane, dau. of Joseph Boultbee, Leicester; d. 17 Mar 1806.

PARKYNS, THOMAS, son of Sampson Parkyns (qv); b. 7 Dec 1709; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1717/8; in under school list 1721; m. 14 Sep 1728 Elizabeth, dau. of Daniel Woodroffe, St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster; d. 1 Jun 1735.

PARKYNS, THOMAS, son of Sir Thomas Parkyns, Bart. (bapt. 1662, qv), and his first wife; bapt. 1687; adm.; QS 1702; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 7 Jun 1703, aged 16, matr. 1704; adm. Middle Temple 18 Sep 1702, Gray’s Inn 4 Jul 1704; buried 19 Sep 1706, unm.