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PARRATT, THOMAS, son of James Meredith Parratt (qv), and his second wife; b. 1 Apr 1782; in school list 1795; Min. Can. 1797; for upwards of fifty years a government employee in Customs House; m. 1st, Eliza ---; m. 2nd, 6 Jun 1829 Sarah Rose; d. 15 Feb 1854.

PARRATT, JAMES, son of James Meredith Parratt (qv); b.; in school lists 1795, 1797; Second Assistant Surgeon, Ordnance Medical Board 11 Jun 1813; First Assistant Surgeon 6 Jul 1825; Surgeon 11 Jun 1836; retd. 15 Apr 1841; d. 4 Jul 1843, aged 62.

PARRATT, JAMES MEREDITH, son of Thomas Parratt, Barton Street, Westminster, and Elizabeth, only dau. of James Meredith, St. Margaret’s, Westminster, peruke maker; b. 20 Sep 1739; in school list 1749; Min. Can. (aged 15) 1754; an apothecary in Bridge Street, Westminster; m. 1st, 18 Oct 1770 Elizabeth, dau. of Henry Conyers; m. 2nd, 17 Aug 1780 Sophia Maria, dau. of Henry Cooper; d. 1798 (will proved PCC 2 Apr 1798).

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.