PARRY, EDWARD LANE, brother of George Frederick Parry (qv); b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1811; left 1814; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 8 Feb 1814, matr. 1814; Cornet, 14th Light Dragoons 25 May 1815; Lieut., 30 Sep 1819; Capt., 19 Dec 1822; Maj., 16 Apr 1829; retd. 17 Jul 1835; presumably Maj. Parry who signed Play Protest 1847.
PARRY (or PAVY), RICHARD; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1604, Westminster Student 11 Jan 1604/5 – 1607/8. [probably brother of Simon Parry (qv); d. by 1613]
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.
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 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.
PARKYNS, JOHN; b. ; adm. ; KS 1542 (PRO, Exc. Aug. Office, Miscell. Books 24). [move to PERKYNS ?]
PARKYNS, GEORGE, son of Sir Thomas Parkyns, Bart. (bapt. 1662, qv), and his second wife; b. 30 Dec 1729; adm. Feb 1742/3 (Hawkins'); Queen’s Coll. Oxford, adm. fellow commoner 30 Oct 1746; Cornet, 15th Dragoons 15 May 1759; Lieut., 15 Jul 1761; Capt., 28 May 1770; [not in Army List 1773]; m. 16 Apr 1749 Anne, dau. of Elton Levett MD, Nottingham.
Parkyn, Roderick William, son of Percy Arthur William Parkyn of Alderley Edge, Cheshire, and Antoinette Emma Wilhelmina, d. of Dr Ludvig Lieblein of Teplitz-Schoncali, Czechoslovakia; b. 1 May 1911; adm. Apr. 1925 (R); left July 1929; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1929, BA 1932, MA 1936; MIMechE; chairman Daniel Adamson & Co., engineers, Dukinfield, Cheshire; JP 1958; m. 16 Aug. 1952 Patricia Anne, d. of Lieut.-Col. Charles Mytton Thorneycroft CBE DSO, of Breinton, Herefordshire; d. 29 Jan. 1977.
PARKS, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 14) Jan 1735/6 (Heath's).
Parkinson Smith, Ronald William, brother of Kenneth John Hamilton Smith (qv); b. 21 Apr. 1913; adm. May 1927 (A); left Apr. 1931; 2nd Lieut. RA (TA) May 1931, Lieut. 1934; since 1934 known as Norman Parkinson, with international reputation as photographer; worked for Vogue and Life magazines, since 1978 exclusively in New York for Town & Country magazine; officially photographed almost every member of British and European royalty, particularly HM the Queen Mother and the Princess Royal; hon. FRPS, hon. FIIP; CBE 1981; resident and pig farmer for many years in Tobago, W. Indies, perfecting his own variety of pork sausage, the "Parkinson Banger"; m. Jan. 1945 Wenda Rogerson, actress, d. of William Albert Rogerson MRCS, of Little Saling, Essex; d. in Malaysia 15 Feb. 1990.