Sir William Edward Parry

(1790-1855)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Parry, William Edward, Sir, 1790-1855 NRA: Parry Sir William Edward (1790-1855) Knight Rear Admiral Arctic Explorer DNB: Parry, Sir (William) Edward (1790-1855), naval officer and Arctic explorer LBT ID: WiParry1855 VIAF ID: 41830721 LOC ID: n50051457	B/BAP: 1790-12-19 DIED: 1855-07-08
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Admiral in the Royal Navy and arctic explorer; he was the author of Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a north-west Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific (1821).
REFERENCES TO Sir William Edward Parry: John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 11 November 1820 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 5 Lord Byron to John Murray, 27 January 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 5 John Murray to John Wilson Croker, 3 May 1821 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Benjamin Disraeli to John Murray, 25 May 1824 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Bowring, John, Sir, 1792-1872, “Lord Byron in Greece” in Westminster Review 2 (July 1824) 225-62 Found 1: ¶ 50 Parry, William, fl. 1825, The Last Days of Lord Byron (London: Knight and Lacey, 1825) Chapter I Found 1: ¶ 22 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, “The Last Days of Lord Byron” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 18 (August 1825) 137-55 Found 1: ¶ 24 “Parry v. Hunt” in The Times (15 June 1827) Found 1: ¶ 35 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1821 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 15: Literary Gazette Found 1: ¶ 1 Ch. 8: Bernard Barton Found 2: ¶ 13 ¶ 14 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter II. Found 1: ¶ 11 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXIII. Found 3: ¶ 26 ¶ 27 ¶ 28 Chap. XXVI. Chap. XXVII. Found 3: ¶ 24 ¶ 27 ¶ 43 Chap. XXX. Found 1: ¶ 43 Chap. XXXIII. Found 1: ¶ 45 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter VIII: 1820