Edward Parrott

Sir James Edward Parrott (1 June 1863 – 5 April 1921) was a British teacher and author, who served as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Edinburgh South for 1917–1918.

[2] He worked in education in Sheffield and then Liverpool for several years, during which time he began to write schoolbooks; as a result of this work, he was appointed educational editor at Thomas Nelson & Sons in 1898, and moved to Edinburgh.

[1] In 1900, he was awarded the degree of LLD by Trinity College, Dublin, ranked at the head of the examination list.

[1] In 1917, the Member of Parliament for Edinburgh South, Charles Henry Lyell, stood down.

[1] He was a Governor of Cheltenham Training College, and a Justice of the Peace for the county of city of Edinburgh.