[2] Parry was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford[2] and began his ordained ministry as a curate in Norham.
[3] After time as chaplain to the Bishop of London, Archibald Campbell Tait,[4] he became Rural Dean of Ealing.
[2] Parry's sons, Edward and Sydney were, respectively, Bishop of Guyana (1900–1921) & Archbishop of the West Indies (1917–1921),[8] and a senior British civil servant.
Sydney wrote the article about his father in the Dictionary of National Biography.
Another son was Admiral Sir John Franklin Parry, Hydrographer of the Navy during the First World War.