George Parbury

In December 1826 he was granted permission to travel to India and reside in Bengal; the surety of £500 was provided by “Charles Parbury and William H Allen, booksellers of Leadenhall Street”.

Soon after he arrived in Calcutta George Parbury became a freemason: in August 1830 he was initiated in the Aurora Lodge of Candour and Cordiality No.

In England George met, or was re-acquainted with, 22 year old Mary Ann Joanna Ellis of Hertford, and married her in St Andrew's church there on 21 May 1833.

Parbury gained Freedom of the City of London on 3 September 1835, followed three months later by Livery status in the Merchant Taylors’ Company.

He then travelled overland, via Agra, Delhi, Bahr and Simla, eventually reaching Bombay at the end of November, 109 days after setting out.

When he finally left India he sailed in distinguished company from Calcutta to Suez on the Hindostan, and thence overland to take a ship from Alexandria; his account appeared from the same publisher in 1844.

Stocqueler's rejoinder was published as a letter[8] to The Madras Athenaeum, stating in part: Has it ever occurred to him that in sending people to buy his personal narrative, facetiously dubbed a "Hand Book of India and Egypt," I should be guilty of leading people to purchase a volume which treats of the merest fraction of India in the most superficial style, and was found so ridiculously insufficient as a guide to Overland Travellers that none of the passengers by the Hindostan in 1843 (I speak of them as I was one of them, though doubtless others have been in the same predicament) could gather from its pages the slightest information that was of any use to them.

I declare most solemnly that my Hand Book was solely undertaken and put forth because Mr Parbury's was so wretchedly imperfect, and for no other reason.

Parbury was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets on 4 September 1858.,[9] and was a Justice of the Peace for the counties of Surrey and Middlesex.