He was the son-in-Law of Thomas Gee, the publisher of the encyclopedia.
He was educated at Coleg y Bala and at the University of Edinburgh.
[2] As stated above, Parry is chiefly remembered as the editor of the Encyclopaedia Cambrensis, the most ambitious encyclopedia in the Welsh language.
Edited by Parry until his death, it was published in ten volumes between 1854 and 1879 by Thomas Gee on his famous press in Denbigh.
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