Joshua Parry (17 June 1719 – 6 September 1776) was a Welsh Nonconformist minister and writer.
He was buried in the ground attached to his chapel, where a plain stone without inscription marked his grave.
[2] From 1738 or thereabouts Parry contributed to the newly founded Gentleman's Magazine.
He was author of:[2] Among essays appended to Charles Henry Parry, A Memoir of the Reverend Joshua Parry (1872) are: Natural Theology: a Free Discourse on the Being and Attributes of the Deity; On the Moral Sense; A Short Defence of Christianity (written 1743); A Satire on King George the Second, in a Letter to His Majesty [1746], directed against that Party Spirit which sees no Good in the existing Order of Things, and discovers in the best Intentions the most obnoxious Purposes.
His eldest son was Caleb Hillier Parry; his daughter Amelia married Sir Benjamin Hobhouse.