Robert Ifor Parry (1908–1975) was a Congregationalist minister and schoolmaster at Aberdare.
[1] Educated at the Holyhead County School, he enrolled at the University College, Bangor, where he earned a first-class degree in History in 1929 and an MA in 1931 for a thesis on the attitude of Welsh Independents to working class movements from 1815 to 1870.
[1] Parry also published a number of books and articles, in Welsh, mainly on various aspects of the history of nonconformity.
[1] Possibly due to a decline in membership, Price's long pastorate at Siloa came to an end in 1964, when he became Head of Religious Studies at Aberdare Boys‘ Grammar School.
Ifor Parry died on 18 December 1975, and he left a substantial sum of money to the Aberdare Boys‘ Grammar School to endow the ‘Mona and Ifor Parry Trust Fund,’ the income from which was to be used, in part, to award an annual prize for local history.