Thomas Parry (bishop)

Thomas Parry (1794 – 16 March 1870) was a Welsh clergyman in the West Indies[1] who rose to become Bishop of Barbados from 1842 to 1869.

[2] He was born on 27 November 1794[3] the fourth son of Edward Parry, a clergyman in North Wales, who at that time was rector of Llanferres, Denbighshire.

[4] Parry was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, matriculating in 1812 and graduating first-class in mathematics and second-class in classics four years later.

[4][5] He was appointed a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford in 1818 and obtained a Master of Arts in the following year.

In 1824, he married Louisa, third daughter of Henry Hutton, rector of Beaumont-cum-Moze He is the great grandfather of actor Robert Hardy .