3-028-486 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Right Rev. Dr. Parry, the Suffragan Bishop of Dover, 1870. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. Mason and Co. 'The Right Rev. Edward Parry, D.D., is the only surviving son of the late Rear-Admiral Sir [William] Edward Parry, K.C.B., the well-known navigator and explorer of the Arctic regions...[Mr. Parry] was instrumental in rebuilding on a large and handsome scale the parish church, and in building spacious schools, and also a school church. He was five years Rural Dean of the Rural Deanery of Ealing, comprising twenty important parishes, and in that capacity rendered much service to the Church in the diocese in London. Bishop Parry has written an account of his father's life, which has passed through several editions'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.