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SAMUEL PARR (1747-1825)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 862 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAMUEL See also:PARR (1747-1825)  , See also:English schoolmaster, son of See also:Samuel See also:Parr, surgeon at See also:Harrow-on-the-See also:Hill, was See also:born there on the 26th of See also:January 1747 . At See also:Easter 1752 he was sent to Harrow School as a See also:free See also:scholar, and when he See also:left in 1761 he began to help his See also:father in his practice, but the old surgeon realized that his son's talents See also:lay elsewhere, and Samuel was sent (1765) to See also:Emmanuel See also:College, See also:Cambridge . From See also:February 1767 to the See also:close of 1771 he served under See also:Robert See also:Sumner as See also:head assistant at . Harrow, where he had See also:Sheridan among his pupils . When the head See also:master died in See also:September 1771 Parr, after vainly applying for the position, started a school at Stan-more, which he conducted for five years . Then he became head master of See also:Colchester See also:Grammar School (1776—1778) and subsequently of See also:Norwich School (1778—1786) . He had taken See also:priest's orders at Colchester, and in 178o was presented to the small rectory of Asterby in See also:Lincolnshire, and three years later to the vicarage of See also:Hatton near See also:Warwick . He exchanged this latter See also:benefice for Wadenhoe, See also:Northamptonshire, in 1789, stipulating to be allowed to reside, as assistant See also:curate, in the parsonage of Hatton, where he took a limited number of pupils . Here he spent the See also:rest of his days, enjoying his excellent library, described by H . G . See also:Bohn in Bibliotheca Parriana (1827), and here his See also:friends, See also:Porson and E . H .

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Barker, passed many months in his See also:company . The degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by the university of Cambridge in 1781 . Parr died at Hatton vicarage on the 6th of See also:March 1825 . Dr Parr's writings fill several volumes, but they are all beneath the reputation which he acquired through the variety of his knowledge and dogmatism of his conversation . The See also:chief of them are his Characters of See also:Charles See also:James See also:Fox (1809); and his unjustifiable reprint of the Tracts of See also:Warburton and a Warburtonian, not admitted into their See also:works, a scathing exposure of Warburton and See also:Hurd . Even amid the terrors of the See also:French Revolution he adhered to Whiggism, and his See also:correspondence included every See also:man of See also:eminence, either See also:literary or See also:political, who adopted the same creed . In private See also:life his See also:model was See also:Johnson . He succeeded in copying his uncouthness and pompous manner, but had neither his See also:humour nor his real authority . He was famous as a writer of epitaphs and wrote See also:inscriptions for the tombs of See also:Burke, Charles See also:Burney, Johnson, Fox and See also:Gibbon . There are two See also:memoirs of his life, one by the Rev . See also:William See also:Field (1828), the other, with his works and his letters, by See also:John See also:Johnstone (1828) ; and E . H .

Barker published in 1828–1829 two volumes of Parriana, a confused See also:

mass of See also:information on Parr and his friends . An See also:essay on his life is included in De Quincey's works, vol. v., and a little See also:volume of the Aphorisms, Opinions and Reflections of the See also:late Dr Parr appeared in 1826 .

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