Background
He was born in Wiltshire, and came as scholar to Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1576.
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Henry Parry
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He graduated Master of Arts
Career
There in 1586. With John Churchman he recovered the papers of Hooker, shortly after his death in 1600. He took part in the editorial group who in 1601 met to bring the final volumes of Hooker"s Ecclesiastical Polity into their published form. He was chaplain to Elizabeth I and was present at her deathbed, documented in the diary of John Manningham.
A Ming period wucai tea kettle, said to have been given by the Queen to Parry, at a time when porcelain was rare in England, was sold in 2007 for over £1,000,000.
He was Dean of Chester from 1605 to 1607. He was Bishop of Gloucester from 1607 to 1610 and Bishop of Worcester from 1610 to 1616.
There is an alabaster effigy of Parry in Worcester Cathedral.
